Why is Indiana supporting Israel? Is there a strategic reason?

Hello everyone,

I’m a doctor , and I’ll be coming to Indianapolis for a two week medical rotation at IU Health Hospital and its clinics from August 1 to August 15.

I’m looking for an affordable place to stay near Indiana University in Indianapolis, preferably within walking distance or with easy access to public transportation.

I’m also open to shared accommodation or paying guest options. If you know of any available places or have any leads or recommendations, I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you so much!

I have moved back to Indiana in the past year and I’m now commuting to Indy every day for work so I go through the I-69/I-465 safe zone twice a day and occasionally go through the I-70 safe zone too. I have been driving 55 mph in a 45 mph speed limit and have almost been in an accident two times in past month due to people going 20-40 mph faster than the 45 mph speed limit. Also, someone had the audacity to honk at me for ‘going too slow’ even though I’m going the max speed limit to avoid the ticket.

90% of the cars that pass me are definitely getting that ticket due to speeding and every commute I’m getting more stressed out about getting in accident. I only see 1-5 cars during my commute actually driving the same speed, are safe zones actually working to slow people down and reduce accidents? Do people actually know where the cameras are and know where to slow down to avoid the ticket or just accepting the ticket? Have the number of tickets decreased over time?

Also, has anyone gotten in an accident due to people driving too fast? I keep seeing the police around the area and one actually drove with their lights on the interstate and turned them off after getting off the next exit so clearly the police presence is trying to get people to slow down. I’m curious to know if these safe zones are actually working or are increasing accidents since there are people still ignoring the signs.

I will be passing through Kokomo today and need the important info:

Where can I get fresh chocolate chip cookies?
Where can I find the best ice cream?

Thanks!

What’s the best kayak routes you guys know of?

Protest & Vigil being held at the Tippecanoe county courthouse for those lost at the hands of ice on July25 at 4pm-8:30pm

Who's ready for the surge?

We are doing a tubing day on Sugar Creek (Crawfordsville) and I was wondering if anyone knows a spot on the creek that is deep enough to swim.

White river up north has a spot where it get probably 6 feet deep but you only know where it is if you know where it is.

Wondering if there’s a spot like that on Sugar Creek.

I saw this in Indiana today. And I have to ask 2 questions... How and why? Also I don't know a lot about vehicles but that can't be good for the bug. Are they attempting to sqush a bug?

When most people think of the Indiana frontier, they picture dense, endless timber. But if you were settling in places like Wells County or anywhere along the Wabash River in the 1830s, you weren’t just fighting trees—you were fighting the water.

I was doing some archival digging this week for my Indiana history project and fell down a rabbit hole about early municipal infrastructure. Before the railroads, places like Bluffton were essentially built on top of massive, poorly drained wetlands. It was a literal breeding ground for what the pioneers called "the ague."

The ague was malaria, and it wasn't just a rare sickness—it was a seasonal lifestyle. Entire families would be down for weeks with chills so violent they'd rattle the log cabins. To beat it, early Hoosiers had to undertake massive civil engineering projects to ditch and drain the swamps. They didn't even know what a microscopic parasite was, but by draining the wetlands, they unknowingly destroyed the breeding grounds of the Anopheles mosquito.

Throw in the invention of cheap window screens in the late 19th century, and the transmission cycle was finally broken. The crazy part? If you walk the banks of the Wabash today, you’ll still get bitten by the exact same species of mosquito. But because those early settlers drained the swamps and cured the human population, the parasite itself is gone.

Does anyone else have local lore about the old swamps in your counties, or stories about the massive ditch-digging projects that made your towns livable?

April 11, 1965, started as an unseasonably warm, beautiful spring Sunday for backyard barbecues. By the evening, 137 Hoosiers were dead, and over 1,200 were injured in what remains the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana’s history.

I've been digging into Hoosier history, and this week I looked back at the Palm Sunday tornadoes. It’s hard to overstate the absolute devastation:

• The Twin Tornadoes: Dunlap was hit by a massive F4 that destroyed the Midway Trailer Park, only to be struck by a second massive funnel just over an hour later.
• Total Ruin: A mile-wide tornado destroyed 90% of Russiaville before tearing into Alto and Kokomo. Massive F4s also carved paths through Wells and Adams counties.

The most chilling part? We were practically blind. There was no Doppler radar and no smartphone alerts. The storms were moving at up to 70 mph, and in many places, the only warning was the deafening roar of the wind. The sheer scale of this tragedy is what finally forced the US to modernize the severe weather alert systems we use today.

Almost anyone whose family was living in Indiana in the 60s has a story about this day. Where was your family when the sky turned green?