Around Town — Jan. 2

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Jan. 2

Orchids to

Sens. Greg Walker and Susan Glick for proposing a bill that would authorize IU alumni to select the board of trustees instead of the governor.

the Our Common Goods group for working to keep the blessing boxes full throughout the community.

Onions to

2025: a year of economic disasters, vindictiveness, persecutions, genocide and smoldering wars.

more white washing of history in the removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at a WWII cemetery by the executive order of the elected one.

not putting a hand on the Christian Bible, while swearing to lead the largest city by population in the United States of America.