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My old neighborhood used to be a nice little place to live. But since I moved back, rampant crime has made it a desperate, dangerous wasteland. It just took a botched burglary at a friend’s house for me to wake up and see it.

“It’s pretty much known by everyone around here,” a Marion County deputy prosecutor says of Mark Nicholson’s background.

The following days were hell. I fell flat-out in our foyer attempting to answer the door, at which point my elbows were bruised as well.

““It’s not about us,” says local Planned Parenthood president Betty Cockrum. “But in the big scheme of things, it’s totally about us.”

“Sometimes they don’t even tell me they’re moving. I walk over there one day to see them, the house is empty, and I never hear from them again.”

When you live in close quarters, you may have no more between you and your neighbors than some drywall.

A lot of people were unhappy with Gov. Mike Pence last week. Really unhappy.

Vonnegut isn’t all Indiana has to offer.

The victor of this month’s election should listen to this advice from past mayors.

If time is relative, as Einstein taught the world a hundred years ago, then it is particularly so in Indiana.

“In this polarized age, I don’t suspect a Republican or Democrat would lend the other a hand, let alone a printing press. But it was different back then, before talk radio gave the least stable among us a microphone.”

More than 15 years after I last put on a marching band uniform, I still find it impossible not to tap my toes when a drumline starts up.

When I was this magazine’s managing editor, the editor-in-chief asked—nay, required—that I parrot the book ‘The Official Preppy Handbook,’ localizing the author’s directives. I wrote “Indy’s Guide to Prep” in 1981.

The details of her demise, revealed at the 1966 trial, defy belief. Here, a peek at the lives of the participants in the murder of Sylvia Likens 50 years later.

Everyone should be a teacher for one year to know what ingratitude feels like.