Bloom Archives
Category: Community
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50+ Men Who Care Raising Money for Local Nonprofits
BY KELLY KENDALL It’s like the reality television series Shark Tank but for philanthropy: Members of 50+ Men Who Care of Monroe County show…
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Cover Story: College Sports in Crisis
BY MIKE LEONARD Renowned sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford is unsparing in his criticism of intercollegiate athletics. “It is an inequitable system. It is…
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Feature Story: Eva Kor of Terre Haute — A Holocaust Survivor Who Believes in Forgiveness (Video)
BY NANCY HILLER On a Saturday this past June, Bloom writer Nancy Hiller and photographer Darryl Smith went to Terre Haute, Indiana, to meet…
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Bloomington in Autumn: Photographed by Peter Hamlin (Photo Gallery)
To complement the photos of Indiana University in autumn that can be found in the August/September 2015 issue, we have compiled a gallery of…
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Power of Words presents Rep. John Lewis and Co-Authors: Creators of the Civil Rights series ‘March’ (Photo Gallery)
BY BARB BERGGOETZ Read and discuss the books. Meet the authors. Take action. Organizers of the upcoming Power of Words event hope the visit of…
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Police Outreach to Homeless Persons Is Showing Results
BY KELLY KENDALL Arrest, release, arrest, release, arrest, release. That’s the pattern that the Bloomington Police Department (BPD) had fallen into when responding to…
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The Death Cafe Movement Has Arrived in Bloomington
BY CARMEN SIERING While death may be inevitable, it is not easily talked about. The Death Cafe movement is working to change that. “Death Cafes are…
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Catching Up with Dave Coverly (Photo Gallery)
BY MIKE LEONARD When Dave Coverly says, “I’ve been extraordinarily lucky,” it might sound too self-effacing coming from a cartoonist whose “Speed Bump” panel…
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Cover Story: Risking Their Lives for Justice — 4 Stories of Courage at the Center for Constitutional Democracy
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TYAGAN MILLER From their headquarters in an old house on East 3rd Street, two Indiana University law professors are…