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West Lafayette schools ‘Rise Above the Mark’

Rocky Killion is not afraid to blast the State of Indiana and its failing $95 million standardized testing program, ISTEP. In a recent letter to West Lafayette school parents, he didn’t mince words when expressing his distrust of the system. I, as well as our staff, have serious concerns about the validity of the testing [...]

Local cyclist responds to the J&C reader’s concerns on 3 ft. passing law

Recently, the local paper asked for their readers to share their opinions on a proposal to pass a law requiring a three foot gap between a passing car and a bicycle (read it here). There were some interesting responses, and I’d like to reply to a few. That’s just common sense. People should be doing that, anyway. [...]

Beginner’s Guide to Lafayette: Purdue University Campus

Purdue University Liberal Arts Fountain

So you want to see Purdue campus? You want to be literate in the highlights of Purdue culture? This is a beginner’s guide to the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. You must see the following, red brick and all. View Beginner’s Guide to Purdue University Campus in a larger map See a Game [...]

New Chauncey preservation hangs in the balance

New Chauncey neighborhood, 257 acres nestled in the heart of West Lafayette next to Purdue, has so much potential. Sadly, due to various factors during its history, it has been stuck in the status quo. Lacking a historic preservation district, master plan, cooperation from the university, a real downtown with establishments for all ages, the [...]

West Lafayette Trash Tax Disguised as “Fee”

Recyclables Only

Last night, the West Lafayette City Council gave a first reading to Ordinance 7-13, aka “the Trash Ordinance,” and voted in favor of it 5-2. My city councilor, Peter Bunder, was one of the two dissenting votes. In a nutshell, the trash ordinance overturns the existing ordinance and takes two wordy pages to merely jack [...]

Take a Virtual Tour of Nine Historic Neighborhoods with Tour de Lafayette

The Tour de Lafayette website was created to bring attention to nine historic neighborhoods in the Greater Lafayette area, such Hills and Dales and New Chauncey in West Lafayette, and Highland Park and the 9th Street hill in Lafayette. Pictures and videos highlight notable architecture and the lengths to which local citizens go to preserve [...]

GLOSSY: Building a Better Open Source Development Community in Lafayette

One of the great parts of any community is interacting with people who have similar interests. It’s not only a benefit of community, but a sustaining element. For developers of open source software, the community has traditionally been a virtual one. Developers work on projects with partners around the world, sometimes never meeting the people [...]

World Cuisine: Why you should be taking cooking lessons at Purdue’s International Center (with Gallery)

After a brief obsession with the idea of owning a food truck, I am seeking opportunities to learn how to cook foods outside of mechanically-processed meat molded into dino shapes and bags full of vegetables nuked for 3 minutes, 45 seconds. I happened upon a flyer posted at Cafe Lumos in the Purdue Research Park [...]

FoamCity and the Tippecanoe Arts Federation bring you OuterNet

FoamCity and the Tippecanoe Arts Federation (TAF) will be kicking-off their OuterNet music series this Friday evening at the Wells Community Cultural Center. What’s an OuterNet you ask? “Nets generally filter the main current, this is a made up word that may get some music outside the general field of whats available around town. Not really jazz, not pop, [...]