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When the train pulled in to the station at Noblesville, Indiana on an August day in 1859, it was carrying two young passengers who would go on to play important roles in American history. Andrew Burke and John Brady were two New York street urchins who had been given a chance at a better life through the Children's Aid Society.

The Bartholomew County Auditor says the City of Columbus will only lose $14,000 next year from new property tax laws. That's far lower than the $2 million city officials have been assuming they would lose after two independent consultant tallied estimates last year.

"It may best to learn what you have to learn without a gun. Not killing, but watching birds and animals go in and out of shelter, at will." Those lines are from David Wagoner's poem "Staying Alive."

This week on Noon Edition, we'll discuss Indiana Public Schools with superintendents from across the listening area. Our hosts will speak with Monroe County Consolidated School Corporation's new Superintendent J-T Coopman and Richland Bean Blossom Consolidated School Corporation Superintendent Steve Kain.

In my Indiana garden in midsummer, after the bearded iris and peony duet of bloom is only a memory, the beardless Japanese iris bloom with great abandon and considerable style.

Here's a hint: forty musicians can eat a lot of cake...

Vincent Tianquan Mo is Chairman of the Board and CEO of SouFun Holdings Limited, a company he founded in 1999.

This week's edition features three settings of the Venus and Adonis story, including works by Henry Desmarest, John Blow, and Tom?s de Torrej?n y Velasco.

Recent studies have shown that people with musical training are better at picking out emotional cues in sound than people without the same musical background.

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: Medieval priests take partying to the extreme!

He steps out of the truck. He's just a little old man, must be what, eighty? And after all, there are three of you, strapping teenage boys, king of this corner in this run-down town, and if you want to have a little fun scaring this Hmong girl, who's going to stop you, him?

Since most of the people viewing the tapestries during medieval times could not read or write, images from nature were used as a way to communicate spiritual concepts such as renewal and rebirth.

Bloomington mayor Mark Kruzan talks about the phenomena of high student election turnout, straight-ticket voting and a patchwork township assessor map.

This week on Noon Edition, Indiana University Political Science Professors Dr. Edward Carmines and Dr. Marjorie Hershey will help listeners sort through the ins and outs of the US election process - the accuracy of polls, the role of the media, the structure of campaigns and more.

When Universal Pictures floated its set of classic horror flicks from the 30s and 40s as ready-made content for the TV stations cropping up across the country in the 1950s, WISH-TV was the first Indiana station to bite so to speak. In 1958, the young station at Channel 8 on the dial created the ghoulish character [...]

Jenny Kander reads poems from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's book These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems 1955 - 1993.

This week we look at recordings with fortepianists Susan Alexander-Max (Naxos) and David Owen Norris (Avie).

Alan Pierson is artistic director of the New York City music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, a twenty-member band known for its innovative performances of today's music. He spoke with WFIU's Annie Corrigan.