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Yemenite families create their own blends of hawajj, starting with a spice template, then tweaking and personalizing it. “When you combine black pepper with turmeric, cumin, and cloves,” Ruthie writes, “compliant tubers get downright sassy!” | Photo by Ruthie Cohen

Stirring the Pot: Get Sassy with Yemenite Spice Blend Hawajj
Ruthie Cohen
Ruthie Cohen was a spice loyalist, but sometimes, she writes, you have to be less complacent and shake things up. In these recipes for Stirring the Pot, she shows one way to create hawajj — a spice blend from Yemen — and how you can use it in soups, stews, and even coffee. Get started with Ruthie’s hawajj.
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Cindy Chavez, left, and Traci Ayala run Pantry 279, a food bank in Ellettsville that has lost food supplies because of federal funding cuts. | Photo by Trung Le

Federal Funding Cuts Are Hitting Home Food banks, libraries, water quality organizations among numerous groups affected
Trung Le
Grandparents with custody of their grandchildren, low-income families, and stewards of clean water are all feeling the impact of federal funding cuts. Vulnerable Hoosiers are getting hit the worst. Writer Trung Le interviewed leaders at several local nonprofits to see how uncertainty caused by government policies are leading to hardship. Read how the cuts are hurting.
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Limestone Post contributors at the “Best in Indiana” Journalism Contest, hosted on May 2, 2025, by the Indiana Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in Carmel, Indiana. (l-r) Dason Anderson, Michael G. Glab, Anne Kibbler, Laurie D. Borman, Rebecca Hill, and LP publisher Ron Eid. (Not pictured: Haley Miller, Christina Avery, Carol Johnson.) | Photo by Indiana Professional Chapter of SPJ

Limestone Post Contributors Win 8 ‘Best in Indiana’ Journalism Awards
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Limestone Post contributors won 8 awards in the “Best in Indiana” Journalism Contest hosted on May 2 by the Indiana Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Congratulations to Anne Kibbler, Dason Anderson, Haley Miller, Christina Avery, Rebecca Hill, Laurie D. Borman, Michael G. Glab for their excellent work! Read all about it!
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“One of the things I’ve been playing with in the work — and, of course, the work is always a reflection of personal growth and thought — is the awareness of how fear and desire are often the same,” says sculptor Melanie Cooper Pennington. | Photo by Claude Cookman

Bloomington Sculptor Reaches ‘Punctuation Point’ with Her Latest Exhibition
Claude Cookman
The career of IU sculpture professor Melanie Cooper Pennington has evolved over 30-plus years, but she considers her recent exhibition at the I Fell Gallery “a punctuation point.” Claude Cookman, author and professor emeritus at IU, says watching Cooper Pennington talk about her work feels like watching one of her sculptures come to life. See and read about her work here.
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Immigration enforcement is a key justification for repurposing government data, but it also lays the groundwork for mass surveillance, says IU researcher Nicole M. Bennett. | Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images

Making Government Surveillance of Americans More Efficient How the Trump administration is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance
Nicole M. Bennett
The result of newly imposed data-sharing arrangements between government agencies and private companies means the federal government is transforming into an integrated surveillance apparatus, capable of monitoring behavior at an unprecedented scale. IU researcher Nicole M. Bennett says these developments are framed as administrative streamlining, but they lay the groundwork for mass surveillance, without public scrutiny or judicial oversight. Read Bennett’s analysis here.
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“Jazz culture is about being a part of the jazz community and being connected to the history of the music,” says Tom Walsh (above), a professor of music in saxophone and chair of the Department of Jazz Studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. | Courtesy photo

Tom Walsh: The Man Inside the Music
Aaron B. Cohen
Tom Walsh, professor of music in saxophone and chair of the Department of Jazz Studies at the IU Jacobs School of Music, spoke to writer Aaron B. Cohen about the combination of jazz and jazz education, transmitting the culture of music, and the roots of music culture in Bloomington. Read Cohen’s Q&A with Walsh here.
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MCCSC Superintendent Markay Winston keeps her focus on the students and a goal to “organize the system in a way that benefits every learner.” | Courtesy photo

MCCSC Superintendent Markay Winston Keeps Her Focus on ‘Every Learner’
Steve Hinnefeld
With declining enrollment and a state legislature prioritizing private schools over public schools, MCCSC Superintendent Markay Winston keeps her focus on the students and a goal to “organize the system in a way that benefits every learner.” Reporter Steve Hinnefeld talked to her about her responsibilities and how she approaches the challenges. Click here for a profile of Dr. Winston.
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Since 2016, live performances in The Remarkable Women Series have enlightened the public on “the many unknown and un-celebrated contributions of African Americans.” The series is produced by Resilience Productions, which was founded by (above, l-r) Danielle Bruce, Gladys DeVane, and Liz Mitchell. | Courtesy photo

‘History Reclaimed, Stories Retold, Theatre Revealed’ Resilience Productions’ Remarkable Women Series Aims to Educate, Enlighten, and Engage
Hiromi Yoshida
Since 2016, Danielle Bruce, Gladys DeVane, and Liz Mitchell have enlightened the public on “the many unknown and un-celebrated contributions of African Americans” to Indiana and U.S. history. The next live performance in their Remarkable Women Series is about Judge Viola Taliaferro. They shared their personal experiences and unique contributions with writer Hiromi Yoshida. Click here to read about these Remarkable Women.
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In 1994, a group of Bloomington women conducted a homegrown experiment to create a new science playground for children. Today, WonderLab Museum of Science, Health & Technology has become a success story far beyond what many could have imagined. (above) WonderLab staff at the museum’s original location in the Wicks Building on the downtown square (clockwise from far left): Louise Schlesinger, Mary Sommers, Colleen Couper, Karen Stucky, Erin Gerecke, Catherine Olmer, (unidentified), Karen Jepson-Innes, Jeanne Gunning, Greta Faroute | Photo by Melinda Seader

The ‘WonderWomen’ Behind WonderLab
Trung Le
In 1994, a group of Bloomington women conducted a homegrown experiment to create a science playground for children. Today, as it welcomes a new executive director, WonderLab Museum has become a success story far beyond what they imagined. LP contributor Trung Le interviewed some of the women involved with WonderLab since its humble beginnings. Click here to read about the WonderWomen.
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Ida B. Wells was a writer, editor, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP. This statue of her was erected in 2021 in Memphis, Tennessee, adjacent to the Beale Street Baptist Church where she published a newspaper in the late 1800s. | Photo by Southern Hollows/S. Liles, CC-BY-SA-4.0

Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Richard Campbell
Ida B. Wells spent much of her career as a journalist in the late 1800s shedding light on the horrors of lynching. The writer, editor, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP has been called the most famous Black woman of her time in the U.S. This article by Richard Campbell shows her lifelong fight for racial justice. Click here to learn more about Ida B. Wells.
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