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  Banks of the Wabash Festival kicks off

  The 2013 Banks of the Wabash Festival, scheduled May 23 through June 1 in Fairbanks Park, celebrates 40 years along the banks of the Wabash River, 30 under the sponsorship of the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department.

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  Banks of the Wabash Festival is more than just yearly entertainment

  Pioneers think counterintuitively. Where others see widespread apathy, they focus on the possibility for progress. In a way, the 2013 Year of the River celebration began in the 1970s.

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  Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

  GRAPEVINE, Texas — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.

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December 4, 2012

Indiana senator seeks ‘truth in education’ law

TOM LoBIANCO Associated Press Tue Dec 04, 2012, 01:47 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS — The lead sponsor of last year’s effort to allow the teaching of creationism in Indiana schools is altering his efforts this year in favor of a “truth in education” measure.

Senate Education Committee chairman Dennis Kruse says the proposal would encourage students to question a broad range of topics in the classroom. Lawmakers approved such a measure over the governor’s objections in Tennessee, where that has translated into questioning evolution.

Kruse led an effort during the 2012 session to allow teaching of creationism in Indiana’s public schools. He said today the new proposal doesn’t specify that religion should be taught or evolution questioned.

Opponents of the creationism proposal last session amended it to incorporated origin-of-life theories from multiple religions. House Speaker Brian Bosma shelved the bill, saying it appeared unconstitutional.

 

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