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The Valparaiso Fraternal Order of Police is hosting a FREE celebrity basketball game this Sunday September 20, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.  The game will take place in the gymnasium at the Morgan Twp. School.  The school is located at: 299 South State Road...

A Jewel of a Downtown is the theme for this year’s Mayor’s Charity Ball and, as a special feature for the Ball, Martin Binder Jewelers has designed and created a custom piece to be awarded to the winning ticket holder on the night of the...

Ah yes, football season has come again. I’ve found myself, like many Americans, looking at football as more of the national pastime in the past decade or so than baseball. Why is this? Why, yes, I do have a few theories: Games are on during the...

The City of Valparaiso has announced several upgrades to its transit services, enhancing the service for riders. The following enhancements will be made to the ChicaGo Dash express bus service to Chicago: Beginning Monday, August 31, a third bus will...

Those of us who run quite a bit use the term "Rave Run" to label a particular running route as one of our favorites.  Mine include the route from Georgetown to Mount Vernon, the Asheville Aboretum in the North Carolina mountains and the run to Point...

Our first visit was with the President of Zhejiang, University, Wei Yang,  at the main campus.  We toured the sprawling campus, one of five in the province with a total student count of 100,000.  IU President, Michael McRobbie and Purdue Provost,...

We broke camp in Shanghai early this morning and drove to the "small" city of Hangzhou (pop. 6M) located in the Zhejiang Province.  On the 3 hour bus ride we observed the construction of the pilings parallel to the highway for a new high speed train...

Our first stop today was to tour a new medical technology park in the Pudong Science Park in Shanghai.  The manager addressed our group and explained how in just a few short years this development has helped create over 100,000 jobs and incubated...

When I signed up for this trip, I knew that it would be a whirlwind of meetings and engagements with sparse free time.  That's Governor Daniels' style- "Hit it hard from morning until exhaustion".  Well that might be a bit of an overstatement, but...

After a 14 hour flight our group of 35 arrived in Shanghai airport at about 6pm.  We are 11 hours ahead of Valparaiso.Shanghais is a city of about 15 million and the growth is hard to believe.  During the hour bus ride from the airport to the...