Jerry Davich

Indiana Youth Ballet has performed this classic holiday chestnut since 1996, featuring hundreds of kids of all ages, skills and talents from across Northwest Indiana and Illinois.

Mohamad Darwish, of Aberdeen subdivision, has been targeted for harassment since July “because we are Palestinian," he says.

"The pain we feel cannot be quantified other than to say that it is only matched by the unconditional love of a parent for a child," one reader wrote.

One description for the word “character” is doing the right thing when no one is watching. I’ve been watching these kind of workers.

Robert Heimberg surprised Jenny Burkhart at her office. Hop in, he told her. "It was a magical day," she said.

The true “holiday spirit” is not illustrated by performing a good deed and then proclaiming the gesture to the world.

“It’s interesting how cities across the continents are connected in their fate, with one’s rise linked to one’s fall," Flora Ho said.

“I always wanted to be a flight nurse and I’m loving every minute of flying in the sky,” Holdren told me aboard UCAN’s medical helicopter.

“Having our health in life is like having our parents in life,” Dr. Oz told me. “You only notice it when it’s gone.”

A BZA meeting may not be as sexy as a police press conference or a mayor’s podcast, but it aptly demonstrates how local government works.