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With Monday night’s last-minute change to Lafayette’s smoking ban, restaurants that cater to both smokers and families are left with a tough choice — families and no smoking or smoking and no families. What are local restaurants going to do?
For more, see the Wednesday edition of the Journal & Courier.
If the pungent smells of bright tree blossoms are not enough to show that spring is finally here, evidence of one of the great journeys in nature is a sure sign.
During the past few weeks, monarch butterflies have reappeared in the Midwest as they progress on a 4,000 mile journey across North America from their winter habitat in Michoacan, Mexico.
The first official siting in Indiana was reported in western Tippecanoe County on April 20, according to journeynorth.org.
The habitat of the monarch butterfly, their eggs and larvae — or caterpillars — is under threat both in Mexico and the United States. Conservationists, entomologists and a growing number of concerned citizens and students are now working to preserve the future of the orange and black butterfly and its young.
For more see the Wednesday edition of the Journal & Courier.
Innovation, financial incentives and shaking off the fear of failure are important elements as Indiana and the United States try to continue making progress in the global game of advanced manufacturing.
That’s the message several speakers presented Tuesday during the seventh annual advanced manufacturing summit at Purdue University.
“We need the researchers. We need the bright people at Purdue … and we need the entrepreneurs — the people who will go out there and take a risk,” said Alan Hubbard, a former assistant for economic policy to President George Bush a former executive director of the Council on Competitiveness.
For more see the Wednesday edition of the Journal & Courier.

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