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HI FOLKS, how are you guys doing? This cheery text arrives on my phone several times a week, so now I share it with you. I hope you're all well, coping, and haven't yet reached the end of your tethers.

I CAN'T help feeling that this is all a long-delayed return to normal. I know the lockdown feels abnormal, and I suppose it is, in that we've never seen anything like it before. But beyond that, I have a powerful sense that normal relations have merely been resumed; the age-old see-saw relationship between man and planet re-established.

IN THESE uncertain days of lockdown, I sense a strange inversion of intergenerational strife.

I'VE NEVER seen or heard anything like it. Or rather, NOT heard. I was on the green roof of London: Kite Hill, the highest spot on Hampstead Heath, and summit of my daily permitted exercise routine.

THE RISKS of lockdown are threatening to become greater than the risk of catching the coronavirus.The blunt instrument of social and economic shutdown may soon begin to bludgeon more people to death than the microscopic bug it is meant to protect us from.

I'VE BEEN feeling increasingly uncomfortable watching the nightly news on television. We both have. Bulletins - particularly those on the BBC - are increasingly more like a newspaper's obituary page.

In this materialistic culture, this holiday stands alone as a time to reflect on the blessings we've been given by God, a letter to the editor says.

The best way for Indiana to continue its momentum and move forward is with Holcomb's leadership, a letter to the editor says.

In 2019, we connected young people to shelter, food, counseling, a non-judgmental listening ear and more, a letter to the editor says.

Everywhere I look I see the most heinous and immoral acts.

The alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country and other parts of the world is completely unacceptable, a letter to the editor says.

Lawmakers should support SB 111 as an investment to make Indiana families stronger now and in the future, a letter to the editor says.

An average of 907 Hoosiers are killed by guns each year, and 85 of those are children, a letter to the editor says.

If I was just passing through on my way somewhere else, what I see along the roadside would not encourage me to stay, a letter to the editor says.

Keeping him in office prevents the left from destroying America with their socialistic ideology, a letter to the editor says.

We all must work together to dismantle the barriers and empower our neighbors for a truly inclusive city, a letter to the editor says.

I am grateful for thoughtful insights amid today's cacophony of intolerant and mean-spirited shouting, a letter to the editor says.

Take this virus seriously and do your part to protect everyone in the community, a letter to the editors says.

I want to publicly thank all the other workers who continue to make life tolerable for those of us who are stuck at home, a letter to the editor says.

There is no recovery for those who will die if COVID-19 is not slowed and we overwhelm our health care system, a letter to the editor says.

The worst part of the COVID-19 outbreak for the vast majority of healthy Americans is the uncertainty of the situation, a letter to the editor says.

Many of these hard-working people do not qualify for unemployment benefits because they are considered independent contractors, a letter says.

I see people praising restaurant workers, grocery clerks, and truck drivers and I think this is long overdue.

Officers found a man suffering gunshot wounds shortly after 11 p.m. in a neighborhood east of Riverside Park, IMPD said.

Four people were shot at a popular park on the south side of Indianapolis early Wednesday morning.

Angela Summers, 45, was shot around 4 p.m. Monday while working in the 400 block of North Denny Street. She died later at an area hospital.

Among the unaccounted for items were seven boxes of masks, 50 tubs of sanitizing wipes, 10 containers of soap and 20 bottles of hand sanitizer.

The victim, Nya Cope, was in a car with members of her family when she was shot, police said.

Police said the driver was trapped inside of his burning car after crashing on Ind. 37.

Tense crowds chanted at Indianapolis police officers hours after an officer fatally shot a man following a pursuit partially caught on Facebook Live.

Protesters gather in Indianapolis near the scene of a fatal police shooting after a pursuit that seemingly was captured in part on Facebook Live.

Police said the pregnant woman was hit on South Harding Street, near the I-465 ramp.

Within hours of two officer-involved shootings on Indianapolis' north side, community leaders began to respond.

An Indianapolis police officer fatally shot a man on the north side following a pursuit that seemingly was captured in part on Facebook Live.

An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer shot and killed a man in the area where a man on a Facebook Live video said he was being chased by police.

The shooting happened early Thursday on the northwest side, just eight hours and three miles removed from another fatal police-involved shooting.

Indianapolis Metro police are investigating after a man was found dead with an apparent gunshot wound or wounds on the city's north east side.

Here is a list of notable officer-involved shootings by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers in recent years

Within an eight hour period, IMPD officers have been involved the fatal shooting of two suspects and the death of a pregnant pedestrian.

A statistical analysis of Indianapolis' homicides shows that young black males are four times more likely than others to be victims of homicide.

Randal Taylor, who became police chief last week, has felt the grief that lies behind every shooting in Indianapolis.

Dreasjon Reed, 21, was shot and killed following an Indianapolis police pursuit that was broadcast in part on Facebook Live.

Marc A. Jones Jr. faces charges of criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, rape, sexual misconduct with a minor and pointing a firearm.

Two Indianapolis police officers have been arrested in separate and unrelated incidents.

After IMPD officers killed 3 people in 8 hours, IndyStar found that Indianapolis is the largest city in the country without police body cameras.

Police are investigating after a woman was fatally shot on the city's west side early Saturday morning.

Bulldogs senior hits a 3-pointer in the closing seconds to knock off Xavier in the Big East regular-season finale.

Senior caps 36-point night with winning 3-pointer