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Predicting Indianapolis Colts’ 2026 season record

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January 23, 2026

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Predicting Indianapolis Colts’ 2026 season record

How many wins will the Colts have in 2026?

Let’s make a way-too-early record prediction for the Indianapolis Colts’ 2026 season.

At this time, we know who the Colts’ opponents will be and where the games will be played, but we do not know the exact order of the schedule — and that can impact the overall difficulty of it, depending on how some games fall.

In addition to that, we don’t exactly know what the Colts’ 2026 roster will look like with the draft and free agency still ahead.

However, while there are always going to be changes to some degree, this team could look somewhat similar to what it did in 2025. One of the reasons that GM Chris Ballard is back is because there is a belief that the Colts’ start to the 2025 season is repeatable and sustainable.

So, with there still being unknowns around what’s ahead for this team, let’s do our best to predict how the upcoming season unfolds.

Indianapolis Colts 2026 record prediction

Final prediction: 10-7

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Paw Patrol exhibit returns to children’s museum in Indianapolis

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12 hours ago

January 31, 2026

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Paw Patrol exhibit returns to children’s museum in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) –The Children’s Museum is set to open a brand new Paw Patrol exhibit on Sunday and it’ll remain open until May 25th.

The exhibit is all about connecting kids to their favorite puppy powered heroes.

The exhibit was at the museum back in 2019 and after traveling around the country, it is back inside the museum.

Kids will be able to meet their favorite pups! Kid-size sculptures of Marshall, Chase, Skye, Rubble, Everest, Rocky, Zuma, and Tracker are found throughout the exhibit. It also features multiple areas including the Lookout Tower, Adventure Bay, Porter’s Cafe and also Jake’s Mountain.

“The exhibit is all about learning about teamwork, problem solving, and overcoming obstacles and while they’re doing the fun interactive they’re working on their social, emotional and cognitive gross motor skills,” said Sarah Myers, Director of Traveling Exhibits, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

Myers said her favorite part of the exhibit is when the kids get to meet their favorite Paw Patrol hero.

“It’s great to see the little kids get to meet their characters for the first time in 3D,” said Myers.

For more information on this exhibit, visit here.

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A Facebook post alleges BRICS supports ICE. The owners want to clear that up

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January 31, 2026

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A Facebook post alleges BRICS supports ICE. The owners want to clear that up

A post from a spouse of a co-owner of BRICS went viral in Indy groups this week, leading many to call to boycott the shop.
The Broad Ripple business quickly distanced itself from the pro-ICE views but stopped short of posting their own stance.
Now, the owners are working through the aftermath.

A Broad Ripple ice cream shop found itself under fire on social media this week after one its owners posted in support of Immigration Customs and Enforcement, prompting many to pledge to stop supporting the business.

The social media ordeal in which the store BRICS found itself raises the question of whether small businesses should publicly take sides on political and civil issues and how much a business owner’s politics should dictate whether one supports the business or not.

In a lengthy interview Jan. 30 with the IndyStar, the BRICS owners said the post on the personal Facebook page of the spouse of a minority owner did not represent the sentiment of BRICS ownership. However, they say, they will not release a statement against ICE, either, preferring to remain political neutral to operate as a safe third space for people on all sides of the debate.

“We feel very differently from what was posted,” said David Vonnegut-Gabovitch, the majority owner of BRICS. “But our concern was that if our statement says we feel totally the opposite, then everybody on the other side starts going the other way.”

That was not enough for Jen Colson Estes, a Meridian-Kessler resident, who first called out the shop on social media for a Facebook post she saw made by Jenny DuBow, spouse of BRICS co-owner David DuBow. As ICE enforcement in the country has ramped up, Colson Estes posted on her personal Facebook page that she would not visit the ice cream shop because of the post.

“She has the right to post it, and we have the right to never go there again,” Colson Estes told IndyStar.

Soon after Colson Estes’s initial post on Jan. 29, it went viral on Indianapolis social media, circulating in north side, Midtown and food-focused Facebook groups. Jenny DuBow’s profile has since been made private, but screenshots on Facebook and confirmed by BRICS ownership show she reposted an “I Stand With ICE” image.

BRICS released a statement on Facebook on Jan. 30, saying that the statement did not reflect the store’s beliefs.

“We regret that posts made on a personal social media account and circulated have been attributed to our business – this is not us!” the statement read.

Vonnegut-Gabovitch, Kirstie Hileman and David DuBow co-own BRICS, which has operated along the Monon Trail in Broad Ripple for 15 years. Vonnegut-Gabovitch holds the majority stake in the company, 70%, with Hileman and DuBow having a minority stake of 20% and 10%, respectively. The three run the day-to-day operations of the company, they told IndyStar.

Yet, the names of their spouses, Jennifer DuBow and Nonie Vonnegut-Gabovitch, appear on BRICS’ website. The two are not involved in the store’s operation of the store and cannot speak for it, the three principals say.

The statement did little to calm the flames. In an interview with IndyStar, Hileman said BRICS fielded about 15 phone calls on Friday and several more the day before as the post spread. David DuBow was not present at the interview but Vonnegut-Gabovitch and Hileman said they were speaking for him as well.

The owners said they made a conscious decision not to simply write a statement decrying ICE.

“It would have likely been easier for us to just make an apology and make a political statement, but we don’t think that’s the best way,” Hileman said. “If we’re removing businesses’ right to remain neutral and be a third safe space, how is it that our public will ever be able to have safe discourse?”

That said, they are making a concerted effort to tell longtime customers and community partners that their individual views in no way align with the controversial post. Hileman and Vonnegut-Gabovitch said in an interview with IndyStar that the views of the three owners, including David DuBow, are “wildly different” than the views expressed in the post.

“It’s not something any of us were involved in, not something any of us believe, but we do respect her First Amendment right,” Vonnegut-Gabovitch said. “She has a right to her views, and I believe we couldn’t change that.”

The flap started a day before thousands of businesses across the country closed their doors in a nationwide protest of ICE sparked by agents’ fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens, 37-year-olds Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Several Indianapolis businesses around town posted they would participate while others announced they would donate to causes that support undocumented immigrants.

Instead of taking to social media to take a side on ICE, the BRICS owners are encouraging people to visit the shop and have face-to-face conversations with the owners and with one another. On the afternoon of Jan. 30, the shop was quiet, with a few adults and children spread out eating ice cream.

“We want to bring it down at least for us, at least within our four walls, on our social media, bring that temperature down and move on and serve ice cream,” Vonnegut-Gabovitch said.

Alysa Guffey writes business, health and development stories for IndyStar. Have a story tip? Contact her at amguffey@usatodayco.com or on X: @AlysaGuffeyNews.

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Here’s how trash pickup is going to work in Indianapolis next week

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January 30, 2026

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Here’s how trash pickup is going to work in Indianapolis next week

Trash was not picked up Jan. 26-27 because of the winter storm that hit Indianapolis the weekend before. To catch up, the city chose to forgo the usual one-day rolling delay and returned to the regular collection schedule beginning Wednesday, Jan. 28.

The Department of Public Works said that if you missed trash pick-up on Jan. 26-Jan. 27, you are able to leave extra bagged trash out.

“For residents who had solid waste pickup canceled earlier this week, Monday and Tuesday, they are welcome to leave additional bagged trash that won’t fit in their cart at curbside next week,” Kyle Bloyd, chief communications officer for the Department of Public Works, told IndyStar. “Both haulers, Indy DPW and LRS (Lakeshore Recycling Systems), will collect the additional bags on Monday and Tuesday.”

So, if necessary, Indianapolis residents can place bagged trash next to their trash bins for pick up collection on Feb. 2, and Feb. 3.

The revised schedule applies to DPW and Lakeshore Recycling Systems customers throughout Indianapolis.

Did your trash get picked up? You can find what day your trash is picked up on the city’s website at indy.gov/activity/trash-pickup. If you have questions, you can contact the Department of Public Works from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 317-327-4000.

Jade Jackson is a Public Safety Reporter for the Indianapolis Star. You can email her at Jade.Jackson@IndyStar.com and follow her on X, formerly Twitter @IAMJADEJACKSON.

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