INDIANAPOLIS — An environmental group and Indiana's newspaper association criticized a state agency's plans to stop publishing newspaper notices on public hearings about proposed air quality policy changes, saying the shift will inevitably leave some residents in the dark about policies that could impact their health.
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I hope he's wrong, but I've entertained the thought a time or two myself:
Well, now we know that at least one of the four candidates at the top of the tickets believes in federalism:
How would you like your fate to be in the hands of these 12 imbeciles?
Story by 89 WLS reporter Mary Frances Bragiel
JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) - Day two as jurors deliberate in the Drew Peterson murder trial.Just after noon jurors sent Will County Judge Edward Burmila a note asking for the definition of "unanimous."
Hey, you white-bread Republicans, get that phony Hispanic out of there. Quite trying to pretend Marco Rubio is an authentic represetative of Latino culture in America. Have you no shame? Oh, wait. Never mind:
What do you know? President Obama and I are in complete agreement:
CBS News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- President Obama formally accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination on Thursday night, calling the 2012 election "the clearest choice of any time in a generation."
I'm not real happy with my alma mater about this:
MUNCIE -- If necessary, Ball State University will exercise its eminent domain power to seize a building housing a copy center/printing business on which it plans to build a $25-million hotel, conference center, restaurants and dormitory for hospitality and food management students.
Well, this was a real time waster:
The Patriot Guard Riders and the Indiana chapter of the Greenways Foundation are two non-profits that are not normally associated with each other. Yet, both groups testified Wednesday in favor of keeping their non-profit license plates.
And you thought you had ethical dilemmas:
As Isaac Pollak, an ardent Republican, kissed his wife goodbye before heading out on a business trip to Asia several years ago, he handed her his absentee ballot for the coming presidential election and asked her to mail it.
Sigh. The Indianapolis Star used to have such a nice little editorial page, reliably and clearly conservative. Today, that page is -- well, I don't know what it is; kinda all over the map, the way a good Gannett "on the other hand" editorial page should be, I guess. A recent editorial joined the knee-jerk "we can't quite make the connection between gun control and gun violence, but let's control guns anyway" crowd:
Well, I guess Mr. Peabody's coal train ain't a gonna haul Vincennes away:
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world's biggest private-sector coal companies, said Wednesday that it has ended production and will permanently close one of its mines in Indiana, citing continued soft market conditions.
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I thought Richard Mourdock was different. I believed his promise of an unfliching commitment to conservative principles. Insofar as this indicates a deviation from that promise, it is very disappointing.
At least this isn't another tiresome attempt to stetch the First Amendment to cover things other than political speech:
Is nude dancing an art? New York's highest court will consider legal arguments by a strip club on whether it is and deserves a state tax exemption as such.
I started out liking Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic convention last night. The first few minutes, with its tale of generational aspirations, would have been warmly greeted at the Republican convention. His grandmother sacrificed in order to give a better life to her daughter, who then sacrificed to give better lives to her children. That's the American story, right?
Well, duh. Since "the era of cheap food may be over," maybe this whole biofuels business wasn't such a hot idea:
The pests from PETA have gone from being an irritating and annoying nuisance to being an interfering busybody:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A northern Indiana festival that toasts the life of Johnny Appleseed is facing pressure from an animal rights group to honor the frontier apple tree planter's animal-loving ways by dropping meat from its menu.
Justaposition of the day.
From the "Winners" column of The Journal Gazette's "Weekly scorecard" on Saturday:
Voters: A federal appeals court strikes down Texas’ tough voter ID law, ruling it puts “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor.” The court said the Texas law is tougher than Indiana’s, which the Supreme Court upheld.
If that chart doesn't scare you, I don't know what will. Just to spell it out:
Call me a sentimental slob and a sucker for romantic tripe, but this got to me, too:
The only real coup came with its surprise tear-jerking moment, when Romney related a heretofore-unknown story about his father putting a rose on his mother’s pillow every day — and told how his mother realized his father had died on the only day in their 64 years of marriage that the rose was not there.
