Everybody's going to have an opinion about the Connecticut shooting horror. FWIW, here's my two cents in the editorial I wrote for today's paper. It isn't meant to offer solutions, just the place where the conversation should start:
There are two things we desperately need to talk about – the availability of guns and the failures of our mental health systems. We can't seem to talk seriously about either one, but for different reasons.
What do you think about this?
Officials in a central Indiana county have repealed a local smoking ban that was stricter than a statewide ban the General Assembly approved earlier this year.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling for over-the-counter contraceptive sales, arguing that such a move would take a potent political issue away from Democrats.
"Let's party like it's 1984" department. From my current favorite libertarian, Andrew Napolitano:
If this is accurate, it's almost as much of a sign of evolving attitutes as the recent voter approval of gay marriage in three states:
A new poll shows Hoosiers are split on legalizing same-sex marriage, but also oppose amending Indiana's state constitution to ban it.
Getting really, really, really tired of the metaphor:
Here's why many are optimistic that a brief fall over the cliff wouldn't derail the economic recovery:
For the last time, there is no such thing as a "brief fall over the cliff." You fall over a cliff, you hit bottom -- there's no turning back.
Is anybody really shocked by this?
When Gov. Daniels came through a few weeks ago, we asked him about what might be in store for defeated Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett. He said something like, "Oh, don't worry about him -- he'll land on his feet." Didn't take long for him to be proven right:
Hey, another state looks to Indiana for inspiration for a change instead of the other way around:
The Journal Gazette never met a tax hike it didn't like, and the feeling seems to be the same for any source of government revenue, including user fees:
Raise the rates for downtown metered parking, it’s long overdue. Fifty cents is not too much to pay to park for an hour in a prime parking space.
