This is certainly good news:
In the Midwest, Indiana is No. 1. Nationwide, it's No. 5.
This is certainly good news:
In the Midwest, Indiana is No. 1. Nationwide, it's No. 5.
This is an excerpt from the lengthy post I did six years ago when Bob Dylan first blew through Fort Wayne:
So now we finally know, though I'm not sure what real benefit the news will be to us:
OWENSVILLE — The Food and Drug Administration has identified a southern Indiana farm that produces cantaloupes linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak and says the operation has recalled its melons.
The FDA says Chamberlain Farms of Owensville could be one source of the multistate outbreak.
There are coaches who are hard to please, and then there is Charlestown (Ind.) High head football coach Jason Hawkins.
Should jail inmates be able to eat better than most of us on the outside?
Time in jail comes with a guarantee: three square meals a day.
But those meals can't be just anything.
SELLERSBURG, Ind. — State police say cultivated marijuana plants growing outdoors in southern Indiana are easier to spot from the air because of this summer's drought.
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Wow, here's a stunner -- state officials and union representatives disagree on the effects of the right-to-work law that ended compulsory union dues:
Officials at 20 companies have said Indiana’s passage of a right-to-work law this year was a factor in their decisions to bring more jobs to the state, according to Daniel Hasler, who leads the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Quote of the day, from an Evansville 21-year-old with a BAC of .422:
I'm not really a bad guy, I've just been a drunken asshole tonight." These were the famous last words of Ty Alsop, who was arrested by police in Evansville, IN, after trying to escape from a hospital with his bare ass hanging out of a hospital gown.
The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A state legislative committee plans to discuss whether the joint campus run by Indiana and Purdue universities in Fort Wayne should become an independent school.
The General Assembly's Select Commission on Education is to review the governance of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne at its Sept. 4 meeting at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.
Hoosier public schools unclear on the concept:
Struggling Indiana public school districts are buying billboard space, airing radio ads, and even sending principals door to door in an unusual marketing campaign aimed at persuading parents not to move their children to private schools as the nation’s largest voucher program doubles in size.
It's back-to-school time, so we have to put up with this annual exercise in silliness:
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
First Lady Michelle Obama served a healthy meal to kids today, attending the official “Kids’ State Dinner.” The event was held at the White House to promote the First Lady’s “Lets Move” anti-obesity initiative.
Here is the menu, which was composted of winning recipes submitted by children for the contest. (via the pool report)
Is this the modern equivalent of "If LBJ has lost Walter Cronkite, he's lost the nation"? Granted, it's probably too strong to say Newsweek has defected -- they're just printed one story by a man who worked for the McCain campaign? I mean, come on, when was this guy ever gonna vote for Obama?
All those people who whine about negative political ads seem flabbergasted when candidates actually put out messages that are, well, nice:
Indiana's gubernatorial candidates say their campaigns are about creating jobs and cutting taxes, but their first round of campaign commercials, which get them the most exposure with voters, have skipped most of that serious talk.
Simply answering the question of whether abortion should be permissible in cases of rape can get a candidate into enough trouble. Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin found a creative way to really boost the negative reactions:
While explaining his position, Akin claimed that pregnancy only rarely results from “legitimate rape.”
Remember how even Gov. Mitch Daniels salivated over the $17 million in "stimulus tax credits" the Obama administration was going to give us for a wonderful green energy adventure? But, surprise, surprise, it turns out not that nobody wants to buy a $42,000 electric car useless for anything but short, in-city trips:
No Indiana community makes this list of "24 of the Funniest Town Names in America." That may be because he chose names he could make a story out of, as in this section:
Libertarian dreams of becoming a viable national party have never come close to being realized. But what about a state takeover?
Yeah, that Paul Ryan, what a radical! But let us define our terms:
