Support continues to grow, slowly but steadily, to allow grocery and liquor stores to sell alcohol on Sunday. The Indianapolis Star and WTHR (Channel 13) recently commissioned a poll on the subject:
The poll showed 46 percent of Hoosiers support changing that law, while 45 percent favor keeping it. Nine percent were undecided.
That shows a slight change from two years ago, when a poll conducted by The Star found that 50 percent of Hoosiers favored the Sunday ban and 43 percent opposed it.
The Journal Gazette does a typical "life is tough in the shadows when you fear being rounded up any minute" heart-tugger:
Pilar can turn on her radio or television and hear Spanish broadcasts. At most specialty grocery stores or Mexican taquería , she can pick up a local Spanish-language newspaper.
Did you know that grocery carts have more bacteria than public phones and restrooms? If you use one without at least wiping off the handle with one on the sanitary wipes the stores are starting to provide, you're taking your life in your hands. But at least, by God, we're being protected from those dastardly food pushers who are trying to kill us with their evil outdoor grills (third item):
The Muncie Star Press doesn't think much of the idea of concealed weapons on the Ball State campus:
In Indiana, there is one very good reason for a campus ban on concealed weapons: Just about anyone can get a gun for any reason.
The only requirement for a gun permit is that you pay the fee, which runs around $100 or so, depending on whether you are applying for a four-year or lifetime permit.
This seems downright un-American, or at least anti-Hoosier:
HIGHLAND | It was a divided Town Council on Monday that passed an ordinance to prohibit alcohol from all public areas, including streets and parkways.
Prior to the meeting, Redevelopment Director Cecile Petro said sidewalk cafes are becoming popular and that the new ordinance would prohibit them.
"Outdoor dining is very important to revitalize a downtown area," she said.
Police are going to be out in force to make the roads safer over the Thanksgiving season, and they're just going to violate the Constitution a little tiny bit to do it:
A couple of weeks ago, we had a story about guns "flying off the shelves" because of the mere possibility Barack Obama might be elected president. Now that he's actually been elected, it's beginning to look like gun sales nationwide are so huge that they could even save the economy!
Not in the running for family of the year:
Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking.
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The boy's father arrived later to pick him up, but officers determined he was intoxicated and also arrested him on a drunken driving charge.
Indiana legislators are still going around in circles over illegal immigrants:
A panel of lawmakers studying illegal Immigration couldn't agree on major legislation to propose in the upcoming legislative session. The group couldn't agree on a more minor bill, either, and barely approved a report outlining its previous meetings.
Just plain sick:
Bailey was wanted for the abduction and sexual assault of a 29-year-old Amish man that occurred before midnight April 26 near Topeka, about 35 miles northwest of Fort Wayne. He's accused of tackling the victim and taking him at knifepoint to a secluded area, where he attacked the victim.
The victim told investigators that Bailey told him he had been looking for an Amish girl, but the man “would have to do.”
