Hoosier lore

My house is paid for, so maybe it's time for me to trade up. What do you think of this for my next humble abode?

Today's "morons with guns" question: When it is OK to start shooting up the streets?

Police were searching for three gunmen who followed a vehicle home from a party on the Northwestside and peppered it with gunfire the whole way this morning, sending the 19-year-old driver to the hospital.

The barrage ended only after the victim's father came from his apartment and returned fire, forcing the assailants to leave.

A bunch of whiny readers is trying to stir up trouble in Indianapolis:

Dozens of readers stretched out with books on blankets and in lawn chairs on the American Legion Mall across the street from the main branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, reading quietly to themselves to protest proposed budget cuts that could reduce hours and close library branches.

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And they say family togetherness is dead:

Lebanon -- Three adults face possible charges in Boone County after police found them with a drunken teenager. Two of those arrested were the boy's mother and grandmother.

Officers were called Saturday to an apartment complex in Lebanon, where they found the 15-year-old "visibly intoxicated," according to Lebanon Police Lt. Brent Wheat.

The Evansville Courier & Press has the same problem I do in grasping the difference between textbooks and school bus rides:

Indiana law providing for a free public education grows curiouser and curiouser. How could a school bus ride be essential to a uniform system of public education, but textbooks are not?

Sign of the times:

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — With most students now using cell phones, Indiana State University officials plan to remove telephone service from individual residence hall rooms.
Campus residential life director Rex Kendall says usage of residence hall land lines has plummeted over the past few years as cell phone use has soared nationwide.

A good change in the law:

Indiana State Police is spreading the word about two changes to Indiana's Move Over Law that took effect July 1.

Motorists must reduce their vehicle's speed 10 miles per hour under the posted speed limit if they cannot move to an adjacent lane safely. The updated law now also includes utility service vehicles.

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Thanks to a legal opinion from Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, some of Indiana's Larry, Darryl and Darryl school corporations won't be able to do just anything for a buck:

Charging a fee to ride the bus to a public school violates the state's constitution, Indiana's attorney general said Monday.

By God, only in america. Just yesterday, my sister was an average Hoosier, daughter of a coal-miner, a medical technician living in a middle-class neighborhood.  And today, she is part-owner of a professional basketball team!

The Indiana Pacers are staying in Indianapolis, but it will cost taxpayers at least $33.5 million over the next three years

How to find interesting, thought-provoking stuff online:

Tony Dungy was back in Indy this week to work on one of his favorite causes, trying to keep kids on the straight and narrow:

Dungy, in partnership with Indiana Project Safe Neighborhoods, narrates a video called "There's Not Always a Second Chance," focused on the stories of young men who made choices that changed their lives forever, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.