Gary City Councilwoman Ragen Hatcher wants to require all department heads as well as new employees to live within the city limits. The Post-Tribune doesn't think this is such a hot idea:
While it would be nice for Gary employees to want to live in the city, it is important to understand why 20 percent of the Gary workers live outside the city.
This outcome was to be expected, but it's a little surprising that the vote was 7-2 instead of 5-4:
The Supreme Court has upheld the three-drug lethal injection method used by the state of Kentucky in a 7-2 decision, clearing the way for a nationwide stay on executions to be lifted.
Many of us have lamented society's drift away from individual responsibility. It's not the drunken driver's fault -- it's the fault of the bartender who served him. It's not the murderer's fault, but that of the company that manufactured the gun. It's not the homeowner to blame who entered a too-risky mortgage agreement; the blame goes to the "predatory lender" who talked him into it.
Happy Tax Day!
People who complain about taxes don't understand a lesson my late father—a conservative Republican—taught me. He used to say that he was honored to pay his taxes because he knew some government was necessary and taxes are the price.
Just wish I wasn't so darn honored!
What is "visual sexual aggression," you ask? Well, it's "peering" at children in public, which could get you in trouble in Maine:
Under the bill, if someone is arrested for viewing children in a public place, it would be a Class D felony if the child is between 12 to 14 years old and a Class C felony if the child is under 12, according to Alexander.
I know, you'll find this shocking, really shocking, but the Hoosier Hotties escort service was not legitimate. It was -- are you ready, are you sitting down -- a prostitution operation. Don't worry about the place going out of business, though:
Here's one of those "shocking murder in a small town" stories, but not all the good information was supplied by the TV station. We learn from its story only that the man shot his wife dead then shot himself in the head when police approached him, that the two had been fighting "in the past several months" and that police had been called to control the situation "on many occasions," all of them ending "in a peaceful manner." The rest is mostly "Mayberry will never be the same" boilerplate:
OK, think like a government bureaucrat:
NEW YORK - The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the trend will make black-market smokes more profitable and lead to more cigarette smuggling.
Cigarette smuggling has been going on for generations and already costs states untold billions in lost tax revenue.
On the other hand, "Hands up, I have a note!" probably wouldn't be very effective:
A Richmond Police lieutenant investigating a bank robbery on the city's north end said Wednesday he was surprised the suspect used a gun.
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Berner said the suspect's decision to use a semi-automatic handgun surprised him given the area's recent history of bank robberies.
Excuse me for lecturing lawyers on the law, but "unusual" and "illegal" are not synonyms:
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Lawyers for a polygamist sect that is the subject of a massive child-abuse investigation argued in court Wednesday that although its members' multiple marriages and cloistered ways may be unusual, they have a right to their faith and privacy.
