Carbon Motors of Connersville isn't going to get that $310 million federal loan deal to employ 1,500 people to manufacture "the first purpose-built police car." This is the song and dance from the Department of Energy's rejection statement.
Carbon Motors of Connersville isn't going to get that $310 million federal loan deal to employ 1,500 people to manufacture "the first purpose-built police car." This is the song and dance from the Department of Energy's rejection statement.
Ball State University economics professor Michael Hicks' research on Right-to-Work states from 1929 to 2005 found "no statistically significant differences," either posititive or negative, "between RTW states and non-RTW states in either the industrial composition of their economies or their income from manufacturing." In comparing the recession experience of Indiana and Michigan, and looking at Illinois and Ohio as well, he found something far more sig
And you thought Indiana politics could get dirty:
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico - A man facing extortion charges involving a stripper, and who is forbidden from entering City Hall, has been elected mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico.
So, Peyton Manning and the Colts are parting company. We all knew it was coming, and the Colts won't be as much fun to watch while they're in rebuilding mode. The most interesting part to me is the what's-next-for-Manning question:
How will Manning's final chapter play out?
Indiana's voter-ID law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Wisconsin isn't having such good luck.
I forget things, so I understand how it happens. I've left my car keys in the car. I've forgotten to take my cell phone to work. I've forgotten an occasional appointment or two. I forget to get things at the store that I go in knowing I needed. This here is a doozy, though:
Indiana soon will have an official state rifle to go along with the state tree, state stone and state flower.
The Indiana House voted 78-2 on Tuesday to declare the Grouseland the state's official rifle. It is one of only six remaining long rifles made by famed Hoosier gunsmith John Small in the early 1800s.
Looks like we won't have Allen County's merry prankster of politics to kick around this year:
A nickname has cost perennial candidate Dave Roach a spot on the May 8 primary ballot, handing the Democrat Party nomination for Allen County Commissioner to retired firefighter Gordon Anthony.
Everybody complains about the outrageous cost of popcorn and other snacks at the movies, but nobody ever does anything about it, until now; Joshua Thompson, is suing a theater chain because he "got tired o being taken advantage of." Good luck with that:
I hate to disagree with someone as politically astute as Andy Downs, but, well, I disagree with him:
The buzz surrounding “Super Tuesday,” and the 419 Republican delegates that go along with it, raises a question that comes up almost every presidential cycle: Will Indiana still matter by the time the nomination fight gets here in May?
You'd think someone who regularly communicates with God would have learned when to keep his mouth shut by now:
In the aftermath of the tornadoes that devastated parts of the Midwest, television evangelist Pat Robertson is adding his two cents about the situation. Not enough people prayed, he said — because if they had, God would have intervened.
President Obama sounds a tad conflicted about war and the use of force. On the one hand, he says this:
I’m reading “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think” by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, and it’s a good and highly encouraging book. But I believe that their technological optimism, though justified, also needs to be qualified.
Yesterday, I remarked on the cat who's running for the U.S. Senate. Here's one vote that feline won't get:
An Albuquerque man says he successfully registered his dog to vote in Bernalillo County.
The dog owner said he saw a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico's campus a few weeks ago and decided to see how easy it would be to register his dog to vote.
This is an interesting legislative initiative that hasn't gotten much attention:
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don't have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
And we live in a Lake Wobegon of the mind, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
More and more political observers are saying Richard Lugar may be in trouble in his primary fight with Richard Mourdock. Here's The Weekly Standard:
After a lifetime of political good fortune in Indiana, Senator Richard Lugar can’t catch a break. He is facing what Politico calls his “toughest reelection campaign in decades,” and with the May 8 GOP primary looming, he desperately needs to repair relations with party conservatives.
Here is the most depressing chart I've seen in some time:
Basically we now take in the same amount we did in 1950, about $20 billion a year, which is still a nice piece of change. But:
