The boss kicks some butt:
Indianapolis Arlington High School students might want to shape up the next time the superintendent pays a visit.
Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White visited the east side school on Wednesday and suspended between 40 and 50 students for not following rules. Their offenses included insubordination, tardiness, not having identification cards and dress code violations.
More police in high-crime areas -- what a concept!
The plan announced Wednesday is part of the city's new crime-fighting strategy, announced last month, which stresses cooperation between residents and police. IMPD will flood high-crime areas with extra officers and go after 30 of the city's most notorious criminals in an effort to slow the rate of homicides and violent crimes, Ciesielski said.
"God, what a hangover. That's what I get for getting so smashed in the middle of the day. What did I do while I was under the influence? Go ahead and tell me, I can take it. Oh my God, no, tell me you're kidding! I voted for WHO?"
A change in state law that allows bars, restaurants and stores to sell and serve alcohol on Election Day drew mixed reaction from people in northern Indiana's Mishawaka.
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We can't let those dimwitted, know-nothing voters have referendums on tax issues. All they care about is their own pocketbooks. They'd never vote for anything that costs money. Well, maybe, maybe not:
Referendums seeking millions of dollars in additional funding passed easily Tuesday in numerous central Indiana school districts.
One of President Obama's short-list candidates to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court is Diane Wood, who has sat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago since 1995. Her record, it is said in the story, "reflects a mainstream liberal jurisprudence, tempered by a respect for precedent and a narrow focus on the facts at hand." If you're not clear on what "mainstream liberal jurisprudence means," this is what she says on that whole "living Constitution" issue:
I sort of hoped we'd have a small break of at least a few weeks to catch our breath and calm down before the fall election onslaught. But apparently there will be no rest:
Question of the day: Can a common-sense Hoosier (former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith) teach Nyoo Yawkers a thing or two about the reasonable limits of government? Goldsmith has been hired by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the new deputy mayor:
But if his red state politics stand out in a city of true-blue democrats, the appointment of Goldsmith is a clear indication that Bloomberg will make belt-tightening a key component of his third term in office.
Former Mayor and current Brady Campaign head Paul Helmke seems to be encouraging -- or at least delighting in -- one-issue voting. Guess which issue:
The Indiana primary . . . could result in some long-time NRA favorites in the GOP taking some serious hits.
Most prominently, the NRA seems to have taken an “anybody but Coats” approach to the Republican U.S. Senate primary for the open seat being vacated by Evan Bayh.
Remember that scene in "Stand By Me" where the boys are walking across a railroad trestle and you just know a train is going to come while they're right in the middle of it and sure enough one does show up and your heart sort of leaps up in your throat? Or maybe it's just me. I actually lived as a kid in a house by the railroad tracks (I 'll leave it for others to say on which side of the tracks), so I grew up very aware of how dangerous it was to mess around trains and with a mother and father who constantly harped on the danger.
Just because someone is "homeless," that doesn't mean he doesn't understand the way the world works:
William Riley doesn't have a mailing address or, for that matter, a home.
Nevertheless, he wants to be counted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Riley is among many transient individuals in the area who say they have yet to be counted.
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