Two really stupid language mistakes in two separate Associated Press dispatches in the same day. First, from Elkhart:
Two really stupid language mistakes in two separate Associated Press dispatches in the same day. First, from Elkhart:
Later this morning, my newspaper colleagues will be debuting a redesigned website, which will include a new platform for this blog. If you come here through news-sentinel.com, you should still be able to click in as always. If you've got me bookmarked, you might have to change that, although I think they're going to try to come up with an automatic rerouter. Stay tuned.
Yeah, well, I know newspaper endorsements are less important today, insofar as they ever really did have much of an impact, but I wouldn't like to think we're the kiss of death. From an endorsement Jan. 15 in The State, the largest newspaper in South Carolina, extolling the virtues of Jon Huntsman:
Is there no effect from right-to-work laws?
A new Ball State University study shows right to work has no meaningful impact on job growth in the manufacturing sector. Economist Mike Hicks says the study examined the manufacturing sector in states where right to work became law.
Hicks says the study finds that manufacturing wages, employment and economic growth remained virtually unchanged in states after right-to-work laws took effect.
The Tomes of Northwest Indiana reports on what it calls "some of the seemingly wackier bills" among the 789 laws proposed "so far" in this session of the General Assembly:
Looks like conservatism is still dominant and the liberal camp is still shrinking:
Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives.
Bet you didn't have a clue that God was a Denver Bronco fan:
DENVER (CBS Denver) — Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is not the only one who thinks God helps him on the football field.
Ho-hum, another $1.2 trillion:
First we had the strange Amish beard-cutting terrorist sect, and now there are the Amish buggy fine scofflaws:
Happy Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobes!
Actually, there is a specific word meaning "morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th" -- paraskevidekatriaphobia:
Shocking but true, it is reported that alcohol consumption was involved here:
A north-central Indiana man accused of auto theft also faces charges alleging that he threatened to eat his arresting officers, their entire families and their police dogs.
Man, that's one big appetite.
In his final State of the Judiciary speech, retiring Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard makes an interesting point about the justice system and the economy:
He also said improvements in the state's legal system have helped courts become an aid — or at least not a hindrance — to Indiana's economic development.
Phil Marx points us to this bill introduced in the Indiana Senate, which would permit "an employer to consider tobacco use by job applicants in the hiring process." Indiana is one of about 30 states that have so-called "smokers' rights" laws (here is a roundup and critique), and this would amend and weaken our statute, by taking out all references to "prospective" employees. Here, for example:
A Fort Wayne mother drags her son along for her 15 minutes of fame:
An Indiana mom caused a stir on a street corner when she forced her teenage son to stand there wearing a sign that read, "I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don't follow the law."
Dynesha Lax said she was tired of dealing with her 14-year-old son breaking the law and getting into trouble. After he had a recent run-in with the police, she came up with an unusual punishment.
Purdue University will begin a shift to a year-round, trimester-based academic calendar this summer.
The move announced Wednesday by Purdue President France Cordova will break the academic year into three 13-week trimesters with a larger lineup of summer courses. Cordova said it will allow students to potentially complete a degree in three years.
Guess it wouldn't seem normal if we didn't have at least one of these every General Assembly session:
The Doomsday Clock keepers have moved the time ahead a minute to five minutes before midnight, the first time the clock has been reset since 2007:
There is no place the historical preservationists won't go! Or, if you're afraid of the idea of one-world government, hows about one-solar-system government?
But for archaeologists and historians worried that the next generation of people visiting the moon might carelessly obliterate the site of one of humanity's greatest accomplishments, these designations were important first steps toward raising awareness of the need to protect off-world artifacts.
OK, show of hands: Who didn't see this coming?
Changes to Indianapolis' alcohol laws will allow thousands of Super Bowl partiers to enjoy the game on the streets.
Words of wisdom in a Purdue Exponent student newspaper editorial:
It should not come as a shock that Republicans severely outweigh Democrats in the Indiana state house. Taking into consideration the 6:4 ratio in the house and the 37:13 ratio in the senate, Indiana Democrats are often simply along for the ride during quorums.
