Here comes City Clerk Sandra Kennedy, blazing a trail into 21st century technology with blinding speed:
Sandra Kennedy, who has held the city clerk's office since 1983, on Wednesday announced a plan to replace stacks of paper with tablet computers for council members; stream meetings live on the Web; and provide easier mobile access to agendas, ordinances and other council documents.
Hey, when you play the Hoosier Lottery, you're not just wasting hard-earned money on a fool's dream of striking it rich. You're also investing in things all Hoosiers benefit from, like infrastructure and education and other vital services.
Oh, and this
:The Hoosier Lottery's new Meridian Street headquarters may not look like much from the outside, but inside, it's impressive.
Juxtaposition of the day. First up, Herman Cain:
Washington (CNN) - The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was 'brainwashed' for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.
La Niña, a periodic weather phenomenon in which the central Pacific Ocean around the equator cools by at least 1 degree below normal, appears set to once again bring severe winter weather to the Midwest, including Indiana, as it did last winter, associate state climatologist Ken Scheeringa said Tuesday.
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Stay outta here, hippie scum, and putcher maryjuaaana where the sun don't shine:
Indianapolis airport police say they'll destroy medical marijuana seized from a breast cancer patient from California who was boarding a flight.
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"Affordable" doesn't mean quite what it once did:
Researchers at Indiana and Cornell universities say that how the federal government defines "affordable" could leave millions of dependents of low and moderate income workers without reasonably priced insurance under the federal health care overhaul.
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Every couple of years, some members of Congress get a sudden urge to replace the dollar bill with a dollar coin. The whims usually just lead to a few days or weeks or protest that fades away when people realize again nothing will be done because, well, so many people would be against it. Every time they try to shove a dollar coin down our pockets, we resist. Americans are no more ready for that, um, change than they are the metric system.
Representative democracy? Oh, that's so messy and cumbersome. It takes forever to get anything done, and those darn "citizens" are such pesky louts.
Ah, how fondly I remember those innocent days when "Women suck at parking" was No. 1 on the "Men are sexist pigs who thoughtlessly spread horrible stereotypes about women" hit parade. But here comes the science:
Of the 170,000 women who failed their driving test in 2010 for mistakes in reversing or failing to use their mirrors, 55,000 failed on parking.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sees the upside of losing:
On whether it's better for the NFL to have the host city's team in the Super Bowl, or to have two outside teams:
"First of all, it's never happened where a Super Bowl host city has also had a team in the big game. That would be a different dynamic," he said.
And so on and so on and scooby, dooby, doo-be:
Feel lucky to be alive? You should:
Probability of your existing at all: 1 in 102,685,000
As a comparison, the number of atoms in the body of an average male (80kg, 175 lb) is 1027. The number of atoms making up the earth is about 1050. The number of atoms in the known universe is estimated at 1080.
But Republicans have a competing argument. Instead of saving us from a Greater Depression, the Obama stimulus (together with his health-care plan and financial reforms) was a two-year waste of precious time and money that may actually have impeded economic growth.
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A sex researcher at Indiana University reveals "five ways better sleep leads to better sex."
Here's an odd one. It's common for legislators to not read proposals carefully enough to know exactly what they're passing (note, for example, the recent law that ordered noncompetitive races taken off the ballot, apparently to everyone's surprise). But here's a legislator dismayed to discover that a bill he authored resulted in exactly the kind of activity his bill made possible. The legislation in question is the law that allows Hoosiers to carry firearms in public locations such as parks, libraries and some municipal buildings, written by State Sen.
Hallmark says these new cards are selling well, which is either a sign we've accepted the "new normal" or that we've become totally dependent on superficial, secondhand banalities in our interpersonal communications:
In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everything, from traditional occasions to unique needs: cards with sound, cards for holidays, cards for losing a tooth.
But losing a job?
Well, good luck on getting any police cooperation with your investigation in the future:
The Charlie Brown Public is finally catching on to Government Lucy's pull-back-the-football trick. In a new Gallup poll, a record-high 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed. The news there is that there are still 19 percent who haven't figured out the Matrix we're in yet. Among the more interesting results:
Members of the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild have lauched a "Save The Star" campaign complete with downdown billboard, an effort that can most charitably be called misguided:
Bemoaning years of job cuts and pay freezes, the guild is going public with its disdain for Gannett, which owns the Indianapolis Star and 80 other community newspapers, along with USA Today and other publishing businesses.
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Nothing like a little swift and vocal statewide outrage to get the General Assemly's attention:
INDIANAPOLIS — The top leaders in Indiana's Legislature support reversing a new law stripping the names of unopposed candidates from local election ballots.
