Hoosier lore

This just has to be one of those "something else is going on here we can't decipher from the facts given" cases, because it doesn't make any sense as presented.

Criminal genius of the week:

Fisher residents are facing an interesting decision:

City or town?
Fishers residents will decide in May.

Sheena Kiska lived in an apartment in Bristol, Ind., with her two young children. It was burglarized, and she wanted to move out, but the manager wouldn't let her out of her lease without paying three months rent, which would have been $2,500. So she stayed, and 30 days later, on March 18, 2008, there was another intruder, who beat and stabbed her to death.

Now, a Hoosier lawmaker, Democrat Craig Fry of Misawaka, wants to take some corrective action:

With only a day to spare, we finally have our Hoosier Teenager of the Year!

MUNCIE -- Police arrested a teenager as he was apparently preparing to urinate on a southside church early Tuesday.

Matthew Lane Stockton, 18, 3418 S. Juniper Lane, faces charges of public indecency and public intoxication, both misdemeanors.

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Let's see. If the General Assembly allows us to have a gambling referendum, and we vote to approve a casino, that means we can start building by . . . Oh, wait. Gov. Daniels says not so fast there, boys:

I think we've gone as far as we should go. If we're not at saturation, we're approaching it. Now, here come other states more fiscally desperate than we are trying to get in the game. So, no expansion would make any sense to me financially or otherwise.

There is a little justice in the world:

The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn't have to face Nebraska voters until 2012.

If Governor Dave Heineman challenges Nelson for the Senate job, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows the Republican would get 61% of the vote while Nelson would get just 30%. Nelson was reelected to a second Senate term in 2006 with 64% of the vote.

Pretty silly:

Indiana and Indianapolis leaders are urging people to make New Year's resolutions this year that will help them get on solid financial ground.

Secretary of State Todd Rokita, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, Indianapolis officials and financial experts are urging residents to develop "financial fitness" goals for 2010. Officials say a financial fair Tuesday in Indianapolis will help people set up their resolutions and find ways to make them happen.

Tired this morning. I stayed up way beyond my usual bedtime, watching this on TV. Perhaps you caught it, too:

CHICAGO - Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and his offense were looking for a little redemption Monday night at Soldier Field.

They got it after Cutler threw the game-winning touchdown pass in overtime in the Bears' 36-30 victory over the Vikings.

Fran Quigley is an attorney "working on local and international poverty issues." In an opinion piece for The Indianapolis Star, she says there are lots of other things the state could do instead of "handcuffing future generations" with a constitutional property tax cap and "cutting public education, health care for the disabled or other services" as a "last resort":

Like expanding the state's sales tax, which is our top source of revenue, to include more services.