Hot dog, I feel rich now!
Mayor Tom Henry on Wednesday cheered residents who have helped the city's new recycling program net $1 million in projected savings
Hot dog, I feel rich now!
Mayor Tom Henry on Wednesday cheered residents who have helped the city's new recycling program net $1 million in projected savings
The town of Merrillville in northwest Indiana has said it doesn't need any more stinkin' renters with their transient lifestyles and criminal tendencies and such:
Local control? What a concept!
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The suggestion that Indiana lawmakers adopt a pay cap for school district superintendents doesn't seem to have much support.
Yeah, well, they've been lamenting "the death of rural America" for 50 years:
Rural America now accounts for just 16 percent of the nation's population, the lowest ever.
Eric Zorn of of The Chicago Tribune checks out the Indiana political landscape and discovers -- surprise, surprise! -- that not everyone in Indiana considers Gov. Mitch Daniels a political hero. Believe it or not, he manages to find a liberal editorial page, a left-leaning economist and the General Assembly's leading Democrat who are willing to say bad things about all the cuts made in state government. Who would have ever guessed?
Some county fairs in Indiana have stopped having competitions that result in a fair queen and/or king being crowned. Go ahead, guess why:
Any fair activity involving competition between 4-H members must be open to both boys and girls, said Renee McKee, assistance director of the Purdue Extension office.
Irony abounds in the remarks of White House Secretary Jay Carney in yesterday's news conference:
But we have to do something significant. And we absolutely have to ensure that we remove the threat to our economy that uncertainty creates.
After repeatedly shrugging off complaints that businesses are sitting on billions of dollars instead of investing it because they're not sure what the White House is in store for
I'd say it's time we all brushed up on our defensive driving. First, there is this, out of the Indiana Court of Appeals:
The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a man's conviction for operating a motor vehicle while suspended, saying the state didn't prove the moped he was riding was a motor vehicle under state law.
A new poll conducted for the Club for Growth showed Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and his primary challenger, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, in a statistical dead heat.
Purdue students should commend their president for not asking for a raise in an economic downturn.
President France Córdova and the administration have made unpopular decisions to help the University save money, such as raising tuition. Faculty and staff also were asked to give up raises due to merit based pay. Those choices, however, do not compare to the ridiculousness of giving pay raises to the presidents of Ball State and Indiana University.
The Fort Wayne community likes its food fast, according to a new report by Bundle.com.
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A judge in Georgia last week allowed the execution of a man named Andrew Grant to videotaped by lawyers representing another death row inmate. Who might end up seeing such a tape?
Best blog headline of the day: "McDonald's to revamp Happy Meals because you're too dumb to watch what your kids eat."
Fair headline? Well, until now, when ordering a Happy Meal you had a choice between the traditional burger and fries and a more nutritious but-mom-I-don't-want-that burger with apple slices. But it turns out most of you were choosing “poorly.”
Don't you just love fanatic fringe groups who hide behind respectable names?
Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes.
Looks like state legislators were a little too quick to get rid of that "much-ridiculed law" to make alcohol sellers check all IDS, regardless of the customers' ages:
Yeah, well, Tim, that's sort of the problem, isn't it?
"Just remember, this is the United States of America. We write 80 million checks a month. There are millions and millions of Americans that depend on those checks coming on time," Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told "FOX News Sunday."
80. million. checks. a month.
Well, I've been hooked both on both cigarettes and the Internet, and this sounds like total and absolute crap to me:
The majority of people feel upset and lonely when they are deprived of access to the internet, according to consumer research.
A new study has revealed that 53 per cent feel upset when denied access and 40 per cent feel lonely if they are unable to go online.
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Anybody who watches the trends can see that the tide is turning (maybe already has) on gay marriage, for the reason that Jennifer Rubin identifies -- "because the arguments against gay marriage are no longer persuasive with a significant chunk of the electorate." As more and more states adopt that standard, the pressure will be on the Supreme Court to invoke the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution to make gay marria
A couple of Indiana University researchers are in on another crack sexuality study, this one exploring the reasons people cheat:
“This research shows that demographic variables may not influence decision-making as much as previously thought — that personality matters more, especially for men.”
So, those with cheating personalities will cheat. Gooooooollee. I think Hank Williams was on to that way back in the 1950s: Your cheatin' heart will tell on you.
