Yes, please, and amen:
Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees say "it is time" for NFL owners and players to wrap up negotiations on a deal to end the league's lockout.
Yes, please, and amen:
Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees say "it is time" for NFL owners and players to wrap up negotiations on a deal to end the league's lockout.
We make it a point to print guest columns by people who disagree with us. That's a standard newspaper practice, but sometimes I think we go too far, especially after we run one of Ball State University professor emeritus B.J. Pascal's columns. Last night, he was wondering if voters would be "snookered again" to vote "against their self-interest" in 2012. Like they were when they bought into Barack Obama's empty rhetoric in 2008?
Come on, admit it. Isn't it kind of cool that the Fort Wayne area has produced a porn star who was one of Charlies Sheen's "sex goddesses"?
She may have broken up with Charlie Sheen in April, but Bree Olson insists she's "still a goddess. I'm just not Charlie's goddess."
The punishment seems a little harsh for the crime here, wouldn't you say?
- A Dillard's employee who was fired after being labeled a "hot dog thief" should not have been denied his unemployment benefits, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.
Nolan Koewler was fired after Dillard's Fourth of July picnic in 2010 for eating two leftover hot dogs from the refrigerator.
Today's fuddy-duddy, "Dang it, why do they keep replacing the stuff I like with all this newfangled nonsense?" moment:
Walk into any school these days and the kids aren't working on their loops. They're in keyboarding class.
Cursive writing and handwritten letters are the past. Keyboarding, emails and texts are the now -- and the future. Indiana's school curriculum now reflects that.
Beware of the Sign Police:
INDIANAPOLIS -- From banners to flags and full building wraps, a citizens group is raising concerns about the visual impact the 2012 Super Bowl may leave behind on the city.
Indianapolis leaders are considering an ordinance that would allow for an array of temporary signs, including inflatables, cold air balloons and projected image signs, 6News' Kara Kenney reported.
It's good to have such a big belly laugh so early in the week:
Obama is seeking to cast himself as a centrist in the bitter debate. His 2012 re-election hopes hinge not only on reducing America's 9.2 percent unemployment but on his appeal to independent voters who are increasingly turned off by partisan rancor in Washington and want tougher action to get the country's fiscal house in order.
I notice that while I was on vacation, Republican City Councilwoman Liz Brown proposed an ordinance that would prohibit companies from contributing to the mayor's campaign while they are being paid by the city or participating in a city bidding process. An Indiana Election Division official says the ordinance would be illegal because rules on campaign finance are governed by state law.
Hoosier conservatives were dominant and victorious in the General Assembly during the recent session, but now their three major pieces of legislation are on shaky ground. The laws cracking down on illegal immigration and defunding abortion clinics have received rebukes from federal judges, and the sweeping new school voucher law is facing a teacher-backed lawsuit. Questions are being raised about how laws are vetted for legal issues, since so much legislation seems to have flaws this year.
Ayieeee! If I say it's as hot as a Texas summer, take heed. I know whereof I speak.
Anyway, glad to be back and blah, blah, blah.
Often on vacation, I try to completely ignore the news, as a palliative for my workday immersion in it. But this time, I decided to pay modest attention to the reported events of the day, the way most people do. That way, I could catch the highlights without having to obsess over the small stuff. So, the news that broke through my short attention span in Texas:
Who thinks this is a good idea?
The Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission on Thursday agreed to pay more than $1 million for less than 2 acres of land downtown, across Ewing Street from Parkview Field.
"Balls of dough are heated and shot out of a 'puffing gun' at hundreds of miles and hour." Yum, right? Well, yeah, of course:
The answer, of course, is Cheerios.
The iconic cereal, known by its distinctive yellow box, is 70 years old this year and still a force on the breakfast cereal market. One out of every eight boxes of cereal to leave the shelf in America carries the Cheerios name.
Presidential hopeful and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is that rare, rare politician who both understands the government's economic role and is willing to tell the truth about it:
Don't get me wrong....We are proud of this distinction. We had a 11.6 percent job growth that occurred during our two terms in office. But the headlines that accompanied that report—referring to governors, including me, as
Maybe I shouldn't tempt fate by mentioning it, but there actually seem to be fewer violations in my neighborhood this year:
Fort Wayne police have received more than 100 complaints recently about people setting off fireworks. That's in violation of a city ordinance that prohibits from ireworks being set off more than five days before the fourth of July.
Not sure quite what, but this must say something important about modern times:
Remember the Fourth Amendment? Oh, that old thing. We'll never miss it:
Today's nanny state report.
King County, near Seattle, passes a law that "appears to be the first of its kind in the state."
People who hope to beat the summer heat by swimming, floating or boating on rivers in King County must wear a life vest or face an $86 fine.
Oh, come on, Al. This sounds like a trick to make me like President Obama more:
Former Vice President Al Gore is doing what few environmentalists and fellow Democrats have done before, criticizing President Barack Obama's record on global warming.
