Hoosier lore

The Tax Foundation has examined new Census data to explain where states get their revenue broken down by six sources ( helpful graph here). The U.S. averages are: property taxes, 30.1 percent; individual income taxes, 22.6 percent; general sales tax, 23.5 percent; selective sales taxes, 10.9 percent; licenses and other fees, 8.2. percent; and corporate income taxes, 4.7 percent.

Hey, good news, Hoosiers; we can still go to the poor house, as long as we're willing to move to Hendricks County:

Cypress Manor, one of the last county-owned homes to care for the poor in Indiana, won a reprieve today.

Never mind all that book-learnin', kids, wait'll you get a taste of the real world:

GREENCASTLE -- More than 550 eighth-grade students faced the reality of adulthood for a few hours Monday during the Reality Experience.

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Happy 99th birthday to the Hoosier basketball legend who didn't routinely embarrass the state:

John Wooden will be honored today with highway signs that tie to Indiana history and the Martinsville legend's love of reading.

The signs are part of a celebration of the coach's 99th birthday today around the area where he grew up.

I went to a mini Germanfest with friends Saturday evening at the Knights of Columbus hall on Reed Road. Good food and good music, but there were a couple of hundred people (at least) in a small space, and I started getting phobic about the possibility of catching flu there. Then I spend a lot of Sunday beating myself up for being so irrational. I console myself now with the fact that I'm not the only one:

It's nice to have a clean, orderly ciy, but this seems to be going overboard:

KOKOMO, Ind. — Snow routes are no more in a central Indiana city as crews are removing the signs as part of a battle against clutter.

Gov. Daniels recently spoke against "rockheaded, misguided" climate change legislation, eliciting a strange response from The Journal Gazette. Daniels said such legislation would devastate the Hoosier economy. That attitude, the JG said, shows a lack of faith in Hoosiers:

Marcus Schrenker, the Indiana "businessman" who took more than $1 million from clients of his financial service, then tried to fake his own death in a plane crash, says he plans to write a book about his ordeal, which will explain that, really, it wasn't his fault at all:

Congratulations to Indiana University's Elinor Ostrom, one of the co-recipients of this year's Nobel Ptize in Economics, along with University of California professor Oliver Williamson:

Some in Detroit are worried that the "keep our money in Ohio" ad campaign in the Buckeye state will add another blow to the already reeling Michigan economy:

Detroit's three casinos pulled in 1.36 billion last year, paying $151.36 million in gaming taxes to the city and another $121.04 million to the state.

But revenues this year have been down at MGM Grand Detroit and MotorCity, while Greektown is seeing gains even as it remains in bankruptcy.