Good news -- the Guantanamo problem has been solved; Terre Haute will take all the prisoners:
When the location of Terre Haute's new Wal-Mart Supercenter came under debate three years ago, City Councilman Rich Dunkin received more than 300 phone calls about the issue.
The leader of the Indiana Senate says he's taking gambling issues off the table during the upcoming special session so lawmakers can focus on putting together a new state budget.
Now that the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign has moved its sign campaign ("You can be good without God," "In the beginning, man created God") to Chicago, Time magazine finds the issue worthy of comment, reporting that residents there have largely greeted the ads with "a quick, curious look and then a shrug." The piece closes with a non-believer saying that atheists are still "in the closet," afraid to "come out" to their families and "say they don't believe in God" and makes this observation:
Would you call this a Hoosicer-centric point of view?
Those of us who have been trying to come up with excuses for not wanting to visit Hobart can stop searching:
An ordinance to ban overnight parking outside Wal-Mart and other local stores passed City Council on a first vote Wednesday.
The proposal was approved on a 5-2 vote and is aimed at truck drivers who in recent months have turned parking lots along U.S. 30 into de facto truck stops.
The Elkhart school corporation, looking to save money like everybody else, is considering reducing the number of buses running each day:
The other option was to tighten restrictions on walk zones. That idea passed Tuesday night. It will reduce the number of buses running by having more students walk to school. Fourteen-hundred students will be affected.
The legend of the deadly brown recluse spider grows, courtesy of several news organizations, including The Associated Press:
A coroner says a 42-year-old Evansville man may have died from a bite from a brown recluse spider.
Generally, job discrimination complaints do little for those who aren't in a protected class. In fact, those non-protected workers even come off sounding like privileged elites who don't care about the downtrodden masses -- beneficiaries as they are of a "disparate impact" that is said to prove discrimination against a minority. But here's one kind of case that can benefit all workers (or at least screw them all equally, depending on the employer):
Has anybody ever gotten more out of brief moments at sporting events than milk producers through the Indianapolis 500? (Possible exception: the "I'm going to Disneyland" crap at the end of Super Bowls.) This year, Hooser Ag Today even trots out an "Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian" to tell us happened that one fateful year when an Indy winner balked and didn't drink his milk:
Looks like Indiana was on the cutting edge with its "no-smiles" policy for driver's licenses:
Stopping driver's license fraud is no laughing matter: Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos.
