Unclear on the concept of city living:
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - When an Indianapolis family bought "Charlie" six months ago, the intention was to eat him for dinner. But while they were waiting for him to fatten up, they grew attached to him. But there is one large problem: Charlie is a one-year-old bull who's creating a stir in their far south side neighborhood.
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President Obama said at Notre Dame that, since the views of the two camps in the abortion debare are "irreconcilable," we need to at least stop demonizing one another and reducing those with differing views to caricature. I was with him on that, but then he said:
"Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It's a way of life that always has been the Notre Dame tradition."
Tomorrow's criminal geniuses get an early start on their brilliant life :
LAPORTE, Ind. - Northern Indiana police say a group of underage drinkers home from college threw a party at the wrong place -- right next door to the LaPorte County sheriff's house.
Gov. Daniels tells President Obama to take his cap-and-trade and shove it (politely, of course):
So, pennies are a waste and a nuisance, and we shoulbut put out a new one that has some Indiana connection, and it creates traffic jams in Lincoln County as nearly 3,000 people line up to get one.
Our stimulus dollars at work:
A U.S. says she has received federal funding to study how children perceive various varieties of foreign-accented English.
Indiana University Assistant Professor Tessa Bent says the funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will help her and her colleagues determine how such accents might influence speech development in children.
Firehouse Subs says it plans to open as many as 28 stores in the Indianapolis area in the next seven years, but it may find the market is too saturated already:
Connecticut-based Subway Restaurants has more than 80 area locations, and Denver-based Quiznos and Cincinnati-based Penn Station each have about 20. Champaign, Ill.-based Jimmy John's has 14 and Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Blimpie has nine.
A brave public servant stands up for his oppressed constituents who are being crushed by the forces of tyranny:
Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson United School Corp. Board member Greg Waltz doesn't like the referendum process.
“You're putting neighbors against neighbors, community members against community members,” he said. “For the state of Indiana to do this to these communities, it's just terrible.”
Poor Hoosier atheist activists can't get a break. First, Bloomington refused to let its buses carry the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign's signs proclaiming that "You can be good without God," ruling the message too controversial. Then, the Mishawaka and South Bend bus people, because of the Bloomington flap, decided to seek board approval for putting the signs on its buses.
I wonder if Gov. Daniels will face any criticism over this for showing anti-democratic instincts:
Gov. Mitch Daniels has vetoed a bill that would have moved St. Joseph County Superior Court judges to nonpartisan elections.
In a veto notice on the state of Indiana's Web site, Daniels said St. Joseph County's model of selecting judges is "to be emulated, not discarded. It is not broken; it requires no repair."
