Think he'll pick the chick?
Think he'll pick the chick?
Public Access Michiana Inc. wants a share of cable franchise fees collected by South Bend so it can bring back Channel 99, the public accesc channel they once had there. Fort Wayne gets a good mention:
Sinking ship. Rats:
Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has resigned her post to return to her old job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said Thursday. Her resignation is effective Sept. 3.
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More power to them:
SEATTLE — Forty wealthy families and individuals have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.
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Our government at work: When the Kindle DX -- the larger one about the size of a legal pad -- came out, one of its envisioned uses was for textbooks. College students could save hundreds of dollars in fees and not have to lug all those books around. So Amazon decided to try that idea out, creating a polot program to give Kindles to students at a few universities. Enter the Department of Justice:
Lots of people are commenting on Judge Vaughn Walker's tossing of California's Prop. 8, thereby invalidating the actions of Californians who voted to define marriage in one man-one woman terms, but the American Family Association was one of only a few groups to send me a press release on it. The AFA says one thing I agree with and one I disagree with:
This is where AFA gets it right:
Democratic State Rep. Linda Lawson of Hammond is part of a group transporting rescued dogs to New England because, she says, Indiana suffers from "extreme pet overpopulation," and the dogs are more likely to find a good home in New England since there's more demand there for adoptable pets. That sounds like a fine effort for a good cause -- if only she'd left it at that. But she apparently wants to stay busy:
Sen. Arlen Specter is pushing for a law to allow cameras at the Supreme Court's oral-arguments sessions, and both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have spoken in favor of telvising court proceedings. Some say this means "momentum is building" for an end the the court's camera ban, but that may be overly optimistic:
Also reporedly under consideration: the dimwit ordinance, the dunce ordinance, the lout ordinance, the numskull ordinance, the blockhead ordinance, the dumbbell ordinance, the lunkhead ordinance and the lamebrain ordinance:
We hve a national crisis on our hands, and hardly anybody is paying attention:
U.S. packaged coffee maker J.M. Smucker Co (SJM.N) on Tuesday sharply raised prices for its well-known brands including Folgers, passing along the impact of a fund-led rally in benchmark futures markets.
The increase by an average of 9 percent was the biggest widespread rise in years . . .
Despite calls from some parents and legislators for a later start of the school year, educators are having none of it:
Last year, the most popular start date was Aug.18, the third Tuesday of the month. Thirty-eight districts started on that date, while 119 started before that and 24 started after.
This year, the most common date is Aug. 17, also the third Tuesday, with 44 districts starting classes then, 107 starting before and 52 starting after.
I've already had my midlife crisis (actually, I've had several, starting in my 20s; why wait till the last minute?), and I don't especially want to live through someone else's. But I apparently have no choice. When the president wallows in approaching-50 angst, you sort of have to pay attention:
How to kill competition and drive up the cost for consumers -- just try a little overregulation, the way a Republican administration in Indianapolis is doing:
Seven cab companies are no longer able to operate in Indianapolis after their licenses were not renewed by the city's Department of Code Enforcement for a slew of major violations.
Kinda scary for a Colts fan:
Jim Irsay won't let Peyton Manning walk away from the Colts next season, no matter the cost.
Get the big, bad government out of my big, fat life. Not much chance of that, if first lady Michelle Obama has her way. She wants Washington to take an even bigger role in freeing parents from that pesky job of being responsible for their children's food:
The intersection of 96th Street and Allisonville Road in the part of greater Indianapolis known as the town of Fisehrs is a busy one -- about 55,000 cars pass through every day -- and the average delay ranges from 35 seconds to 80 seconds depending on the time of day. They have a plan to reduce the average delay to 10 to 35 seconds, and this is a new one for me:
By God, this is just too much. I've been fighting against pork all my adult life, and now people in my own state -- those wastrel, profligate, no-good sons of spenders -- are actually going to celebrate it?
The Princeton Review's annual poll of 100,000 students is out, and Indiana had one school in the Top 10 of the nation's top "party schools," determined by:
Colleges are ranked based on alcohol and drug use, popularity of Greek life on campus and the amount of time studying outside of class.
Speaking of lists, here's one I heard on Bob & Tom this morning, the "Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time" from Gibson.com (where they should know something about guitar albums}. I'd quibble a little with the Top Ten. "Are You Experienced" should be No. 1 insead of "Van Halen." "Led Zeppelin" (29) should be ahead of "Led Zeppelin IV" (3) or "Led Zeppelin II" (6). But, hey, it's all great stuff.
MORGANTOWN, Ind. (AP) — Indiana residents are panning for gold in rising numbers in hopes of scoring big with the precious metal.
Gold finds have been reported in 20 counties, and membership in the Central Indiana Gold Prospectors Association of America has grown from 25 in 2008 to 280 in June.
