Maybe this will work, and maybe it won't:
INDIANAPOLIS -- A push to punish parents who allow their children to miss too many days of school is gaining momentum at the Statehouse.
An amendment added as part of Republicans' push for educational reform would make it easier to prosecute parents on charges of educational neglect, 6News' Joanna Massee reported.
Question of the day: How can you tell a boob from a boobie?
EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- School officials in eastern Pennsylvania will appeal a federal judge's ruling that allows students to wear breast cancer fundraising bracelets that say, "I (heart) boobies!"
The Easton Area School District voted unanimously Wednesday to appeal the decision by District Judge Mary McLaughlin.
Maybe I'm too jaded and cynical, but I don't respond well anymore to symbolic political gestures:
The Paula Hughes campaign says, “Stop that car!” The mayor's take-home city car, that is.
In a Wednesday news release, Hughes said she would sell the city car now used by Mayor Tom Henry and use her own transportation to get to work and to conduct city business.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce surveyed 218 employers representing more than 16,000 workers and found, among other things:
>> The amount of employers who said they had been affected by skill shortfalls in 2010 jumped 75 percent from prior year.
Speaking of acohol, Indiana is one of only three states -- along with Georgia and Connecticut -- to ban Sunday alcohol sales in stores. If the governor of Georgia sings a newly passed bill, it will be down to two:
When Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan seven years ago, the military wasn't exactly eager for it to come out that the former NFL player had fallen to friendly fire. "Cover-up" is not too strong a word for the disinformation campaign that Gen. Stanley MChrystal, then the commander of special operations in Afghanistan, participated in:
To my post last week about Indiana's universal carding law for alcohol buyers, commenter littlejohn attached this comment:
Or, we could just get rid of the minimum drinking ago altogether. Seriously, when you were a teenager, did the law prevent you from getting a six-pack if you wanted one? Is a drunk 18-year-old any worse than a drunk 21-year-old, or, for that matter, a drunk 50-year-old?
The tease continues:
Wearing a green jacket that made him look like he'd just won the masters, Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday talked about the "savage process" politicians go through when running for president, and about the "certainty of hurtful things" occurring to the families of those seeking the job.
Paul Helmke never gives up:
Does it have to be either-or?
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that he expects a bill cracking down on illegal immigration to be moderated to focus more on employers and less on law enforcement.
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Sen. Mike Delph, the Carmel Republican who authored Senate Bill 590, said, though, that some law enforcement provisions will remain under the proposed amendments.
