Talk about signs of the times:
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there's a 10' x 11' road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
My house is paid for, so maybe it's time for me to trade up. What do you think of this for my next humble abode?
Today's "morons with guns" question: When it is OK to start shooting up the streets?
Police were searching for three gunmen who followed a vehicle home from a party on the Northwestside and peppered it with gunfire the whole way this morning, sending the 19-year-old driver to the hospital.
The barrage ended only after the victim's father came from his apartment and returned fire, forcing the assailants to leave.
A bunch of whiny readers is trying to stir up trouble in Indianapolis:
Dozens of readers stretched out with books on blankets and in lawn chairs on the American Legion Mall across the street from the main branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, reading quietly to themselves to protest proposed budget cuts that could reduce hours and close library branches.
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Today's life lesson: "When you're looking for a gorilla, you're likely to miss other unexpected events."
Must be more loose money floating around Fort Wayne than I realized. i saw an ad for this on TV yesterday and looked it up on the Web just to make sure I didn't dream the whole thing:
Have your BREAST AUGMENTATION COMPLETED BY AUGUST 31, 2010 and receive a 10% DISCOUNT on the surgeon and facility fees, excluding anesthesia, implants, or products. Availability is limited, so please call today!
A blow against censorship and for the First Amendment:
And they say family togetherness is dead:
Lebanon -- Three adults face possible charges in Boone County after police found them with a drunken teenager. Two of those arrested were the boy's mother and grandmother.
Officers were called Saturday to an apartment complex in Lebanon, where they found the 15-year-old "visibly intoxicated," according to Lebanon Police Lt. Brent Wheat.
The Evansville Courier & Press has the same problem I do in grasping the difference between textbooks and school bus rides:
Indiana law providing for a free public education grows curiouser and curiouser. How could a school bus ride be essential to a uniform system of public education, but textbooks are not?
Pushed by advocates for veterans, the federal government has made it easier for veterans to get disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. They will no longer have to document specific events like battles or roadside-bomb blasts -- as President Obama says, veterans on the battlefield shouldn't have to keep notes. But some of those advocates are now saying the new rule doesn't go far enough:
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — With most students now using cell phones, Indiana State University officials plan to remove telephone service from individual residence hall rooms.
Campus residential life director Rex Kendall says usage of residence hall land lines has plummeted over the past few years as cell phone use has soared nationwide.
A good change in the law:
Indiana State Police is spreading the word about two changes to Indiana's Move Over Law that took effect July 1.
Motorists must reduce their vehicle's speed 10 miles per hour under the posted speed limit if they cannot move to an adjacent lane safely. The updated law now also includes utility service vehicles.
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Thanks to a legal opinion from Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, some of Indiana's Larry, Darryl and Darryl school corporations won't be able to do just anything for a buck:
Charging a fee to ride the bus to a public school violates the state's constitution, Indiana's attorney general said Monday.
By God, only in america. Just yesterday, my sister was an average Hoosier, daughter of a coal-miner, a medical technician living in a middle-class neighborhood. And today, she is part-owner of a professional basketball team!
The Indiana Pacers are staying in Indianapolis, but it will cost taxpayers at least $33.5 million over the next three years
Everyone is doing graphs these days -- a common one shows how much money Obama has added to the debt compared with other presidents. I've seen one showing how long the Afghanistan war is compared with our other wars. Here is mine:
While I was occupied with personal stuff last week, I missed the whole LeBron James saga, which I probably wouldn't have paid much attention to anyway. But in catching up, I couldn't help but notice how overwrought everybody got about his decision. He had a choice to make, and he made the one he thought was best for him -- get over it. The over-the-top prize has to go to Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert in his open letter to Cleveland fans:
Here's one of those "Who's on first?" situations. A judge has struck down a federal statute on grounds that it violates states' rights, and conservatives who normally complain about federal power are outraged, and liberals who usually love federal power are celebrating. Perfectly understandable considering the nature of the law in question:
How to find interesting, thought-provoking stuff online:
Tony Dungy was back in Indy this week to work on one of his favorite causes, trying to keep kids on the straight and narrow:
Dungy, in partnership with Indiana Project Safe Neighborhoods, narrates a video called "There's Not Always a Second Chance," focused on the stories of young men who made choices that changed their lives forever, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.
Mitch Daniels on the five books that most influenced his political thinking: F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," "Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose," Charles Murray's "What it Means to be a Libertarian," Mancur Olson's "The Rise and Decline of Nations" and Virginia Postrel's "The Future and its Enemies."
