OK, buddy, wipe that grin off your face, and I mean right now:
Don't say cheese at your next driver's license photo.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is restricting glasses, hats, scarves, and even smiles in driver's license photographs.
BMV officials told The Times of Northwest Indiana that the new rules imposed last month are needed so that facial recognition software can spot fraudulent license applications.
Do stories such as this give you a little shiver of dread?
If you're like most people you carry your cell phone practically everywhere. However, many Nextel customers were disconnected this morning as technical difficulties disrupted service.
Issues with a local tower created hours of service problems. One Terre Haute Nextel provider received hundreds of complaint calls because of the high number of phones lacking service.
I'm not one of those sexists who think women can never be guilty of abuse, even when the alleged victim is a hulking brute of a footbll player. But this story is still a little eye-popping:
Headline in The Indianapolis Star:
3 ideas hope to yield bounty for education
I'll be darned. Never knew ideas could feel hope.
Some people thought Gov. Daniels was a genius for the toll road lease -- all that money for highway construction while other states have to deal with crumbling infrastructure. Well, how smart does he look now, huh?
The Indiana Debate Commission is giving itself a well-deserved pat on the back for the three gubernatorial debates it sponsored this year. For a first-time effort, it went remarkably smoothly, in large part because of the cooperation recieved from the candidates. I found this interesting:
A total of 2,868 people attended the hour-long debates around Indiana, while 2,826 visited the debates that were posted and archived online.
Everybody's got to have a hobby:
PORTAGE | Douglas E. Smith -- the man believed to be the most arrested person ever in Porter County -- was arrested again Thursday.
It was his 71st arrest.
Smith, 49, of 358-A Salt Creek Parkway, Valparaiso, was arrested on charges of public intoxication, resisting and intimidation.
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Indiana University has conducted what seems to be the first major study of charter schools in Indiana. Maybe it's too soon to expect definitive answers, but I didn't find it very helpful:
Man, you really know times are tough when even the deer start killing themselves:
MARKLE, Ind. - Five deer that wandered onto a highway overpass jumped to their deaths on Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's windshield, Indiana police said.
Indiana Department of Natural Resources spokesman John Salb said the Friday. They fell 20 to 30 feet onto the highway.
A lot of people feel like the members of the power structure in Fort Wayne and Allen County do just whatever they want to regardless of what the taxpayers think, and Harrison Square is frequently cited as the prime example. And many suspect that pertinent facts and figures aren't always shared with us. But it could be worse -- we could be treated the way Carmel's mayor treats his citizens:
