This seems downright un-American, or at least anti-Hoosier:
HIGHLAND | It was a divided Town Council on Monday that passed an ordinance to prohibit alcohol from all public areas, including streets and parkways.
Prior to the meeting, Redevelopment Director Cecile Petro said sidewalk cafes are becoming popular and that the new ordinance would prohibit them.
"Outdoor dining is very important to revitalize a downtown area," she said.
Police are going to be out in force to make the roads safer over the Thanksgiving season, and they're just going to violate the Constitution a little tiny bit to do it:
A couple of weeks ago, we had a story about guns "flying off the shelves" because of the mere possibility Barack Obama might be elected president. Now that he's actually been elected, it's beginning to look like gun sales nationwide are so huge that they could even save the economy!
If you were humiliated off the national stage after being discovered in a sleazy affair while your spouse was dying from cancer, would you be shameless enough to ask for $35,000 to deliver a speech and brazen enough to talk about everything but the affair and take only written queries so you could duck it in the question-and-answer period, too? If you can find dunces willing to go along with it, why not?
Not in the running for family of the year:
Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking.
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The boy's father arrived later to pick him up, but officers determined he was intoxicated and also arrested him on a drunken driving charge.
Now, that's diversity!
The chairman of an Indiana University committee says the panel will recommend adding a black basketball player's name to a gymnasium named after a longtime trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s.
The Greenwood Public Library announcesthat during this holiday season, canned foods will be accepted as payment for overdue book fines. From Nov. 22 until Dec. 13, the Library will accept one can of food for each dollar they owe (excluding those already sent to the professional collection agency).
Indiana legislators are still going around in circles over illegal immigrants:
A panel of lawmakers studying illegal Immigration couldn't agree on major legislation to propose in the upcoming legislative session. The group couldn't agree on a more minor bill, either, and barely approved a report outlining its previous meetings.
Here's one of those stories in which the state's numbers are higher than the nation's as a whole, and that's supposed to be bad:
Child Services removed 7,712 Indiana children from their parents in 2007 -- 369 more than the previous year -- according to the study based on data that states submit to the federal government.
Oh, yeah, this is just the attitude we need to get the country back on the right track:
Hey, President-elect Obama, Northwest Indiana calling with a few favors.
After all, you rolled up a 76,000-vote plurality in Lake and Porter counties and took Indiana by just 26,163 votes.
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But seriously ... Might Northwest Indiana fare well now that Chicago's favorite son is the most powerful man in the world?
