This sure seems like the wrong project at the wrong time:
Officials in Crown Point hope to break ground on a $12 million library on the north end of the downtown square in May.
Library Director Lynn Frank tells The Times of Munster that a lot has to happen between now and then for that to occur, including some tweaks to the design. Frank says the library will have a courtyard design.
Don't know if Hammond residents will be safer, but the city is at least making the effort:
While other police departments are downsizing, Hammond is looking to hire more police officers.
The northwest Indiana city's Board of Public Works and Safety recently gave the police chief the go-ahead to start accepting applications for 10 permanent positions.
[. . .]
Rick Santorum ripped Mitch Daniels on Thursday, admonishing the Indiana governor's reluctance to engage the social issues that are catnip to the party's conservative wing.
This is maddening, but not exactly a big surprise:
The Defense Department and the FBI should have recognized that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan had become an adherent of “violent Islamist extremism” before he went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people, two US senators said Thursday in a special report.
[. . .]
A budding crime career is nipped in the bud:
Hey, it's "big numbers to make your head hurt" Friday!
I don't get the distinction:
House Republicans plan to sidestep a charged debate over the distinction between “forcible rape” and “rape” by altering the language of a bill banning taxpayer subsidies for abortions.
How would you describe Evan Bayh? How about "sainted moderate" who is now going to "reap lobbying bucks"?
Note to Senate Democrats who have to run for re-election in 2012: Some of you may have blown your last chance:
Efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law died a quick death in the Senate Wednesday, but the GOP got a consolation prize — a bipartisan fix to a tax-reporting requirement in the law that was widely panned by businesses.
The discussion continues on Mitch Daniels and his "truce on social issues." A Notre Dame professor takes exception to the National Review post and comes to Mitch's defense:
