The headline on this story -- "Retailers Split Over Sunday Alcohol Sales" is a little misleading, and the first paragraph is more so:
Opposition to a push for Indiana to repeal its long-standing ban on Sunday alcohol sales may come from an unexpected source, a newspaper reported: liquor stores.
A woman lost $125,000 at Caesar's on the Ohio River and wrote bad checks to cover the losses. When the casino sued her, she countersued, saying the casino knew she had a compulsive gambling disorder and that by inviting her to the riverboard and paying for her hotel, it "unfairly enticed her to gamble."
But Caesar's attorney Gene Price said that the casino staff intervenes when a customer appears to have a problem and participates in a state-mandated voluntary exclusion list on which Kephart did not appear.
Score one for common sense:
Plainfield will no longer enforce an ordinance banning political campaign yard signs more than 30 days before Election Day, the town's attorney said today.
What's red and blue and doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up?
Sen. Barack Obama holds a tenuous lead over Sen. John McCain in Indiana, with one in four likely voters saying they could change their mind on who to support for president, according to a new Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll.
Obama's three-point lead in the poll, 47 percent to 44 percent, reinforces Indiana's status as a battleground in the race for the White House.
Wow, now I really know the cost of gasoline has become a serious problem:
PORTAGE -- Gas prices seem to affect even drug dealers, according to Porter County Courthouse records.
A Hammond man now facing two counts of dealing cocaine was charging an extra $25 to deliver about 7 grams of the drug to Portage in June.
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OK, libertarians; get ready to beat me up.
I've written frequently, both here and on the editorial page, about the need to give third-party candidates their share of exposure during political campaigns. It's both fair to them and beneficial to the voters.
A monster and a moron:
A Wayne County man has admitted that he videotaped himself having sex with a girl younger than 1 year old.
Richard A. Florack, 55, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to a felony of knowingly producing child pornography for making the tape from Dec. 1, 2001, to Jan. 31, 2002.
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It's political season again, when another set of Indiana officials get to display either their complete ignorance of or complete indifference to the First Amendment:
A Plainfield man wanting to show his support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama filed suit today over an ordinance banning campaign yard signs more than 30 days before an election.
The scary thing is that it doesn't seem that outrageous:
WATERLOO, Ind. - A northeast Indiana gas station wanted to scare customers away after it ran out of gas, so it posted a price of $5.99 a gallon for unleaded regular.
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Employee Piper Withley says they put the high price up as a deterrent, hoping to avoid having people waste their time stopping at the station, only to find that they were out of gas.
Every time there is a natural disaster -- even if it's not an "emergency" -- the economic morons start coming out of the woodwork:
Prices fluctuated from a low of at least $3.94 a gallon to a high of at least $4.39, and two New Castle gas stations reportedly advertised gasoline for as high as $4.99.
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