VALPARAISO -- By most accounts, it's disgusting -- a mixture of decaying fruit, sugar and bread that Porter County Sheriff David Lain said "literally smelled like a garbage disposal."
However, guards doing a kitchen sweep recently at Porter County Jail found a batch.
Mayor Ballard apparently reconsiders a plan to de-green Indianapolis:
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard appears to be backing away from the idea of selling the city's so-called pocket parks, though he is not ruling out the option.
The trucker who fell asleep at the wheel and killed five, including the two in the famous mixed-up identity case, could have gotten 24 years. He ended up serving two. What do you think? Was that enough?
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has a new "paper to paint" exhibit of my favorite artist, Edward Hopper, showing how many sketches he made before actually doing the final work:
We should try to get as much out of Ivy Tech's uniqueness while we can. As soon as other states figure out what we're doing, they'll start imitating us:
Ivy Tech's plan to reinvent itself as more than a single-minded technical school is starting to pay off with big numbers.
Can't send those poor Democratic Hoosiers off to the Denver with nothing to say:
I wonder if whoever came up with the saying "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" could have been thinking of government. That condition so often seems the case way with state and federal bureaucrats. Under both the federal No Child Left Behind act and Indiana Public Law 221, schools that underperform for a certain amount of time can face severe penalties, up to and including being taken over by the state. But the state and federal laws set different standards, so it's not exactly clear when the state needs to step in.
I wonder if whoever came up with the saying "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" could have been thinking of government. That condition so often seems the case way with state and federal bureaucrats. Under both the federal No Child Left Behind act and Indiana Public Law 221, schools that underperform for a certain amount of time can face severe penalties, up to and including being taken over by the state. But the state and federal laws set different standards, so it's not exactly clear when the state needs to step in.
Nobody wants to live in Anderson, even Anderson government employees. So the city wants to require them to live in town, and even ask the General Assembly to remove the exemption for police and firefighters. But what about those pesky private companies?
Many Anderson private businesses also are not doing their part in making sure they hire locally, council members said.
That Jeffersonville sex offender is still trying to get into a park to watch his son play ball:
The American Civil Liberties Union argued in court Monday that an ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from entering public property owned by Jeffersonville is unconstitutional.
Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, said it is not rational to ban someone from going to a park when he or she has not committed an offense there.
