If we're on the way to using up the clock, it's a good bet we're breaking the bank:
The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion -- or more precisely 8,310,200,545,702 -- dollars ... and counting.
But it's not big enough.
Oh, give me a break:
Many Indiana sex education classes are skipping important information on AIDS, pregnancy and other topics, according to a survey released Monday.
Indiana University conducted the online survey commissioned by the Get Real, Indiana! coalition, a group of organizations that support comprehensive sex education for all Indiana students.
Sadly, neither Fort Wayne nor any other city in Indiana made the list of "15 best skylines" in the world. I still like Fort Wayne's, though, because I remember the first time I ever saw it. I grew up a country kid.
Far be it from me to question this selection of the world's greatest tool:
What a concept -- looking for drunks in bars:
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.
The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.
But wouldn't that leave the designated driver with a whole evening to kill?
If you've been incensed about the prisoners who get a better college education than many kids out here who have trouble paying for one, never fear. Inmates have as much opportunity to waste their time as we do.
Oregon's prison system in the US is turning to computer games to help rehabilitate felons.
Inmates who have a clean disciplinary record for 18 months are being given a chance to buy a small handheld game console.
One of the trickiest workplace conundrums -- when to cuss and when not to:
Wow, all you illegal immigrants and terrorists better just keep coming through the Mexican border, 'cause we're waiting for you on the Great Lakes:
For the first time since 1817, U.S. Coast Guard vessels on the Great Lakes are being outfitted with weapons
The sale of Knight Ridder has created a whole new round of discussion about the future of newspapers. See, for example, this lengthy and comprehensive essay by Nancy Nall, former News-Sentinel columnist, which explores the whole range of issues faced by the dead-tree press these days about as well as it can be done. (Via Indiana Policy Review through Fort Wayne Observed.)
