I thought the Indianapolis Star supported the First Amendment. Guess I was wrong:
As it stands, state law allows any individual to give any amount of money to a political candidate. Political action committees also can lavish as much cash on a campaign as they desire.
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The State Fair is joining the cashless society:
Whether it's buying an elephant ear or tickets for rides on the Midway, visitors to this year's Indiana State Fair will have more opportunities to use their credit and debit cards. Fair officials say after listening to customer feedback, they've added more ATM locations around the Fairgrounds and more vendors will accept credit cards.
Boy, this would have been a good night for some smart burglars to make a real haul:
An estimated 3,000 people converged at Brownsburg Town Hall Tuesday for the community's Night Out Against Crime.
A newspaper uncovers some questionable public spending, and a public official is properly outraged:
But at least one government official has objected to the practice, arguing that the schools should not push students into voting booths at public expense.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott complained in April that Gary schools had taken students out of class and that the public paid to transport them to early voting polls at the county's Government Center.
Gov. Daniels wants to give taxpayers a break:
Gov. Mitch Daniels pitched a proposal Tuesday that would give taxpayers automatic tax credits if the state's banking account and reserves reached a level determined to be safe for weathering an economic downturn.
You know the question they used to try to scare us with? "Are a few moments of pleasure worth a lifetime of regret?" This guy should have asked it of himself:
Just one day after a convicted murderer escaped from an Indiana prison an arrest has been made. But it wasn't the prisoner who was taken into custody, it was a correction officer.
Because of a crime wave, among other reasons, Indianapolis residents panicked and threw out the incumbent mayor and elected political novice Greg Ballard. Now there's been another month of violent crime, and Ballard seems to be panicking. First, he announced a two-day employment fair for ex-offenders and named Colts Coach Tony Dungy to chair the city's ex-offender re-entry efforts. Now, this:
Last week, I did a post about the Indianapolis Star's dreamy-eyed editorial urging the state to redirect public money from roads to mass taransit. Somone from the Department of Transportation has now answered it, doing a much better job of destroying the illogic than I did:
You've got to love subsidized-housing bureaucrats. Every time a project becomes a crime-infested pesthole, one comes along and figures out what went wrong! This time, we'll correct all those mistakes, and we'll have a housing project that really works! Indianapolis Housing Agency chief Bud Myers is the latest one with the brilliant idea, winning the approval of a very unskeptical columnist:
Say it ain't so:
While Indiana may never shed its hard-earned and well-established reputation as a basketball state, those who have watched the evolution of the two sports over decades say football is at least closing the gap between the sports in popularity and prestige.
