This is cool:
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Two companies have announced plans to tap gas from a landfill's decomposing garbage and turn it into enough power to light more than 1,500 homes.
Veolia Environmental Services and Energy Systems Group, which is owned by Vectren Corp., said they had reached an agreement to develop a plant next to Blackfoot Landfill that would clean the landfill's gas and burn it to generate electricity.
Newt, Newt, Newt. As one boring white guy to another, I wonder about this:
“What I'm afraid of is that if Sen. McCain picks one more relatively boring, normal, mainstream Republican white guy
Never mind Jill Long Thompson's gas-sales-tax-holiday gimmick. Let's add another buck to the price of gas, and we'll get that record for sure:
Traffic fatalities in Indiana this year have dropped 24 percent compared with last year -- and experts say that's largely due to gas prices keeping more vehicles off the road and drivers slowing down to improve gas mileage.
Franklin College junior Kailee Fouch is a good little green, just like she was programmed to be in school. So when she took time off from her Brown County Democrat internship duties, she and a friend went only reluctantly to "the corruption known as Wal-Mart," feeling a little guilty because of how much that sinful enterprise contributes to Indiana's awful carbon footprint (49th-worst in the nation!
Here's a first. I find myself agreeing with part of a Dan Carpenter column:
Knowing there's little risk of ruining that going concern, mayors and other elected officials nevertheless join with business leaders, clergy, sports figures and such to declare war on crime once and for all, as if it might form itself into a single giant Satanic entity that could be driven out of town by combined moral force. Or perhaps a hill to be taken by the Marines.
Hope she didn't hear a voice saying, "You're welcome":
Police in Lebanon, Ind., said a woman performing a Wiccan ceremony in a city cemetery accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a ceremonial sword.
Indianapolis - State officials say an improved credit rating will save money by reducing interest rates on public debt.
Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Monday that Indiana has for the first time received the highest credit rating from Standard & Poors.
This week's "Hoosier bringing embarrassment to the state" entry:
A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing.
If you spot Dustin Smith, 27, who escaped from the Edinburgh Correctional Facility, be sure to call authorities. You can't miss him, really:
The Model T turns 100 this week, and more than 900 of them are expected at the Wayne County Fairgrounds for the Model T Ford Centennial Party. This article explains some of the significance of the Tin Lizzie:
John Heitmann, a history professor at the University of Dayton who has taught classes on automobile history and its impact on American life, said the Model T is one of the most historically significant cars of the 20th century and maybe the single most important American car.
