I think this may be a tough case to prove:
For the first time, Allen County is holding parents legally accountable in educating their children, but one Fort Wayne Community Schools board member says it needs to be more than just a one-time effort.
I think this may be a tough case to prove:
For the first time, Allen County is holding parents legally accountable in educating their children, but one Fort Wayne Community Schools board member says it needs to be more than just a one-time effort.
Another reason to be glad I don't have kids in school these days:
It's a disturbing game with devastating consequences, and a new WTHR survey suggests it is rampant in Indiana schools.
I like my women like I like my wine:
Bill Oliver, owner and vintner at Bloomington's Oliver Winery, whose Traminette was selected the best of the varietal from Indiana at the competition, described the grape as robust, adaptable and forgiving.
Not in the running for father of the year:
A father who left his 5-year-old son in his semi-trailer truck while he ducked into a Near-Southside strip club was charged with felony neglect and public intoxication this morning.
Donald Crawford, 39, Franklin, was arrested at 1:15 a.m. when he left Sassy Kat's Showclub and called police to report his truck stolen and his child missing.
I wouldn't necessarily say this is the most cynical flip-flop in political history, but it is certainly breathtakingly brazen:
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, pondering a future in politics, is trying to wipe away his image as an enemy of Latino immigrants by positioning himself as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc.
When I watched my aunt suffering with Alzheimer's, I thought that must be the worst condition to be in while still alive. To still know what and who you once were but feeling your mind slipping away and realizing you can't do a damn thing about it -- could anything be more horrible?
The good news is that there are apparently very few of us who hate everybody. Of the 7,783 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2008, only 8 were for "multiple biases." The bad news is that the overall number represents a 2 percent increase from 2007. Of course there may not actually be more hate crimes, merely more emphasis on them and awareness of them. And sometimes, it can be difficult to say what exactly is a hate crime. If you burn a cross in somebody's yard, that's pretty obvious.
Yeah, that's right, kick us when we're down:
Jeffersonville City Councilman Mike Smith is hoping to reduce the number of newspaper and advertisement boxes lining downtown sidewalks.
There's a bit of advice seasoned gamblers give to novices: Never take more to a casino than you can afford to lose. If you go overboard, you won't get any sympathy from the casino, and you may have little choice but to declare bankruptcy. Guess the same thing applies to casinos, which should never invest more than they can afford to lose if the economy turns sour and the competition heats up:
A truly shocking discovery in Muncie:
MUNCIE -- It seemed like a good idea at the time: City and county officials in 2007 split the $70,000 cost of a study that analyzed local consumers' spending habits with a goal of attracting retailers and restaurants to the area.
Thanks to turnover in the offices of the mayor and Delaware County commissioners, however, the study was dropped in desk drawers and forgotten.
I rarely go to movies these days, being content to wait for the releases to go to DVD or cable TV. But disaster movies need to be seen on the big screen (and with a crowd) for the special effects to have maximum impact. So my friend K and I, feeling the need for a good "The world's a blowin' up, and we're all a goin' to die!" experience, went to see "2012" on Saturday. I highly recommend it.
It's one thing to give prisoners so many benefits that incarceration hardly seems like punishment -- things like premium cable TV channels and access to a college education many on the outside can't afford. When I heard that some of the poor souls in the Monroe County Jail were having to sleep on the gymnasium floor because of overcrowding, I confess that my first reaction was, "The Monroe County Jail has a gymnasium"?
Aww, the poor babies:
One night in Adams Morgan, the sons and daughters of lawyers and corporate executives padded into a friend's rowhouse for a kind of group therapy session about their families' wealth.
When we were young and the world was more moral, our games were more wholesome and entertaining. If we wanted to break the ice with members of the opposie sex, a simple straighforward game of strip poker was sufficient. We weren't absolutely depraved, like these irresponsible young people today:
Allegations stemming from a game of "strip Yahtzee" led to a Muncie woman's arrest this week.
Those mean, stingy county officials just wouldn't go along, and the mayor is sad, so unbearably sad:
"The dream of a joint solution to Fort Wayne's and Allen County's space needs through co-location just died,” a somber Mayor Tom Henry said in a hastily arranged news conference Thursday afternoon.
But who killed it? City and county officials identified vastly different culprits.
Got your "God in the Hoosier news" update here. A teenager in Terre Haute expressed dismay at what she perceived as an "intolerant" sign at a church:
Saagarika Coleman submitted a letter to the editor of the Tribune-Star (see page A8) stating that she was “hit with a wave of shock. I was horrified” when she saw the sign at Bible Baptist Church as her father drove her to school Monday morning.
The sign stated, “Jesus died and rose and lives for you. What did Allah do.”
As noted earlier here, former Gov. Joe Kernan is returning to Vietnam for the first time since his release from a POW camp there. Guess old warriors can't help the urge to revisit the battlegrounds of their youth:
It's been 40 years since John Eckenrode was suspended from the University of Notre Dame for a sit-in during the Vietnam War, but he still remembers where he stood that day.
It's getting to the point where we should probably begin every story about what they're doing in Washington with the disclaimer, "No this isn't a joke. We're not kidding. They really are considering this."
Senate Democrats crafting a job creation bill are considering a proposal to give money to workers who cut their hours in order to avoid layoffs.
The Indiana Supreme Court's invalidation of part of Zachary's law seems pretty straightforward. The state constitution bans ex post facto laws in pretty plain language, and the portion of the law requiring even sex offenders convicted prior to the registration law to register is, by intent and effect, retroactive. But at least one law enforcement officer isn't having any of that constitutional mumbo jumbo:
Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them.
