This week's sign that the End Times are near:
This week's sign that the End Times are near:
The kind of story we don't see every day (thank goodness):
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — State health officials say a person from southern Indiana's Clark County has died of rabies.
Probably more honest than he intended to be:
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) says Democrats are "trying on every front to increase the role of government."
And pretty much succeeding.
Must be divine justice of some kind -- The United Nations is investigating New York:
Everybody knows New York City is an expensive place to live. But the United Nations wants to know if affordable housing is so tough to come by that it actually violates human rights.
Those of us who attended college in the bad old days of repression and guilt clearly missed out on all the fun:
Sexploration at IU, the second annual weeklong series of fun, interactive sex-positive events offering Indiana University students information about sexuality related issues, begins today (Oct. 26) on the Bloomington campus.
I'm no fan of excessive regulation, but this doen't seem unreasonable:
The Bloomington City Council approved a change the city's animal code Monday night.
The new ordinance limits the number of cats and dogs a resident can own to 19.
Seems like they have a pretty evenly divided City-County Council in Indianapolis. The vote was 15-14 in favor of a hotel tax for the Capital Improvement Board and 15-13 to make it tougher to panhandle. And now:
A proposal to ban smoking in nearly all Indianapolis workplaces faces an uncertain future after a narrowly divided City-County Council tabled it Monday night.
We don't need cap-and-trade legislation to wreck the economy. The EPA can do that all by itself:
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama said his cap-and-trade tax plans would "bankrupt" anyone building a coal-fired power plant. Although those taxes haven't materialized, the Environmental Protection Agency has put the brakes on 79 surface mining permits in four states since he was elected.
Government fraud? Say it isn't so:
The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.
Officials in West Lafayette are missing a wonderful opportunity to improve the lives of city residents. Seems a landlord was informed that his rental property was "in need of aesthetic improvements." In response to that helpful reminder, city inspectors contend, he went and painted the house pink. Some in the neighborhood are outraged (not the tenants, who are college students and think it's kind of cool to tell people, "Just come to the pink house") but the city says it can't do anything:
A measly buck? Anybody wants to do a fundraiser like this here, I'd be in for at least $10:
A group of Purdue students who generally spend their time extolling the virtues of computers spent a good chunk of Friday smashing them.
For $1, the computer design and graphics students allowed Purdue students, faculty and staff 30 seconds to take whacks at computer hardware set up on the Engineering Mall.
So long, Giants. Goodbye, Vikings. It was fun yesterday to watch the Colts so handily stay, with the Saints and the Brocos, in the undefeated column. As the Times reminds, this is the first NFL season with three undefeated teams after Week 7. But also:
Is also seems to be the first time in N.F.L. history that so many teams look so utterly helpless.
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Here's a little refreshing honesty from a public official. Indiana has been receiving a lot more per capita doses of H1N1 vaccine than Kentucky, which means Indiana ordered its supplies much earlier and asked for more:
Never say the green goofs can't possibly get any goofier:
THEY'RE faithful, friendly and furry - but under their harmless, fluffy exteriors, dogs and cats, the world's most popular house pets, use up more energy resources in a year than driving a car, a new book says.
Most of the Soupy Sales obits concentrate on his national presence, but the Detroit Free Press has a good read on his early days as a local TV celebrity:
Sales was best known to Detroiters as the goofy yet cerebral host of “Lunch with Soupy,” a half-hour show that featured Sales hamming it up in a variety of sometimes surreal situations.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Nutrition officials hope a new poverty demonstration will show Indiana community leaders and healthcare providers what it's like to be poor.
In the "Reality of Poverty" simulation, participants assume the roles of families facing poverty. They are challenged to provide for basic needs such as food and shelter on a limited budget for four "weeks," each of which lasts 15 minutes during the simulation.
An article in Reason argues that the death of newspapers won't mean the death of news:
Apparently the wild is calling us back. Fishing license sales are up 8.1 percent in Indiana this year and 7.7 percent in the nation. How come?
Officials said one reason fishing is becoming more popular could be because the slumping economy may give people more time to enjoy outdoor activities.
That's a little clueless, don't you think? How about, "The slumping economy has given more people a strong reason to supplement their food supplies"?
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem -- 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 200
