I was watching the state legislature this year to see what would be done about property taxes, illegal immigration and same-sex marriage, so I confess that I missed this new state law. But, since there is no penalty for not complying, it isn't exactly a real law:
New moms returning to work may find it easier to keep breast-feeding after July 1, when a new state law takes effect.
Here we go again -- zero-tolerance taken to absurd lengths:
Smacking a female classmate's behind has garnered a one-day suspension for a 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student on grounds of sexual harassment, raising the ire of the boy's mother who is questioning the school's labeling of the incident.
Here we go again -- zero-tolerance taken to absurd lengths:
Smacking a female classmate's behind has garnered a one-day suspension for a 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student on grounds of sexual harassment, raising the ire of the boy's mother who is questioning the school's labeling of the incident.
Dumb idea of the week:
One person's graffiti is the art of another, and if some local officials get their way, the talents of local vandals could soon be put to better use.
City councilman Neil Garrison, D-5th, introduced the “Graffiti Park Concept” to the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department's board of directors Wednesday afternoon, offering a plan to allow structured graffiti along a segment of the Heritage Trail near Twigg Rest Area.
Don't you wish you were important enough so that you had to trademark your very name to keep it from being exploited?
Larry Bird has filed a lawsuit alleging a couple who bought his former home in southern Indiana are improperly using his name to promote a bed-and-breakfast.
Be suspicious of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on gun rights. Why? Paul Helmke isn't upset with them:
Any bets? My guess is no, but it's a close call:
Woodrow Wilson did it. So did Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.
All three Democrats bucked the trend and won the hearts and minds of the majority of Hoosiers voting in presidential elections.
If Hoosier voters were so smart in "seeing through" Hillary Clinton's federal gas-tax holiday, why didn't they similarly turn on Jill Long Thompson and her similar cap on the state sales tax on gas?
Hoosier voters showed in last week's primary that they're smarter than the pundits thought.
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It's over now. And Indiana, in the national spotlight in presidential politics for the first time in four decades, cast the telling votes in the final, decisive contest.
Barack Obama now is the almost certain Democratic nominee for president. Hillary Clinton cannot catch him without something as unexpected and startling as discovery that Obama is a secret Rush Limbaugh agent.
Our place in history is secure:
History will record the Indiana and North Carolina primaries as the events that secured the 2008 Democratic nomination for Barack Obama—and put the final nails in the coffin of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
This article and a lot like it try to figure out "what went wrong" for Clinton. Most of them overlook the two most obvious: 1. A lot of people intensely dislike Clinton. 2. Obama ain't Clinton.
