Marion City Council members are considering buying laptops for themselves with tax dollars, and I don't believe this justification for a second:
According to city officials, the computers would be used by council members for checking city e-mail and receiving information in preparation for council meetings.
I'm sorry to report that Hoosiers are just as vain as the rest of the country when they go into denying-the-inevitable mode:
Physicians, tourism gurus and business experts say Hamilton County is becoming a draw for services that cater to a growing population of wealthy and well-educated baby boomers wanting to age with grace.
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How depressing. This is the headline on a story in the Michigan City News-Dispatch, a newspaper I worked at for eight years: "Former fugative gets jail time." We knew how to spell better than that when I was there, honest we did. And the story reveals that the man was discovered and hauled in after12 years on the run. I guess technically he was a"former" fugitive at the time of his sentencing, but that still seems redundant to me. Oh, well.
What comes between the pig and the cow? The rat, of course:
About 1,500 people celebrated the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival at Carmel High School on Sunday.
People came from all over Central Indiana to ring in the year of the rat, which began Feb. 7. A traditional New Year celebration lasts two weeks and ends with the Lantern Festival.
Those lawmakers are getting just too, too clever:
As much publicity as Internet sex stings have gotten, anybody still attempting to solicit sex online and thinking it is a real 15-year-old girl instead of an undercover cop deserves to go to prison for criminal dumbness alone. And that's just your run-of-the-mill sex pervert. This guy really should have known better and has to be exceptionally dumb or exceedingly desperate:
Gadzooks, what a game! Indiana vs. Purdue, both in the top 15 nationally, the leadership of the Big 10 on the line, Purdue staying close but finally getting beaten 77-68 by Indiana. Easily the biggest game (for us here) of the season, and because it was on ESPN instead of the Big 10 Network, I actually got to watch it.
I don't know if you've been watching the "Jeopardy!" teen tournament last week and this, but Hoosier Rachel Cooke, a senior at Fishers High School, won Monday night to qualify as one of the three finalists. (Here's a story that was published before her first appearance.) I've been watching the tournament, but I usually skip it. It's no big deal to miss a bunch of questions on the show's regular episodes.
Politics can be a fun beat to cover sometimes:
GREENWOOD, Ind. -- State Sen. Brent Waltz has filed a complaint with Greenwood police accusing political opponent Michael Beeles of "possible stalking, voyeurism and trespass.''
Today's question: If you plan for an emergency, is it really an emergency?
MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A free giveaway of emergency contraception doses at Planned Parenthood health centers in Indiana cities with large college populations has angered an anti-abortion group, whose leader calls it "irresponsible."
