Good new for porn fans in southern Indiana:
New Albany Mayor Doug England said Monday he's inclined to end the city's six-year legal fight to close an adult bookstore after the Supreme Court announced it won't take up the case.
The high court declined to hear the city's appeal in the six-year fight to close New Albany DVD, the business at 601 W. Main Street now known as Cleopatra's.
Now that I'm rested and refreshed from vacation, let's class up the joint a little with some lighthearted political moments. First we have President "I am in charge" Obama:
If you had to guess which Indiana city would join the insane stampede to "boycott" Arizona, which one would it be? Right you are!
Fromer Bush administration official and Washington Post op-ed columnist Michael Gerson writes about the fall from grace of Mark Souder, for whom he once worked on Capitol Hill, and draws a dinstinction between sexual conduct and "less sensual vices":
Economic desperation is forcing public employers to make tough choices, e.g. Fort Wayne Community Schools' decision to outsource janitorial services. Some are getting creative, and at least one of the solutions is worth considering here -- the four-day school week:
FORT VALLEY, Ga. — During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center.
Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off.
Kentucky is saying “no” to Rand Paul.
The Kentucky Senate has adopted a resolution declaring any form of discrimination to be inconsistent with American values. The move is in reaction to remarks made by Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul.
There are different ways to respond to financial stresses. There is the outsourcing approach:
In an effort to cut $2 million from FWCS' budget, the board voted in March to look at outsourcing custodial work. Of 10 proposals, a committee chose Sodexo, an international company with U.S. headquarters in Maryland that serves 6,000 clients in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
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The mayor of Indianapolis is urging that city's yoots to just say no to sloth:
"I will be active 60 minutes a day and eat healthy foods"
Those words are on the pledge card that Indianapolis youths can sign as part of a new, citywide Get Fit Indy! wellness initiative, launched Wednesday by Mayor Greg Ballard and 17 community partners.
Speaking with Meredith Vieira on TODAY Wednesday, People magazine's Washington correspondent Sandra Sobieraj Westfall said she interviewed a dozen Gore family friends in the wake of Tuesday's announcement. And those friends told her they might have seen the writing on the wall if they had looked closely enough.
Thomas Carr is a convicted sex offender who registered as such in Alabama on his release from prison in 2004. In December of that year, he moved to Indiana but did not register with authorities here. He was arrested in 2007 and charged with violating SONRA, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. The problem is that SONRA wasn't passed until 2006, two years after his move.
