But it's probably still OK to fill up the saddlebags with victuals when you ride the mule into town:
California would be the first state to ban plastic and most paper bags from grocery, convenience and other stores under a proposal that appears headed for a major legislative victory this week.
They came for the banks, and you said nothing. The came for the car companies, and you said nothing. They came for health care, and you said nothing. Ready to talk now, Obama toadies of the Fourth Estate?
Two different views from two sets of experts. The National Academy of Sciences:
Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for — and in many cases is already affecting — a broad range of human and natural systems."
But from the Royal Society:
If the gubmint keeps pushing to get the salt out, who knows what damage will be done to our cherished American diet?
At the company's laboratories in Battle Creek, Mich., a Kellogg vice president and food scientist, John Kepplinger, ticked off the ways salt makes its little square cracker work.
Gary has a ban, and South Bend, too. Now, Valparaiso may have one:
Cartoonists tend to be liberal. Henry Payne, who appears on our pages, is one of the handful of conservative ones. Here's his take on the Kagan nomination.
At least the casinos have provided one valuable service -- giving the governor fodder for a slightly more interesting commencement speech than the usual "seize the moment and face the future while following your passion and making a difference" drivel:
Gov. Mitch Daniels acknowledged in a commencement speech Saturday that he's rooting for a self-described card counter to win his lawsuit against a casino that banned him for the practice.
Lamest reasoning of the year so far: Enforcing a law will lead to more crime:
The new Arizona law will intimidate crime victims and witnesses who are illegal immigrants and divert police from investigating more serious crimes, chiefs from Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia said.
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Common sense erupts in an Indiana courtroom:
SOUTH BEND — A lawsuit claiming that a male city firefighter was sexually harassed by another male firefighter has been dismissed in federal court.
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In order to show the sexual harassment had taken place, Nuechterlein wrote, Banacki would have to show how the other firefighter's conduct created a hostile work environment.
If the Fort Wayne Community Schools board wanted to get the point across that it doesn't care that much about public input, it did a pretty good job:
General comments from the public at Fort Wayne Community Schools board meetings will no longer be televised after the board voted Monday to make changes to two parts of board policy.
