Hoosier lore

We read all the time of new towns being born -- Leo-Cedarville may be a mouthful, but its people are creating a municipal identity -- or of towns becoming cities and cities wanting to be bigger (welcome to Fort Wayne, Aboite!). But sometimes, a place falls off the map:

Oh, the humanity.

I'm in Indianapolis for a few days, trying to enjoy a family get-together. But our joy has been dampened by a catastrophe of such magnitude that the mind can barely comprehend it. The grief is palpable. Children weep, and grown men huddle in the shadows, afraid to talk about what the future might bring:

Just a chief political trick that Gov. Daniels is wise to avoid (so far):

It's finally sinking in that ethanol isn't the magic solution for our energy problems and that pushing it has brought unintended, if not unforseeable, consequenses:

The Indiana Statehouse has become the latest place to go gun-free, sort of:

Pistol-packing tourists at the Statehouse soon will have to leave their guns at home.

Lawmakers and judges, however, will be exempt from new Statehouse security restrictions that go into effect June 4.

Former FWCS educator and administrator Eugene White continues to make waves as superintendent of the Indianapolis school system:

Have we gotten so used to ceding power upward that we have trouble even understanding local control? That's one conclusion to draw from new state fireworks legislation:

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to St. Mary's graduates and had some wise things to say about the essential and the merely important:

I don't know if this is supposed to be "political analysis" or just a feature story about delusional Democrats:

A cadre of leading Indiana Democrats is beginning to believe that John Edwards has the potential to do what no Democratic presidential candidate has done since Lyndon Johnson in 1964: Win in Indiana.

Here's an intriguing idea, advanced by Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson and apparently endorsed by Gov. Mitch Daniels -- a constitutional convention to "realign Indiana's 19th Century government to meet the challenges of the 21st Century."