If you have relatives in trailer parks, you should feel good that the state is protecting them (unless, of course, they have a meth lab or are inclined to get caught up in a TV show and forget the potatoes in the Fry Daddy):
Legislation mandating the use of weather radios in mobile homes is on its way to the governor's desk. The goal is to save lives. Weather radios can be programmed for residents' home county and if there is a severe storm on the way an alarm goes off.
Indiana "atones for" being a pioneer in an area it wishes it were not a pioneer in:
Indiana atoned Thursday for its role in pioneering the state-authorized sterilization of "imbeciles," paupers, criminals and others it deemed undesirable, expressing regret for passing the first such law 100 years ago.
It's a truism in politics that by the time Congress acts on something, it is too late -- look for the evidence, and you'll usually find that whatever problem being addressed is already on the way to a solution from somewhere else. That probably applies to state legislatures as well. So, with city after city in Indiana enacting public-smoking bans, the General Assembly suddenly discovers a problem needing a statewide solution:
The Indiana Daily Student has a front-page opinion piece calling for the name of a building on the IU campus to be changed because the man it was named after had views that would not be considered mainstream today:
Criminal geniuses of the week:
According to Indiana State Police, two people are under arrest Wednesday morning after their car broke down on I-69 north of State Road 35.
A trooper was sent to assist a stranded vehicle Tuesday after the occupants called OnStar for help. When police ran their Michigan license plate, they say the 2007 black Cadillac came back as a possible stolen vehicle out of Detroit, Michigan.
Wal-Mart brought a distribution center to Gas City, and instead of protesting the giant corporation's destruction of everything good and noble, as any decent city would, the silly people who think it's important to have a $55 million investment and 650 jobs actually show up to cheer:
So you don't like the fussy city laws about shooting guns in the air, so you move to the country, where you can fire off as many rounds as you want to. But, guess what? When the city moves its lines, it wants to bring all the rules with it:
Indianapolis - A city county councilor wants to expand the city's gun law. She says it's about keeping residents safe, but opponents see it as an infringement on rights.
Jesus Arrieta wants a translator, and he thinks we should pay for it. The Indiana Supreme Court is thinking about it:
This is one of those "it's not the money, it's the principle" things. Senior citizens have been able to fish for free in Indiana. New legislation, already signed by the governor, means they will have to pay the same as everybody else, $3 a year for a license or $17 for a lifetime privilege. The reason:
Hip-hop may be a powerful cultural phenomenon and an understandable and necessary expression of alienation, but, please; it's not music. The fact that it's taught as such in universities is a sign of, well, I don't know what:
They have discussed the evolution of hip-hop comedy, and how events of the day seep in the edgy routines of performers such as Dave Chappelle.
