Local school districts aren't the only education institutions enamored of brick-and-mortar projects:
Ball State University students will see a lot of changes to campus in the coming years - a new residence hall, a renovated dining hall, a high-tech media building and a new recreation center.
The university isn't alone in its construction boom - other Indiana schools are building or planning new facilities to attract students and support academics.
I don't know if this writer doesn't understand the difference between part-time and full-time legislatures, but the article ignores the distinction:
We can go on talking and talking about the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage, the inapprorpriateness of such government involvement in the private sector and the simple facts that most people make more than the minimum wage and most of the people who make the minimum are not poor, but it will continue to fall on deaf ears. I suspect it's because many of the people who champion the minimum wage believe as this guy does:
Those lousy, unreliable Democrats. You put them in office to further your agenda, and it turns out they are as, um, diverse in their opinions as other Americans:
Last week's election results may be more of a mixed bag for gay rights supporters than many originally thought.
At least 13 of 50 newly elected House and Senate Democrats oppose same-sex marriage, with two of those backing constitutional amendments to ban such unions.
Bet you thought our student anarchists were keeping a low profile these days:
Anarchist students of the Purdue Alliance of Libertarian Socialists, in solidarity with the Purdue Organization of Labor Equality and the oppressed workers of the world, are currently engaged in a hunger strike and camp-in, the purpose of which is to pressure Purdue University to stop having its apparel maunfactured in sweatshops.
I think people who keep saying Gov. Daniels is too unpopular to earn a second term should remember that two years is a long time in politics. I likewise thing this sentiment is overly optimistic and suffers from the same shortsightedness:
I'm not sure what to make of this, except maybe, "Yahoo, the Democrats are in, so we'll get more money."
Just one month ago, the superintendent for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore said funding for the Dunes looked grim and that challenges for the National Park Service were growing increasingly difficult.
Dale Engquist now feels better about the future of the park, given the new makeup of Congress.
Smart politics doesn't necessarily mean good government. Gov. Daniels' health initiative is clever politics because it puts pressure on the new Democratic majority in the House right from Day 1. It's a tax increase and big new social spending -- help for the uninsured -- both of which could come straight from the Democratic agenda. About the only response they can have is that this doesn't go far enough to solve the problem.
This is a much more useful occupation for prisoners to learn than making license plates:
The state Department of Natural Resources is running its Hunters Feeding the Hungry program, in which prison inmates process the deer for donation.Deer firearm season begins Saturday and runs through Dec. 3.
Throw in some Canada geese, and we're talking a tasty Thanksgiving meal.
Mr. Hoosier goes to Washington:
Baron Hill, the 9th District Democrat who reclaimed the House seat he lost two years to GOP Rep. Mike Sodrel, is discovering how much nicer it is to be a member of the party in power.
Hill said he went to a meeting at a law firm Monday where about 50 people turned out to talk with him. When he visited the same firm as a member of the minority party during his first stint as a congressman, about six people showed up, Hill said.
