Hoosier lore

"Plane truth: Millions spend on rarely used airport":

Just north of the Indiana Toll Road, off Cline Avenue, sits the Gary/Chicago International Airport.

Maybe a long shot, but doable:

Indiana Republicans are hoping to score a rare kind of victory this November: winning enough seats to claim a “super majority” in both the House and Senate while taking the governor’s office as well.

Before the state went to its A-F grading system for schools, there were a lot of complaints from teachers and school administrators that the system would set schools up for failure and hand out a lot of D's and F's. Turns out that isn't the case. "New A-F grades aren't as scary as feared" is the way the Indy Star's headline put it:

The South Bend Tribune puts a snippy little bit of snark in the opening of its gubernatorial race endorsement editorial:

No women or minorities need apply, of course. Diversity has never been the watchword of Indiana gubernatorial politics.

Still, it is difficult to imagine three white males more different from one another than the three candidates for governor this fall.

Maroon of the day:

An Indiana man tattooed his face with a Mitt Romney presidential campaign logo in exchange for $15,000.

Whoops!

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police departments around Indiana will have to review how officers conduct traffic stops after the state appeals court threw out a marijuana possession conviction against a driver, legal experts said.

Some conservative writers are starting to hit back on behalf of Richard Mourdock. Here's a critique of attempts to compare Mourdock's comments to those of Todd "There is no pregnancy from legitimate rape" Akin, by  The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto :

Holy cow. This election may be almost over already. I've been hearing about heavy early voting for days now, and today I experienced it. Middle of the week, 11 a.m., and the Election Board office at 1 W. Superior was jampacked. There must have been 50 people in line ahead of me, and they kept streaming in. There were probably 75 there when I left and still more arriving.

Open mouth, insert foot:

I got sidetrack by election-coverage chores last week, so I didn't get around to blogging about the partisan claptrap that caught my eye in a Journal Gazette endorsement editorial. It concerned House District 82 in which the paper favors the Democrat, Mike Wilber. This is what they wrote about his opponent: