We have good schools, and we compare well with other Indiana cities on things like crime rates, air quality, job growth and household expenditires. We have kid-friendly amenities like parks and the zoo and Science Central. So:
Business Week magazine released its list of best places to raise children, and the Summit City earned the top spot in the state of Indiana.
If you were humiliated off the national stage after being discovered in a sleazy affair while your spouse was dying from cancer, would you be shameless enough to ask for $35,000 to deliver a speech and brazen enough to talk about everything but the affair and take only written queries so you could duck it in the question-and-answer period, too? If you can find dunces willing to go along with it, why not?
YouTube is by far the world's biggest stage for online video. But in some ways Hulu is stealing the show.
With critical plaudits and advertising dollars flowing to Hulu, the popular online hub for television shows and feature films, YouTube finds itself in the unanticipated position of playing catch-up.
Not in the running for family of the year:
Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking.
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The boy's father arrived later to pick him up, but officers determined he was intoxicated and also arrested him on a drunken driving charge.
Now, that's diversity!
The chairman of an Indiana University committee says the panel will recommend adding a black basketball player's name to a gymnasium named after a longtime trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s.
OK, show of hands. Who's shocked, shocked, shocked and dismayed by this?
Reporting from Washington -- Will $700 billion be enough? That question emerged Monday as the Bush administration decided to pump more money into insurance giant American International Group Inc. and lawmakers pushed to extend the government's rescue to the ailing automobile industry.
The Greenwood Public Library announcesthat during this holiday season, canned foods will be accepted as payment for overdue book fines. From Nov. 22 until Dec. 13, the Library will accept one can of food for each dollar they owe (excluding those already sent to the professional collection agency).
For those who aren't quite sure yet the economy is really in trouble:
Fewer customers and venti-sized costs for closing stores led to lower sales and profit in the fourth quarter at Starbucks Corp., the company reported Monday.
Indiana legislators are still going around in circles over illegal immigrants:
A panel of lawmakers studying illegal Immigration couldn't agree on major legislation to propose in the upcoming legislative session. The group couldn't agree on a more minor bill, either, and barely approved a report outlining its previous meetings.
What the king decrees, the king can undo:
President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem-cell research and the expansion of oil and gas drilling, among other issues, members of the team said Sunday.
Sarah Palin has become another litmus test of the cultural divide. She's either a budding superstar or another amiable dunce. This Wall Stree Journal editorial has a more balanced look:
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, but today is the 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Happy anniversary, Jarheads! When I was in the Army, the Marines had the reputation of being being elitist jerks who thought they were tougher and better than the rest of us. The reality was that they were tougher and better than the rest of us. So let them celebrate a day early.
Here's one of those stories in which the state's numbers are higher than the nation's as a whole, and that's supposed to be bad:
Child Services removed 7,712 Indiana children from their parents in 2007 -- 369 more than the previous year -- according to the study based on data that states submit to the federal government.
Malia and Sasha Obama now go to a private school in Chicago, and the speculation has started about where the Obamas will choose to send them to school in Washington:
Arnold Swarzenegger: I think marriage should be just between a man and a woman, but the people of California should decide. Then, with Proposition 8, the people do decide, and:
"It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end," Schwarzenegger told CNN. "I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."
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Oh, yeah, this is just the attitude we need to get the country back on the right track:
Hey, President-elect Obama, Northwest Indiana calling with a few favors.
After all, you rolled up a 76,000-vote plurality in Lake and Porter counties and took Indiana by just 26,163 votes.
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But seriously ... Might Northwest Indiana fare well now that Chicago's favorite son is the most powerful man in the world?
President-elect Obama's first major appointment is drawing fire:
Barack Obama's designated chief of staff -- responding to Republicans' concerns that his tough, partisan approach might run at odds with Barack Obama's administration -- said it's up to the new president to set a bipartisan "tone."
I love this sentence from the piece about the Internet generation being lousy jurors: "Orality is the crucial ingredient of the adversarial system." Really rolls off the tongue. Anyway:
In a speech, Lord Judge of Draycote, the Lord Chief Justice, said it might be better to present information for young jurors on screens because that is how they were used to digesting information.
