Politics and other nightmares

Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed, leading the Senate to defeat a national reciprocity measure allowing gun owners with permits to carry their concealed weapons across state lines. Otherwise, I might have had to fight my way to work through crowds of armed, angry Buckeyes just itching to cause trouble in the state they love to hate. As Sen.

Well, well, well, well, well.

It's not just Congress that exempts itself from the rules it passes for others:

Fishers might soon be taking advantage of a new ordinance that exempts the town from its own development standards.

The Town Council approved leases with T-Mobile and Cingular, now part of AT&T. They plan to build cell towers on town property, some of which borders homes.

The Census stopped being about mere demographics, congressional districts and presidential electors quite awhile ago -- it's now mostly about the money, as Mayor Tom Henry makes clear in remarks urging that every last person be counted:

It is comforting, isn't it, to know that the man who took control of California's crisis and turned it into an absolute catastrophe is "fully behind" President Obama's health care reform efforts:

I recently posted about West Lafayette's intention to spend nearly $24,000 to "educate" residents on how to use roundabouts. Here's a writer who says Americans should get over their aversion to these traffic managers. They promote safety, he says. They don't really add to drivers' overall time on the road. They waste less energy. They make more efficient use of public space.

I'm thinking Tracy Warner is thinking he is insulting Mitch Harper:

When City Council members last week discussed vacating much of Pearl Street for Aunt Millie's/Perfection Bakery, they didn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room: bakery owner John Popp, a major contributor to a number of Republican candidates.

I was on the noon show yesterday at WBOI, NPR, talking about Hoosier retailers, mostly grocery and convenience stores, making their latest push to legalize Sunday alcohol sales and to permit cold beer sales at places other than package stores.

Now, this is my idea of good government:

Richmond Common Council members have canceled Monday's regularly scheduled meeting due to a lack of agenda items.

No business to discuss, so let's not have the meeting. What a concept! You know how many government groups would desperately search until they found an agenda item rather than cancel the meeting? Yes, i fear you are right.

Am I misreading this, or is Pat Bauer promising that he will fight for a tax increase?

If the (Barack) Obama administration had not provided this assist, I wonder whether today's announcement would be quite as rosy," House Speaker Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, said in a statement.