Sounds like officials in Evansville are trying to create a dilemma where none need exist:
Now that a site has been chosen for the new arena, what is going to be done with the current Roberts Stadium facility?
There have been several ideas tossed around.
The Roberts Stadium Advisory Board listed five categories of opportunity for the current stadium.
When it was announced there would be a legislative study committee on gambling, some of us thought -- perhaps naively hoped would be a better way to put it -- that it would be a comprehensive study, including such topics as state dependence on gambling revenue and the overall effects, positive and negative, on Hoosier citizens.
Has modern urban life really become so complicated that city officials have to go out of their way to splain it to us?
West Lafayette could spend nearly $24,000 to educate residents on future roundabouts in the city.
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Buck says the campaign will include mailings, brochures, online videos, and public question-and-answer sessions.
Geez. If you come upon a roundabout and a car is already in it, wait till it comes out. Then take your turn. Class dismissed.
The Pentagon wants the military to become smoke-free:
Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.
This can't really be a big surprise to anyone:
Without anyone much noticing, our national government is on the verge of a permanent expansion that would endure long after the present economic crisis has (presumably) passed and that would exceed anything ever experienced in peacetime. This expansion may not be good for us, but we are not contemplating the adverse consequences or how we might minimize them.
Holy cow. I've been griping and griping about the federal government, and it turns out I should be grateful to it for doing states such a big favor:
President Obama's economic stimulus package, more formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, offers state governments a number of unprecedented opportunities, but none more important than in the area of health care.
Happy 20th anniversary, Hoosier Lottery!
Lottery officials say players have won more than $7.2 billion in prizes since the first ticket was sold on Oct. 13, 1989.
That's a lot of money, but all the rich people it created must be in hiding or something so the rest of us won't get jealous.
We don't have nearly enough apathetic voters who rarely even show up at the polls and have no clue about any of the issues when they do vote. Thank goodness someone cares enough to remedy the situation:
At first blush, it sounds like Nancy Pelosi, in refusing to allow a proposed House resolution honoring Michael Jackson's "humanitarian work" is suffering from a minor case of common sense. But then she explains her reasoning:
It's hard to stop the gravy train when so many want to ride:
Muncie City Council has joined the Delaware County commissioners and Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora in urging U.S. Rep. Mike Pence to rethink his boycott of budgetary earmarks.
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