Now that Indiana has legalized fireworks, I suppose we're likely to start seeing stories like this here:
A man died in a mobile home fire Sunday night that apparently was related to fireworks being shot off inside, authorities said.
Nah. We have smart mobile-home residents.
(Last week, I invited people who have been commenting on Opening Arguments to participate in a little reverse blogging. E-mail me something, I offered, and I'll consider putting it up, then I can comment on your post for a change. Mike Sylvester is the first one to take me up on it. Following is his post.)
I have two quotes for you, with no added commentary. Draw your own conclusions.
However, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., secured $4 million in federal funds “earmarked for us to be allocated toward that bridge and to make it a real signature piece,” said Sharon Feasel, a redevelopment specialist for the city. Added to the $2 million INDOT will spend on the project, the budget to replace the bridge is about $6 million. -- From a News-Sentinel story about a new Clinton Street bridge
The stupid controversy over whether lethal injections are painful and therefore unconstitutionally curel and unusual punishment has affected three inmates on federal death row in Terre Haute, reports the Tribune-Star:
I was an early skeptic of proposed legislation to make disruption of funerals a felony, arguing that because it proposed to treat protests at funerals differently than other types of protests, it amounted to unequal treatment under the law. But as the law is playing out, I'm beginning to see its value. We've just had our first funeral of a fallen Hoosier soldier under the new law (Sgt.
This is about as cold and calculating as an analysis can get:
Indiana's casinos are to blame for about $1 million in crime each week, but the 10 riverboats raised $763 million in net revenue for the state during the fiscal year that ended in June.
Lawmakers on Tuesday were expected to officially release those findings, part of a seven-month assessment of Indiana's gambling industry by Indianapolis-based consultant Policy Analytics LLC, The Indianapolis Star reported Monday.
The worst thing about a scam like this is that the next defendant who comes along and legitimately deserves some consideration will have a harder time getting it.
Christopher Flauding was considered retarded.
Now, 27 years after he killed a Merrillville woman, he's about to go free, a bachelor's degree in anthropology to his name.
Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton, who might end up being personally responsible for killing several wineries in the state, gets called on his "selective respect" for the judiciary:
Consider the ramifications of Garton's position. Want to stop a bill, any bill, from making its way through the Indiana General Assembly? Apparently, all it takes is the filing of a lawsuit? Now consider the hypocrisy.
I don't know all the details of this bill, so I can't really argue with this objection:
Hey there, Indianan, how ya doin'? That quaint term -- "Indianans" -- is how we're referred to in the headline on this USA Today story about Gov. Daniels' controversial Indiana Toll Road lease plan. Guess the headline writer must have thought "Hoosiers" was offensive. The story itself is a pretty decent wrapup of the issue and includes this priceless comment from House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer of South Bend:
