Boy, they must be dancing in the streets in northwest Indiana:
Now that the Cook County Board has raised Chicago's sales tax to one of the nation's highest, commissioners say they plan to consider hiking the parking tax, too.
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That could drive the tax for monthly parkers from about $20 a month to $40.
Quick, Give me Hillary Clinton's full name, including the middle one. Bet you anything your first answer was wrong.
I doubt that, A) we're quite on the verge of a "post-racial" America or that, B) Barack Obama is the person who will lead us there. But it's so overdue:
When Rep. Scott Reske, D-Pendleton, directed the words “racism” and “hate” toward Indiana House Republicans, reaction was swift. Rep. Jack Lutz, R-Anderson, accused Reske of playing the race card.
A friend who is no particular fan of the BMV wanted to make sure I passed along her experience. She went in to the New Haven branch to renew her driver's license on Friday. That involves taking the eye test, having a new photo taken, waiting behind whoever got there ahead of you. But she got in and out in under 10 minutes. She hasn't been that impressed by anything "Jaws" (being a bit of a shark fan).
The Tim Goeglein scandal came and went in a single day. Such is the digital age, several characteristics of which this story illuminates:
1. The blazing speed. It was 7:30 a.m. Friday when former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall posted on her blog:
My, my, my. Tim Goeglein, director of the White House office of public liaison, is a plagiarist.
(Twenty times. That number is important later on, so remember it.)
I can hardly wait:
NEW YORK - Eminem is working on a book that's "every bit as raw and uncensored as the man himself," according to his publisher.
Dutton Books, an imprint of The Penguin Group, announced Wednesday that it would be publishing the best-selling rapper's "The Way I Am" this fall.
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I swear, every time there's a story about prison issues, there is a dunderheaded observation like this:
Think her appearance on our ballot will really be necessary come May?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has filed necessary petitions to be on Indiana's May 6 primary ballot.
Clinton supporters led by Purdue student Amanda Morris turned in a box of signatures to the Secretary of State's office Wednesday.
The Hamilton Southeastern school district fired its superintendent, apparently for being an educator, so someone with a "business" orientation could be hired. Just to show how serious they are, the board president throws out the trendy corporate jargon:
Sturgis on Wednesday said the dismissal had to do with a lack of collaboration between Raimondi and other senior administrators.
Clean up you're writing; Tuesday will be National Grammar Day, and I is watching you:
I confess: I'm one of those people who cares about the difference between a gerund and a participle, between a restrictive and non-restrictive relative clause. This puts me in a tiny minority of deranged grammatical eccentrics -- people you should generally try to avoid.
But I have converted from my former life as a grammar prosecutor.
Sometimes I find myself talking to my cats. Guess I'd better watch what I say:
Secret recordings of a pensioner talking to his cats, which police claim include a confession he hit his partner, have been played to a jury.
David Henton, 72, of Neath, denies murdering his long-term partner, Joyce Sutton, 65, from Skewen, in her bed.
Granted, the quality of the product and the service may have deteriorated at Starbucks. It can happen to any company. But their solution is to promise perfection?
A day after shutting down most of its U.S. shops for three hours to retrain baristas on espresso basics, Starbucks is welcoming customers back Wednesday with a new promise posted in stores: "Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we'll make it right."
Before a Democrat gets in the White House and destroys our economy with protectionist nonsense, more people should stand up and defend NAFTA:
His campaign claims a million jobs have vanished because of the deal. That sounds devastating, but over the last 14 years, the American economy has added a net total of 25 million jobs—some of them, incidentally, attributable to expanded trade with Mexico. When NAFTA took effect in 1994, the unemployment rate was 6.7 percent. Today it's 4.9 percent.
Of all that humankind has created, books above all are about who we really are: I am what I read. People who insist on treating books as objects to prove to others who they want them to think they are can just stay out of my life:
In a close vote this afternoon, the Indiana Senate approved legislation that would allow paper pull tabs in bars and taverns.
Under the legislation, which was passed by a 26-21 vote, bars and taverns across the state would be allowed to offer pull tabs and other forms of low-stakes gambling.
One of the good guys is gone:
William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative icon and public intellectual, died today at the age of 82, The New York Times and Associated Press report.
If Dan Dakich doesn't work out as IU basketball coach, it is being said, then of course the university must have a "nationwide search" to get the best person possible. That seems to be the big thing these days. The Indianapolis Star is also urging such a search for a public-safety vacancy:
If you're one of Barack Obama's "hope for change" brigade, you really won't like this article:
"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.
The New York Philharmonic's unprecedented concert could herald warmer ties between North Korea and the United States. After three encores, some musicians left the stage in tears as the audience waved fondly.
