"Noblesville -- Room for Dreams"?
Noblesville -- Economic Development Director Kevin Kelly hopes an Indianapolis firm can help Noblesville gain regional media exposure.
"Noblesville -- Room for Dreams"?
Noblesville -- Economic Development Director Kevin Kelly hopes an Indianapolis firm can help Noblesville gain regional media exposure.
Yes, by all mean, we should be conservative when considering what tattoo to get:
There's no denying that tattoos are a popular trend. According to a 2006 study by the Pew Research Center, 36 percent of people ages 18 to 25, and 40 percent of those ages 26 to 40 have permanent body art.
But artist Dave Wallace, at Culture Shock Tattoos and Body Piercing in Valparaiso, questions whether someone should choose a trendy tattoo.
Mayor Tom Henry is giving his State of the City address at noon today, and, unlike the speeches of predecessor Graham Richard, it will be a real State of the City address. Richard preferred to give a series of smaller speeches tailored to the audience -- economic development issues at the Chamber of Commerce, neighborhood issues at a southside gathering and so on.
There are so many things to be outraged over each day that we can let our precious anger get scattered all over the place. So today, I think I'll concentrate all mine on the Wayne High School assistant principal, who is the latest man to succumb to Woody Allen's Disease, with a 17-year old female student:
But my head is already full!
Are you a locavore who decries the tapafication of restaurants or a latte liberal on the fence about Billary? No matter, the explosion of new words in the English language is enough to make you want to bury your head under a blankie or run off to Godzone.
I know most of you probably think its silly that so many are getting exercised over the idea of people going to other countries and wearing funny clothes. But I ask you: If someone goes to other countries and wears funny clothes now, doesn't that make it likely that he will go to other countries and wear funny clothes after being elected president?
Quick, call Al Gore!
The future looks bright for the Earth
Never thought I'd see an editorial with this much common sense in USA Today:
To listen to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign in Ohio and Texas is to hear pledges on health care, middle-class tax cuts, mortgage assistance, tuition help, energy initiatives and more.
It's all very appealing. It's also almost certainly too good to be true.
The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 percent lower than the least-watched ceremony ever.
Greenwood's taxpayers have all become volunteers, whether they wanted to or not:
An addendum to the city's personnel policy will allow Greenwood employees to volunteer up to 40 hours each year on the taxpayers' dime.
The City Council approved the policy addition last week at the urging of Mayor Charles Henderson.
Poor Ralph Nader. He matters so little anymore that he isn't likely to even take votes away from Obama, let alone actually influence the election. This is all we need to know:
Only Monday, and we already have our "well, duh" moment of the week:
If I'm somebody's guest, my first rule is not to insult them with scurrilous lies. Apparenly the United Nations does not feel that way about its host country:
GENEVA - U.N. human rights experts told the United States on Thursday to step up efforts to combat racial discrimination in the detention of African-Americans and Hispanics and questioned the treatment of illegal immigrants.
I know how some of you have been criticizing me. As an editorial writer and blogger, I merely deal in rhetoric. All I do is insult people and ideas -- just words. To do any real damage, I would need to be an elected official or robber-baron businessman with real power. Those who really want to create havoc in the world need to support those who can act, not just those who can spout angry words.
It's not our fault; it's you stupid drivers:
Worried about the number of traffic accidents at Avon's first roundabout, town officials are urging motorists to learn better skills for driving through it.
One of the arguments over illegal immigration is about what the net effects would be if we did somehow manage to chase all 12 million or so illegals away. Would it be mostly positive, ending the drain on social and welfare costs and slowing down the country's cultural bifurcation? Or would it be mostly negative, leaving all those empty jobs Americans don't want to do and increasing the cost of everything? Perhaps they will find the answer in Oklahoma and Arizona:
It used to be that mostly lefty academics and goofy movie stars romanticized Fidel Castro as anything other than the thuggish leader of a brutal dictatorship. But when el jefe relinquished power this week, it became clear that the romanticized drivel is everywhere:
Research dollars hard at work provide this week's "well, duh" moment:
We didn't know anything about the "science" of play. We just loved it -- and our parents no doubt did too. So, why did we play? Why not?
Welcome to real life, boys:
One of the students, William Martin, a freshman political science major, responded to an e-mail sent by ABC News to all nine of the alleged offenders asking if there was another side of the story.
"nobody (sic) ever looks at the good things a person does with their life," Martin wrote, describing a trip to Mexico during which he built houses and other volunteer work feeding the hungry.
Oxymoron of the week: Mandatory voluntarism. A lot of candidates are offering volunteer-service ideas to get people more engaged in their country. This columnist likes the plan Chris Dodd came up with most of all:
But the Dodd plan includes a particular position that's worth pursuing by the next president because it drills down beyond the college-age graduate to the budding adulthood of all high school graduates.
