The removal of actual people from our transactions continues:
PokerTek Inc. says the Indiana Gaming Commission has approved a field trial for its tables at the state's 11 riverboat casinos.
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The removal of actual people from our transactions continues:
PokerTek Inc. says the Indiana Gaming Commission has approved a field trial for its tables at the state's 11 riverboat casinos.
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OK, this is fabulous news, so go out there and spend some money and turn this economy around!
U.S. drivers could enjoy a drop of up to 50 cents per gallon in gasoline prices by this spring as high fuel prices and the threat of a recession force them to conserve, experts said on Wednesday.
RIP:
TAMPA, Fla. - Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.
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The Iraq war will fade. The global economy will not. Trade is on the way to replacing war as the dominant international challenge. And countries that don't get that will suffer. Unfortunately, the presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat alike, insist on pandering to the fears of those who insist on "fair" trade instead of telling the truth that free trade is an irresitible force for which there is no immovable object.
Nice work if you can get it:
COOS BAY, Ore. - A police survey says panhandlers outside Wal-Mart in Coos Bay can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much.
Police say people who have a problem with that needn't look to the law - asking for money is considered protected free speech.
With all the back-and-forth over property tax reform, here's a piece of proposed legislation that I missed:
Legislation was introduced at the Indiana Legislative Session on January 8 that, if passed, will require a later school start date for all Indiana Public Schools.
Not in the running for mother of the year. First up, this Hoosier:
An Indiana mother was arrested and jailed this morning after her toddler son was found trapped and unconscious underneath the passed-out woman and was declared dead an hour later.
Now that it's been discovered, someone is going to dredge this embarassment up on each anniversary:
1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (or ?). Only the intervention of a Purdue University mathematician who happens to be visiting the legislature prevents the bill from becoming law, saving the most acute political embarrassment.
San Francisco voters suffer a sudden attack of common sense:
Alcatraz escaped plans for change, with voters rejecting a proposal that would have torn down the island's notorious prison to erect a global peace center.
A friend was telling me last week that every married woman she knew had been complaining about their husbands. "Did I miss the annoucement of Irritable Spouse Week?" Then I read this article:
If your spouse already bugs you now, the future is bleak. New research suggests couples view one another as even more irritating and demanding the longer they are together.
And least we can say we're smarter than some voters in Virginia and Florida, who were too early
People are showing up at polling places across Virginia expecting to vote in presidential primaries that are still a week away.
By noon Tuesday, the State Board of Elections had received about 400 calls . . .
or too late
Boy, here's a real love story to get us in the mood for Valentine's Day:
If you start micromanaging economic development, it can be hard to stop:
It wasn't too long ago that any potential investment downtown would be hailed as good news. In the post-Harrison Square era, however, the bar has been raised. Whether that results in better development - or simply less development - remains to be seen.
I am glad these folks were able to raise the money to save their island for whatever they want it for:
Angola - Money raised from the sale of seminude photos, home-brewed beer and cookbooks has helped a group of nature lovers raise enough money to by a small island to protect it from development.
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I like The San Francisco Chronicle's Ray Ratto's take on the departure of Bobby Knight:
But as he leaves, at least for the moment, let's forget the argument and consider what Knight takes with him - the notion of the coach as the pre-eminent figure in athletics.
Thank God there isn't a Democrat in the White House yet to irresponsibly increase the size of government and the spending needed to sustain it:
Bush, who was the first president to propose a $2 trillion budget, back in 2002, will leave office as the first president to hit $3 trillion with a spending plan.
Because of environmental concerns (clothes dryers account for 6 to 10 percent of household energy use), clotheslines may be making a comeback:
OK, it's not a bad idea to encourage bartenders to quit serving people who are obviously drunk. But for the "give 'em an inch" file:
Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.
Sure hope the next step isn't barring -- well, you fill in the blank.
A mostly overlooked and undiscussed byproduct of the state taking over control of cable TV:
