What typical problem of behavior-modifying education efforts does this campaign typify?
Indiana is among eight states running public service announcements offering personal testimonials about how methamphetamines affect the lives of the users and their families.
The federally funded media blitz targets mainly young adults.
City Clerk Sandy Kennedy told the Fort Wayne City Council on Tuesday she plans to introduce a proposal to reduce the amount of time people have to pay parking tickets before they double.
Councilman Tom Didier wants the public's help in finding out who spray-painted graffiti on the side of the Science Central building. But that's only one small part of the problem:
Fort Wayne Police, who focus on this problem, say in the last 18 months, the city has seen a 400% increase in graffiti.
The anti-graffiti network, an agency that paints over and removes graffiti across the city, says this year staff is on pace to clean up 6,000 sites marred by graffiti.
Kevin Leininger stole my thunder and wrote about something that's been bothering me lately, too:
So much to worry about with our kids: sex, drinking, drugs, tobacco, rap music, abductors. Now, we have to obsess over whether Starbucks might be trying to get them hooked on caffeine:
Starbucks, keenly aware of the pitfalls of being seen as trying to lure kids to drink sweet, caffeinated beverages, has for years insisted that it does not market to children — even as stroller traffic jams build outside some stores and teenagers pack others.
This is, of course, George Bush's fault. If he had not insisted on making 9/11 an excuse to spy on ordinary Americans going about their usual business, thus creating a culture in which the violation of our privacy is accepted as routine, such an outrage would never even have been attempted:
I love staying in hotels. Somebody cleans your room and makes the bed, the toilet paper never runs out and the towels are always clean, you can come at go at will. And then there is room-service breakfast, probably my favorite decadent pleasure of all time. To this day, I vividly remember a newspaper conference in Miami about 20 years ago. Three mornings in a row I was drinking orange juice and coffee and eating toast and bacon while sitting on the balcony and alternately reading the paper and gazing at the ocean view. Man, I thought, if I could choose how to live, this would be it.
When I watch national TV news, I tend to watch ABC. It's all pretty much the same, but Charlie Gibson's pesentation is marginally less annoying than the the rest of them. Apparently, I've been missing something by not watching ABC's overnight news. While I've been sleeping, the World News Now co-anchors have been giggling their way through terrorism, wildfire, cancer, the war in Iraq and a suicide attempt:
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Build them and we will walk?
Nearly one in four people in the Atlanta area are exercise enthusiasts stuck in neighborhoods without sidewalks or other walking amenities, according to a study that illustrates a problem for many Americans.
Researchers said the findings point to the need for more exercise-friendly places to live.
Perhaps this is what Allen County Karen Richards was afraid of when she decided to reach a plea agreement with Simon Rios that gave him a life sentence instead of the death penalty:
CINCINNATI - A death row inmate convicted of setting a fire that killed five children must be released or retried because his constitutional rights were violated when his confession was used at trial, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.
The Crime Library Web site has a long story on the suspicious deaths of two Centerville (Wayne County) teenagers days apart in their own homes. After the first girl died on Saturday, Sept. 1, police said nothing. Only after her sister died five days later did police list the first death as a homicide and the second as suspicious. Local authorities still aren't talking much, and the mainstream media outlets seem to be taking to their cue from that.
"Daddy, Daddy, stop the car. I have to go!"
"Hold it in, little girl. We're almost there."
"I can't!"
"Don't you want to grow up to be an astronaut?"
"Yes, Daddy; I'm sorry."
Everytime something new came along -- the telephone, the radio, TV -- there were people left behind for awhile. Now, those of us who produce newspapers are facing it with computers and the Internet:
This is either an anarchic nightmare or a libertarian's dream, depending on where you draw the line:
A town council in Germany has decided the best way of improving road safety is to remove all traffic lights and stop signs downtown.
From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear from the centre of the western town of Bohmte to try to reduce accidents and make life easier for pedestrians.
I wonder how many schools in Fort Wayne are going to be talking about 9/11 today and how many will ignore it:
KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY - Several Utah schools have decided to let Sept. 11, 2007 pass without observing the sixth anniversary of the unprecedented terror attacks against the United States -- over fear of re-kindling the haunting memories for those who vaguely remember them, or introducing them to children who weren't born yet.
There is no way for this to play out except for liberals to gloat, conservatives to be defensive and libertarians to go, "tsk, tsk, tsk."
The differences between liberals and conservatives may run deeper than how they feel about welfare reform or the progress of the Iraq war: Researchers reported Sunday that their brains may actually work differently.
We've now had our first presidential debate in Spanish, with English subtitles, and the candidates fell all over themselves to prove their Latino credentials:
And the candidates were eager to connect their experiences with those of the Latino community.
Should teens be banned from using cell phones while driving? Of course -- do we really even need a debate?
But in light of California's potential ban on teens using the electronic devices while driving, is something similar on the horizon for Hoosiers?
Wagner's initial response was somewhat skeptical.
"You've got to remember," he said. "We live in Indiana. It's not going to happen here."
The ups and downs of Larry Craig: I'm going to quit the Senate. No I'm not. Yes I am. I'm going to try to change my guilty plea. No I'm not. Yes I am.
Craig's attorneys wrote that "faced with the pressure of an aggressive interrogation and the consequences of public embarrassment, Senator Craig panicked and chose to plead to a crime he did not commit."
I will try not to be heartbroken at the news that Chuck Hagel will not seek re-election or, in fact, furn for any elective office:
His exit means one more seat the minority Republicans will be forced to defend, and both parties are expected to bring in heavy hitters to vie for the spot. The contenders could include Democrat Bob Kerrey, a former U.S. senator and governor, and Republican Mike Johanns, the U.S. agriculture secretary and another former governor.
