I'm lousy at predicting, but I think the state's gonna lose this one:
A gay youth group whose specialty license plate was revoked at the behest of conservative Indiana lawmakers is appealing the decision to an administrative law judge, arguing that the state selectively enforced the policy that led to the ban.
Since at least 2006, the Indiana Republican Party's state platform emphasized that marriage is between a man and a woman while the Indiana Democratic Party was silent on the issue.
Not this year.
Indiana has lost a treasure. From the IU annnoucment today:
The entire Indiana University community mourns the passing today of Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom, who received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her groundbreaking research on the ways that people organize themselves to manage resources.
Police across Indiana are calling on lawmakers to beef up a new state law that bars texting while driving so that it covers all activities that can distract motorists behind the wheel.
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Wow -- just like in the movies: "Suspected Indiana serial killer confesses mrders to local newspaper"
NEW ALBANY, Ind. -- An Indiana man accused of killing three women has confessed to a newspaper.
Gov. Mitch Daniels was on Fox News Sunday yesterday, and, in the course of explaining why public-sector unions should be abolished, succinctly spelled out the problem with them:
"I think the message is that, first of all, voters are seeing the fundamental unfairness of government becoming its own special interest group, sitting on both sides of the table," he said.
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Oh, Mike, no, please, please, no:
INDIANAPOLIS — The team of policy advisers assembled by Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence reflects his efforts to assuage social and religious conservatives who have built him into a national brand while catering to business-minded conservatives who have ruled under outgoing Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.
A lot of young people today seem reluctant to face the adult world. More and more failure-to-launch slackers are living longer and longer in Mom and Dad's basement -- I know, 'cause I saw it on Dr. Phil. And when public policy makers have a chance, they seemed determined to contribute to the problem -- consider Obamacare's decree that children can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 25. No Empty Nest for you, you weary urchin spawners.
You remember how reality TV star Amber Postwood of "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" was arrested when one of the episodes showed here slapping, choking and kicking the rather of her daughter while the child was present. Now she has violated probation and is in jail, and she says it was on purpose:
A former reality TV star from Indiana who is now in prison said in a jailhouse interview with ABC News that she chose to go to jail in hopes that it will straighten out her life.
Too bad, Hoosiers. Michigan showed some common sense for a change by joining the parade we started in allowing residents to shoot off more types of fireworks:
