Hoosier lore

Boy, somebody should nip this malfeasance in the bud before other politicians start imitating the idea:

A township trustee in northeastern Indiana won't be collecting any property taxes this year, saying the township has plenty of money in the bank.

It puts a strain on the whole family when Grampy gets grumpy, but, hey, it's a natural thing. A Journal & Courier columnist spots "Richard Lugar on an unfamiliar low road":

Lugar's guys ask whether the state treasurer, who keeps gaining in the polls ahead of the May 8 primary, is: "Incompetent? Careless? Tax Cheat?"

Can the Tea Party beat Dick Lugar? Yes, it's quite possible, says Allysia Finley, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and assistant editor of OpinionJournal.com

The Indiana Supreme Court tackles the mo-ped/motorized bike confusion:

Quite the epic church-state battle going on here in Indiana:

Striking down Indiana’s school voucher program because some schools are affiliated with churches would amount to unnecessary government interference into religion, the law’s supporters argue in court documents.

The ads run by the Lugar campaign slamming Richarcd Mourdock are some of the nastiest I've ever seen, getting pretty close to character assassination. Others have noticed this, too:

Dick Lugar has the reputation, deserved or not, of being the gentleman of the Senate, a now-grandfatherly figure who is well-liked personally if not politically.

No doubt you've noticed the endorsements: the Club for Growth for Richard Mourdock; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for Richard Lugar. There is an epic battle going on, and Indiana is right in the middle of it:

Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party.

The usual hand-wringing victimologists harangue us over the annual celebration of a phony issue:

In Indiana, women earn about 72 cents to every dollar a man does; nationwide the average is 77 cents.

About 30 people gathered Tuesday morning to highlight those facts at an Equal Pay Day rally at the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, 2417 Fairfield Ave.

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Something for the kind-of-creepy-but-kind-of-cool-too file:

An Indiana monument company is taking gravestones out of the stone-age and giving them a high tech feature.

This is news? Did anybody really think there was a chance he would have picked Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul:

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels today endorsed Mitt Romney for president, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to end his neutrality and urge unity behind his party's likely nominee.