How communities can make a ton of money without raising taxes: 1. Install red-light cameras. 2. Shorten the yello-light time below the federally mandated three seconds. 3. Rake in the dough.
Brian Hughes paid a $50 fine after a camera caught him running a light in Manhattan in 2010.
There was a line we always knew they'd cross eventually, and now they're starting to sneak over it. It's the line between how we must conform our public behavior and how free we are to live in peace in private:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The Fort Wayne Housing Authority has approved a policy change that will prohibit smoking in all public housing units beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Before the state went to its A-F grading system for schools, there were a lot of complaints from teachers and school administrators that the system would set schools up for failure and hand out a lot of D's and F's. Turns out that isn't the case. "New A-F grades aren't as scary as feared" is the way the Indy Star's headline put it:
I got sidetrack by election-coverage chores last week, so I didn't get around to blogging about the partisan claptrap that caught my eye in a Journal Gazette endorsement editorial. It concerned House District 82 in which the paper favors the Democrat, Mike Wilber. This is what they wrote about his opponent:
I got a kick out of this report on WANE-TV about the Verizon outage Friday morning:
For five hours Friday, several Verizon customers in the Fort Wayne area didn't have service. Service has since been restored, but without the use of a cell phone, many people had a tough time communicating.
The Journal Gazette is upset that recent state restrictions on local gun control make it "more likely people will be carrying guns when they vote."
Most citizens with gun permits know that the Second Amendment exists to protect a person’s right to self-defense. It’s not intended to encourage people to display guns brazenly in public in a way that will intimidate or frighten innocent people.
Is he out of his mind?
If Washington really wants to help businesses, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that politicians need to stop obsessing so much over tax rates.
Funny, this not only does not make me feel satisfied, it takes me right to Rolling Stones territory:
Indianapolis wears a sly smile on its face this morning.
Do you notice Indy residents seem a little happier and maybe a little more flirtatious?
The pests from PETA have gone from being an irritating and annoying nuisance to being an interfering busybody:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A northern Indiana festival that toasts the life of Johnny Appleseed is facing pressure from an animal rights group to honor the frontier apple tree planter's animal-loving ways by dropping meat from its menu.
In a column for Saturday's paper about the Bob Dylan concert at Parkview Field, I wrote this:
