Hoosier lore

Is this a case of the cure being worse than the disease? Larges flocks of birds, especially those messy, awful starlings and crows,  like to congregate in large flocks in downtown Indianapolis during fall and winter. And they aren't going to take it:

Secretary of State Charlie White is kind of flailing around in his efforts to defend himself against charges he committed voter fraud by using his ex-wife's address to vote in the May 2010 primary. He seems to have settled on a strategy of "Everybody's doing it, so why are you picking on me?" First, he tried unsuccessfully to get Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards to investigate Dan Sigler, one of the two special prosecutors in White's case, for vote fraud.

Well, if you're a one-man team, you've got to expect a bad season when your man goes down:

Manning isn't just the most valuable football player of his era. He belongs in the conversation for most valuable in any team sport ever. He's mastered the game like no one since Otto Graham took the Cleveland Browns to the championship match in each of his 10 seasons more than a half-century ago.

We're just starting our great charter school experiment in Indiana. We could do worse than study what New Orleans did right with charters:

Finally, a serious issue we can argue passionately about: Set our drunken spring-breaker dwarf-tossing people free!

The Occupy Space movement has come to Indianapolis, so I suppose it will reach Fort Wayne soon. Doesn't this sort of say it all about them?

The throng broke into occasional chants of "You are the 99," referring to the 99 percent of the American people they say government and corporations take for granted.

How depressing. There are still four NFL teams without a win -- the Rams, the Vikings, the Dolphins and the Colts. Who'd have thought at the beginning that we'd have to be grateful for even this small crumb?

The Peyton Manning-less Colts are the most likely team to shed the title of "winless" first.

Lot of that "not thinking like a government" going around:

Indiana lottery officials say they overspent on their new headquarters and will sell some of their equipment after reports raised questions about the lavish facility.

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My sister is obsessed with storage. She is forever on the lookout for boxes and bags and bins and all other kinds of containers that will help her catalog and organize and sort and arrange all her stuff so she can put in neatly in closets and on shelves all neat and tidy, out of the way but easy to get to. One of the cable networks actually has a program devoted to storage solutions, and she watches it just like it was the Syfy channel or Fox or some other venue of real entertainment. I don't know where she got this unhealthy fixation. What's the big deal?

An Indianapolis Star editorial asks and answers the question: What do liberal New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and conservative Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels have in common?

Both are attempting to streamline local governments. And both are using property tax caps as a tool to force changes in how local leaders approach their budgets.

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