Hot news on the poverty front:
Indiana has outshone its neighbors in keeping and attracting jobs, but Census Bureau figures released Tuesday showed that more Hoosiers are slipping into poverty.
Indiana's poverty rate in 2010 climbed to 16.3 percent -- higher than the national average of 15.1 percent and putting the state in a tie for 15th in the nation with California and Oklahoma. Indiana had a poverty rate of 16.1 percent in 2009.
A Reuters reporter trying to convey something of Indianapolis is about a few decades behind the times:
With four Emmy Awards Allison Melangton knows how to produce a winning show, but making sure Indianapolis delivers a memorable Super Bowl party will require a blockbuster game plan.
Country music stars Sugarland have been accused of "gross negligence and/or recklessness" by the family of a fan who was killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August (11).
The duo, comprised of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, have been named as defendants in a notice for a possible lawsuit over the catastrophe, which claimed a total of seven lives and left 40 injured.
Tony Bennett wants to add a new required high school course to the curriculum:
Indiana's superintendent of public instruction wants all Hoosier students to take one course online before graduating from high school.
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Good Lord, what is this, a football game or bucking up the troops for the last stand at the Alamo?
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay took to Twitter Monday morning to address some of the fans' Monday morning quarterbacking in the wake of the team's dismal performance in a 34-7 loss to Houston in the NFL season opener on Sunday.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has a book coming out, which puts him in an elite group:
Of the nation's 50 sitting governors, almost a quarter of them are authors. Four, including Daniels, have written tomes while serving as their state's chief executive. That number is set to increase by one early next year when South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's book, "Can't is Not an Option," hits the bookshelves.
I agree with this South Bend Tribune editorial, praising Rep. Jeff Espich, State Budget Committe chairman, for setting a public hearing to review the recent tuition increases adopted by Indiana's public universities and to hear the schools defend those indcreases:
The Indianapolis Star has a fascinating profile of Kenneth Feinberg, nationally know expert on overseeing victims' funds and settlements, who has been hired to recommend distribution of funds to victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. Feinberg has been involved with some real whopper settlements -- $7 billion for the 9/11 attacks, for example, and $20 billion for the Gulf oil spill.
Who gets to decide what percent of "green jobs" is enough for the state? Enough for what, by the way?
