In addition to a class on UFOs, IPFW's Division of Continuing Studies also offers something called "Ghost Hauntings and Ghost Huntings":
Just listening to many of his stories with brushes from spirits on the “other side” is enough to send chills up a person's spine, but for Weides, it's all in a day's work.
Have you seen WANE-TV's "political analysts" Marla Irving and Brian Stiers at work? (Go to the WANE site and find it under "featured videos").This is the same kind of "fair and balanced" commentary we've been seeing on network news and cable outlets. The moderator poses a question, and the Repbulican gives the Republican line, and the Democrat gives the Democrat line. There isn't an independent thought or truly objective observation to be heard. This isnt "political analysis." It's worthless crap.
OK, many of us believe in downtown and would like to see it become more vibrant and vital. Creating a riverfront improvement district, with much cheaper and easier-to-get liquor licenses is one idea to help accomplish that. But that concerns some people, especially established restaurant owners who paid big bucks to get their licenses:
OK, this is visceral, not a logical, reasoned response, so I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to put me on the jury for Simon Rios, assuming the trial even takes place in our lifetimes. How far do we have to go, exactly, to make sure a trial is fair?
Defense attorneys for Simon Rios, a suspect in the deaths of his wife and three daughters, on Friday were granted their motion for a continuance of his February trial.
Different people have different ways of deciding when the summer season ends. Some just go by the calendar. Some consider Labor Day the dividing line, while others mourn when the new school year starts. This has always been my emotional trigger.
Just an observation after having spent a few weeks interviewing political candidates. There are two types of people who run for office -- those who are on a mission, and those who run for a variety of other reasons (an interesting challenge, a good career move, they think they can do a better job than whoever is already serving, etc.). The race that is the most likely to draw those on a mission is the one for school board. People don't seem to just wake up one day and decide they'll run for school board because it seems like a good idea (which some DO in many other races).
Ryan Lengerich, The News-Sentinel's economic development reporter, passed along this press-conference announcement, which contains perhaps not the best downtown promotion idea that's ever come along.
Say what you will about our smokers, but once a ban goes into effect, they tend to obey it, no matter how much they have complained about it ahead of time. Smokers in Austin, though, at least the bar-hopping kind, seem to have a more "I'll stop when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers" approach:
On the CBS News last night, the "Free Speech" segment was given to Bob Schieffer, who said the expected things about the Mark Foley case. I was struck by this line, which Schieffer tossed out casually, as if it were universally accepted:
There is only one reason for government: to improve the lives of its citizens, but this Congress has forgotten that.
I don't want to minimize the importance of anybody's death, but why do we overreact so much when a disease is exotic? The county's health commissioner says we should not panic over mosquito-borne illnesses, but on the other hand:
“We will be working with the Allen County Health Department proactively to help promote the importance of spraying with insect repellent day and night to try to prevent such cases as Christopher's,” the family said in a statement.
