Gary has discovered a new path to wealth. Encourage movie makers to come and film your urban decay, blight and rot:
Last year the action blockbuster “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” filmed at Gary's abandoned City Methodist Church, which is falling apart from the inside out. The year before, “A Nightmare On Elm Street” also shot scenes there.
A lot of stories are moving now trying to glean lessons from the terrible stage accident that killed five and injured more than 40 at the State Fair. If there is one, perhaps it is in these remarks by Gov. Mitch Daniels:
Kind of a srange editorial about capital punishment in the Evansville Courier & Press. It is built on the recent news story that Daniel Ray Wilkes, who killed an Evansville woman and her two daughters, has had his sentence reduced from death to life without parole. Two points are then pressed. One is that death-penalty cases are much more expensive to prosecute -- about $450,000, compared with a $42,658 average for a life-without-parole trial.
A fellow Ball Stater washes out, probably for the last time:
MUNCIE -- Nate Davis' opportunity with the Indianapolis Colts abruptly ended two days after his chance to show the team he was capable of handling a backup position at quarterback.
Gov. Mitch Daniels says there's a chance a statewide smoking ban will pass next year:
Daniels has said in the past that he would sign a statewide smoking ban bill if it passed Indiana's General Assembly. But he has stopped short of making it part of his agenda.
Still, the governor said Wednesday that he wants to see the percent of adult Hoosiers who smoke drop to 20 percent by the end of his term on Dec. 31, 2012.
The Klan is a detestable organization, but surely this isn't the way to go after them:
The Ku Klux Klan sued the prosecutor and sheriff of Rush County, Indiana to fight a littering citation. The Klan claims it was not littering, but distributing leaflets door to door to promote itself "as a fraternal and law abiding organization that works to uphold Christian values."
This is a big deal and good to hear on an otherwise bad-news Friday:
An appeals court ruled on Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty was unconstitutional, a blow to the White House.
The Journal Gazette editorial page has joined the chorus of liberal drones trying to sell the incredible crock that it was the Tea Party's stubbornness that led to the Standard & Poor's downgrade of our credit rating:
Clearly, compromise will be required to develop a workable deficit-reduction plan.
What does state treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock say about the need to reach agreement?
Sen. Lugar in the news:
For a change of pace, here's a university study that might actually find something useful. Purdue professor Daniel K. Mroczek has received a $2.1 million grant to continue research he's done for 10 years on the link between people's moods and self-discipline and their physical health and longevity:
