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In Connecticut, selling Obamacare involves renting an airplane. Oregon might try to reel in hipsters with branded coffee cups for their lattes. And in neighboring Washington, the effort could get quite intimate: The state is interested in sponsoring portable toilets at concerts in an effort to reach uninsured young adults.
Hey, Wal-Mart, get outta here; we don't need your stinkin' jobs:
Boy, the "Are we there yet, Daddy?" whinings on a trip to this park would really become unbearable:
Our Rep. Marlin Stutzman has lately been championing splitting the farm and food stamp programs and considering them separately instead of as a single bill, and some of you might recall that The Journal Gazette editorialized about what a terrible idea this is. People who favor increasing agricultural payouts would stop helping the food stamp people get their goodies, you see, and the food stamp people would no longer cheerlead for the farm programs. Heavens, if that happend, there might be less government spending or some other catastrophe.
We can all sleep easy tonight -- the ashtray police are on the job:
PERU — A Miami County commissioner wants a county-wide crackdown on businesses violating state code dictating where cigarette receptacles may be placed after the state issued a complaint saying the Miami County Courthouse was violating the law.
Boy, here's a milestone it's not good to reach:
CNS News reports that our shriveled full-time private sector workforce is now smaller than the number of people who receive subsidized food assistance from the federal government.
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You stay rebellious, Hoosier kids:
After Elwood Community Schools started serving meals with more whole grains, mandatory fruit and vegetables, and weekly limits on meat and grains last year, some students chose to pack a lunch, or not to eat at all.School lunch participation fell 12 percent.
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Schools have struggled with the new rules.
You know that next session the General Assembly will consider a resolution to have a voter referendum on whether to put Indiana's same-sex-marriage ban into the state constitution. But perhaps you didn't know this provision of Indiana law just approved in the last session:
Boy this ought to be one hell of a campaign:
Guess it's official now -- The Associated Press is part of the Media For Obama cheering section:
President Barack Obama is laying our a vision for better government services delivered at lower taxpayer expense.
