I did not know Indiana had this distinction;
On the table was a proposal to set a monetary threshold for what would constitute a felony theft that carries prison time. According to the commission's researchers, Indiana is the only state in the nation that has no threshold, meaning a prosecutor can charge a suspect with a felony theft, no matter how big or small the value of the item stolen.
South Bend Tribune political columnist Jack Colwell doesn't think much of the Tea Party types who are saying mean things about Richard Lugar:
The TV attacks are paid for by the Club for Growth, a national conservative organization seeking to defeat Republicans it deems not sufficiently right-wing and replace them with more doctrinaire conservatives.
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Here's an editorial from yesterday's Journal Gazette that I found especially unsatisfying. The great bulk of it is merely a rehashing of the recent news story about new studies showing that global climate change and bacteria are endangering Indiana beaches -- details piled on details. OK, I get it -- our beaches are getting hotter and diritier. What do you want me to do about it?
We don't get to that until the penultimate sentence, this lonely little exhortation:
The BBC has a profile of Carmel, Ind., calling it the "roundabout capital of America" (the mayor boasts of replacing 78 sets of traffic lights with roundabouts) and suggesting that America is well on the way to embracing "the free-floating British circular." This offends a writer for the Village Voice, who says this is like tryying to force the metric system on Americans:
I think government offices should file their financial documents on time. And it's reasonable to have stiff penalties for those that don't. But I'm not sure it would be wise to give so much power to a state agency full of bureaucrats:
The State Board of Accounts is considering a controversial rule that would allow the agency to remove public officials from office if they fail to provide legally required financial documents.
Government is going too far these days in trying to keep us from being annoyed by anybody in any way at any time (except, of course, when government is busy doing the annoying itself). We can now keep those pesky, pushy sales people and survey takers from calling us on the phone, and Indiana has even added a "Do not FAX" law. Now Jeffersonville is taking things a step further with a moratorimum on door-to-door sales:
Yeah, but she'll do until a real one comes along:
An Indianapolis mother accused of leaving her children in a hot car and then attacking a woman who stepped in to help made a mistake, but she isn't a monster, her family said Wednesday.
OK, Castle Doctrine fans, was this home defender an example of courage or foolhardiness?
EVANSVILLE — An East Riverside Drive resident interrupted a burglary at his home Wednesday morning and held a man in the house at gunpoint until police arrived.
Joseph Vallar, who lives at 1323 E. Riverside Drive, rushed home from work about 10 a.m. Wednesday when a neighbor alerted him that someone was inside his home.
We make it a point to print guest columns by people who disagree with us. That's a standard newspaper practice, but sometimes I think we go too far, especially after we run one of Ball State University professor emeritus B.J. Pascal's columns. Last night, he was wondering if voters would be "snookered again" to vote "against their self-interest" in 2012. Like they were when they bought into Barack Obama's empty rhetoric in 2008?
Come on, admit it. Isn't it kind of cool that the Fort Wayne area has produced a porn star who was one of Charlies Sheen's "sex goddesses"?
She may have broken up with Charlie Sheen in April, but Bree Olson insists she's "still a goddess. I'm just not Charlie's goddess."
