This is one of Gov. Mitch Daniels' education initiatives that hasn't gotten the attention and discussion it deserves:
When the Indiana legislature passed the budget at the end of April, it also launched Daniels' plan, which allows high school students who complete their core requirements by the end of their junior year to skip senior year and go straight to college.
Aww, we will no longer be allowed to pay for rapists and murderers to get philosophy degrees?
Indiana prisoners will no longer be able to earn a taxpayer-funded bachelor's degree or study liberal arts under a shift in state prison-education policy.
This wuss makes Jimmy Carter seem absolutely macho for surviving the killer rabbit attack:
A Speedway man was recovering this morning from a kitten bite to his thumb.
Craig Wyatt, 24, called police Thursday afternoon after a kitten in a woodpile nipped him on the right thumb, according to a Speedway police report.
The New York Times editorial page has weighed in on the Obama administration's rejection of the Indiana ban on giving Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics, calling it a "mean-spirited and dangerous" law:
Donation boxes are set up in downtown Indianapolis to help the homeless and control panhandling.
Eight boxes have been installed since 2008, to allow people to put money in boxes instead of giving to panhandlers. But panhandlers are still hanging around the donation boxes, asking for handouts.
"They don't put it in the box," said one panhandler downtown. "Here? 40-50 bucks. Interstate? $300-400 dollars."
It's do-or-die time for some Hoosier schools:
Eighteen Indiana schools, including two in Fort Wayne, have a lot riding on statewide test scores that will be released this summer. If the schools fail again — marking a sixth consecutive year of being on academic probation — the state could turn them over to private companies charged with spurring improvement.
Hey, we were watching the race, man! We don't care about no stupid news:
A South Bend television station is defending its decision to cut away from the finish of the Indianapolis 500 for a severe weather report.
WBND news director Aaron Ramey tells the South Bend Tribune that tornado warnings had been issued for the area on Sunday, and "public safety is a priority" for the ABC affiliate.
Are there really as many dumb Hoosiers as this letter-to-the-editor writer seems to think?
With tornado season on us, it's time to look a the terminology of our warning system. The terms "tornado warning" and "tornado watch" are confusing.
[. . .]
When sirens go off and folks are seeking shelter is no time to ponder these confusing terms.
If you find yourself in trouble, and public safety agencies have to rescue you, well, that's what they're there for. But what if your peril is the result of acting like a damn fool?
Those who trigger such responses should be held to account if they knowingly create the circumstances from which they must be rescued.
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A judge has thrown out drunken driving counts against an Indianapolis cop who crashed into motorcyclists and killed him, essentially on a technicality, leaving him to face only one felony count of reckless homicide:
The ruling dealt a blow to Prosecutor Terry Curry's efforts to show that Bisard was driving drunk when his police cruiser crashed into three motorcyclist Aug. 6 on the Northeastside.
