The Journal Gazette editorial page is pleased that Republicans aren't using their overwhelming dominance of state government to, well, dominate overwhelmingly:
When Republicans won the governor’s office and built upon their legislative majorities in the General Assembly in last year’s election, independents and Democrats were rightly concerned that the overwhelming GOP control would end debate over key issues.
Watch it, kid, you'll put somebody's eye out!
VALPARAISO, Ind. (STMW) – A fourth-grade boy at Cooks Corners Elementary in Valparaiso who brought a plastic BB gun to school Tuesday has been suspended.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Wednesday fired back at Ohio Gov. John Kasich over comments Kasich made earlier this week in Cincinnati needling Indiana.
Here's an elected official with way too much time on his hands:
PERU, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana county commissioner wants to ban county workers from wearing jeans in the Miami County Courthouse, saying casual clothing is inappropriate in a government building.
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The state wants more money from gullible fools, so it has turned to a private company. Such moves are usually made to save money or achieve efficiencies. This time, it's just about fleecing the public:
The private company chosen to run the Hoosier Lottery has launched its first advertising campaign, a push focusing on what lottery players dream of doing if they won a big payout.
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The Journal Gazette doesn't like the proposed drug tests the General Assembly is talking about for some welfare recipients, citing court decisions on a similar Florida requirement to the effect that the state showed no "compelling need" for the tests:
CROWN POINT, Indiana — Lake County officials are awaiting the final bills from the death penalty trial of a Gary man sentenced to death last week for killing his wife and two teenage stepchildren.
Our love-hate relationship with the federal government:
Welcome to the first DST Monday of the year. Why is it such a bad idea? After Indiana finally joined the herd in 2006, two California economists did a study:
For the "never too late" file:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb has become a newlywed — at age 95.
Whitcomb and his 83-year-old bride, Evelyn, married Feb. 16 in a ceremony at their home overlooking the Ohio River in the Perry County town of Rome.
