The great beer-and-wine debate, I trust most Hoosiers realize, is about people fighting for market share and sales territory, nothing more and nothing less:
More Indiana convenience stores are seeking permits to sell beer and wine - a move the store owners say will help them expand sales, but the package liquor industry says could essentially deregulate the sale of wine and beer.
Earth to Purdue Exponent editorial board: It ain't gonna happen:
Indiana should work with SAFER to adopt a legal limit for marijuana possession. The proposed limit is "... making legal the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana for any person 21 years of age or older."
Since Indiana has a legal limit for alcohol, .08 blood alcohol content, it should also adopt a legal limit for a drug that is statistically less harmful short-term.
Even prison inmates have their standards:
A man serving a life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old southern Indiana girl now carries a constant reminder of his crime - a scrawled tattoo of the young girl's name on his forehead.
Fort Wayne Observed notes comments made by Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards in a Wall Street Journal article and follows up with a podcast interview with the prosecutor. The WSJ asked her to comment on a new approach to drug dealers getting some nationwide interest. Instead of being arrested, suspected nonviolent drug dealers are given a second chance, subjecting them to pressure from the "influentials" in their lives such as mothers and mentors.
Whatever you do, don't make that legislator mad:
Ordinary citizens will have to check their guns at the Statehouse's entrances when metal detectors are installed in the building next year.
Lawmakers, however, will be allowed to take their guns with them inside.
Sure hope that prayer debate doesn't heat up again. Hate to see a shootout at the Speaker's podium.
A very small story in the Indianapolis Star, but I'm guessing it will sending shockwaves through the whole state:
Members of the Indiana Beverage Association, conducting meetings statewide to put pressure on the General Assembly to legalize video gambling, tell a compelling story about struggling Moose lodges and VFWs that might have to close or stop all their charitable good deeds if they can't county on the gambling revenue. But this paints a very different picture:
The Indiana Licensed Beverage Association is having a series of public meetings to put pressure on the General Assembly to legalize video gambling machines. And here's a prediction from someone who should know:
This letter to the editor in The Indianapolis Star raises an interesting point:
Certainly truck driver Robert F. Spencer acted recklessly, the same as if he'd been drinking and driving:
. . . he'd been driving his loaded rig for hours longer than federal law allows. With the windows rolled down and the air conditioning pumping full-blast, Spencer suddenly stopped talking. Minutes passed. Then, still listening to the phone line in Michigan, his sister Nicole heard a bang.
