Just think if you were the weather man all the mistakes you are allowed on the job — and no one is ever too unhappy with you.
Hobart’s hesitation in not salting roads will cost them 20 fold in the liabilities they take on paying for damages to vehicles and homes, and heaven forbid deaths.
The Indiana excise police found the time to cite a Bloomington nursing home for serving predinner alcoholic beverages. They must be trying to solve the “old age” drinking problem in Bloomington because they sure haven’t solved the “underage” drinking problem on Indiana’s 40,000-student campus.
So gas is $2 a gallon now, and you don’t think it will go back up?. The keystone pipeline will bring up to 40,000 union jobs, isn’t that a good thing?
That is just it. Most people have no manners and think only of themselves.
Quip: Keystone pipeline will create thousands of temporary construction jobs. Retort: After it is built it will have less than 100 permanent jobs to maintain it.
Our government chooses to divide instead of unite its citizens strictly for political purposes. I guess the slogan they are using now is “white privilege.”
Indiana American Water will raise its rates 11 percent. Oh, and we should be grateful they didn’t get the 17 percent they were asking for? Thanks again, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, for selling the residents of this state down the drain. Why even bother to pretend you’re on our side?
Quip: Liberalism prevails in academia because society and political views are studied from all directions. Retort: Unlike the bury-your-head-in-the-sand stance by some folks.
The great state of South Carolina vacated the convictions of the “Friendship Nine” after their sit-in at a restaurant in 1961 — a mere 54 years later. Progress.
To whoever is responsible for cleaning the snow from the Hobart bicycle trail … thank you.
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