Unless I can come up with a really, really good excuse in the next half hour or so, it looks as if I'll be spending the vast majority of my day at the IU Law School's open house event. Glancing over the schedule, I can barely contain my excitement at the thought of a 45 minute sit-down session on "Trial and Appellate Advocacy Programs."
They better have some free coffee and bagels when I get there...
Here are a few of the other stories kicking around today, and feel free to add any I have missed to the comments:
For all of the naysaying "math people" who have "counted" the number of so-called "delegates," Hillary Clinton's confidence certainly appears unflappable:
On a day when she was promising to fight for more jobs for the nation and Indiana, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made it clear that she's not giving up her fight to win the nation's top job: president.
At a rally of about 4,000 people who jammed the Mishawaka High School gym, at a news conference in Hammond and in a Fort Wayne diner, Clinton said she is staying in the race.
"I still believe (the next president) is going to be me," Clinton said to cheers from about 75 people at Sara's Family Restaurant.
The Governor's bold! and brave! tax plan will have Hoosiers scrounging for a few more pennies on every purchase beginning next week.
For every dollar the sales tax increase generates, there is expected to be a $1.72 cut in property taxes, the governor said.
"This was the best available option, and all the evidence is the public strongly agrees," Daniels said. "Particularly when you are thinking about lower-income people, this is a pretty small amount. They are going to get way more benefits in terms of property taxes."
Um, except the Journal Gazette already showed that they won't. In fact, this was how they described the Governor's tax plan:
Lower-income homeowners get a small property tax break and a big boost in their sales tax bills; owners of costly homes get a major tax break and roughly the same increase in sales tax bills as lower-income Hoosiers. Renters get the increase without the tax break.
That doesn't sound nearly as nice when you crawl out from behind the rose-colored glasses.
I don't blame the Governor, though -- he's just really, really out of practice when it comes to actually thinking about lower-income people in this state.
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