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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH DUIs? Editor, After attending a friend’s funeral in Georgia awhile back, I received a DUI. Since I lived in Illinois at the time, I attended DUI School in Illinois and completed all the required tasks I needed to complete in order to have my Illinois Driver’s License reinstated, or so I…

Of cop-outs, both theatrical and real

I love surprises. I live for the unexpected. That’s what I was thinking the other afternoon – the kind of day when only mad dogs and Englishmen would be outside in the noonday sun – when a police van pulled alongside me as I started to cross 39th Street near the local Indianapolis Motor Speedway…

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• A woman told police that as she drove north on Waters Avenue, some juveniles were throwing rocks. As she went into the intersection at Park Avenue, she heard a rock hit her windshield. She followed the juveniles to East 31st Street and confronted one of them. As she spoke to the juvenile, an elderly…

‘The buck literally stops here’

In many ways, last week’s hearings about a proposed county property tax increase were a rehash of a familiar local conflict, with the same familiar players. You had county commissioners saying their hands are tied because of the actions of a previous commission. You had members of Stop Taxing Our People (S.T.O.P.) indulging in talk-radio…


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