Daily Almanac: Jan. 25, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset RISE: 7:56 a.m. SET: 5:54 p.m. High/Low Temperatures High: 22 °F Low: 2 °F Wacky Holiday Today • National Irish Coffee Day • National Opposite Day What Happened On This Day • 1977 The world’s first solar power plant is opened • 1924 The first Winter Olympics begin • 1919 The League of Nations…

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I’m activated: bank on it

Each January the small bank in my hometown –– The Loanly Bank and Mistrust –– attracts new customers to their banking services by offering premium gifts to anyone signing for a loan or opening a new account. To anyone opening a savings account, the bank will bestow a $25 gift card to Sleepy Joe’s coffee…

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Attorney General Todd Rokita sues Google over deceptive practices in harvesting Hoosiers’ location data

Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit alleging that Google has misled consumers by falsely representing the extent to which users may control how their location data is accessed, stored, used and monetized by Google. “Protecting Hoosiers from Big Tech’s deceptive and unfair practices continues to be a major focal point of my administration,” Attorney…

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Indiana is awash in guns as homicide records proliferate

Last year was one of the bloodiest years in Indiana history as Indianapolis set yet another homicide record with 271 murders, while Evansville, Fort Wayne and South Bend all had deadly years. Perhaps, just perhaps … it’s because Indiana is awash in guns. On Tuesday, the Indiana House voted 63-29 on HB1077 the “constitutional carry”…

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The Postscript

Nothing is as fun as eating broccoli and breaking bad habits “I bought more broccoli because I knew you were coming,” my mother informed me. You can never get enough broccoli, that is my belief. I am lucky in that I never had to acquire a taste for vegetables out of some sort of concern…

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