Is it too much to ask...

...that H-W copy editors know the difference between "its" and "it's"?

Gotta love those preachers

Off to evangelize in Austria (78.3 percent Christian), Poland (91.4 percent Christian), Bulgaria (83.8), Czech Republic (28.9), Romania (98.9), Ukraine (96.1), and Belarus (80+).

Odd Headline of the Day

Red Cross: Myanmar death toll could reach 127,990

Not 127,980, mind you.

Trails

For several years now, I have been meaning to get down to central Missouri to bike on the Katy Trail, the state park that runs along the Missouri River from around St. Charles to west of Columbia. Still haven't done that, but.....

From what I hear, the trail has been a huge boon to a number of small towns along the river. B & B's, inns, restaurants, bike rentals, all sort of tourism-related businesses have sprung up. So naturally, I wonder -- why doesn't this area develop something similar?

The Katy Trail was built on the bed of an abandoned rail line. We don't have any similar long line in this area that I know of, but we do have an extensive network of levees along the river, which have level tops, typically wide enough for a vehicle to drive along. Wouldn't it be possible to link these levees with connections to roadways here and there to create a Mississippi River trail?

Amusing Irony

Page A-1: Great news! House panel coughs up $20 million for IDOT.

Page B-5: Um, IDOT paid a quarter of its bills twice, handed out $4.2 million without proper oversight, let employees take vehicles home and hasn't gotten around to inspecting 6.6 of the bridges it should have.

Liar

Jones, who said last week he needs a pay raise, said he didn’t know what would happen with the rejection effort in his chamber.

“I don’t make any decisions,” said Jones, D-Chicago.

--From Thursday's H-W.

What an embarrassment. After wrecking the state budget, the legislators allow their pay raise to go into effect and kill a recall proposal. This state is starting to make Louisiana look wholesome.