When Greater Lafayette Health Services ramped up its advertising campaign, recruited Arnett Clinic doctors and otherwise tried to confound Arnett's hospital plans two years ago, the hospital owner was playing fair.

Rafael Palmeiro, the biggest name by far to be suspended this year under Major League Baseball's new anti-steroid policy, should find comfort in the fact that the residual side effects of being labeled a doper are relatively minor.

When Greater Lafayette Health Services ramped up its advertising campaign, recruited Arnett Clinic doctors and otherwise tried to confound Arnett's hospital plans two years ago, the hospital owner was playing fair.

Rafael Palmeiro, the biggest name by far to be suspended this year under Major League Baseball's new anti-steroid policy, should find comfort in the fact that the residual side effects of being labeled a doper are relatively minor.

Three times the legal limit.

Welcome to Lafayette, to Colt World Series teams and their families.

Purdue University officials no doubt thought it was naming a lecture hall for Earl Butz for the right reasons last year. A retired dean, generous Purdue benefactor and former U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary, Butz' contributions to the university and to U.S. agriculture still carry considerable weight on campus.

Congress might have given critics plenty of pork-barrel ammunition with the federal highway bill sent to the president on Friday. The $286 billion bill includes thousands of projects near and dear to individual legislators' hearts -- including several in Greater Lafayette -- so there have been legitimate questions about the overall price.

An Associated Press story out of London caught our attention recently. Here is the lead to the story:

Quality service in a time of crisis

The gut-wrenching story of Aiyana Gauvin -- a Lafayette 4-year-old whose mouth was duct taped before she was beaten to death in March -- had the entire community sick to its stomach.

NASA's grounding of the shuttle program, even with astronauts aboard Discovery in the midst of a 12-day mission, puts the American space program into an awkward position.

A reader who e-mailed me early this week raised a good question about our news "priorities."

Staying at home with your children is something that most families can do, but choose not to. Those who complain that today's society forces them to work and send their kids to day care are deceiving themselves. The choices they make force that. My wife stays home, and this is what we had to do to make it work:

Mitch Daniels takes off today for Asia to do what he says is his top job as governor: to drum up business for Indiana.

The Downtown Business Center was surprised and disappointed with the decision by the Lafayette Kroozers to suggest a boycott of tonight's Dancing in the Streets, due to the Kroozers being required to pay a $5 per person admission fee. This is surprising since the Kroozers' Web site indicates that they will conduct a car show Saturday afternoon at Market Square and at Burger King with a cost of $15 for each car registrant.