The diligent work of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has solved, apparently, yet another crime – or five of them. On Jan. 14, deputies, acting on detectives’ work spanning the previous month, arrested and charged with burglary and theft Noblesville residents Amy A. Price and Aaron Harlow. When detained for an unrelated parole violation warrant, Price divulged the activities she and Harlow purportedly carried out at five homes. As of press time, formal charges had yet to be filed. Sheriff Mark Bowen’s charges are to be commended for their dogged pursuit of suspects in the incidents in White River and Noblesville townships. Attempts to recover the stolen items are in progress. Well done.
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We’re heavily inclined to agree with Dan Drexler, the Indiana state chairman of the Libertarian Party, who characterized Gov. Mike Pence’s State of the State speech last week as “nothing surprising.” We can’t (or won’t) disagree with his assessment that the speech was light on details, and we were curious about the employment numbers Pence cited because he failed to benchmark them against the rest of the nation. We give Pence high marks for his comments on school choice, because we believe it is a parent’s right to have a dominant voice in the education of his or her child. Overall, though, the speech was incredibly bland to us. We don’t know the governor, but we find little to be overly enthused about with this administration. Of course, we were spoiled by the tenure of former Gov. Mitch Daniels (who should have run for president, but that’s an old argument now), which was marked by swiftness, fiscal prowess and overall decisiveness. It’s early, and there still is time to impress, not that the good governor is losing a wink of sleep over our take.