After the events of recent days, have Roman Catholics — or at least the ones who go to Mass regularly and try to live by the historical teachings of their faith — finally realized that President Barack Obama doesn’t care what they or other traditional believers think about him?

Seventeen-year-old Kyla Kolb is busting stereotypes. A senior at Lakewood High in the St. Petersburg, Fla., school’s Center for Advanced Technology, she is a computer programming whiz with a 4.2 weighted grade point average.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone reports that the price of the best seat at the Super Bowl — row one on the 50-yard line of Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium — is a cool $17,048.

The proposal by Gov. Paul LePage to eliminate health care coverage for extremely poor adults is shortsighted, and will result in a significant shift of costs to our communities and hospitals. More importantly, it will lead to increased suffering and shorter lives.

The most important figure in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address wasn’t on the House floor. In fact, he hasn’t taken a seat in front of the chamber in 13 years.

WASHINGTON — Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered an hour of little things: tax-code tweaks to encourage this or that kind of behavior (manufacturing being the flavor of the day), little watchdog agencies to round up Wall Street miscreants and Chinese DVD pirates, even a presidential demand “that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18.” Under penalty of what? Jail? The self-proclaimed transformer of America is now playing truant officer?

The slogan on the digital adaptor was a tad misleading. “Meet Your TV’s New Best Friend,” it jauntily exclaimed.