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The Rant

Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 12:01 am

The Rant is The News-Sentinel's anonymous sound-off forum. The readers' views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The News-Sentinel.

For the young men (and sometimes older) that are riding mopeds …, could you find it in yourselves to move to the far right side of the roadways so that we licensed vehicle drivers might get around you. You are accidents waiting to happen … .

Separating IPFW from Purdue University is a terrible idea! As a student of IPFW, I can tell you that I am only going to IPFW for the Purdue degree, not for some University of Fort Wayne degree! IPFW will suffer greatly with this change.

Just read the rant about the Public Service Academy being a bad idea. What nonsense. It was a fantastic idea and was beginning to live up to its expectations when Mayor Tom Henry decided he wanted to take control. This tore the organization apart when members became scared of Fort Wayne controlling the facility.

When you make the choice to have children in today's economy, you should be willing to foot the bill for their education and not depend on homeowners who don't have children to chip in an equal amount in property taxes. I don't hate kids, but my taxes shouldn't go up for your decision.

Whoever decided to “improve” Lake Avenue needs to be fired. At 7:45 a.m. … (on a recent day), traffic heading west was stopped in one solid line from Carew Street to North Anthony Boulevard trying to get through the stoplight on Anthony. How has this improved my commute to work?

The Obama campaign is unleashing the “Big Dog” (former president Clinton) in the swing states. They talk about GOP's “war on women,” but the big dog has played that role far better with his Lewinski debacle and Hillary quelling his “bimbo eruptions.”

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