I would like to thank the gentleman that took care of our bill (Covington Commons) at Nine Mile Restaurant on July 13. It made our day! We appreciate it so much. It was very thoughtful and we all thank him very much. — Bernice Berning, Fort Wayne To submit a letter to the editor, email ...
Re: The summit meeting with Putin. Trump’s critics are absolutely correct – he needs to be much more assertive with Putin, perhaps he could have done something really substantive and memorable at the joint news conference, like introduce and push a big red “Reset” button. On the ...
This letter is in response to Phantom Fireworks vice-president William Weimer’s letter, printed in the News-Sentinel pages of the June 30th paper. First of all Mr.Weimer, don’t patronize me with suggestions on how to spare my pet trauma from the noise of fireworks. My wife and I have ...
I would like to personally thank Congressman Jim Banks for standing with the dedicated men and women of ICE. We are lucky to have this agency that protects us from sex traffickers, drugs, and violent gangs. We need politicians like you that stand with our law enforcement agencies and ...
Didn’t catch our daily pages in print? Well, you missed out on some of our editorial cartoons from syndicated artists who work at newspapers across the country. Here were the ones that made it in print this week, plus a few more for your enjoyment, or ire, depending on which side of the ...
The week of July 14, 1969 was a pretty big week for memorable news all across the country and even for the people of Fort Wayne. It started off on July 16 when Apollo 11 took off for the moon where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would become the first men to step foot upon the lunar ...
The new rising star of the Democratic Party is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 28-year-old former bartender doesn’t know much about politics — this week, she bungled her way through an interview answer by referring to Israeli “occupation” of Palestine and citing her lack of expertise on ...
Our colleges and universities need to do their due diligence to guard and protect their students and athletes from sexual abuse. It seems some aren’t doing a very good job. Certainly, we remember the Penn State University scandal that sent assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to prison. ...
I dread the 4th of July and the weeks around it. The lack of sleep and frustration comes with neighborhood fireworks. It seems to get worse every year. A few of my neighbors could care less about when and where to set off fireworks. Every night it goes on and on. I hardly think this is what ...
I’m so glad you enjoy the quizzes; I enjoy making them up. In this one there usually is some communication taking place. But maybe there isn’t. Anyway, enjoy. And score at least 80, with 5 points for each correct answer. Let’s begin. 1. Who wrote, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ...
Allen County may let out a collective sigh of relief following the arrest Sunday of a man who confessed to the 1988 murder of April Marie Tinsley. That the Grabill man is being held without bond in the Allen County Jail, if proved guilty, should lift a black cloud from the Tinsley family as ...
Discrimination seems to be in the eye of the beholder. An amendment to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill passed Wednesday by the House Appropriations Committee in a 29-23 vote says the federal government cannot discriminate against faith-based ...
Didn’t catch our daily pages in print? Well, you missed out on some of our editorial cartoons from syndicated artists who work at newspapers across the country. Here were the ones that made it in print this week, plus a few more for your enjoyment, or ire, depending on which side of the ...
Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland chastised Republicans in hearings in Washington on June 19, urging them to pressure President Trump to reverse course and remove immigrant children from “internment camps” at the border. Upon examining the websites, “On the Issues” and “Vote ...
It was hot and muggy all day. At ten o’clock at night it was still in the 80s. My wife and I had just finished watching a movie, when our attention was directed outdoors. We heard the annual ritual of exploding fireworks. It was the Fourth of July. We stepped outside, and what we could see ...
The ultimate result of sin is unending separation from God. Because human beings are created in God’s image with an inborn thirst to fellowship with him, separation from God will be the ultimate torment and misery. Sin always brings misery, but in this life we can choose to repent and restore ...
Congressman Jim Banks is right. The opioid crisis is destroying families all across America, including our great state. We are seeing thousands of young people being swept up into this terrifying epidemic with no way out. I am pleased that he is working hard in Congress passing bills like the ...
One in three seniors dies from Alzheimer’s disease. It is the costliest disease and the only leading cause of death in the U.S. that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. It is imperative that we have elected officials who are working to make Alzheimer’s a national priority. As an ...
This week, amid widespread Democratic tumult regarding the selection of a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, alleged comedian Michelle Wolf paid tribute to the most important facet of American life: abortion. On her Netflix show Sunday, Wolf dressed up in red, white and ...
Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice and Planned Parenthood as a non-entity in Fort Wayne are both positive possibilities for those who believe in the sanctity of life. But neither President Donald Trump’s selection of Kavanaugh as a nominee to the court nor Planned Parenthood’s ...