The turnout of public school teachers and others at the Statehouse Tuesday for “Red for Ed Day” was an impressive show of support — perhaps 20,000 strong — for issues that educators and parents are all concerned about: higher teacher pay and changes in rules on standardized testing and ...
Indiana has added a Safe Haven Baby Box this week in Angola that allows people to anonymously leave newborns in hospitals and fire stations. That increases the number of baby boxes in the state to 16. We think that’s great news. The Associated Press reported that the Steuben County ...
The Questa Foundation for Education was in the news last week due to a failed request for support from the Fort Wayne Legacy Fund, even though it has received Legacy Fund monies for several years for its Legacy Scholars program. Questa offers low-interest forgivable loans for students pursuing ...
Whether you like it or not, teachers are going to be skipping school Tuesday by the thousands across Indiana to make their voices heard at the Statehouse, calling for higher teacher pay and changes to state rules on standardized testing and teaching licenses. Maybe it’s inconvenient for ...
News-Sentinel.com applauds the Allen County Commissioners for their approval last Friday of an agreement for $100,000 as the 2020 annual appropriation for the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. The approval followed a discussion with the center’s president and chief executive officer, Karl ...
As our city hosts The Violins of Hope through Dec. 1, News-Sentinel.com wants to acknowledge the collaborative partners and supporters helping stage what they say is “the largest community arts and cultural collaboration of its kind in the history of Fort Wayne.” It is a two-week ...
Harriet Tubman was a real-life female superhero. I’ve always been a fan of women in such roles in the movies — Ellen Ridley in “Alien,” Sarah Connor in “Terminator,” Rey, Princess Leia and Padme in “Star Wars,” Batgirl, Wonder Woman. Those were all fiction. But seeing the ...
Since his 2016 presidential campaign, the socialist ideas of Vermont’s Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders have become more popular among some Americans, especially the younger generation. Sanders, one of many Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 election, has openly labeled himself a ...
When we talk about efforts to curb smoking in America, we must inevitably include vaping in the conversation. The latter, it was hoped, would be a solution for stopping the former. But it seems that intent has gone awry. While many adult smokers have been able to kick the habit by turning to ...
Did you set your clocks one hour earlier or one hour later Saturday night so you would get to church on time Sunday morning? If you set them later, you were really late. Don’t forget the daylight saving time memory trick: Spring forward; fall back. Changing all your clocks twice every ...
Fort Wayne residents will head to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor, city clerk and nine City Council members. Following is a recap of then News-Sentinel Editorial Board’s endorsements in the election. Fort Wayne mayor: Tim Smith, Republican. Our judgment is that while three-term Mayor Tom ...
In the many years I taught a beginning news writing and reporting class as an adjunct faculty member at IPFW while working as a journalist full-time at The News-Sentinel, I made a point of trying to get across to my students the concept of being objective as a reporter. The essence of my ...
Keeping our government transparent and accountable is the best way to keep it honest. That’s why we agree with the intent of an Indiana legislative study committee that recently decided to continue work on drafting a proposal for a statewide hotline for reporting possible corruption by local ...
There was hope early in the year that action would be taken by the Indiana Legislature to address the issue of low teacher’s pay in this state. But late in the legislative session lawmakers discovered they would have about $100 million less to work with and scrapped efforts to get teacher ...
In talking to candidates for Fort Wayne’s Nov. 5 election, both Republican and Democrat, News-Sentinel.com’s editorial board found one of the prominent topics of discussion was public safety and how the city should work to improve relations between police and the neighborhoods where ...
During the 2018-19 deer hunting season, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources conducted targeted surveillance in northeast Indiana and other areas in the state for chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious, fatal disease they said could not be stopped from entering the state. At the ...
The growing number of suicides in our community and throughout the U.S. leave many victims in their wake, anguishing families and friends haunted by questions without answers: the whys and the what-ifs. Many who contemplate suicide suffer in silence and never talk about it, and the more that ...
The passing of time helps bring perspective. I seem to have a lot more perspective lately. Fort Wayne has been home for most of my life. I attended school here, raised my family here, and have had the privilege of starting and growing my many businesses here. I have never been active ...
With city elections so near, it is good to see the councilmen elected four years ago doing what we wanted them to — make responsible decisions with public money. It is encouraging to know that not everything going on in Fort Wayne is tied to spending. Tuesday, Council completed an exercise ...
A recent suggestion to create a fund from Indiana hospitals’ reserves is not a serious policy proposal, but rather another step in a coordinated campaign to influence contributions to a specific economic development project. Eric Doden, who heads up a real estate development company based in ...