The Allen County Election Board has announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana voters will be allowed to vote by mail in the primary election, which has been moved to June. We think that is an appropriate option because of the need for social distancing to slow the continuing spread ...
The “Our View” Editorial published on the News-Sentinel page on Page 5A of the Monday, March 30 edition contained factual errors. The editorial cited several items that it said were included in the coronavirus relief bill approved by Congress on March 27. Most of the items, while ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of many diseases that have threatened world-wide health over the years, but it’s the first since polio in the 1950s that has struck as much fear in the general public. Both the coronavirus and polio have occurred in my lifetime and the two have had an ironic ...
Invitations to participate in the 2020 Census were mailed this month with reminder letters delivered this week. It’s vitally important that we all respond as soon as possible. The official deadline is April 1. The United States Census Bureau says in its mailing that it needs your help to ...
Give Allen County Health Commissioner Dr. Deborah McMahan a break. Some local and state officials are accusing the head of the Allen County Board of Health of attacking the rights of area churches to practice their religious freedoms. McMahan issued an order last week closing the county’s ...
Is this all too much to ask to save lives and stop a pandemic? When our government officials give orders, make suggestions and list guidelines for us all to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, do we take them seriously? Or do we just go on with our daily lives the way we had ...
On March 18 News-Sentinel editorial page, Roy Speckhardt responded to a column written by the former editor of The News-Sentinel, Kerry Hubartt, entitled "Ten Commandments still resonate." The title of Speckhardt’s letter, "Ten Commandments not foundation for being a good citizen," suggests ...
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, stated last week the United States should force China to “pay the burden and the costs incurred” by the U.S. due to the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, the capital city of the Hubei province in that country. Banks may be right, but we don’t think now is the ...
The hoarding of groceries and other products, such as toilet paper, has become an unnecessary problem. And it’s up to all of us during the COVID-19 pandemic to use common sense and unselfishness. The nation’s irrational rush to overbuy supplies, both necessary and ludicrously unnecessary, ...
The warnings have been there all along, but they keep getting sterner and more specific: Practice social distancing to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus throughout the U.S. But the warnings have not been taken seriously, and there is not enough consistency in what steps are ...
In March 16’s “Ten Commandments may be religious, but they set a standard of good conduct for all people,” Kerry Hubartt erroneously assumes that the Ten Commandments should be the foundation of American civics, and prejudicially asserts that church-state separation advocates should doubt ...
The Ten Commandments have been belittled, besmirched and even banned from public property in the United States as religious and therefore needing to be separated from perceived endorsement by the state. But the truth is, the laws written in tablets of stone by the finger of God on Mount ...
Indiana’s attorney general made an official statement last week that state agencies are not allowed to use an "X" gender designation on identification documents for residents who don't identify as male or female. We wrote in September that we supported Republican Attorney General Curtis ...
This is most likely the last guest column I will ever write for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. This comes after nearly three and a half decades of putting my insights and opinions on paper and submitting them to the News-Sentinel. For most of that time it was still the afternoon newspaper ...
Get ready for the new normal. The coronavirus outbreak has become a pandemic, and the world is reacting with steps we never imagined. Where and when it stops, nobody knows. Life is required to change for awhile, even here in Allen County, in a necessary attempt to stem the tide of a ...
Contrary to some critics, Vice President Mike Pence is leading an aggressive attack against the COVID-19 virus that has infiltrated the U.S. Reported illnesses of the coronavirus in Indiana have ranged from mild symptoms, including fever, cough and shortness of breath, to severe illness and ...
We believe Do it Best Corp.’s creation of a foundation to distribute grants to organizations that align with its goals and generate the biggest impact to make their communities great places to live, work and play significantly reinforces the company’s commitment to Fort Wayne and Allen ...
An Associated Press story last week began with the following words: “Imagine an NCAA Tournament with no fans in the arenas.” That seemingly ridiculous possibility has been posited as a result of the coronavirus that has afflicted more than 92,000 people and killed 3,300 worldwide, mostly ...
As Indiana pushes to improve the access to health care for pregnant women and new mothers one of the areas they should make a priority is tobacco cessation. Tobacco use is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. To provide free tobacco cessation to pregnant women and mothers of small ...
May will be an important month for Fort Wayne Community Schools. For one thing, the May 5 primary election will include a referendum on “Repair FWCS,” a plan to renovate the district’s schools by beginning the third phase of the project. And while that result will impact a number of ...