While Indiana lawmakers were eager to pass legislation that would supposedly help control the high costs of health care for Hoosiers, we are glad to see that common sense prevailed this week before a bad idea got made into law. Legislators were considering a proposal that would cut how much ...
I watched the entire 1954 Indiana high school basketball boys state championship game on my iPad last week, thanks to an enhanced version of the grainy original film made 66 years ago. What’s more, the remastered video included audio play-by-play throughout. I had seen parts of the game ...
Indiana drivers will need to change their ways in July when a law is expected to take effect cracking down on cell phone use while driving. The Indiana Senate last week joined the House in approving House Bill 1070 that prohibits drivers from having a phone in hand while driving their ...
Allen County residents concerned about the continuing worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak may want to think twice before buying a facemask. While the facemask industry is booming due to concerns about the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it “does not ...
Beware the ides of March, as Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar. Caesar didn’t listen, and it cost him his life. For Indiana drivers, the old expression could mean beware of your condition when you are behind the wheel of your car this coming month, because if you’re not sober, you might ...
My wife and I spend as much time as we can with our grandchildren — some more than others in order to help out where most needed in child care and transportation. Whenever we are “in charge” of those precious lives, we are constantly aware of the influences they face each day, ...
Since arriving on the West Lafayette campus as Purdue University’s president in January 2013, former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has instituted a tuition freeze. And, according to a Lafayette Journal and Courier report last week, tuition will stay frozen through the 2021-22 school ...
The Statue of Liberty is a monument to what immigrants mean to the United States. Our country has been a refuge, a new hope, an opportunity for people from all over the world since before we even declared our independence as a nation. And immigrants have continued to make a positive impact on ...
Justice isn’t totally blind. It was wrong of a grieving mother to attack the woman who killed her children after the latter’s sentencing on Dec. 18 in the Fulton County Courthouse. But it also was right that the special prosecutor assigned to the case decided not to pursue charges. Most ...
A News-Sentinel editorial in 2005 lauded the principle behind a joint Fort Wayne-Allen County comprehensive plan called Plan-it Allen!, saying the process “truly is local. It involves local officials talking about their mutual needs and a logical way to meet those needs more efficiently. ... ...
Former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight’s return to what is now called Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for the game against Purdue on Feb. 8 was an event that deeply moved many people emotionally associated with Hoosier basketball. It moved me. And my association is not nearly as ...
Do it Best Corp. is a superb addition to the roster of Electric Works tenants signed by RTM Ventures in its plans to renovate the massive former GE campus. RTM officially introduced the international hardware wholesaler Thursday at the site where Do It Best plans to move into about 200,000 ...
The suspense behind the identity of the proposed anchor tenant of the Electric Works development continues, but at least the deadline extension needed to move the $230 million project forward has cleared another hurdle. And just as we encouraged Mayor Tom Henry to approve the extension, ...
On the heels of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a bill sponsored by City Council members Michelle Chambers, D-at large, and Russ Jehl, R-2nd, is asking the Fort Wayne Public Art Commission to consider possible ways to honor the civil rights activist and commemorate the speech he presented in Fort ...
I understand our reluctance in this nation to have government dictate our conduct through what can be perceived as legislative overreach. But I also understand how those in government justifiably seek solutions to problems that harm us. We have a seatbelt law designed to save lives — and it ...
It’s been a Keystone Cops kind of week for Democrats, and President Donald Trump’s acquittal in Wednesday’s Senate impeachment trial was the capstone. Despite Democrats’ highly partisan impeachment efforts, the president’s approval rating hit a new high of 49 percent in the latest ...
What should we think about the Indiana Legislature’s move Monday that stalled a proposal to require Indiana businesses to provide greater protections against discrimination for pregnant or breastfeeding employees? Senate Bill 342, sponsored by Republican Sen. Ron Alting of Lafayette, ...
It was my privilege to be in the Indiana Statehouse the last two days to assist pro-life legislators Sen, Liz Brown and Rep. Ben Smaltz in passing a milestone bill (SB299) that has the potential to drastically change the way the abortion industry does business. In May of 2019 the Supreme ...
How many times have we read about some prisoner who has been on death row for years being exonerated due to new evidence or DNA tests that overturn a false conviction? A film I saw recently tells the true story of such a case. “Just Mercy” is based on the memoir of the same name written ...
The whole idea of public notices is that the public will actually see them. But a provision included in an education bill moving through the Indiana Legislature threatens Hoosiers' access to such public information. Three Indiana laws combine to support the public’s right to know what’s ...