When it comes to issues that really matter to the average citizen of a city like Fort Wayne, trash collection has to be near the top. So you would assume that our officials would take such an issue seriously to make constituents happy. But the history of the city’s contract with Red River ...
I hope everyone read Froma Harrop’s excellent column on page 5A (the News-Sentinel page) of the Saturday edition. I have held for many years that high heels are an unmitigated evil, not as much because they imply vanity, but primarily because they wreak havoc on the bodies of the women who ...
Oregon has become the 15th state to give its electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. This is exactly what the small state representatives did not want to occur when drafting the U.S. Constitution — allow large states with larger numbers of voters to control the government. If ...
I’m sure I have many faults, but littering is not one of them. I know my parents did not approve of littering, and somehow they ingrained in my conscience not to toss anything on the ground any time, anywhere — not a gum wrapper, a tissue, anything. I will not litter. But it’s clear ...
Last month we touted Indiana Sen. Todd Young’s introduction of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit the sale of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to anyone under the age of 21. A similar measure was, unfortunately, bypassed by the Indiana Legislature this spring along with other ...
A new report from the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University updates the quality of life rankings for every Indiana county. And Allen County fares pretty well, much as it did when the Community Asset Inventory and Rankings first came out in 2012. But the results ...
Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry called a press conference back in April to tout what he called a significant decrease in crime in the first quarter of 2019. “As you can see by the statistics that have become available in the first quarter of 2019, crime has dropped significantly in the city of ...
Fort Wayne native Susan Brooks is a case in point of how women can and have made an impact in politics. She is currently serving her fourth term as Indiana’s 5th District representative in Washington. Some Democrats, however, are responding to her announcement Friday that she will not run ...
Farmers throughout the area were back in the fields the last two weeks whenever they could find dry ground. Some got stuck in the mud. Many are struggling to pay their bills. But indications are that Indiana farmers have made some progress after incessant spring rains kept them way behind ...
Fort Wayne has long been called the “City of Churches,” but it ranks 76th in the nation as post-Christian. How can that be? “Post-Christian” means there has been an observed decline in the influence of the church: Christianity is no longer the dominant religion where it once was. The ...
Indiana teachers were not happy about the state Legislature’s changes this spring in the rules for how they must renew their professional licenses. As a result, thousands have been hurrying to begin the process before those new rules take effect July 1. Why? Because if they do most won’t ...
Garry Hamilton became Fort Wayne’s first black police chief in 2014 at a time when law enforcement officers across the country were under fire — sometimes literally — due to shootings of black men. The Black Lives Matter movement was leading national protests against police ...
Back in January of 2018, the media reported that concerns were being reported with the new agency the city of Fort Wayne had contracted for garbage and re-cycle pickup. It seemed that Red River Waste Solutions was not living up to the expectations promised by the mayor’s Office when the ...
What I like about reading good fiction is that the best authors create stories that put you into the book — description, voice, emotion and all the senses combine to make you experience what you read. In my career as a journalist I sought, not always successfully, to try to bring my ...
I consider myself a new resident of DeKalb County (3 years), but because of my job and relationships, I feel I’ve been a part of the Auburn area for more than 20 years. During my short time being an official community member, I was amazed at the energy that was pouring into the ...
When a report in February showed Indiana had the nation’s sixth worst solvency rate, Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration proposed a tax increase of about 17 percent for businesses to get the state’s unemployment trust fund to a level recommended by the federal government. The Indiana ...
More fans have been injured by foul balls at professional baseball games. Should teams do more to make their ballparks safer for those of us who watch them play? Some probably should. A Bloomberg analysis says about 1,750 fans are hurt each year by balls hit into the stands at Major League ...
Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” It always is. In a world defined by amazing smart devices, some of us are old enough to remember when the primary purpose of our phone was to talk to other people. I am not sure which time deserves more “likes”. As ...
Fort Wayne’s festival season, which began last weekend, includes a series of celebrations of immigration — Arab Fest, Germanfest, Greekfest — in which people in our community share the cultures, customs and cuisines of the countries from which they originated. Our city has always ...
Nearly 30 million people in the United States are victimized by an eating disorder. Only one in 10 people seek treatment. Most people that are struggling with an eating disorder find it hard to discuss that they have these issues. Eating disorder is a mental illness. Like any other mental ...