Legislation that would add safety requirements to school buses and stiffen the penalties for illegally passing a school bus in Indiana should be approved. Senate Bill 2, the so-called MAX Strong bill, would increase the penalty for illegally passing a school bus from a Class A infraction to a ...
The Indiana Commission on Higher Education released its 2019 College Readiness Report Tuesday, revealing that Hoosier high school graduates are more prepared for post-secondary education than ever before. That was the good news. The report also identified troubling trends including widening ...
The hate crime bill approved by the state Senate on Tuesday and expected to be signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb appropriately addresses bias-motivated crimes and accomplishes the goal of underscoring that Indiana is welcoming to all. Indiana is just one of five states — the others are Arkansas, ...
The Allen County Public Library isn’t the first library to confront public outrage over the practice of weeding. Far from it. In Berkeley, California, protesters staged an attempt to get patrons to check out the maximum number of books to save them from weeding. The Urbana, Illinois, ...
The tax the House has proposed for vaping liquids is appropriate and should be approved by the Senate. The Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to vote this week on House Bill 1444, which would tax nicotine-containing liquids used in electronic cigarettes at the rate of 4 cents per ...
The resolution creating a General “Mad” Anthony Wayne Day is a divisive and unnecessary act that detracts from the very real and pressing issues Fort Wayne City Council faces. The council should, as the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma recently requested, rethink its decision and rescind the ...
Indiana’s Republican state senator from Auburn, Dennis Kruse, has pushed a bill for several years that would require Hoosier high school students to pass the same basic history and civics examination we require all new citizens to pass. Senate Bill 132 unanimously passed through the House ...
Abortion bill merits approval News-Sentinel.com in February urged the passage of House Bill 1211 to end the grizzly practice of dismemberment abortions, which typically occur after the first trimester of pregnancy. It passed the House that month on a 71-25 vote. Now it’s going to the full ...
It was discouraging to read the simplistic comments made by some City Council members regarding General “Mad” Anthony Wayne Day. A few comments were indicative of the lack of introspection seen in recent national discussions regarding historic memorials and monuments. We as a society are ...
The long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller has established that there was, as President Trump has steadfastly held, no collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Mueller’s findings, summarized in a 4-page letter by Attorney General William Barr, are a resounding victory ...
The Journal Gazette recently printed a map showing states with hate-crime laws deemed “fully inclusive.” Why are they “fully inclusive”? Because their short lists of protected classes include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Period. Do these “fully inclusive” ...
While the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has announced it is offering driver's licenses and state identification cards with a non-binary gender option for residents who don't identify as male or female, Republicans in the Statehouse have been considering making that extra option more ...
This April 20 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre. Ten students and one teacher were murdered by seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who took their own lives. The issue of school security has not been the same since. According to the Washington Post, since ...
World Down Syndrome Day on Thursday made me thankful for where I live and for the lives of my two Down syndrome grandchildren, Joy and Ezekiel. The occasion was first officially observed in 2012 to raise awareness of Down syndrome. March 21 (3-21) represents the three copies of the 21st ...
You may not think redistricting reform is a big deal, but changing our current system would make your vote more likely to be meaningful in our state elections. Even so, reform has been difficult to initiate, and whether the latest proposal (Senate Bill 105) makes it through the current ...
Another report on the increase in obesity has thrown yet another red flag for an epidemic health problem that America, Indiana and Allen County need to solve. And the solution may come in recognizing that obesity may be connected to the same kind of brain chemistry caused by drug addiction, ...
Patrick Smith was a roaster at Old Crown coffee on North Anthony Boulevard when I first knew of him. My youngest daughter was a barista there in 2003 during her college years when he was hired. My youngest son, who, like his sister, started college at IPFW, also worked with him there in 2006, ...
Vice President Mike Pence, known through three decades in politics as a “cordial conservative,” seems now to be a pariah for Democrats. While the former Indiana governor and congressman is widely known as a genuine “nice guy,” it has become a no-no to say so — if you are a ...
Accusations of sexual misconduct by American clergymen in the Catholic Church as well as the Southern Baptist Convention ignited outrage across the country last year that the victimization of vulnerable children and adults has too often been concealed or mishandled. The Diocese of Fort ...
Say what you will about winter, most people I have talked to in the last couple of weeks have had enough. I realize many love winter weather, and I normally tolerate it pretty well. But I have definitely developed a bad attitude recently about this year’s seemingly endless cold, ice, snow ...