The Indiana Department of Child Services released a report last week that says deaths from child neglect and abuse increased during fiscal year 2017. That report details 65 deaths that resulted directly from abuse or neglect. That’s tragic news and a disappointing turn following the ...
The news that two relatives of 1930s gangster John Dillinger plan to have his remains exhumed because they have "evidence" the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him has resurrected the legend of the infamous bank robber/killer. Good thing or bad, Dillinger has been a subject ...
You’ve just been scammed. Or maybe you think you have. What do you do? The answer is, do something. Don’t ignore it. Don’t be embarrassed about it. We’ve all been there — or if we haven’t, we will be. Today, scams of all kinds and through all means are rampant — maybe ...
One year ago, we wrote here saying former Fort Wayne resident Dan Coats was between a rock and a hard place as President Trump’s national security director. With Coats under fire, we expressed our desire that he keep his job. “We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in ...
We live in an age of videos that show anything and everything any time and almost anywhere and make life more and more difficult to keep private. People can’t do anything without being recorded, it seems, because someone’s smartphone or a business or stoplight or home doorbell has a camera ...
A year ago, we wrote about the alarming increase in the rates of suicide in Allen County, Indiana and across the nation. This week we learned that the rate of suicides among African-American adolescents in the U.S. is even worse. Statistics a year ago showed a 50 percent jump in the number of ...
Many of us in Adams and Wells County have experienced at some time the unfortunate misunderstanding of the French spelling and language many years ago. This happened when the local Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s built a camp in Wells County near Bluffton. This has caused much grief ...
A standing ovation is in order for the author of “Inner-city crime, poverty priority issues for black Americans.” Walter Williams’ very poignant words resonated with me. For once truths have been spoken. Stores won’t open in bad neighborhoods. Mr. Williams gave good reasons why. ...
Social media has become a breeding ground for misinformation. It is an all too easy tool to broadcast and amplify outlandish claims and bogus stories. That’s why we applaud the Knight Foundation for committing nearly $50 million in research to better understand how technology is transforming ...
Over the years I have been a blood donor partly due to the many surgeries my family members have had and because I, therefore, recognized the good that giving blood could do. A few weeks ago I received a card in the mail from the American Red Cross telling of the urgent need for blood ...
More than 21 percent of adult sin Indiana smoke, ranking the state 45th among all states and the District of Columbia. California has the lowest percentage of adult smokers at 11.3 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco users contribute nearly $3 billion ...
The storied career of former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight had a not-so-happy ending when he was fired by IU President Myles Brand in 2000. His long absence from Bloomington and repeated scorning of the university since have been sad and disappointing. But is the self-imposed ...
When the Supreme Court ruled last month that partisan gerrymandering isn’t an issue for federal courts to police, it cleared the way for states to handle the issue. That’s as it should be. Gerrymandering is the creative drawing of districts to benefit the party in power. Republicans are a ...
It’s no secret that American workers face a major — and very real — retirement crisis. Wealth inequality and workplace changes have all but kicked-out two of the legs of the traditional retirement stool: pensions and private savings — both of which are at historic ...
While motorcycles are involved in less than 2 percent of all collisions in Indiana, they make up 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. There have been 51 motorcycle fatalities in the state this year, on a par with the 97 last year. And that was down from 136 in 2017. That’s why we think Ride ...
In American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation, my co‐author, Craig Osten and I, write that America is at a crossroads. Neighbor is pitted against neighbor. The growth of social media has inflamed the worst instincts in people. We write, “As a nation, ...
Friday’s launch of a pilot program that will put 71 sober living beds in three locations has been called Allen County’s most ambitious effort to fight substance abuse disorder. We have praised Allen County’s aggressive efforts in the past to fight drug addiction, especially the epidemic ...
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing of a spacecraft on the moon when Apollo 11 touched down and two astronauts set foot on the lunar surface, first Purdue University alumnus and Commander Neil Armstrong, followed by Buzz Aldrin. It’s one of those events, like the ...
While the Indiana Legislature’s commitment to public education was notable this year, the lack of a pay increase for teachers was disappointing. Indiana’s average pay is $50,218 a year, which is between $2,000-$10,000 less than teachers in neighboring states. Starting pay for teachers at ...
Allen County residents need to be alert to a nationwide outbreak of intestinal illnesses caused by a parasite that can infect people in swimming pools, splash pads, water playgrounds, hot tubs and spas. While Allen County is not seeing any significant increases in cases of the hard-to-kill ...