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 ...
“No taxation without representation” is an American mantra that represents a key demand on the list of grievances against England that helped lead to our independence. It’s a phrase that has re-emerged through the past two-plus centuries whenever American taxpayers believe the government ...
In the past 20 years in Allen County many serious health issues have posed challenges. And Health Commissioner Deborah McMahan, M.D., has led the charge in each battle in her role with the Allen County Department of Health. At the Allen County Executive Board of Health meeting at Citizens ...
The growth and prosperity of Fort Wayne and Northeast Indiana seems to be positively affecting Fort Wayne International Airport, which has reported setting records for passenger traffic 10 years in a row. The days of travelers bypassing FWA to look for better deals on flights in other cities ...
The story of the week in men’s college sports was Tuesday’s basketball brawl at the Kansas State-Kansas game at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., home court of the Jayhawks, who won the game easily, 80-61. The incident began when, with just seconds on the clock and the game out of ...
News-Sentinel.com reporter/columnist Kevin Leininger broke the news Saturday that RTM Ventures LLC said it has received a letter of intent from a company wanting to locate its headquarters in 200,000 square feet of the proposed Electric Works development, which could make it the anchor tenant ...
While Indiana’s 2018 decrease in its infant mortality rate was the biggest in six years, the news isn’t quite as good as it sounds. Newly released data from the Indiana Department of Health show the infant mortality rate in 2018 dropped from 7.3 the previous year to 6.8 per 1,000 babies ...
Gov. Eric Holcomb teased prior to his State of the State address last week that he would announce something special about teacher pay in Indiana, a huge issue brought to a head at November’s Red for Ed Day, when thousands of Hoosier teachers showed up at the Statehouse to make their case for ...
A small news item out of Evansville recently announced the naming of the new Indiana state poet laureate. When I think of the term “poet laureate,” I think of Robert Frost, who had the title of United States Poet Laureate in 1958 and 1959, when I was a young boy and had already become ...