Since college has been a thing, the problem of the debt that is accumulated has been a hot topic. In fact, 70 percent of college graduates have debt of some kind, and when they all owe on average $37,172, it becomes increasingly hard to help these students. So why aren’t more ...
General Motors Co.’s announcement that it plans to invest $24 million at its Fort Wayne assembly plant is great news for the community. It also matters that GM chairman and CEO Mary Barra traveled to Fort Wayne Thursday to make the announcement. Barra’s presence, her second visit to the ...
“A small group of people in position of influence and power... who are working aggressively to thwart the progress.” Are you sure? Let's get to the bottom of this. RTM, you don't have an anchor tenant for the Electric Works redevelopment. The “smart” money people know this, and to ...
You will see a connection between three writings: 1. In a letter to Attorney General William Barr in late March, Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrote that the AG’s memo “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the Mueller investigation. 2. Former News-Sentinel ...
Indiana farmers are between a mud puddle and a soft place. While the rest of us moan and groan because our lawns are too wet to mow and our gardens too muddy to plant, some farmers throughout the Midwest are wondering whether to plant at all — and that’s their livelihood. Many ...
Indiana House Democratic Leader Phil GiaQuinta of Fort Wayne wrote a guest column that appeared in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star making the point that this year’s legislative session was “a missed opportunity to set a two-year budget and enact laws that improve the quality of life for the ...
Megan McClellan has been named executive director for Fort Wayne Trails, Inc., taking over the lead in an endeavor that began with the help of former News-Sentinel Editor Ernie Williams 45 years ago. McClellan will officially assume her new position at Fort Wayne Trails on Monday, replacing ...
As it stands now, advanced manufacturing is an important part of Indiana's economy. It has the second largest GDP in the U.S., employed more than 100,000 workers in the automotive industry during 2016, and, statistically, 1 in 5 Hoosiers will go to work in advanced manufacturing. If this is ...
More than 41 million Americans, almost 15 percent of our current population ages 5 and older, are affected by a disability, making it extremely important that these students are provided with quality education and opportunity. Children are being put into special classes according to their ...
June is at our doorstep, and with it comes a vibrant, pulsating downtown summer experience in Fort Wayne with something good going on practically all the time. News-Sentinel.com today pays tribute to a city that is a great place to be for all people of all ages. While there are many things ...
The mission of the local nonprofit ACRES Land Trust is to help protect land in the tri-state area forever. And its announcement this month that it has planted 55,000 native hardwood saplings on three of its regional nature preserves is proof that the donations given to this great organization ...
In November 1941, just weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a proclamation celebrating the Bill of Rights. “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them,” Roosevelt said in issuing the ...
Throughout my career in journalism I have endured many criticisms of my calling, a profession considered so important by our Founding Fathers that our law prohibits its curtailment in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Certainly there have been many times when individual journalists and ...
Indiana is not bailing on the Regional Cities Initiative, though some might have gotten that impression from news reports this week that said neither Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration nor budget-writing legislators appear to have an interest in funding more proposals. The reports said the ...
For the second time in less than two years, Indiana Michigan Power is seeking a steep rate increase. And as was the case in 2018, the final rate decision will depend in large part on what consumers have to say. In the summer of 2017, I&M sought a 19.7 percent increase in its rates, ...
The unemployment rate is certainly good news for the nation, and even better news locally. And it won’t hurt President Trump in his re-election bid if the trend continues. Indiana Department of Workforce Development figures released this week show an unemployment rate of just 2.6 percent for ...
On Mother’s Day weekend, a three-day event took place across part of Indiana with relatively little media coverage. It was Indiana’s fifth annual Run for the Fallen, a 140-mile route from Fort Wayne’s Allen County War Memorial Coliseum to Portland the first day; Portland to Anderson the ...
Long-time television newsman Richard (Dick) Florea has been called Fort Wayne’s Walter Cronkite. Cronkite was called “the most trusted man in America” during the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s. Florea’s heyday, likewise, was in the same two decades during which viewers of ...
The ongoing saga of Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s denial of allegedly groping four women, including a state lawmaker, during a party more than a year ago could reach a climax in an Indiana Supreme Court disciplinary hearing next week. A confidential internal legislative memo that ...
Good news for the many nurses in Allen County as well as throughout Indiana: A new law signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb at the end of the state’s legislative session will allow them to work in other states and could improve the provision of nursing care in rural areas. On July 1, Indiana will ...