Boy, what a slacker:
After an amazing 22 years on the bench without taking a sick day, Judge John F. Surbeck Jr. of the Allen County Superior Court was a no-show Monday.
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Judge Frances C. Gull took over Surbeck's docket, and in her courtroom lawyers were stacked four deep as they awaited their chance to ask for a continuance or just a chance to accept a guilty plea or sentencing for their clients.
Today's quiz. "It's clear that his intent was to be divisive" refers to:
A. Conservatives' reaction to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Ground Zero mosque plans.
B. Civil rights leaders' reaction to the Glenn Beck rally in Washington on Saturday.
If you wanted to answer C, "Most of the stuff I read on this blog," w
Couldn't he at least be required to serve his probation locked in his basement?
At the urging of the son Eric Urbano locked in a basement with a cup in which to urinate, a judge accepted Urbano's plea deal and sentenced him to no jail time Thursday.
A little late, but the right move:
The Indianapolis public safety director identified at least one police policy Thursday that is likely to change in response to the fatal crash involving officer David Bisard.
People seem so happy that the baseball stadium and team are doing so well that a lot of them are ignoring what hasn't been done at Harrison Square:
Should Fort Wayne continue working as a cooperative partner with the developer that hasn't built the condominiums it promised downtown, or should it turn to a tougher approach? That's a question Fort Wayne City Councilman John Shoaff, D-at large, wants the council to confront.
Dick Stoner's north store has been robbed twice in two years, so he's decided to do something about it.
The votes have been tabulated, so now we can give out our coveted Crime Watch Awards.
Criminal genius of the week:
On July 29, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed in Allen Superior Court, Anthony Dwight Laster and another person followed several victims into their apartments and forced them to lie on the ground at gunpoint while one of the men ransacked the dwelling.
The robbers took cash, GPS units, laptops, cameras, videogame systems and several cell phones.
Those of us who are either worried or ecstatic about the prospect of a one-term Obama presidency should calm down, says The Journal Gazette's Tracy Warner. Other presidents have looked bad halfway through their first terms and recovered quite nicely:
In August of his second year as president, his approval rating dipped to 39 percent, partly because he was so heavily criticized over his plan for health care reform.
Former Fort Wayne mayor and prominent gun-control advocate Paul Helmke thinks a "leaderless ATF" has chosen the wrong target:
As I've mentioned before, terrorists have ludicrously easy access to guns in this country.
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