On restaurants, we get two:
After more than four months of renovations, two restaurants in downtown Fort Wayne are scheduled to reopen this week.
Both Don Hall's Old Gas House at 305 East Superior Street and Takaoka of Japan are scheduled to reopen Wednesday.
And lose one:
A brave public servant stands up for his oppressed constituents who are being crushed by the forces of tyranny:
Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson United School Corp. Board member Greg Waltz doesn't like the referendum process.
“You're putting neighbors against neighbors, community members against community members,” he said. “For the state of Indiana to do this to these communities, it's just terrible.”
Poor Hoosier atheist activists can't get a break. First, Bloomington refused to let its buses carry the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign's signs proclaiming that "You can be good without God," ruling the message too controversial. Then, the Mishawaka and South Bend bus people, because of the Bloomington flap, decided to seek board approval for putting the signs on its buses.
I wonder if Gov. Daniels will face any criticism over this for showing anti-democratic instincts:
Gov. Mitch Daniels has vetoed a bill that would have moved St. Joseph County Superior Court judges to nonpartisan elections.
In a veto notice on the state of Indiana's Web site, Daniels said St. Joseph County's model of selecting judges is "to be emulated, not discarded. It is not broken; it requires no repair."
Rep. Mark Souder is both a Notre Dame graduate and a strong pro-lifer, but he is among those who worry that the extreme protesters of President Obama's commencement speech will hurt more than help the pro-life cause:
“I understand the passion of those like myself who want to protect innocent babies from being killed,” Souder told WSBT News. “But the key thing here is to persuade those in the middle who don't agree with us.”
Just to confound both Earth First nuts and my fellow libertarian plunderers alike, I actually think this is a neat idea:
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is looking for the state's biggest trees.
The state publishes a register of the largest known trees every five years and will accept nominations this year through Oct. 31. Each tree nominated must be verified for species and size before it is accepted in the register.
Outgoing EACS Superintendent Kay Novotny has recommending closing Harding High school and putting those students in New Haven High School for the sensible reason that "it is an aging building in a township that needs only one high school." The suggestion has drawn the ire of some constituents, mostly Harding parents:
No active discussion has been had about whether closing Harding is even an option, and many in the community feel they have been left in the dark because of that.
Every office I've ever been in has had a refrigerator, and, sooner or later, they are neglected for so long that just putting your lunch next to the toxic stuff in them would be inviting food poisoning. But none of them has ever gotten this bad:
An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.
We will now observe one minute of silence in memory of the demise of the gentler sex:
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Metro police are looking for a group of women suspected of participating in a robbery ring targeting older women. They already have one woman in custody and have identified another they are searching for.
[. . .]
They see an elderly female with a purse and they follow them home from the location," Lt. Roehrig explained.
Passing a new budget was the only thing Indiana legislators had to get done, and they failed to do it. At least now they can use the special session their failure brought about to concentrate on the budget and nothing else.
The Indiana Bankers Association met in Indianapolis recently and offered The New York Times a glimpse of a world it and the people who read it may have forgotten:
Some supporters of Barack Obama are shocked and amazed -- shocked! I tell you -- that the man is exactly who he said he was:
Wealthy Wall Street financiers and other business figures provided crucial support for Mr Obama during the election, backing him over the Republican candidate John McCain as the right leader to rescue the collapsing US economy.
Better sit down for the latest startling news from those underworked and overpaid researchers:
Just because White House officials chose to scare the hell of New Yorkers instead of sensibly using Photoshop, that doesn't mean Fark readers can't have a little fun. Check them all out, but I especially liked this one:
Reason magazine has been predicting the end of the postal service so long that even another 2-cent increase for stamps can't get it that excited these days:
As Associate Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward said in a post two years ago, "Reason has been predicting the imminent demise of the post office since at least the '80s, so I suppose we'd better not get too cocky just yet."
Both the best boss and the worst boss I ever had were women, which I offer as my credentials for being fair-minded about this issue (or at least as fair-minded as a man can ever be). The New York Times is really stirring the workplace pot with its article on women bullying women at work.
Observations such as these:
The Post-Tribune had an interesting story saying that, because of the poor economy, more people in northwest Indiana seem to be opting to let their towed cars stay confiscated instead of coughing up the towing fee. But I almost couldn't get past the first paragraph:
GARY -- What's worth more to you, keeping your car or paying your towing bill? Increasingly, Northwest Indiana residents appear to be choosing the latter.
Finally, someone realizes that it is OK to make fun of a black, liberal president:
Good evening, everybody, I would like to welcome you to the 10-day anniversary of my first 100 days," the president told a ballroom full of Washington reporters and editors and celebrity guests. "My name is Barack Obama; most of you cover me. All of you voted for me."
Sixty-four years ago today:
We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering world — to build an abiding peace, a peace rooted in justice and in law. We can build such a peace only by hard, toilsome, painstaking work — by understanding and working with our allies in peace as we have in war.
Mission still not accomplished.
If there's an exception to the guideline that the state should cut all spending in tough economic times, maybe it should be for Ivy Tech:
Rapidly growing Ivy Tech Community College could consider capping enrollment statewide during the next school year because of budget worries.
