Downtown is really struggling. The recession isns't helping. How can we make the central city more appealing to investors, convince them that it's a good place to offer a product or service people want and make a profit in the process?
Say, here's an idea. Let's tell those investors we don't even want them downtown unless they live up to our Downtown Design Standards. Be pretty or else you can just take your filthy old investment money to the suburbs:
The surest way to keep Asian carp from gaining a foothold in the Great Lakes is to cut the link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River Basin, the navigational locks at Chicago. That would protect the $ 7 billion Great Lakes fishing industry from the carp invasion. But it would not please the barge operators who move millions of tons of commodities on the Chicago-area waterways each year. So the Obama administration has come up with a $78.5 million plan that nobody likes:
City Councilman Mitch Harper is inviting local government officials to get together to apply to be one of the communities in Google's planned ultra-fast and open fiber network. From Google's Web site:
United Way Executive Director Jerry Peterson is leaving Fort Wayne to pursue his education.
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Maybe things aren't going as well as we'd like in Fort Wayne, but we're certainly better off than Muncie:
I don't know why the mayor needs two hours to describe the state of the city when I can do so in one word: deplorable.
And thank goodness this isn't Evansville:
Want something from this house? Well, how about a few of these?
A home invasion suspect was in critical condition this morning after being shot by a homeowner.
Fort Wayne Police were called around 3:15 a.m. to 4730 Reed St., where officers found a man wearing a ski mask on the ground. He had gunshot wounds and a weapon nearby, according to police spokeswoman Raquel Foster.
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Sometimes it seems every educator in Indiana is salivating over the possibility of getting some of the $250 million Indiana might get from President Obama's "Race to the Top" program. But they're showing a modicum of common sense in Northwest Allen County Schools, where the board signed a "memorandum of understanding" saying the district is only possibly interested in receiving some of the funds.
This just has to be one of those "something else is going on here we can't decipher from the facts given" cases, because it doesn't make any sense as presented.
