Current Affairs

Negotiations between the Fort Wayne Education Association and Fort Wayne Community Schools have hit a snag. The main dispute seems to be over whether to immediately start using new state rules disallowing bargaining over working conditions or to do a new contract before June 30 that would do without those rules for the next two years. This is the eye-popping sentence:

This sounds a lot like "Leth them eat cake," doesn't it?

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

On the other hand, maybe this is an attempt to further the administration's goal of helping the little people. The more of us there are, the easier we will be to spot.

Hell to get old, ain't it, Luther?

Although he was one of the early pioneers of Miami Beach's Memorial Day hip hop extravaganza, even Luther Campbell says he no longer makes his way to South Beach during that weekend because it's become too rowdy.

No tears here for Jack Kevorkian:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

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Aha, an explanation perhaps for the bizarre behavior of Anthony Weiner:

Hey, we were watching the race, man! We don't care about no stupid news:

A South Bend television station is defending its decision to cut away from the finish of the Indianapolis 500 for a severe weather report.

WBND news director Aaron Ramey tells the South Bend Tribune that tornado warnings had been issued for the area on Sunday, and "public safety is a priority" for the ABC affiliate.

Just too cool:

Has the global warming climate change hysteria peaked?

The earth's climate is always changing, sometimes dramatically. During the medieval warming of a thousand years ago, temperatures were much higher than they are now; during the Little Ice Age six centuries later they were much lower.

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What if President Obama wrote an advice column?

Q Dear President Obama, My white shirt has chewing gum stuck to it. Any suggestions?

Vanessa Phelps, Stevenage, Herts.

A Let this be known. Where there is chewing gum, there shall always be a problem.

A judge has thrown out drunken driving counts against an Indianapolis cop who crashed into motorcyclists and killed him, essentially on a technicality, leaving him to face only one felony count of reckless homicide:

 The ruling dealt a blow to Prosecutor Terry Curry's efforts to show that Bisard was driving drunk when his police cruiser crashed into three motorcyclist Aug. 6 on the Northeastside.