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Journal Gazette Editorial Page Editor Tracy Warner and I were on Northeast Indiana Public Radio's Midday Matters from noon to 1 p.m. yesterday, and the podcast is up now if you want to give a listen. I don't think I embarrassed myself too much. Tracy and I agreed on some things (the poor performance of the Henry administration so far, for example) and disagreed on others (such as the wisdom of the Renaissance Square purchase).

Oh, thank goodness. We haven't had a task force appointed for anything in days and days, and I was beginning to worry that city and county officials had lost their taste for killing time achieving consensus with collaboration and compromise:

I think this may be a tough case to prove:

For the first time, Allen County is holding parents legally accountable in educating their children, but one Fort Wayne Community Schools board member says it needs to be more than just a one-time effort.

Those mean, stingy county officials just wouldn't go along, and the mayor is sad, so unbearably sad:

"The dream of a joint solution to Fort Wayne's and Allen County's space needs through co-location just died,” a somber Mayor Tom Henry said in a hastily arranged news conference Thursday afternoon.

But who killed it? City and county officials identified vastly different culprits.

Congratulations to the City Council. It got this one right:

A gas station and mini-strip mall appear to be on their way to the south side of downtown Fort Wayne after City Council approved the rezoning of about two acres at 3230 Fairfield Avenue.

Hey, just in case you were worried about the old Memorial Stadium not having a useful future:

INDIANAPOLIS -

Hundreds of vehicles destined for the scrap heap are filling what once was the outfield of the former minor league baseball stadium in Indianapolis.

Jenny Kephart, the woman with the "How dare you not do your duty to keep me from hurting myself" lawsuit, keeps plodding along, and her case against the casino that took her for $1 million will be heard by the Indiana Supreme Court. UPI dug up a professor who says there must be something about the case that distinguishes it from similar cases in which the casinos have won. But it sounds like the same old "everybody's fault but mine" argument to me:

I suspect this is one of those cases in which the city feels it has to fight to the bitter end in fear of setting some kind of precedent. God knows what trouble in might get in if it got the reputation of being soft on back-pay issues. But it does not seem to be in a very sympathetic situation:

OK, everybody stop whatever you're doing and watch the zoo's new baby giraffe on the live zoo cam. Come on, you know you want to.

Fort Wayne is trying to become more bike-friendly, doing things like putting bike lanes and bike racks downtown.