Harrison Square developers are having trouble selling their condominiums, so they're rolling out a new marketing plan. Indiana's NewsCenter went out looking for the kind of condos Fort Wayne folks do buy and, surprise, surprise, discovered a fondness for peace and quiet, woods, tennis courts and swimming pools. Then there is Harrison Square:
The price range on the Harrison Square condos is much higher, in the 175 to 350-thousand dollar amounts.
Nobody wants to live in Anderson, even Anderson government employees. So the city wants to require them to live in town, and even ask the General Assembly to remove the exemption for police and firefighters. But what about those pesky private companies?
Many Anderson private businesses also are not doing their part in making sure they hire locally, council members said.
OK, I take back the crack about the Clintons. This is what's really fun:
ANIMOSITY among MSNBC anchors has reached a mile-high peak at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, with on-air squabbling between such big egos as Joe Scarborough, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and David Shuster.
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That Jeffersonville sex offender is still trying to get into a park to watch his son play ball:
The American Civil Liberties Union argued in court Monday that an ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from entering public property owned by Jeffersonville is unconstitutional.
Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, said it is not rational to ban someone from going to a park when he or she has not committed an offense there.
Pay no attention to anything you hear when my lips are moving:
Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.
The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce wants everybody in state government to just get along:
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce advocated bipartisanship Tuesday in the last of eight policy letters to the candidates for governor.
Gee, I don't know. Sounds kinda catchy to me:
“Not making the list of dying cities is not exactly the kind of thing economic development people dream about,” Young said. And he's right, of course. “Fort Wayne: We're Not Dead” isn't much of a marketing slogan.
Yes, gun-rights advocates can go too far. The Second Amendment does not trump property rights:
In 1987, Florida wisely affirmed personal freedom by letting law-abiding citizens get permits to carry concealed weapons. But this year, the legislature decided it was not enough to let licensees pack in public places. They also should be allowed to take their guns into private venues—even if the property owner objects.
Further proof that this presidential election is going to be nail-biter close. John McCain gets the nod here:
Now that Evan Bayh is sinking back into the obscurity of being Indiana's junior senator, perhaps you can handle the 10 things you didn't now about him. This is my favorite:
As a child Bayh had a sleep-over in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Johnson Administration during which he was awed by the television remote control — rare at the time.
