The Memphis Commercial-Appeal is getting a lot of heat from those with concealed-carry permits angry over a searchable database of Tennesseans with the permits:
Gun owners say the database is an invasion of privacy and makes permit holders easy targets for burglaries. They have flooded the newspaper with complaints — some 600 e-mails daily, threatened staff and posted personal information about newspaper employees, including Google maps to some homes.
Ouch. How would you like to be responsible for what has been called "one of the worst construction jobs in local history"? The 80-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Hotel at West Jefferson and I-69 was built on improperly prepared soil, so now it's only partly finished finished and sinking and tilting and ctracking. The situation creates a tough choice:
With congressional committees ostentatiously flaying companies that accept bailouts then take lavish trips, "junkets" suddenly have a very bad name. Business representatives are now deathly afraid that someone, somewhere might think they occasionally have a good time. This is bad news for places like Las Vegas and Hawaii, but, apparently, very good news for Indianapolis:
The mayor talked about gambling in his state of the city speech, and he tried to draw a distinction between "embracing the quest" for a casino here and "having the option." It seems like a pretty fine line to me -- it's pretty clear he's really enthusiastic about the idea of a casino. And what in the world does this mean?
When I first heard about "sexting," I thought, well, it's just a high-tech version of what we did in high school -- telling off-color jokes, passing around dirty pictures and all of that other racy stuff. But it's really another one of those oh-these-kids-today! extremes:
It primarily involves high school and even middle school students. "Basically what they're doing is distributing pornography," said Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards.
In an era when the news business is shrinking rather than growing, this is certainly good, er, news:
Fort Wayne TV viewers will have a fourth choice for local news beginning this spring.
WFFT, Fort Wayne's Fox network affiliate, will debut a weekday local news program in a few months. The 35-minute "Fox Fort Wayne 1st News @ 10" will run Monday through Friday following Fox prime-time programming and include local news, weather and sports coverage.
Keep Amy Welborn, former Fort Wayne resident, and well-known blogger on Catholic issues, in your thoughts and prayers today. Her husband, Michael Dubruiel, collapsed and died yesterday morning. He was only 50.
After the White Lodging people explained to City Council last night that, sorry, they still haven't been able to get financing for the Harrison Square hotel, this observation was made:
Council President Tom Smith, R-1st, pointed out that the hotel's meeting rooms and meeting space planned for the Embassy Theatre will add to meeting space already available in Grand Wayne Center, the Allen County Public Library, even the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory.
“Do we need to have some kind of a meeting-space summit?” Smith suggested.
Mayor Henry is heading to Washington with other Indiana mayors to lobby (sorry, forgot that practice will be strictly forbidden by the president) plead for a piece of the stimulus pie. And all he wants is a measly $300 million out of all those hundreds of billions.
A venerable Fort Wayne restaurant — the Acme Bar — is closing.
The gathering spot “Where Neighbors Meet” since 1941 — that slogan is painted on the wall — will close its doors for the last time Saturday night. The adjacent package store will close, too.
