This has huge implications for Fort Wayne, or at least it should:
In a decision of sweeping importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.
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A great American newspaper creates a thoughtful display of one of the most vital issues of the day.
Most people think they can be funny, but when it comes right down to it, few really have it in them:
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.
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I have resisted predicting the outcome of the Blue vs. Yellow FWCS bond issue petition drives, because I've thought it could go either way. On the Blue, anti-project side is the fact that this will be the most expensive public project in local history and the fact that people are feeling a little put upon by one government initiative after another. But the Allen County Public Library showed that an army of volunteers can get an expensive project through, and the school system can tap into even more volunteers.
More criticism of Sen. Richard Lugar's Plan B, from Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard:
At least one Hoosier might get something out of Muncie's silly decision to let a reality show infiltrate its police department:
OZZY OSBOURNE's son JACK has been named in a lawsuit filed by an angry Indiana housewife who was the victim of a botched police raid during the filming of flop reality TV show Armed + Famous.
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I heard Pat White on WOWO on the way home last night, talking about this guest column in The Journal Gazette by Daniel Young, Central Catholic graduate and a retired policy analyst for the state of Wisconsin:
It's time for the mayoral candidates, both Tom Henry and Matt Kelty, to step up to the plate and discuss the issues.
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A luxury hotel tries to lure us out of our living rooms:
Another trendy and tech-oriented hotel is planned in Plainfield, where the hospitality industry is booming.
Dora Hospitality is planning an 85-room, four-story Hotel Indigo at the Ind. 267 interchange of I-70, just west of the entry to the new terminal under construction at Indianapolis International Airport.
I saw a report on WANE-TV last night about a group of bar and restaurant owners who say their business is tanking, and they plan to seek some kind of compromise from the city, such as maybe going to the county model that lets businesses declare themselves adults only and thereby permit smoking. Good luck with that.
Sen. Richard Lugar is getting a lot of press for his speech breaking with President Bush's Iraq policy. But he's not likely to be recruited by the anti-war activists -- he's still against the Democrats' timetable, and he also opposes an abrupt pullout or total withdrawal, which he says would not be in our best interests. He's also looking ahead to the post-Iraq era, realizing we have to deal with the world the war has created, not the imaginary world we would have had by not going to war:
We all knew this was coming, didn't we?
The Indiana State Fair is removing all trans fat-laden cooking oils from its deep fryers in what is believed to be the first policy of its kind for any fair in the country.
Elephant ears taste better cooked in sunflower and canola oils? Uh huh.
A three-judege panel has ordered the death-sentence hearing tossed out and reheard in the case of Christopher M. Stevens, whose murder of 10-year-old Zachary Snider led to Zachary's Law and creation of the Indiana Sex Offender Registry in 1994. The reason borders on the bizarre:
A wildly popular self-help book that's mostly delusional nonsense?
The scenes unfold in "The Secret," a 90-minute-long DVD advocating the power of positive thinking that has sold 2 million copies. More than 5.2 million copies of the book of the same name are in print.
Pictures never lie, except when we come to believe they represent something they don't. The iconic World War II Iwo Jima photo we all know was not of the actual raising of the flag. It was a re-creation of the event:
It's usually one step forward, one step back for the First Amendment. In the good news, The Supreme Court decided a couple of cases yesterday that help reaffirm the core function of the amendment to protect political speech as a vital component of a constitutional republic. In one case, the court loosened restrictions on ads that advocacy groups can run close to elections, which will weaken the despicable McCain-Feingold act. In the other, the court decided that schools have legitimate reasons to restrict student speech.
Happy 25th to "Blade Runner," one of the best science fiction movies ever. Sometimes you like a movie and you don't know enough to say why, except that the special effects were outrageously good and still hold up. It's nice to have an expert come along and explain it to you:
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What history of Christianity has he been studying in order to come to the conclusion that faith once brought us together?
At first I was worried about my younger brother and sister seeing this and having their self-esteem destroyed. But, after all, they've been dealing with the reality ever since they were born:
