Awww, poor babies. They go all the way to Atlanta expecting to have a real good time, and guess what? There's nothing to do:
When it comes to efforts to lure conventioneers, Atlanta's got the hotels, the easy access to the city via the nation's busiest airport and even the attractions with the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola.
Two different ways to face tough economic times. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels:
No money for new state programs. No money, potentially, to fully fund some existing programs at current levels. And no money for state pay raises.
I was attacked so savagely that I had bleeding wounds. My best girl was so frightened that her bladder gave way. She did it to me, and I did it to her. That's how I spent my Christmas.
Boy, if that isn't the ending that makes you want to know the beginning, just like they taught us in writing school, I don't know what is.
This sounds so matter of fact and, well, ordinary, doesn't it?
A wintry mix of snow and sleet that switched fully to freezing rain coated roads for area motorists' commutes Friday morning. Allen County authorities this morning have declared a Level 2 emergency.
I like the mixed-use concept. It's an appealing idea to be able to live in an apartment in a building that also has things like retail space and a restaurant or bar. But I wouldn't spend $200,000 or $300,000 or whatever they're going to end up asking for a condo in Harrison Square. And I don't think I'll be relocating the proposed "Restaurant Row" on Superior Street, either:
We editorially urged Mayor Henry to veto the light-pollution amendment to the noise ordinance, and he didn't, so consider this sour grapes if you wish, but WHAT IN THE BLUE BLAZES was he thinking?! The mayor signed the ordinance, saying it's up to the City Council to decide what legislative action is appropriate for the community. Not that he didn't have reservations:
I have mixed feelings about all the Lincoln Museum stuff staying in Indiana. On the one hand, it reflects the dedication and hard work of a lot of people, and it certainly will be good for the state and Fort Wayne. But part of the problem with the museum was that it didn't have enough visitors.
Does this fall in the "hard times justify extraordinary measures" category?
Mayor Tom Henry on Friday put out the welcome mat for more gambling in Fort Wayne - a prudent response, he said, to the “uncertain, unsettled economic times” that only an hour earlier had come to include the temporary closure of the local General Motors truck plant.
Well, there's half an hour I won't get back again. Google's much-anticipated Street View has finally been unveiled in Fort Wayne, so naturally I had to try it out. I went to maps.google.com and typed in our address -- 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne IN -- then clicked on Street View. I clicked on the arrow to scroll east on Main Street until I came to Broadway, then started clicking to go south and didn't stop till I got to my house on Oakdale.
I was looking around to see what others were saying about Fort Wayne's new anti-annoying-lights measure when I came across this, which I missed the first time around, from the My Hud House blog in August:
Representatives from the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, today announced their bold initiative to replace all city sidewalks with silly putty within the next two years. This is being touted as another huge step towards making Fort Wayne a truly unique city.
