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Rule No. 1 in the criminal-justice arena should be that you don't get to plead guilty and still go on and on about how you were framed. Matt Kelty's most ardent supporters have always wanted his legal problems to be about a Democratic-moderate Republican-media conspiracy to "get" Kelty because he had the audacity to challenge orthodox views. I hope they all especially pay attention to this paragraph in Kevin Leininger's column:

Rats!

If you like your Archway cookies, better get them fast — that is, if it's not too late.

A sign in the cookie aisle at the North Anthony Scott's Foods on Monday said, “Effective immediately, Archway and Mother's cookies has closed and stopped operations.”

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This isn't going to end well, is it?

A downturn in the housing and financial markets apparently has produced a downsizing in Harrison Square's behind-schedule condominium project.

There is a much stronger "throw all the bums out" rumble this year than in past congressional-election years. Even Mike Pence mentioned it when he interviewed with us a couple of weeks ago. Fort Wayne resident Rob Binford did a guest column expressing the anger out there pretty well:

The Local Government Efficiency Study Committee is pressuring the city and county to try again on a joing police facility, but nobody is having any of it:

Ft. Wayne Mayor Tom Henry and the three Allen County Commissioners said at the end of September that sharing space for police functions in the City-County Building would be too costly to taxpayers.

"Michelle Obama's message resonates with Fort Wayne crowd," the headline on our story reads. What message? She's just saying the same thing the campaign has been saying for months, in fact, the only thing Democrats always say:

"Isn't it time for a change? Isn't it time for new solutions? Don't we deserve leaders who get it?"

This is one of those stories that I can't consider the larger implications of until I learn how it affects my selfish interests:

Taylor University officials announced Monday that the Fort Wayne campus will stop offering its traditional undergraduate program effective this spring.

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Hey, we're used to flying out of Indy to get the lower air fares, so let's all hop in our cars and drive there to get the cheap stuff!

Gas prices are slipping nationally and statewide, but drivers at Indianapolis filling stations are getting it cheaper than most places.

Yesterday, I wrote an editorial saying the mayor's proposed budget didn't go far enough in making spending cuts: "Wouldn't deeper cuts in 2009 make it easier to make cuts in 2010?" Last night, the City Council had its first go around on the budget:

It was with that fact in mind that all the council members seemed to agree a flat budget simply was not good enough.

A sad day -- we're losing Hartley's. Well, not exactly, but close enough:

In a Newschannel 15 exclusive, Chappell's officials say a big change is coming to the Broadway restaurant and fish market.  The 23-year-old business is expected to merge with Hartley's restaurant on Fairfield.

Tuesday afternoon, Gary Chappell signed a deal to purchase the Hartley's restaurant.  Hartley's has been in business for 25-years at the Fairfield location.