Our town

Since we're deep into festival season, and Three Rivers is right around the corner, I thought you'd appreciate this list of the seven unhealthiest carnival foods. I'm happy to report that chili dogs and elephant ears are not on the list. And you know what's No. 1 -- the unhealthiest of all.

The city and county may end up in court over who has the obligation to maintain bridges inside city limits. City Attorney Carol Taylor says it's the county, and state law says so. The county says it ended the obligation when it abolished the cumulative bridge fund. Judt reading the state law should help us decide who is right, right? Well . . .

Just a reminder that if you want to see the Lincoln Museum, you'd better do it before Monday. And don't count on any of the collection being in Fort Wayne for very long, despite the best efforts of a lot of people:

The Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW did a poll asking Hoosiers how much they respected 10 well-known figures, mostly politicians. Please, don't be too shocked, but the politicians didn't come out on top:

The most respected out of the list of 10 figures was Mother Teresa - the late Nobel Peace Prize winner for her humanitarian work - with Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy following closely.

Good thing so many people are used to driving to Indianapolis to catch their planes, eh?

Fort Wayne International Airport is among regional airports at risk of losing service, according to an analysis from the Business Travel Coalition and AirlineForecast LLC.

The News-Sentinel's Reggie Hayes, writing about the possible name change for the Fort Wayne Wizards baseball team, brings up only to dismiss rather flippantly a worthy suggestion:

Two people are seeking the Fort Wayne Community Schools Board seat being vacated by Carol Coen, and last night, the board interviewed them at a public meeting:

Donald Schaab, an at-large board member from 1999-2002, and John Peirce, a driving force in the district's bid last summer to make $500 million in building renovations, interviewed Tuesday for the District 2 post. Coen, who is vacating her seat next week after 16 years, no longer lives in the district she serves.

Looked funny and smelled bad before the explanations, looks funny and smells bad after the explanations:

Fort Wayne Controller Pat Roller came to Tuesday night's City Council meeting to explain a $285,000 contract the city quietly signed with a company co-founded by former Mayor Graham Richard.

A minor league sports team can become a local institution -- revered, beloved. The Komets are sort of like that. One way to tell a team has not reached that status:

The Fort Wayne Wizards will play their baseball games next season at a new downtown ballpark, and they'll likely have a new name, too.

So, after the suck-the-air-out-of-your-lungs heat wave and the hide-in-the-basement thunderstorms and the head-for-high-ground flooding, yesterday afternoon presented us with perfect weather: warm but not hot, low humidity, a slight breeze, white puffs of clouds that threatened to turn into nothing else. If we want that kind of weather more often, we'd have to go to California: