Looks like Councilwoman Karen Goldner and I have our first official disagreement:
Everyone on council supported the city doing business with local vendors, but opponents said the measure, introduced by Councilwoman Karen Goldner, D-2nd District, would unnecessarily complicate the process for vendors and city employees alike.
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Perhaps limiting the items that can be put on hold to five is too strict, and the Allen County Public Library is being unreasonable. But wasn't the previous policy of allowing an unlimited number of items to be put on hold a little too generous? Home-schoolers don't think so:
A change in policy at the Allen County Public Library is causing concern among home-schoolers - and, as a result, the Allen County Commissioners.
I was hoping Fort Wayne would be the first in Indiana to show some common sense, but it looks like Indianapolis might beat us to it:
Several U.S. cities have changed their airports' names to honor hometown heroes, and Indianapolis might be next.
Allen County has its own channel at YouTube, though it's not exactly scintillating viewing so far. There are seven clips there now, and five of them are about . . . drum roll, please . . . septic tanks!
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A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about The News-Sentinel's Jeff Wiehe getting grief from the bareheaded brigade when he noted in a story about two motorcycle fatalities that the victims were not wearing helmets. Now, Jeff has done a story about the terrible hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a nurse on her way to work at Parkview Hospital. In that story, he observes:
We don't have Don Schmidt on City Council anymore to watch those pennies for us (which have a way of adding up to dollars). But Liz Brown, R-at-large, and Karen Goldner, D-2nd, may be on the way to becoming a fiscal-watchdog tag team. They displayed their spending skepticism (with maybe a wee bit of sarcasm) Tuesday night, when a proposal to spend $340,000 to a consultant for rain gardens came up:
Also Tuesday, the council:
Craig Ladwig -- my former boss and now with the Indiana Policy Review -- on how government is not like a business
A May 16 story about a fare hike and route cuts for bus riders reminds us that governments do not operate like businesses.
In a press release (pdf file) from the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health:
Free and confidential HIV tests will be offered as part of the lead-up to next month's National HIV Testing Day on June 27.
Tuesday morning, many area gas stations raised their prices to just a few cents shy of $4.00 a gallon.
It's a nearly twenty cent jump from Monday's prices, and many customers say this is forcing them to change their lifestyle.
Want to proclaim your belief in the Obama campaign to the world? Get the Barack Obama tattoo! It was done by Ryan Hadley at Studio 13 Creative Skin Design in Fort Wayne and e-mailed to a few of us in the press. It's a nice-looking tat, but I dunno. What if he loses?
