Bill Clinton's trip to Fort Wayne has been so thoroughly chewed over that I don't have much to add to the political implications that hasn't already been said. This struck me, though:
“I've been looking forward to coming,” Clinton told the crowd. “I never knew Fort Wayne was named for Gen.
We matter! They like us! We matter! They like us! With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all but deadlocked, Indiana isn't ignored this year. Obama hit Indianapolis, and Clinton is swinging through several Hoosier cities on Thursday. And Fort Wayne will be Blessed With Bill tonight at the Grand Wayne Center:
Morrone said there are no tickets for the event. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis for the “Solutions for America” rally.
OK, that last post was a cheap shot, and shooting fish in a barrel and beating a dead horse, too. Demonizing politicians is good, clean fun, and we are more likely to induge in it as tax time approaches. But we should be careful not too go too far in demonizing all public service, which I'm sure I've done on occasion and which the governor succumbs to once in a while:
In honor of Jared Fogel's visit to Fort Wayne yesterday, I stopped at Subway on the way home and got a sandwich for dinner -- a double meat steak & cheese, with mayo and all the trimmings. I can already feel the pounds melting away.
Yikes! It's bad enough to read about gas prices:
Many gas stations hit $3.45 or more Tuesday afternoon. Independent gas station owners say while the prices go up, their profits go down.
Even gas station employees are stunned by this latest hike. "About 9:15 Tuesday morning I raised the price to $3.49, and it was just a shell shock to everybody," said Independent Marathon Manager Rachel Parker.
Former fatty Jared Fogel, the guy who lost 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches, is going to be at Lincoln Elementary School, 1001 E. Cook Road, tomorrow at 10 a.m. According to a Fort Wayne Community Schools media advisory, Fogel will "visit with students and talk about the importance of healthy living, including exercising and eating right."
What's unusual about this story?
Fort Wayne Police have cleared the driver of a white Cadillac Escalade of any suspicion in the Tuesday morning robbery and assault of a manager at Family Dollar, 5307 Decatur Road.
No one was more cooperative than Randolph Jackson, who was behind the wheel of the Escalade and whose image was caught by surveillance cameras and broadcast on television news programs this week.
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Yes, it's a shame Fort Wayne is losing the Lincoln Museum. The world-class operation has been here 80 years and its loss will make the city less distinctive in one more way. But it's a private museum that can locate any place it chooses. If the directors really are motivated by wanting the items seen by more people, moving makes sense. This sentence was intriguing:
The Tim Goeglein scandal came and went in a single day. Such is the digital age, several characteristics of which this story illuminates:
1. The blazing speed. It was 7:30 a.m. Friday when former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall posted on her blog:
My, my, my. Tim Goeglein, director of the White House office of public liaison, is a plagiarist.
Mayor Tom Henry is giving his State of the City address at noon today, and, unlike the speeches of predecessor Graham Richard, it will be a real State of the City address. Richard preferred to give a series of smaller speeches tailored to the audience -- economic development issues at the Chamber of Commerce, neighborhood issues at a southside gathering and so on.
