Our town

There are so many things to be outraged over each day that we can let our precious anger get scattered all over the place. So today, I think I'll concentrate all mine on the Wayne High School assistant principal, who is the latest man to succumb to Woody Allen's Disease, with a 17-year old female student:

It's not our fault; it's you stupid drivers:

Worried about the number of traffic accidents at Avon's first roundabout, town officials are urging motorists to learn better skills for driving through it.

Yeah, real funny:

A naked man accused of grabbing his penis outside his home and yelling at a girl as she got off her school bus Tuesday called it “a stupid joke.” An Allen County Sheriff's officer didn't get the humor.

“I told him a joke like that could only, but not likely, be funny to girls his own age,” wrote Officer Chris Kramer in his arrest report. “I told him it's not funny to a 12-year-old girl.”

Fort Wayne is home to the nation's largest population of Burmese refugees, about 4,000 strong, and having such a large ethnic group is obviously going to create some cultural oddities. This is a surprising one:

To some Americans, “Rambo” is just another shoot-'em-up flick. To the Burmese, it's an inspiration.

Now we're talking:

With a decision about property tax relief looming in the General Assembly, Mayor Tom Henry will ask his division directors Monday to examine how they can help the city cut $10 million from its budget.

“It won't be pretty,” Henry said.

Dorsey Price is a colleague, and I like him, but I was disappointed that he bought into this tired, old canard about Fort Wayne:

You can believe me. I know what I'm talking about. I really do. It is hard looking for love in Fort Wayne.

I've been doing that for about eight years now. And I think about the only thing harder than looking for love in Fort Wayne, is looking for love in a rural setting just south of Fort Wayne.

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Told you so:

An effort to amend the city's smoking ban was snuffed out before it ever got started.

It's rare for the City Council to not even approve a proposed ordinance for introduction and the discussion stage. The members who voted against the introduction were as much as saying they had their minds already made up. That's fine -- if they really have, then prolonging consideration of the proposal would just be a waste of time.

I remember alerting you when Scotland challenged Fort Wayne's "Room for Dreams" as the greatest marketing slogan of all time, by spending $250,000 to come up with "Welcome to Scotland." Now there's another contender:

If you start micromanaging economic development, it can be hard to stop:

It wasn't too long ago that any potential investment downtown would be hailed as good news. In the post-Harrison Square era, however, the bar has been raised. Whether that results in better development - or simply less development - remains to be seen.

When is a caucus more than a caucus? When the party caucusing also has a majority of the legislative body in question. And this isn't much of a defense:

Earlier this month, then-Allen County Democratic Party Chair Kevin Knuth wrote Didier asking him about the caucus. At the council meeting Jan. 8, Didier said during his four years in office, the GOP has always caucused before the first meeting of the year to make recommendations for appointments.