A landmark bites the dust:
Since the late 1800s, people have stopped at City News in downtown Lafayette to buy a newspaper, snack or cigar.
Customers of the independent business in a legendary location will soon have to find another place to make their purchases.
An inventory reduction sale is underway and City News -- Indiana's oldest continuous newsstand -- will close its doors in a month or two.
The concept of privacy continues to "evolve," i.e. the trend of everybody wanting to know where everybody else is all the time continues to strengthen. Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York wants to put GPS chips in all patrol cars:
It will allow officers, dispatchers and managers to see where the vehicles are located across the city. The chief said this will help in officer safety because it will better locate officers calling for help.
The concept of privacy continues to "evolve," i.e. the trend of everybody wanting to know where everybody else is all the time continues to strengthen. Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York wants to put GPS chips in all patrol cars:
It will allow officers, dispatchers and managers to see where the vehicles are located across the city. The chief said this will help in officer safety because it will better locate officers calling for help.
Remember the great Fort Wayne fake-fish story I made fun of? Apparently, I was a little too quick to judge what may be a developing nationwide scandal:
I saw a report on WANE-TV last night about Mayor-elect Tom Henry officially taking office. Ben Eisbart, the leader of his transition team, said something like this about the difference between Henry and Mayor Graham Richard: The outgoing mayor liked staying out of the spotlight, working in the background on all the intricate details of governing. The incoming mayor will enjoy engaging the public, being the visible face of city government, talking about issues.
Simon Rios gets four life terms for killing his family, and Prosecutor Karen Richards unloads:
Rios himself spoke at length Monday, sobbing through his stories, through his claims at finding God, his pleas for forgiveness and his desire to see his “princesses” someday again.
Fort Wayne smokers, you need to change your tactics. Stop fighting City Council and trying to get exceptions to the smoking ban for bars or restaurants that spent thousands of dollars trying to comply with the earlier version of the ban. You need to: 1. Become a Muslim. 2. Organize all the other smoking Muslims you are able to meet or convert. 3. March on City Hall to demand your rights:
Tag, you're busted!
Prosecutors put the city's spray-paint graffiti artists on notice Tuesday, charging a 21-year-old Fort Wayne man accused of causing about $20,000 in damages to area businesses last year with 51 counts of criminal mischief, one of them a felony.
Last week, I wrote that both News-Sentinel columnist Kevin Leininger and I thought that Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty's martyrdom posturing over his campaign-finance violations was wearing a little thin. That might not be the prevailing opinion out there among the voting pubic.
This editorial is so unfocused that it's hard to decide how to attack it. The first paragraph tells us that recent reports show Indiana lags behind the nation in income and housing prices. That proves that we are falling behind in areas important to attracting businesses:
How would you like to be an economic-development official in Indiana trying to attract businesses and knowing that those reports are in the wings?
