You know, of course, that there is no food "shortage" in the world. There is just a distribution problem caused, among other things, by political turmoil. Apparently, the same thing applies to parking spaces. First, we have this:
Have you had trouble finding a parking place in downtown Fort Wayne recently? A group made up of different downtown attractions is working to fix that!
The Fort Wayne blogosphere has been all over the video clerk who killed an armed, would-be robber. Here are The PA-IN Erudition, Angry White Boy and The Fort Wayne Blog. The general feeling is: People have had it, justice was done, self-defense, like that.
City Clerk Sandy Kennedy told the Fort Wayne City Council on Tuesday she plans to introduce a proposal to reduce the amount of time people have to pay parking tickets before they double.
Councilman Tom Didier wants the public's help in finding out who spray-painted graffiti on the side of the Science Central building. But that's only one small part of the problem:
Fort Wayne Police, who focus on this problem, say in the last 18 months, the city has seen a 400% increase in graffiti.
The anti-graffiti network, an agency that paints over and removes graffiti across the city, says this year staff is on pace to clean up 6,000 sites marred by graffiti.
Kevin Leininger stole my thunder and wrote about something that's been bothering me lately, too:
Perhaps this is what Allen County Karen Richards was afraid of when she decided to reach a plea agreement with Simon Rios that gave him a life sentence instead of the death penalty:
CINCINNATI - A death row inmate convicted of setting a fire that killed five children must be released or retried because his constitutional rights were violated when his confession was used at trial, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.
I wonder how many schools in Fort Wayne are going to be talking about 9/11 today and how many will ignore it:
KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY - Several Utah schools have decided to let Sept. 11, 2007 pass without observing the sixth anniversary of the unprecedented terror attacks against the United States -- over fear of re-kindling the haunting memories for those who vaguely remember them, or introducing them to children who weren't born yet.
Headline of the day, from a Wisconsin State Journal story: Mosquitoes want your blood. Gee, do ya think?
Everybody I know has been complaining for a week about how bad the mosquitoes are this year. Apparently, they are not just wimpy whiners:
“We know there are an abundance of nuisance mosquitoes. We're getting a lot of calls,” said health department spokesman John Silcox.
Even the federal government can't bring itself to do anything about "undocumented workers," and Sheriff Ken Fries wants to track the activities of "illegal aliens"?
The Allen County Sheriff's Department is one of the first in Indiana to track crimes committed by illegal aliens.
But will it translate into helping rid the community of that unwanted influence?
I'm glad Simon Rios will never see the light of day again, but pleading out a case this monstrous sets a troublesome precedent. Indiana has not been frivolous with its death penalty -- it's reserved for the worst of the worst. Rios abducted, raped and killed a 10-year-old girl, then murdered his whole family. If that's not the worst of the worst, what is? What's the point of even having a death penalty if this case doesn't qualify?
