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I usually just do my posts here and let the comments flow to whatever people are most interested in. But on this one, I seek your feedback. Let me know what you think about a baseball stadium downtown.

Further proof that there is stuff on the Web you can find nowhere else. In today's example, a radio guy (Tiny) takes on a TV news operation (WANE) over its pitiful use of the English language. The selection he cites has some priceless mangling, including this line: "In 1986 for more than a million dollars, Bonsid says at the time it was the highest price paid per customer for a cable station." Also, the guy's name, as Tiny points out, is Bonsib.

Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court have more potential local ramifications than most:

In a pair of cases that could reignite disputes over race and public education, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide what role affirmative action should play in assigning students to competitive spots in elementary and secondary schools.

The justices this fall will hear two appeals from Kentucky and Washington state.

With the announcement of a new newspaper owner coming to town, a post I did back in March still seems pertinent:

So whenever the new owner of The News-Sentinel and Fort Wayne Newspapers is known, we should understand that its directors and shareholders are going to worry about things like corporate redundancies and cost synergies. But we -- print journalists and newspaper readers alike -- need to focus on what matters to this particular place in this particular time.

BREAKING NEWS: The News-Sentinel and Knight Ridder's share of Fort Wayne Newspapers have been purchased by Ogden Newspapers Inc., a fourth-generation, family-owned group headquartered in West Virginia. I don't know much about them yet, but here's a link to their Web site.

This seems like a sensible approach for an airport that's hemorrhaging customers because it's too expensive for people to use:

Under the Traffic & Revenue Improvement Plan (TRIP) slated to effect by July 1, any existing carriers that increase the number of passengers between 5 and 20 percent could be reimbursed for various airport fees.

Currently, carriers pay more fees when they increase their traffic.

Mitch tells me he almost got wiped out this morning while stopping to let a mother goose and her goslings cross the road, and he remarks that he's seeing far more geese around town than when he was a kid. This is obviously not just a Fort Wayne problem, or even an Indiana problem.

So for the Three Rivers Festival this year, we're getting Herman's Hermits, the Village People and a Beatles tribute band. Who says this town can't attract the latest, hottest acts? Has Fort Wayne been asleep for the last 30 years?

The Darfur crisis hits home in Fort Wayne, in a good read from ABC News.

According to Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration spokeswoman Gina Wills, the United States identifies certain people around the world who are eligible to be resettled here as refugees. Kimo, on the other hand, came to America first and now has thrown himself on the mercy of the court.

"In order to seek asylum they have to be here, and then they apply to be a refugee," Wills said.

Now that approval has been given for the Indianapolis Police Department and Marion County Sheriff's Department to merge, their policies have to be reconciled, such as the two departments' differing policies on pursuit. I think the Star editorial makes a decent case for tightening the policies, which police seem reluctant to do: