Staunch conservative Pat Buchanan had nothing but love for Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic national convention given before 85,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium
Barack Obama lays out his platform during his nomination acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic national convention in front of 85,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium
A couple of clips from the press conference after the shooting at The New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Jeanne Assam was the parishioner that took the assailant down.
In this clip the pastor describes the church's security and Assam describes what happened before she shot and killed the gunman
Disarm the citizenry and you have complete power. Current Daley wants to take all the guns away while father Daley beat peaceful protesters and journalists in the streets. Like father, like son...
Fort Wayne city councilwoman Karen Goldner gave a presentation outlining why she doesn't support the city's new IT contract that will outsource jobs from Fort Wayne
The first meeting of the newly elected council and there was contentious exchange between councilman Tim Pape and clerk Sandy Kennedy. Also there was some debate about the level of partisanship involved in selected board members with Tim Pape(D) suggesting the process should be more open in the spirit of the newly elected council
Quite a bit of partisan bickering at the first council meeting for the new Fort Wayne city council. Councilman Tim Pape(D) suggests that board appointments should be done openly and transparently by the council and not by the Republican caucus. New council president Tim Didier(R) takes exception with some of Pape's comments
The impetus for this project comes from the city's consent decree with EPA and is part of the city's fines related to the combined sewage overflow problem. During negotiations the EPA told the city they needed to develop some kind of green infrastructure project and city utilities decided on a rain garden project.
City clerk Sandy Kennedy handed out the quarterly minutes to the councilmembers tonight and told everyone that the minutes that are on the website are different than the ones they are getting. Councilman Mitch Harper challenged Kennedy on this and asked why the minutes couldn't be posted on the city website.
On March 15, 2008 Allen County Republican chairman Steve Shine gave the annual state of the party address. I decided to excerpt a few points and rebut them
Fort Wayne councilman Glynn Hines changes his vote to override the mayor's veto of the fire merit ordinance. His explanation is that he trusts the fire department to do what's right more than he does the mayor based on the mayor's lack of commitment to the African-American community.
At the 4/8/2008 council meeting councilman Tom Smith spoke out against the wasteful $54 Million Maplecrest extension project. He also managed to get an ordinance supporting some of the infrastructure improvements for the project held despite its prior approval.
Councilman Tim Pape gets into a lively discussion with county councilmembers Paula Hughes and Roy Buskirk over the rational behind the bridge maintenance abdication
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