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Elected officials took the first step this week in establishing two ARP Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The funds have to be established bef ...

A man who lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister during downtown protests in May has identified the police officer whom he says fired i ...

The deadly global pandemic has easily and understandably overshadowed the typical challenges facing Indiana communities. While so much of the attention of elected officials for more than a year has rightly been on battling COVID-19, a new report makes clear that other problems remain and need to be addressed. The coronavirus shifted the focus of towns, cities and counties, but it left in place – and sometimes made worse – issues such as drug use and housing affordability that have plagued t...

Some of the details sound great. A $100 million project expected to create 1,000 permanent, full-time jobs. Annual payroll of about $30 million. Tangential economic benefits for northeast Indiana totaling at least tens of millions of dollars, maybe more. Problem is, those arent all the details. And Project Mastodon – the murky moniker assigned to the project by developers and Fort Wayne officials – is looking for tax breaks worth more than $16 million to secure its place in the city. “The...

Light could be shed next week on a mysterious proposal for a mammoth-sized – or maybe mastodon-sized – industrial building near the outskirts of Fort Wayne.

General Assembly Panel chair says time not right as economy recovers DAVE GONG and NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette The Indiana General Assembly will not hear any bills seeking to increase local food and beverage taxes this legislative session. Sen. Travis Holdman, chairman of the state senates Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee, said in a news release Wednesday that he and his fellow Republican committee members agree that now is not an appropriate time to consider these tax increases as the econ...

A move too long in the making.

Red River again facing scrutiny by City Council DAVE GONG | The Journal Gazette Fort Waynes trash collection contractor will again face City Council scrutiny next week under a resolution proposed by 2nd District Councilman Russ Jehl. If it approves the resolution, the City Council would be declaring it has no confidence in Fort Waynes Solid Waste Department and would urge Mayor Tom Henry to take action. “The administration, for three years, has ignored council and told us it is not our place ...