Double-dipping public officials

Sunday Centerpiece

They had promised to try everything, so Mark Barden went down into the basement to begin another project in memory of Daniel.Sunday

The worm is turning

How much does Indiana love school reform? So much that the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-controlled group drafting boilerplate laws for state legislatures across the country, named its education package the “Indiana EducationJune 9, 2013

Background checks will save cops

There have been four police-action fatal shootings so far this year involving nine of our Fort Wayne Police Department officers as well as several life-threatening encounters.June 2, 2013

Patrick Bauer

State representative: $55,610

Ivy Tech vice president: $96,454

Total:

$152,064

Marty Bender

Deputy police chief: $93,079

City councilman: $21,414

Total: $114,493

Carlin Yoder

State senator: $63,302

Third District constituent services director: $58,448

Total: $121,750

Bill Brown

Downtown

Improvement

District* director: $78,500

Allen County councilman: $15,475

Total: $93,975

*The Downtown Improvement District is a quasi-government agency, created by the City Council and principally financed by grants from city and county government as well as an additional tax assessment on downtown property.