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Some feedback on the Journal Gazette's editorial series, When One Party Rules, from a loyal Fort Wayne Observed reader:

This is a PDF of a news release from the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance. The tax abatement in question, according to this story, will save Fort Wayne Newspapers $2.8 million over the course of the abatement. Doesn’t it seem a little slimy to anyone else but me that The Journal Gazette is launching this lopsided, politically charged editorial series specifically against the Republican Party when it’s getting money from the Democrat city administration?

Doesn’t it bring the Journal’s motives for ignoring things like the rush to buy the Renaissance Plaza into question when they’re getting such a tax break? Doesn’t it make one wonder why they’re not asking questions about the enormous increase in the cost of the police-fire training academy when the city’s essentially handing them money? I could ask questions like this all day long, but I think you get the point.

Yes, the city grants tax abatements like this all the time. But it is incredibly hypocritical of The Journal Gazette to launch such a hatchet job against the Republicans without disclosing in every single one of these editorials that they are the direct beneficiaries of a large tax break. Disclosure is a two-way road.