Tony Sandleben
Reporter/HostTony Sandleben joined the WBOI News team in September of 2022.
He has covered news his entire adult life, including when he worked as a multi-media journalist at WANE15 News in 2018. He studied journalism and political science at Ball State University.
Tony has lived all over the State of Indiana but discovered his passion for honest, accurate and ethical news reporting and its role in a strong democracy through his work at Ball State.
Tony has spent almost a decade covering impactful news in every community he has ever lived in from the State government giving Ball State control of Muncie Community Schools, the meth crisis in Delaware County, faulty garbage pickup in Fort Wayne and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on South Bend to crime, elections, protests and everything in between.
In his spare time, Tony enjoys spending time with his dog, Esther, or bringing the house down at a karaoke night.
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Four years after the city's chronic problem properties rules expired, the Fort Wayne City Council renewed and enhanced them.
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With Allen County set to build a new jail at the old International Harvester factory site, the museum documenting the factory's history there needs to move. Wednesday, New Haven Mayor Steve McMichael announced Harvester Homecoming's new home.
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After a pilot program seemed to show a positive impact, the Fort Wayne Community Schools board voted to expand the use of Yondr cell phone pouches to all secondary schools in the district.
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Fort Wayne City Council members publicly accused the Allen County Commissioners of not negotiating on additional funding. The Allen County Commissioners then threatened to terminate the interlocal agreement funding TRAA.
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The last bit of funding the City of Fort Wayne needs to complete its portion of the Pufferbelly Trail will build a walking bridge over Coliseum Boulevard. A private citizen is giving the city $5 million of what it needs.
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The Fort Wayne Legacy Fund Committee sent a proposal to the Fort Wayne City Council that would use money from the city's Legacy Fund to create a $2.5 million revolving pool to micro fund low-income businesses in Fort Wayne.
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The Fort Wayne Housing Authority is getting more than $2 million from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to help create and enhance programs to keep people in stable housing.
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On Tuesday, the Fort Wayne City Council approved a $3.1 million final phase of the Pufferbelly Trail that will better connect Fort Wayne to the rest of Northeast Indiana.
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The grant from the federal government will add 12 new buses.
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After the Indiana Tax Court ruled the Allen County Residents Against the Jail did not have to post a more than $90 million bond to keep its case against the funding plan for the new jail going, the ACLU of Indiana announced its intent to seek a prisoner release order for the Allen County Jail from the federal court.