We hope that today’s “READERS FORUM†will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUE that the customers of the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility are about to realize the cost of a half century of neglect as the build out of projects to bring the City of Evansville into compliance with the EPA mandate to cease the practice of dumping raw sewage into the Ohio River are resulting in price increases to cover the debt used to improve the sewers?…over the course of the next two or three years the average water bill for modest usage of 5,000 gallons per month will be increasing by a whopping 37% to $44.53 per month?…that during the same time period the sewer bill will be increasing by a budget busting 21% to an average of $70.07 per month?…this means that in a matter of between 13 and 25 months the average customer of the negligent Evansville Water and Sewer Utility will be shelling out $114.60 per month for these basic services?…the required projects are really just getting started and annual increases in the double digits are expected to continue over the next 20 years as the half decade of negligence is methodically corrected?
IS IT TRUE are told that prospective residents, current customers, and prospective businesses will need to think twice about whether or not Evansville can still be a place they can afford to be?…with the anticipated increases we can expect an average sewer and water bill to increase to $230 per month by 2027, $460 per month by 2034, and $920 per month as we cross the 2040 threshold?…that for $920 one can make a house payment on a $200,000 mortgage?…that as the water and sewer bills continue to escalate Evansville remains in the grip of a legislated monopoly that the IURC (Indiana Utilitites Regulatory Commission) has authorized to charge us the highest electricity rates in Indiana by a massive amount and the highest electricity to average per capita income ratio in the United States?…the day is coming in River City where the water, sewer, electricity, and gas bills combined will exceed the principle, interest, and insurance charge for a middle class mortgage?…from a cash flow perspective these excessive utility prices will most likely devalue real estate by many thousands of dollars per meter?
IS IT TRUE that it has been reported that the deal for Vectren to be bought out will result in substantially all of the executive management team heading to the unemployment line?…it pays well to be a high-level employee at Vectren as the first round of casualties will be heading to the unemployment line with a golden handshake that equals TWO YEARS OF SALARY?…in the most extreme case this may amount to over $6 Million for one person and well into 6 figures for several others?…some well-known locals will keep their jobs in SW Indiana in roles that range from Senior VP to market President?…all of these massive severance payments which will amount to tens of millions of dollars essentially are coming out of the pockets of the already overburdened ratepayers of SW Indiana?…blue collar Evansville is most certainly paying the bills of the coastal enclaves of elitism?
IS IT TRUE we encourage you to take a drive down to the Weast Franklin Street area and then go to the recently renovated $18 million dollars North Main Street corridor and you shall see what business owners can do to promote their areas? …that the West Franklin Street shopping area business owners have done a good job in creating a “Norman Rockwell” Christmas atmosphere without any public subsidies? …when you go to the public subsidized North Main Street corridor you will discover that there no Christmas atmosphere from the Lloyd Expressway to the entrance of Garvin Park? …ever since “JACOBSVILLE JOIN-IN” group abruptly shut down without informing members of the City Council, Jacobsville Neighborhood Association or citizens of Jacobsville the marketing efforts of that area are in a dormant stage?
IS IT TRUE we hope that the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor, Nick Hermann will bid out the lucrative “Drug Tracking Testing” contract starting in 2019?
IS IT TRUE for many years we haven’t received the agendas and/or the official minutes of the meetings of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC)? ….that the City-County Observer plans to file a formal complaint with the Indiana Public Access Officer against the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) for not sending us their agendas and/or official minutes of the meetings of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) for several years? …it’s time that our readers know what’s what kind of decisions are being made by members of the school board?
Todays“Readers Poll†question is: How do you rank the Evansville City Councils job performance in 2018?
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Great point on difference between vibrant West Franklin Street and the Chernobyl like wasteland known as the North Main Street Shopping cart pathway.
Don’t expect to see this reported in the liberal main stream media:
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Corsi sues Mueller for alleged leaks and illegal surveillance
Conservative author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi on Sunday filed a lawsuit against special counsel Robert Mueller, alleging that Mueller illegally surveilled him as part of the investigation.
Corsi, in the document filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia, also claims that Mueller’s office leaked confidential information surrounding Corsi’s testimony before the special counsel’s grand jury.
The document pointed to an ABC News article about the special counsel’s examination of Corsi, claiming it included details that “could only possibly have come from Defendant Mueller.”
Those details include that Corsi has become a “central person of interest” to the special counsel, and that Mueller had evidence suggesting that Corsi had prior knowledge of WikiLeaks’s release of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Corsi is requesting an injunction in his case, as well as $350 million in damages.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/420503-corsi-sues-mueller-for-alleged-leaks-and-illegal-surveillance
more crap from a white nationalist
Don’t expect to see this reported in the right-wing Trump-suckup main stream media:
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A Conservative Judge Torched Trump’s Latest Illegal Assault on Immigrants
If there were any lingering doubt that Trump’s latest plan to curb asylum is flatly unlawful, Judge Jay Bybee quashed it on Friday
In a meticulous 65-page opinion, Bybee—a conservative George W. Bush appointee—explained that the president CANNOT rewrite a federal statute to deny asylum to immigrants who enter the country without authorization. His decision for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a twofold rebuke to Trump, halting the president’s legal assault on asylum-seekers and undermining his claim that any judge who blocked the order is a Democratic hack. The reality is that anyone who understands the English language should recognize that Trump’s new rule is illegal. Like so many of Trump’s attention-grabbing proposals, this doomed policy should never have been treated as legitimate in the first place
Friday’s ruling involves a proclamation that Trump signed on Nov. 9, ostensibly to address the “continuing and threatened mass migration of aliens with no basis for admission into the United States through our southern border.†The order alluded darkly to the caravan of asylum-seekers then approaching the border, which Trump tried and failed to exploit as a campaign issue. To remedy this “crisis†and protect “the integrity of our borders,†he directed the federal government to deny asylum to any immigrant who enters the United States unlawfully
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/bush-judge-rejects-trump-asylum-plan.html
Don’t expect to see this reported in the right-wing Trump-suckup main stream media:
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Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina Just Brought The House Down On Donald Trump And The NRA
In another extraordinary development in the Trump-Russia investigation, alleged Russian spy Maria Butina has officially moved today to withdraw her “not guilty†plea – meaning she’s cut a plea deal with federal prosecutors
Butina is accused of trying to infiltrate Republican political circles and party leaders during the 2016 campaign in order to advance Russian interests, and prosecutors have said the former American University student was in touch with politically powerful Russians about her activities in the US
Sources with knowledge of her decision say Butina will give up the NRA for having taken Russian money and distributed it to the Trump campaign and the Republican Party. She’ll also give up the specific Republican politicians she was conspiring with along the way. She has no inherent loyalty to any of them, and this is an easy way to reduce her sentence. The big question is whether she’ll also give up dirt on the specific Kremlin government officials she was conspiring with on the Russia end, as she could feel loyal to them (she’s a Russian citizen), or simply fear them. But that part may not matter as much
If Donald Trump is already having a hard time trying to spin last week’s two campaign finance felonies, just wait until it’s confirmed that Russia was funding his campaign through the NRA
https://www.washingtondcpress.com/accused-russian-spy-maria-butina-just-brought-the-house-down-on-donald-trump-and-the-nra/
Stormy Daniels was just ordered to pay President Trump $293,052 in attorneys’ fees. At 200 dollar bill tucks 5 days a week at the go-go bar, Stormy will have it paid off in about 6 years. Now she will turn on her sleaze ball attorney. Karma.
Don’t expect to see this reported in the right-wing Trump-suckup main stream media:
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Trump Blows Up And Threatens Government Shutdown After Democrats Say No Wall
Trump blew a gasket in front of the cameras and started arguing with Pelosi and Schumer after the Democrats told him that he would get no money for his wall
Trump also claimed that he’d be proud to shut down the government:
The whole meeting has fallen apart as Trump is raging because Democrats won’t be bullied into paying for his wall. With his reelection campaign coming up, Trump is desperate to get the wall funded. It is why he stuck babies in cages after taking them away from their parents and sent troops to the border to whip up a fake crisis
Trump gave Democrats their talking point by taking responsibility for shutting down the government
Democrats aren’t going to give Trump one single cent for his wall, but more importantly, Trump just got a taste of what the next two years of his life are going to be like
Donald Trump, the out of control president, is being checked
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/11/trump-blows-up-and-threatens-government-shutdown-after-democrats-say-no-wall.html
daily Trump rants are just silly
“IS IT TRUE for many years we haven’t received the agendas and/or the official minutes of the meetings of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC)?  ….that the City-County Observer plans to file a formal complaint with the Indiana Public Access Officer against the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) for not sending us their agendas and/or official minutes of the meetings of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) for several years?  …it’s time that our readers know what’s what kind of decisions are being made by members of the school board?”
Why would you expect the EVSC to send the agendas/meeting minutes of the EVSC to the CCO? The CCO is an on-line blog, not a news reporting organization. The CCO would like to think it is a news reporting agency, but it’s not. It’s an on-line blog for dilusional and biased individuals to post their ranting and raving. If you want to see and read the EVSC agendas or meeting minutes you can find them published in our local newspaper (as it calls itself).
Move along now, there’s nothing to see here.
North Main is a mess, look at the empty storefronts what could those with the pursestrings have been thinking.
The wall is a waste of 30 billion dollars. Most illegals are coming in on green cards and are getting fake ID’s to stay in the country. The entire border has interstate highways running underneath it. The wall is going to be 10 ft tall. Look for the sale of many ladders and shovels to go 2 feet deep to go under it. Take care of the problem by enforcing our immigration laws. No jobs and no entitlements of any kind.
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