AMENDED “IS IT TRUE FOR “FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” 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?

We ask for you to pray for the mother of our Chief Of Police Billy Bolin who has an extremely serious medical condition.  She is currently in the hospital and resting quietly but is in guarded condition?  …she has been fighting cancer for over a year?…she currently is in the hospital fighting the complications of her year-long battle with cancer.  Her prognosis for a healthy recovery is dim. It’s time we ask you to use the power of prayer to bring her back to health or put her at peace.
IS IT TRUE that Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke made an admission that has not been heard in the City of Evansville for many years?…with all of the bone-jarring, teeth-rattling potholes that have been forming in the aging streets of Evansville, Mayor Winnecke actually acknowledged that there are potholes that need to be repaired?…while that may sound amazing since there has been a pothole problem in River City for at least half a century and no mayor has ever owned up to it, Mayor Winnecke may be the first mayor of Evansville to ever admit that life isn’t ideal here?…it is actually encouraging to hear a mayor admit to infrastructure problems as opposed to running for some higher office and promising hotels for arenas while riding unicorns down Main Street?…maybe we are in for a year of atonement when it comes to worshiping shiny objects and accentuating the positive while ignoring things in need of attention?
IS IT TRUE that several people are asking us about the progress in the City of Evansville’s quest to collect over a million bucks from the owners of the McCurdy Hotel?  …despite this issue the McCurdy Hotel is finally beginning to look like there may be a spark of life on the horizon?…after eight and a half years of false starts and delusional expectations the old girl looks to be on the verge of actually becoming a nice riverfront apartment building as was promised by the mayor of Evansville in the summer of 2008?  …the City-County Observer is pleased to see some positive activity despite the most amazing failure of governance and local backroom politics that Evansville has been known for many years?
IS IT TRUE we hope that the many of millions of dollars that Mayor Winnecke has spent on the overall economic development on Downtown, North Main Street and Haynes Corner Arts District will pay off in the long term?
IS IT TRUE we wonder when Evansville Mayor Winnecke and Ivy Tech-Evansville Chancellor Jonathan Wienzapfel are going to publicly demand that soon to be built IU Medical School will include Ivy Tech 1,500 Medical Tech schools in their plans?  …that the taxpayers Evansville pledged $57 million dollars to ensure that the new Downtown IU Medical School will house programs from the IU School of Medicine and the IU School of Dentistry, as well as Ivy Tech Community College,  the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Evansville?
IS IT TRUE we are told that First Ward City Council candidate Ben Trockman (D) campaign committee is planning a couple monster fundraisers? ….that Mr. Trockman’s inaugural fundraising event will be held on the evening of Wednesday, Feb 26th at MoJo’s Boneyard bar located on the Eastside? …we are told that this event will be well attended, and the crowd shall be diversified? …Ben’s campaign Chairman predicts that people from all walks of life and age groups will be attending Ben Trockman inaugural fundraiser at the Mojo’s Boneyard?
IS IT TRUE we wonder how much better off that the Memorial Village complex located in the Center City would be if the City would have invested some of the $18 Million dollars they spent in developing the North Main Street area?  …the infrastructure surrounding the Memorial Village complex is well positioned for some future creative economic development spearheaded by the private investors, ERC and the Department of Metropolitan Development?
IS IT TRUE that the Memorial Village complex already houses offices for Memorial Community Development Corporation, a Community Federal Credit Union, the Evansville Black Chamber of Commerce, Family Barbershop, Subway Restaurant, outstanding Child Care facility and offices for job creation and affordable housing? … that the Memorial Village complex has enough land for future well-thought-out commercial development projects? …that the anchor or catalyst for the visionary Center City development is Memorial Baptist Church run by the mega preacher the Rev. Dr. Adrian M. Brooks, Sr.?
IS IT TRUE we wonder why the Vanderburgh County GOP Party Chairman Wayne Parke hasn’t taken the Republican At-Large City Council candidate to task for attending Ben Trockman official campaign filing event at the Civic Center?  …all we can say is “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”?”
IS IT TRUE that incumbent At-Large City Councilmen Jonathan Weaver is having his 10th Annual Mardi Gras campaign fundraising event on March 5, 2019, at KC’S  Time Lounge, Washinton Square Mall? …we are told that people attending the event are going to have one heck of a time?  …we are also told many political movers and shakers will be attending Mr. Weaver’s political fundraising event?

Todays“Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that former Vanderburgh Sheriff Eric Williams will do a credible job as a new member of the library board?

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    • Dershowitz is a Trumpsucking toady (kinda know them, don’t you) who lies and sucks up. His opinion on FuxNoise means nothing

        • When the BS article from FuxNoise starts off with the word “disgraced” it should really be referring to Donnie “Small Hands” Trump

          First of all, McCabe was performing his JOB!!! As an attorney and the Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he has a duty to consider all aspects of the situation. Trump is working with Russia, we all knew it, but that has to be proven (which is a matter of #MuellerTime)

          Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe remained at the FBI for another 10 months after Comey’s departure and was ready to retire after a long and VERY distinguished career of 23 years. Having announced he would retire from the bureau in March 2018, McCabe was fired the day before he became eligible for full retirement benefits. That is called “A Dick Move” by Trump

          Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, says President Trump’s treatment of the bureau and its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign was so profoundly disturbing during the spring of 2017 that Justice Department officials discussed contacting Cabinet members to initiate Trump’s removal from office under the 25th Amendment

          McCabe has a law degree and worked as a lawyer, he then moved to investigate Russian organized crime figures in the 1990s before starting his career at the FBI

          McCabe is defending himself against right-wing efforts (obstruction by Trump) to discredit his work at the FBI, including the suggestion that he conspired to harm the Trump campaign as a Democratic operative

          Trump has made much of McCabe being married to a woman who ran for the state legislature in Virginia in 2015 as a Democrat. Yet McCabe tells us he himself has been “a registered Republican” his entire adult life

          McCabe’s portrait of the Trump administration and of the president himself is as alarming as any we have seen so far. Trump appears as an insecure bully who rules by instilling and enforcing fear. McCabe calls Trump “a deliberate liar who will say whatever he pleases to get whatever he wants”

          Trump and his Trumpsucking sycophants (Hiya Joe) are just steamed that Trump is a loser, his followers are losers, his defenders are losers, and….well, you see what I mean

    • Just like you right-wing Trumpsuckers to be afraid of powerful women who know more than you

      Dr. Block graduated from Yale Magna Cum Laude and holds two Doctorates

      We know that Trumpy cannot handle smart women since the only way he can get the time of day from them is to pay them. Is that your issue as well?

      I’m guessing Dr. Ruth is more your speed

    • JB, it’s actually “Robert Francis O’Rourke,” of the private boarding school and Ivy League with an invaluable English Literature degree.

      he enrolled in Woodberry Forest School, an all-male boarding school in Madison County, Virginia.[19][19] Between graduating from high school and starting college in 1991, he was a summer congressional intern in the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Congressman Ron Coleman.[20] O’Rourke attended Columbia University where in his junior year he co-captained Columbia’s heavyweight rowing crew.[21] He graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.[21][22][23]

      • And?

        Trump was enrolled in the New York Military Academy, A PRIVATE BOARDING SCHOOL, after his parents discovered that he had made frequent trips into Manhattan without their permission. Trump enrolled at Fordham University but after two years, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

        While in college Trump obtained four student deferments from serving in the military. In 1966, he was deemed fit for service based upon a medical examination and in July 1968, after graduating from college, was briefly classified as eligible to serve by a local draft board, but was given a medical deferment which he later attributed to spurs in both heels

        Maybe we should discuss another of Cheetolini’s many lies, that he got an MBA from Wharton or “gradudated at the top of his class”

        Research has proven that in 1968 The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year, and Trump’s name is not among them

        There was no indication on the 1968 Commencement Program that Trump graduated with any honors. A copy of the program acquired from the Penn Archives lists 20 Wharton award and prize recipients, 15 cum laude recipients, four magna cum laude recipients and two summa cum laude recipients for the Class of 1968. Trump’s name appears nowhere on those lists.

        Trump only managed to graduate from the Wharton School of business. But Trump did not get an MBA from Wharton, he only got an undergraduate degree. He was a transfer student who arrived at Wharton after two years at Fordham University

        Beto O’Rourke is using a familial nickname in place of his first name, which places him in the company of a huge number of people.

        You are simply giving in to the usual Obama Derangement Syndrome by trying to make fun of a persons name, which is not polite and just shows you are part of the right-wing hate machine. Get over yourself

          • Are you freaking for real? Have you told Joebiden, al slurpie, pig73 the same crap?

            JB comes on here DAILY and posts multiple loads of crap from the bottom of the right-wing, and I’m in need of a “chill pill”

    • Apparently, hypotheticals are lost on right-wing Trumpsuckers

      First of all, the morons at Breitfart LIE and misrepresent this crap all the time! The question from Twitter was: If you could snap your fingers and make El Paso’s border wall disappear, would you?

      That is NOT a proposal or a plan to spend a single cent, just a hypothetical out loud.

      The real issue is that Beto scares the hell out of the right-wing Trumpers, because he is smart and personable, two things even Trump cannot buy

    • That is about as smart as letting the lions, tigers and bears out of the zoo to roam around town looking for people to eat. Penguins can be let out. They won’t hurt anyone.

  4. When on the Fox main anchors tells you that Trump is lying, it says a lot

    Chris Wallace, the anchor of Fox News Sunday, used immigration statistics to cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s claims there was a crisis at the border

    Wallace said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox News that the “national emergency” could quickly result in a resolution of disapproval in Congress. He also noted that migration across the southern border was down from previous levels

    “If you look at the statistics, four times as many people were coming over the border in the year 2000. 1.6 million people were apprehended coming across the border in 2000. Last year it was less than 400,000. It is only a fraction, about 25% of how many people were coming over in the year 2000. So what national emergency?”

  5. Donald Trump’s Friday: Declare National Emergency, Jet Off For Golf Weekend

    Donald Trump’s Friday morning: declare a national emergency

    Donald Trump’s Friday afternoon: jet off to Mar-a-Lago

    Things are so terrible at the border, so incredibly dangerous despite what all the statistics tell us, that it is an EMERGENCY to build a wall

    The emergency is not so severe, however, that Trump doesn’t have the leisure to hang with billionaires at his private club and do some “secret” golfing. After a few hours of executive time, of course. The man’s got to rest up between ranting while signing some pieces of paper and getting on Air Force One

    Priorities, I tell you

  6. Does anyone know the status of the City lawsuit to foreclose the $1,000,000 water and sewer leens on the McCurdy?

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