IS IT TRUE JANUARY 17, 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?

IS IT TRUE we are pleased to announce that a new online publication, the City-County Banner, will be launching sometime during February, 2019? …The City-County Banner will service Orange and Dubois counties, specifically focusing on the cities of Jasper, Huntingburg, French Lick, and Paoli? …the City-County Observer will be a media partner with the City-County Banner and both papers will be operating as corridor newspapers?  …this publishing partnership between the City County Observer and the City-County Banner will provide articles and advertisements published in both papers to readers in cities stretching from Paoli to Evansville? …that the City-County Observer is also working on additional media partners up and down the corridor?

IS IT TRUE a hedge-fund-backed media group known for buying up struggling local papers and cutting costs is planning to make an offer for USA Today publisher Gannett Co., according to people familiar with the matter? …its been reported that MNG Enterprises Inc., one of the largest newspaper chains in the country, has quietly built a 7.5% position in Gannett’s stock and plans to publicly urge the McLean, Va., publisher to put itself up for sale? …we been told that the USA Today publisher Gannett Co.,own the Indy Star, Louisville Journal, Nashville Banner and the Evansville Courier and Press? …hear are a copy of links concerning this issue for your review:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hedge-fund-backed-media-group-prepares-bid-for-gannett-11547427720

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/digital-first-media-eyes-buyout-of-usa-today-publisher-gannett-2019-01-13

IS IT TRUE here is an article concerning newspaper acquisitions ?

Our take: What Digital First’s bid for Gannett means

IS IT TRUE yesterday we posted comments concerning a charitable organization named “Funk In The City”? …we have been told that “Funk In The  City” has raised around $200,000 to help the disadvantaged living in the Haynes’s Corner and Center City areas since 2008? …we give five (5) cheers to “Funk In The City” President Ashley Vezzoso Schaefer and her Board of Directors for a job well done?

IS IT TRUE we give five (5) cheers to Holli Sullivan for creating House Bill 1002?  …this legislation will reallocate funds to proven workforce programs so Hoosiers could increase their certifications, earn stackable credentials and secure high-paying jobs in high-demand fields to meet the changing needs of Indiana employers? … its obvious that State Representative Holli Sullivan understand how to think outside the box?

IS IT TRUE we are hearing that several movers and shakers in the Vanderburgh County Democratic party feel that its time for the At-Large City Council member Jonathan Weaver to publicly announce if he’s going to be a candidate for the Mayor of Evansville? …if Mr. Weaver decides not to run for the Mayor of Evansville we hear that several well qualified people are looking at taking on Mayor Winnecke?

IS IT TRUE that the State of Illinois bet on Video Gaming and lost? …that legalizing video poker and slots was supposed to generate billions of dollars for the State of Illinois but a decade later, that hasn’t happened?  …we are now hearing that Illinois State Legislators want to double down on gambling in that cash poor state? …we hope that the  Kentucky and Indiana State Legislators will take heed when they make amendments to their state gambling laws later on this year?

IS IT TRUE that the White House announced yesterday that President Donald Trump signed a bill providing back pay to federal employees affected by the ongoing partial government shutdown?

IS IT TRUE we can’t wait to read what our most infamous right wing poster Joe Biden will have to say about the above post?

IS IT TRUE to no one surprise Old National Bank CEO Bob Jones will retire after 14 years and current CFO Jim Ryan was named as his successor?  …we wonder what kind of a “Golden Parachute” will Mr. Jones receive upon his retirement?

IS IT TRUE during the early years, the Veterans Memorial Coliseum was the place where the best entertainment occurred? …this included hosting car shows, the Shrine Circus, and Evansville College used to play its basketball games there?  …once Roberts Stadium was built in the fifties, the Coliseum lost some of its appeal and it closed in 1969?  …the Coliseum was built by the city and was given to Vanderburgh County around this time? …during the waning years of not being in use, the Coliseum deteriorated until the Veterans Council of Vanderburgh County took it over and started to renovated the building?  …we want to thank members of the Veterans Council of Vanderburgh County for saving this historic landmark from the wreaking ball? …we are pleased with the way that Veterans Council of Vanderburgh County Commander Mark Acker and his staff are running this facility on behalf of the taxpayers of this community?  …we would like for anyone that demanded that Commander Acker hand over the keys to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum please go hide under a rock?

Todays“Readers Poll” question is: Do you think that the Republicans will take control of the Evansville City Council in 2019?
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10 COMMENTS

  1. SCREWED UP, LYING FOOLS

    Remember Baghdad Bob? The guy hiding in a fallout shelter, its walls literally falling in on him, blasting out insane commentary insisting Sadaam was kicking America’s ass in the Iraq War while bombs were dropping all around him?

    Welcome to JoeBiden’s Trump America:

    Standing like a damn fools yesterday saying “ISIS has been defeated and our soldiers can come home” while on the same freaking day !! : “ISIS KILLS FOUR AMERICAN US SERVICEMEN.”

    And while JoeBiden insists “MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!!”, the bill gets slipped into the US Budget for US Taxpayers to pay for it!!

    Screwed up, lying fools. Eatin’ speaks louder’n words people. Post all the nonsense he wants from his bunker.

    Put it up again Joe! Put it up!

      • Families who have been impacted by crimes committed by illegal aliens stormed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Tuesday, demanding that the California Democrat “build the wall.”

        Pelosi reportedly refused to meet with the families, who have lost family members to illegal aliens, which comes as Democrats have refused to work with the Trump administration to provide national security funding to secure the southern border.

        https://www.dailywire.com/news/42253/watch-victims-illegal-immigration-storm-pelosis-ryan-saavedra

        • here is what i do know:
          this joebiden guy has decided its ok to cram the cost of the wall onto US taxpayers instead of the promises that mexico would pay for the wall
          never mind hes stabbing the US taxpayer in the back

          he thinks theyre idiots, and he knows best!
          he wants this damn thing in the US budget, and dont give a damn that is a broken promise.
          tax and spend liberals make promises like that

          • Thanks for your ignorance to hell with tax and spend lib. People like you keep my anti American dream alive.Sincerely Barry Hussein Soetoro. How you like that 2500$ i saved you on health care and the 150 billion in cash i sent to Iran.I thought so down with al sharpie.

  2. Weaver isn’t going to run for mayor, he just adores the attention he is getting for not denying it.

  3. I went to many concerts at the Evansville Coliseum during the 1970s. My favorites were Kiss (twice on New Year’s Eve), the Eagles, Thin Lizzy, BTO and REO Speedwagon. Tickets were usually $6 and the size of the venue was perfect for Evansville. There has never been a concert scene in Evansville like there was in the 70s when the Coliseum was the favored place for up and coming bands on tour. I even played there.

    • I saw Black Sabbath in the late 70’s at coliseum,I’m thinking tickets were $5.50 total,no up charge like they do now ,yea I saw many a good concerts there too ,and it didn’t cost a arm and a leg

  4. Leaked Bruce Ohr testimony may be the key to unraveling the biggest political scandal in American history

    The mobilization of law enforcement and intelligence assets by the Obama administration in 2016 to spy on the presidential campaign of rival party candidate Donald Trump is the biggest political scandal in our history. The Mueller probe of Trump is a cover-up, as are leaks to friendly media by anonymous former officials. Yet the pieces are falling into place to burn through the dust clouds and see the underlying crimes.

    Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/leaked_bruce_ohr_testimony_may_be_the_key_to_unraveling_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_american_history.html#ixzz5ctQNpri3
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  5. An “on the cheap” company is trying to buy the parent company of the Courier & Press? How much cheaper could the Courier & Press be?
    No, I don’t mean the subscription cost, I mean the product they produce.

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