IS IT TRUE? January 14, 2012

IS IT TRUE that this writer was treated to a Foreigner concert in Rancho Mirage, CA last night with a free ticket from the guitar player for the band?…that I was innocently sitting at the bar eating fish and chips when the guitarist sat down in the seat next to me and started visiting with his cousin who was one seat away?…that he was bringing them some tickets for the show and when I saw there were extras I interrupted the family reunion and offered him $50 for a ticket?…that he just laughed and gave me a 4th row center ticket?…that the last time I knew someone who sat front row center for a concert it was Evansville City Councilman John Friend who somehow scored 4th row center tickets to the Bob Seger concert at the Ford Center?

IS IT TRUE that the La Quinta High School choir joined Foreigner on stage to sing the backup lines to “I want to know what love is” and were presented a check for $1,000 for their hard song’s work?…that at the end of the encore a member of the audience was selected by ticket number as the winner of a new guitar autographed by the band?…that the winner was offered $5,000 for it in the lobby afterwards and turned the offer down with a resounding “hell no man”?

IS IT TRUE that the first reading for a stronger smoking ordinance for the City of Evansville has been scheduled for January 23rd?…that the second and third readings along with a vote are set for February 13th so all eyes are on Martha Caine, the City Council, and Casino Aztar top man Ward Shaw to see what our stronger smoking ordinance will be looking like come February 13th?

IS IT TRUE that shades of last year’s Indiana Democrat contingency vacation to Urbana, IL are in the air with the upcoming floor discussion of the Right to Work bill and any amendments that are attached to it?…that it seems to us at the City County Observer that the zealots on both extremes of this issue seem to be involved in self serving propaganda campaigns?…that the constructive way to proceed is for both sides and the middle to read the objective evidence set forth in scholarly studies that were done for the purpose of correlating cause and effect between Right to Work and prosperity?…that what has been going on in the country during the latest recession alone is not a scholarly study and should be discounted?…that this decision should be based on 20 year or more improvements or lack thereof when it comes to Right to Work states vs. non Right to Work states?…that there are lots more emotion driven opinions out there than there are scholarly studies and that this is not a decision that should be made based on emotion?…that we hope that tangible evidence is presented and that a decision is made with all legislators present and that the vote is not along strictly partisan lines?