IS IT TRUE that Vanderburgh County has retained its title as the #1 county in the State of Indiana for the most meth labs?…that unfortunately we are adding to our lead and for 2012 were a full 63% in front of the second place Elkhart County way up north where unemployment flourishes?…that last year Vanderburgh County only to the #1 position by 12% over Kosclusko County?…that while it is good to see more arrests this sobering statistic of being the #1 county for meth in a state that competes very well for the #1 national ranking for meth labs should really get the attention of public officials?…that this is truly an emergency situation in a place that continues to tout itself as “a good place to raise kids” with a “high quality of life”?

IS IT TRUE that in 2011 it seems that Evansville and/or Vanderburgh County have been named #1 in the nation for three race to the bottom indices?…that if we are to ever be proven to be “a good place to raise kids” with a “high quality of life” that the days of LEADING THE NATION in meth labs, suicide, and obesity MUST END?…that one would think that there would be more urgency to shed such stigmas?…that if we are to be profiled in the Guinness Book of World Records it would certainly be preferable to be profiled for something positive?…that here in the land of new arenas, Front Door Pride, BoothGATE, ArrestGATE, Needle in the ParkGATE, Didn’t pay for the ChickenGate, can’t find a Hotel DeveloperGATE, can’t get McCurdy taxes PaidGATE, and now MaingateGATE one would think if we were so magnanimous in local governance that we would be a leader in something other than meth labs, suicide, and obesity?

IS IT TRUE that the next four years need to be a time of reflection on what has become a town that changes little and continually falls for the illusion that things are okay in River City?…that being the US capital of meth labs, suicide, and obesity is simply not acceptable?…that reflection and reality had better take hold soon or the Good Ship Evansville will pass the point of no return on the race to the bottom?

IS IT TRUE that Mole #57 tells us that Mayor Winnecke was only approached last week to make the humanitarian trip to Mexico as an ambassador for the City of Evansville?…that to make such an offer on a week’s notice to a sitting Mayor is not sufficient notice to even reasonable expect that he could accept?…that most of us have known since the first week of November that Lloyd Winnecke would be Mayor and that the Rotary Club should have known that and planned well enough for Mayor Winnecke to be able to be the ambassador that he has openly stated that he will be for the City of Evansville?

IS IT TRUE that our FORMER mayor had on his bio at a speaking engagement this week that he is Mayor of Evansville, Indiana?…that we wonder when it will sink in that the steward of the Office of Mayor of Evansville changed hands on January 1st?…that as long as the civic organizations of Evansville keep sending the FORMER mayor on ambassadorial junkets that the delusion will live on?…that along with the incorrect title the conference bio included “He was re-elected in 2007 with an historic 85% of the vote”?…that for those of us who are aware of the quality of candidate that this “historic” victory was won over know just how “un-historic” the mayoral election of 2007 actually was?…that Republican candidate David Nixon had about the same probability for victory that one of the McCurdy pigeons would have against one of Kyrsten Monson’s falcons?