We hope that today’s “READERS FORUMâ€Â 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?
HERE WHAT’S ON OUR MIND TODAY:
The Rathbone Beautiful Parklike Grounds Must Be Saved
The old beautiful home and grounds called The Rathbone that has served Evansville for many years as a retirement home has been sold and is about to undergo so very unnecessary changes that will not only degrade the property but the neighborhood it is in as well. Â It has been deemed by some overlords that The Rathbone does not have enough parking places for the number of rooms it has and the beautiful parklike grounds are slated to be bulldozed down to put in concrete for parking places. These are parking places that have never been needed and are not needed now to support the needs of the property.
It is our hope and desire that The Rathbone will be refurbished and updated but that the beautiful grounds should be allowed to remain the same parklike setting that it always has been. We hope that Ron Beane-Building Commission and Ron London-Area Planning Commission Director will realize that the best part of the Rathbone is the parklike grounds.
DMD Purchased The Dilapidated, Vacant Block CVS Building Located on North Main Street for $500,000 Plus
Several years ago the Evansville DMD purchased the dilapidated, vacant block CVS building in a questionable part of town from the Warren Group. The Evansville DMD purchased this property “as is” for an estimated price of over $500,000?
Last year the Evansville DMD leased this old dilapidated, vacant block building to the Davita Dialysis Center. Â Right after the Davita Dialysis Center leased this property from the city for a nominal monthly payment someone started to do extensive and expensive renovations on this building.
Today the Davita Dialysis Center occupies this nicely renovated building located on North Main Street. We could never officially verify who paid for the extensive and expensive renovations of this property or what did the renovations costs.
After all, said and done it’s been reported that the Evansville DMD invested well over $500,000 to purchased this building several years ago located on North Main Street.  Accordingly, to above Channel 44 News report, it now looks like the City could sell this property back to the Warren Group for a mere $178,000.
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND TODAY?
Todays“Readers Poll†question is: Do you feel that the taxpayer should subsidize the Evansville Thunderbolts?
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The DMD’s handling of the CVS building really smells. Smells really bad,
Democrats claim there is no southern border crisis:
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Crime data shows that roughly 2,600 migrants will be murdered and roughly 103,000 will be raped or assaulted during their 2019 migration to the United States, says an estimate prepared by Steven Kopits, president of Princeton Policy Advisors.
“We estimate 80,000 migrant women were raped or coerced into sex during 2018, rising to 103,000 on higher migrant numbers in 2019,†said a statement from Kopits, whose predictions of migration increases been repeatedly validated by the eventual numbers. “These are persons … Incidents could be up to 50% higher.â€
Alongside the murder and rapes, Kopits predicted 34,000 kidnappings, 21,000 cases of forced labor trafficking, and 106,000 robberies during 2019.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/03/06/forecast-expect-2600-murders-103000-rapes-migrants-2019/
Ah Joey, more nonsense from Breitfart. Kopits is a pandering idiot, who just last year said about Trump
“Migrants and border control have nothing to do with it. Despite the bravado coming from the president, the truth is that the White House is running scared”
Last year he wrote about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Border:
“The proper read on Guard deployment, therefore, is that it has almost nothing to do with securing the border and everything to do with shoring up the Republican Party’s political prospects. This, in turn, tells us two things. First, the President, despite his shoot-from-the-hip style, is, in fact, receiving—and taking—political advice on traditional Republican tactics to buttress the Party’s electoral prospects”
On the website of his “blog” that Kopits rants on it states “For most of his career, Mr. Kopits served as a strategic management consultant and investment banker in Hungary and the United States” and that “He holds an undergraduate degree from Haverford College, an MBA in Finance and Accounting, and a Masters specializing in International Economics”
Hell, the “address” for this laughably named “Princeton Policy Advisors” is the guys’ house (who apparently is the only employee per that website)
He knows diddly squat about immigration issues, and Breitfart is just pandering with more BS that Trumpers like you slobber over. He’s dabbling for clients of the right-wing by changing his stance. He’s a tool
Thousands of fake government IDs made in covert Oregon lab were sold across U.S., prosecutors say
An illegal alien pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy that produced more than 10,000 fraudulent government identification cards, including driver’s licenses from Oregon and more than 25 other states, U.S. Social Security cards, false immigration records, birth certificates, marriage licenses and vehicle titles.
Miguel Merecias-Lopez, 24, and unidentified conspirators worked out of a secret photo lab in Woodburn, using digital cameras, computers, scanners, laminators and a high-resolution printer to produce bogus documents that they sold and distributed in Oregon and mailed across the United States, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax….
Merecias-Lopez was arrested Sept. 21, 2017, behind the driver’s wheel of a black Toyota Camry in a fast-food parking lot in Woodburn when he arrived to conduct a drug deal with an informant working with investigators from the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force, according to court records. More than a kilogram of methamphetamine was found on him and a search of his apartment revealed equipment used in the fake document scheme, the records show.
Investigators seized laptops, printers, ink, flash drives, notebooks, laminators, dozens of security images and seals commonly used on legitimate ID documents, as well as unused plastic card sleeves they believe were intended for the production of another 10,000 identification cards, according to court documents.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/03/thousands-of-fake-government-ids-made-in-covert-lab-in-woodburn-were-sold-across-us-prosecutors-say.html
I wonder if that was the source of the fake IDs that the Trump organization furnishes to their undocumented workers.
“The fraud ring operated in Woodburn for more than a decade and produced over 10,000 fraudulent documents that they distributed in Woodburn or mailed to customers around the United States” U.S. Attorney Billy Williams and Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax said in the plea agreement
Homeland Security Investigations had already been looking at the syndicate they called the “Fraud Doc Ring” before the arrest, said Kevin Sonoff, spokesman for the United States Attorney’s Office in Portland
So the person arrested produced 300 out of 10,000, and since he is undocumented you make him the boogeyman (yes, we noticed you failed to mention he only produced 300)
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