We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUEâ€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.
IS IT TRUE that the Vanderburgh County Jail is causing lots of controversy these days?…the jail which was built on the north side less roughly 15 years ago is now overcrowded to the point that more cells are needed to keep up with the people who are being sentenced to jail?…there are even some highly placed people who are posturing by asking “why is the jail overcrowded?” as though this has happened in the last few months?…overcrowding in the local jail is nothing new and was used as the compelling reason to build the new jail in the first place?…after building the new jail the old one which had served for years was shut down?…if these dimwits really want to answer the rhetorical question on “why is the jail overcrowded?”, they don’t need to look any further than the rising crime rate in Evansville?…this is a simple demand and supply model where the supply is fixed but the demand is rising due to the lawlessness of the population?…the easiest way to solve the overcrowding problem at the jail is to reduce crime?…that would mean doing things to make this a nicer place to live where people believe they have a future?
IS IT TRUE it was recently announced that the Evansville Water & Sewer Utility Department hired a new Communications Director, whose role is to inform the public about the millions of dollars worth of upgrades projects citywide?  …that the former head of Mayor Winnecke’s communications staff was hired by the Evansville Water & Sewer Utility Department?  …her hefty salary is now being paid out of the Water and Sewer Utility department budget? …so far the CCO hasn’t received one (1) news release from her? …we are now hearing in order for the CCO to get any news releases from the Water and Sewer Department we must file an official requests with the Mayors office?  …that the only request that the CCO will be filing is with the State Of Indiana Public Access Officer in order to forced the Evansville Water And Sewer Department to send us future news releases generated from that Department?
IS IT TRUE that the well known and popular Perry Township Trustee Rick Riney is being encourage and is considering running for Vanderburgh County Commissioner during the next election cycle? …if he does his worthy opponent will be none other than the current County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave?
IS IT TRUE that Steve Ary a Constitutional Conservative and local pastor is running as an Independent for the office of the Mayor Of Evansville? ..that Pastor Steve Ary stated; “he believes that after eight years of elitist Lloyd Winnecke politics, the forgotten men, women and children of Evansville deserve better than the current physical and financial condition of our city, and that the people of Evansville deserve a real choice this election”?  …that Pastor Ary is aggressive, focus, intelligent and well spoken? …we predict the Rev. Ary will demand that Mayor Winnecke defend some of his questionable business decisions that he made during his eight years in office during the campaign?
IS IT TRUE we wonder if anyone in the Winnecke Administration or members of the Evansville City Council can explain to us the rational of increasing the Local Option Income Tax and taking away our Homestead Tax Credit while spending $750,000 on Penguin exhibit art the Zoo?
IS IT TRUEÂ we wonder if you aware that the taxpayers are paying off an annual bond debt payments for the new downtown medical school ($2.7M) and downtown hotel ($1.26M) without having any ownership position? …we also wonder who are the owners of the hotel and medical school buildings that the taxpayers are paying off the bond notes on?
IS IT TRUE back in 2017 the Vanderburgh County Council  voted to raise the County Wheel Tax by a 5-2 vote? …the five Council members that voted for the County Wheel Tax increase were all Republicans?  …the two County Council members that voted NO to raise the County Wheel Tax were Democrats?  …we were told the rational for this vote was to help fund a new additional to the Vanderburgh County jail?
IS IT TRUEÂ we hope that Mayor and officials of EVSC will come came up with way to to fund building a new pedestrian bridge across Highway 41 so the Bosse High school students can cross that road safety?
IS IT TRUEÂ we are extremely pleased tom hear that the Mayor has decided to to pay down the serious shortfall in the employee health plan this year? Â …now it’s time fir him to put out a RFP request to area insurance carriers for a more affordable employee health care plan? …sometime the practice of “Peter Borrowing From Paul” can work in the short term?
