IS IT TRUE, Part 2: November 12, 2010
IS IT TRUE that after the recount that Kathryn Martin has been certified as the winner of the election for Knight Township Trustee?…that Mole #3 predicted that she would win?…that Mole #3 is still the undisputed King of the Molehill and retains the title of Nostradamus of Local Politics?
IS IT TRUE that there seems to have been a shake-up in management at SMG Evansville? …that the website of SMG Evansville lists one Sandie Aaron, Regional Vice President as the top ranking officer?…..that Todd Denk and Darren Stearns are listed on the website (www.smgevansville.com) as Assistant General Managers?…that the City County Observer is curious about the redeployment of Ms. Aaron back into power in Evansville from Pensacola?…that the CCO has recently reported on the number of events cancelled in the Centre?…that perhaps with the new Arena coming online in 2011 that SMG will be stepping its game up a notch?
IS IT TRUE that on November 22, 2010 the Evansville City Council will vote on a Resolution to allow the Evansville Redevelopment Commission to issue and sell $2 million dollars worth of bonds? …that these bonds will be paid off by using money received by the City of Evansville from property taxes? …that $500,000 dollars of the bond money is earmarked for renovations and upgrades to the City’s parking garages?….that the parking garages are located in the Downtown TIF District?….that improvements such as these could be paid for by use of TIF funds or Riverboat funds?….that the TIF funds and Riverboat funds are committed to the Downtown Arena project and therefore not available to upgrade and repair the parking garages?….that $1.5 million dollars of the bond money is earmarked to build six more houses as part of the Front Door Pride program?…..that of the 14 Front Door Pride homes already built, eight are unsold even though they can be purchased for a fraction of their approximately $200,000 cost?
IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Icemen have been chosen as the official hockey team of the new Evansville Arena?….that the Icemen brought Evansville a championship last year after a long drought of winning professional athletic teams?…that the Icemen are drawing capacity crowds of nearly 1,500 people to Swonder?….that winning sells tickets?…that Mayor Weinzapfel has projected that up to 100,000 spectators per season (3,000 per game)?…..that as winning sells tickets that the Mayor may just be very wrong in his projections?….that if the Icemen continue their winning ways and establish a tradition of championships that the attendance will be much higher than the 100,000 that the Mayor projects?…that the same goes for UE basketball?….that it is winning that made Robert’s Stadium a success and it will be winning and only winning that will make a financial success of the new Evansville Arena?
In an age where professional sports teams regularly bully their way around politicians to get what they want, when they want it…
Colts, Pacers, etc… They name it, they get it, we pay for it.
Especially with an owner like Ron Geary, who seems to have shown his distinct craft in pushing to the cliff to get “his way” into KY law.
But the article I read simply indicated that Weinzapfel and Geary agreed to negotiate the deal, yet… What? Did Weinzapfel just drop the bee hive on his foot?
Is the taxpayers investment already being handed to some willie nillie roughly… break-even – wink, wink, nod, nod, agreement?
Despite the Executive Inn Dilemma caused by Johnny dome there still is an awful lot of hopey-changey-dreamy reporting going on…
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