“IS IT TRUE” MARCH 21, 2024

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We hope today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address rationally and responsibly.
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IS IT TRUE that the City-County Observer added several creative people to the staff?  …that Johnny Kincaid is doing an outstanding job with the City-County Observer-sponsored podcast?  …during the next several weeks we shall announce that a former ranking staff member of the Evansville Courier and Press shall be joining our staff?
IS IT TRUE that recently two of three Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners and members of the Evansville City Council voted unanimously to donate $300,000 of our tax dollars to E-REP without getting an explanation of how the money will be used?  …we have been told that in 2023 E-REP also received the same amount of money from both the Evansville City Council and Vanderburgh County Commission without getting an explanation of how the money was spent?

IS IT TRUE that we are told that many loyal Vanderburgh County Republicans are extremely perplexed why GOP Chairman Mike Duckworth fired the highly respected and ethical President of the Vanderburgh County election Commission, Joe Harrison, without explaining to the public or Mr Harrison the reason he fired him?  …many people are waiting for Chairman Duckworth to make a public statement about why he fired Joe Harrison from the Vanderburgh County election board?

IS IT TRUE we have been told that members of the Vanderburgh County School Board recently received a raise without public fanfare?

IS IT TRUE that it looks like some of the backroom shenanigans of a couple of Republican movers and shakers have finally taken a toll on the once proud and powerful Republican Party of Vanderburgh County?

IS IT TRUE that over the years people living in the JIMTOWN area of Evansville say when there is a change of the political guard at the Civic Center the “Names Have Changed but The Political Games Remind the Same”?…this phenomenon is not exclusive to Evansville and was memorialized by Cinderella in their song the more things change, the more they stay the same?2

 IS IT TRUE that members of the “Mole Nation” asked the question, why would salt of the earth working class people believe positive change will ever happen within the local government when political patronage and pork Barrel shenanigans are commonplace in local politics?

IS IT TRUE that it has been rumored that a locally elected official didn’t attend an official meeting because of an alleged health issue but he did attend a political fundraising event on his behalf that evening?

IS IT TRUE that several elected city officials took advantage of taxpayers last year by not attending meetings and still receiving full pay?  …we wonder how many Vanderburgh County taxpayers could miss work and get paid?

Today’s Readers Poll question is: How do you rate the job that members of the Vanderburgh County Council are doing?

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