The City County Observer and the law firm of Woods and Woods, LLP is pleased to announce the return of Tri-State Voices to ME TV Tri-State. The program is ½ hour long and can be seen on channels 36.1, 20.1, WOW 105 and Time Warner 3 and 14 every Sunday morning at (time). Episodes are also available online at City-CountyObserver.com and the Tri-State Voices Youtube Channel.
Weekly episodes will feature current topics and issues of importance to the Tri-State region. Hosts will be Mark Owen and Cheryl Musgrave.
Mark Owen served two terms on the Vanderburgh County Council, one unexpired term as a Vanderburgh County Commissioner and twelve years as Democratic Party Chairman. Owen chaired successful campaign committees for former Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel and US Congressman d Ellsworth. Owen previously served as Executive Director of the Board of Public Works, Chair of the Board of Directors for Southwestern Healthcare, Inc. and is currently a Commissioner on the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Commission. Owen works as a Broker Associate for F.C. Tucker Emge Realtors.
Cheryl Musgrave served ten years as the Vanderburgh County Assessor, two and a half years as Vanderburgh County Commissioner, and was appointed by Governor Mitch Daniels as Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance. Ms. Musgrave currently serves on the Vanderburgh County Board of Zoning Appeals and the Evansville Redevelopment Commission. She operates her own consulting firm, Musgrave Consulting LLC.
The first show airs on Sunday, February 15, 2015 and will feature the controversial residency ordinance. This ordinance requires all city board appointees to be residents of the City of Evansville. The residency ordinance was initially passed by City Council, then vetoed by the Mayor. The Council then voted to override the veto only to have the mayor file a lawsuit. This is a developing story and we look forward to hearing the discussion regarding this legal and political issue.
Future topics?
Downtown Hotel
Where is the city currently with the CSO issues.
True city financial health
Does city exist outside downtown?
Good ideas, “Arm.”
*Sewers
*Sidewalks and curbs (repairs and installation in areas of city without any)
*Street lighting (why is Vectren allowed to fail to repair/upgrade non-functioning street lights, installation of street lights in areas that don’t have them)
*Mesker Amphiteater
*IU Med Center
*Roberts Park?
*The Center (Centre? – this ain’t Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or the Bahamas and I refuse to call it the Old National Events Center until they fork over the dough)
*Ford Center status
*Status of annexation of Vanderburgh County into Evansville and building of wall around Darmstadt.
*Johnson Controls fiasco
*Status of recovery of $200,000 from the “gas pressure let-down device” manufacturers.
Status of city taking over the county was a loser at 2 to 1! Source: 2012 general election. Dead issue.
Do you really think it is wise to expand that inept government? Besides, the mayor is to busy
shoveling sand down there at walnut and 7th to know what the “county only” residents needs are!
Heck, the city outside of downtown would fit that same description now!
they can drag that pig to market as often as they wish-and they will-old Evansville needs the money. You know they’re giving the public lessons on how to best use their water to make it possible to keep up with Joe Blow’s ability to pay for it-they will keep jacking the price up because it’s one of the few teats they are certain to get $$ from-we all need water.
You gave me a great idea. The city should be shrinking not expanding. All the city outside of the near downtown should be returned to the County. They the Mayor can have all the left over tax money collected from what’s left of the city downtown spent on the downtown. Great idea!
I’m sure that the business owners outside of the near downtown area are tired of all their taxes going to just the downtown of Evansville. I know that I would be. Where are the sidewalks and street lights for Burkardt Road.
Please don’t refer to Ms. Musgrave as a Republican. Independent or Democrat lite might fit better.
She has to be a republican if “Mitch”(state chamber of commerce) appointed her!
She ran as a R in the past and Gov. Daniels appointed her. She did a good job as far as i know. She seems to have taken a turn. Fallen under the influence of who knows who.
She is right of Reagan….
My input is that whenever a politican wins the position they were running for then Politics
needs to be omitted ,they should not be involved with one party , but be with all as one ,,,I think
that came out right.
Yes, that came out right!
Problem is, it will not be practiced!
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