City County Observer Seeks Reader Input
As part of our December reflection period, we at the City County Observer are planning a series of articles on the 10 most significant things to occur in and around Evansville during 2010. We would like our readers to nominate the events that you believe are significant. Now we know those of you who were married, were blessed with a child or grandchild, or maybe even hit the lottery had significant personal events but that is not exactly what we are looking for. We are looking for things that will have lasting impact on Evansville and its surroundings from a political or economic perspective. Here are some off the top of our head examples:
The Closing of Whirlpool
The defeat of a local political dynasty member in a democratic primary
The citizen uprising that derailed the ECVB plans to spend $18M on ball fields
The Executive Inn Dilemma
Fall Festival Boothgate
We would very much appreciate your assistance in identifying the 10 most significant events of 2010. Please include a paragraph or more of why you think your suggestions are worthy of a Top 10 for 2010 recognition. You may enter by leaving a comment to this call for events. You may use either your name or your handle. We will not discriminate as long as the proposals are credible.
– The day the local “print” news announced Davis and his mayoral intentions. (Along with the union threats – and no outrage)
– The day Weinzapfel announced that despite his promise that the stadium wouldn’t raise taxes, taxes were “pledged”, supposedly simply to get a better deal on the bonds.
– The day Evansville made national news in the WSJ editorial for our “largesse”, during the recession.
– The Knight Township Trustee affair.
– The Executive Inn standing 1/2 demolished with no plan. (AKA the Executive Inn Dilemma)
– The Whirlpool closure.
– The Visitors Bureau Bureaucrats repeatedly trying to slam through their field of dreams.
– The Consolidation Committee Bureaucrats turning what at one time seemed like a legitimate idea into a political circus.
– The EPA suit and settlement for sewers still not fixed. (The day Evansville voters rejecting Andrew Smith’s “sewers before stadiums”, was assigned a monetary value.)
– The day we voted for Mr. Coats, showing by and large we stand together, anti-obamacare.
-Honorable mention, the Mayor’s single car auto accident on the ice.
-Honorable mention, Weaver’s post election loss political staff firings.
The selection of aluminum siding for the most massive building on the historic downtown walkway.
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