IS IT TRUE? December 14, 2010

IS IT TRUE that David Dunn reported to the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau yesterday that $306,000 has been spent on the Roberts Stadium Ballfield complex?…that when the City County Observer visited the offices of the ECVB in August to examine the minutes of the board of directors meetings that we found that “through October of 2010, a total of $1.6 Million has been authorized to be spent on The Park and $765,000 has been either spent or committed”? ….that we are quite curious as to which number is actually correct?….that we are curious to find out the answer on how much was really spent on the Roberts Stadium Ballfields project before it was repudiated by the public?….we also wonder how much of the work that was done may have value when other locations are considered?

IS IT TRUE that Senator Evan Bayh’s announcement that he is not running for Governor of Indiana has really gotten the chattering class of Indiana into speculation mode?…that the names of Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel and Evansville resident Congressman Brad Ellsworth are some of the first names to roll off of the lips of the talking heads statewide?….that these statewide prognosticators need to do a little research into the archives of the Evansville media before anointing Mayor Weinzapfel as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana in waiting?…that a simple search of the terms “Homestead Tax Credit”, “McCurdy”, “Executive Inn Dilemma”, and “Gage+Barnett” may just turn their affections and attention to Congressman Ellsworth or some other worthy candidate?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville has never before been the home of the top two mentioned candidates for either party’s nomination for Governor of Indiana?…that the last Governor of Indiana from the Evansville area was Robert Orr who left office in 1989 after two terms and handed the keys to the office over to Senator Evan Bayh?….that out of 49 Governors of Indiana that Governor Robert Orr is the only Governor of Indiana since 1873 to have called Evansville home?…that it is about time we had another Governor from Southwest Indiana?

IS IT TRUE that it has now been 1,312 days since the announcement was made on May 14, 2007 that the McCurdy Hotel was to be refurbished into luxury apartments?…that it has now been 1,167 days since the Evansville Redevelopment Commission at the request of Mayor Weinzapfel approved the spending of $603,000 to purchase the parking lot.

IS IT TRUE that there are now 698 days remaining in the two years that the EPA had given the City of Evansville to present an acceptable solution to the Combined Sewer Overflow problem?…..that this plan is an expensive and complex endeavor that needs immediate attention to avoid the embarrassment and expense of another round of fines?