IS IT TRUE DECEMBER 18, 2015

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IS IT TRUE  we hear that 12 local attorneys are applying for the position of City Council attorney for 2016?  …they are ErinBauer, law firm of Bamberger, Forman,Oswald and Hahn, LLP, Timothy Born, Doug Briody, Yvonne Carter, Rob Faulkner, law firm of Find and Hatfield, James Godbold, David Hatfield, law firm of Jackson and Kelly, PLLC, law firm of Jones and Wallace and James Michael Thomas?…we can’t wait to see if the Democratic controlled City Council will keep with tradition and appoint a City Council attorney who is a member of their party or think outside the political box?

IS IT TRUE Vanderburgh County Commissioner Joe Kiefer announced at a news conference today that he shall not seek re-election to that position in 2016?  …we believe that Mr Kiefer is one of the most honest, dedicated hardworking elected official that we have had in Vanderburgh County in many years and he will be missed?

IS IT TRUE Here is a link to the statute concerning SBA exit conference on the General Assembly’s website:  https://iga.in.gov/legislative/laws/2015/ic/titles/005/articles/011/chapters/005/ seemly that requires the Mayor of Evansville to invite members of City Council to attend the State Board of Accounts exit conference concerning the 2014 City audit this coming Thursday, December 17, 2015?  …we were informed that the Mayor did invite a couple of present members of City County to attend the exit conference meeting on Thursday and that we are grateful?

IS IT TRUE we would like to congratulate City Council President elect Missy Mosby for having a mock City Council meeting so the new members could get and idea how meeting are conducted?

 IS IT TRUE the ERC Board just approved a $13 million dollar public works project in the blighted North Main Street area? …the ERC are going to install bike path, streetscape and side walk improvements on North Main Street?  … the ERC  just  approved the low bid from a Newburgh-based business named Ragle Inc. for the North Main Street project?

IS IT TRUE that the ERC  also purchased expensive parcels of land, vacant homes and dilapidated  commercial buildings on North Main to create about 120 off-street parking spaces?  …the  Jacobsville area has the highest reported crime rates in the city,  also the residents have the lowest median household income in the area?  …we can’t wait to see how installing new bike lane, new landscaping and side walks on North Main Street are going to turn around the crime rate but will also increase the median income in this blighted area?
IS IT TRUE don’t forget to vote in todays “READERS POLL“?  …todays “Readers Poll” question is; Will new bike lanes, new landscaping and sidewalks on North Main Street turn around the crime rate and increase the median income in this blighted area?

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26 COMMENTS

    • I guess they are counting Mosby, Weaver, Brinkmeyer, and Adams as Democrats. The first three owe their seats on the Council to Republicans not running anyone against them and the fourth has a son on EPD. It makes no difference who the attorney is. This is a Winnecke controlled City Council. Hang on, Evansville! You’re in for a wild ride.

    • Maybe for awhile it will look better, but the side streets will still be the mess they are. The real “killer” here is that the bike shop that was to be the “centerpiece” of that lame-brained scheme, Bob’s Bikes went out of business and left town last spring. They have the poor lady who has the cake shop believing she is going to get rich selling box lunches to cyclists. Serious cyclists DON’T stop and eat. They are working to build speed and endurance. I don’t think many pleasure cyclists will be interested in hauling their bikes downtown to get to ride the “greenway”. Some will, but all it will take is a couple of muggings and/or robberies to stop that.
      Danny DiLegge claims to be looking forward to having “seven or eight”competitive restaurants nearby, and thinks this project will bring them. I’m thinking if he really wants competition, he would do well to open a restaurant in the Lloyd and Burkhardt area, Franklin Street, or even Haynie’s Corner. It has taken over forty years to get Haynie;s Corner to veer in the right direction, and there is not as much to attract middle and upper middle class people to Jacobsville as there was to the Historic District.

      • More idiotic cronies fuel that’s all there is to it. No real value to the rest of your town at all.

        • This pork-barrel project is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig. The “bike lane” will be used by the locals, homeless and transients as a shopping cart highway as they wheel their groceries, possessions, etc. on N. Main, both north and south of the Expressway.

      • Maybe I don’t understand how many bike enthusiast we have, but it seems to me in our climate it is either to hot, to cold, and most of us are to fat to make use of bike paths as they are used in California.

  4. Can’t the picture show how the N. Main project will look after it’s torn up to fix the sewers, or is that fix included in the project? That should be done before you ice the cake.

  5. Joe Kiefer is a hard working public official with common sense and great fairness. Good luck to him in all future endeavors.

  6. So what is the price tag to local taxpayers for accepting the $43. million in largess from the State of Indiana? Well, for the taxpayers of Vanderburgh county, the amount they would have to pony up to make these various projects a reality amounts to an additional $187. Million in public funding.

    It is reminiscent of a project not so long ago when a new school corporation superintendent arrived in town and immediately set about spending over $150. Million to build two new schools on Hwy 41 North. At least that required a referendum! In this present spending spree, for a 22% grant by the State, the taxpayers are expected to cover the remaining 78% of the cost of these projects, many of which the public will have no ownership or equity stake in, and no referendum on whether or not the public thinks these projects worthy of using public funds!

    I think the Fed has a term for this type of pump priming: they call it “quantitative easing”. Is this not just a very crafty way of getting around the public approval process for spending $187. Million of public money in Vanderburgh county?

    • Thank you for mentioning that, PAK. I was wondering about where the public part of the funding for these projects will be coming from, myself.
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  7. From Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today:
    “There is no Republican Party! This (the approved budget) was out-and-out, in-our-face lying, from the campaigns to individual statements made about the philosophical approach Republicans had to all this spending. You know, we don’t even need a Republican Party if they’re gonna do this. You know, just elect Democrats, disband the Republican Party, and let the Democrats run it, because that’s what’s happening anyway. And these same Republican leaders doing this can’t, for the life of them, figure out why Donald Trump has all the support that he has? They really can’t figure this out?”

    (Sounds like things are pretty bad.
    A lot of tough talk from Rush Limbagh….daily…..from this guy. None of it is working.)

    • I think the better path would be to take back the Republican party from the rinos who have hijacked it, and there is no better place to start than right here locally!

      • I simply don’t recognize what the party has become. And you’re right, it begins here. But how?

        • A good start would be at the very grassroots level by seeing to it that the precincts have the right people occupying the precinct committeeman spots. If that is not possible to accomplish under the current chairman of the local republican party, then a new chairman needs to be elected.

      • I simply don’t recognize what the party has become. And you’re right, it begins here. But how? Might be easier to take the democrat party back.

      • everyone who might try to take the party back has either left town or become so disillusioned that they just don’t care. Rob Faulkner needs to resign, but with Missy and the Beaver in charge he is good for at least 5 more years, which should allow for the complete bankruptcy of Evansville.

        • …….losing 62% of the electorate,
          having them cast a vote against you and your ideas,
          well JBYRD, you are right.

          It IS a sign that your and your ideas do not interest the clear majority of the voters.
          If you’re like Bandana, you’ll blame the voters and call them stupid and uninformed.
          But responsible voters showed up to vote, and they said “NO” to you by a 62% margin.
          Yes. It sends a message.

          • Oh good. My pathetic little Pee Wee Herman-style troll/stalker went a day or two without a gratuitious mention of my name. I feared he had a butterfly net thrown over him and was carted off to conversion therapy.

            Good to see you up and running, Pee Wee.

          • …you’re welcome.
            It’s gonna be fun to rub a 62% loss in your face….for a long time….Bandana.
            All your sleazy diatribes. Total and utter rejection.
            I mean, SIXTY-TWO PERCENT!! Crazy naked man numbers….Bandana!!
            Humiliation served on a warm roll. (Smile)

          • Oh. And the gay thing again.
            Bandana, I mean c’mon.
            Are you gay Bandana?
            (which is totally fine if so, but quite odd for you to throw gay slurs all the time)

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