“IS IT TRUE” DECEMBER 28, 2018

We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

IS IT TRUE  we are told that the chickens of 2009 may be coming home to roost on the City of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, and some surrogate agencies during the 2019 election cycle?…we are told that several lawsuits could be filed during the coming months for wrongful dismissal, defamation of character, restraint of trade, and the negative impacts associated with such actions?…we are also told that the current and past Mayors may well be named as respondents in the forthcoming suits that are up against the 10 year statute of limitations for grievances of this nature?…that during the same time period the actions of a former City official lead to a settlement for a former CEO of the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau?…we were told that the reality at that time was that many non-profit agencies were alter egos of the City of Evansville and other government supporters because the boards of directors of these organizations were dominated by politics in ways that corrupted their independence?…piercing that veil that is supposed to be intact would expose local government to significant settlements for meddling in the management of governmental controlled non-profits?…the director’s and officer’s insurance policies of all of these agencies and their alter ego status could be quite expensive when the extent of the financial damages they caused are adjudicated?

IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Courier and Press was slammed for publishing an article on the sad fact that the origins of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana happened in Evansville where the first charter for the hate group was signed?…there are many people who are posting comments that it is not appropriate to point out that this started here and are quite offended to learn this undisputed fact?…the reality is that all places have a thing or two that do not make their residents proud but it does a bit of good to revisit one’s past so that the sins of the past to not repeat themselves in the future?…while one thing that most people can agree on is that the Ku Klux Klan was a despicable hate-based organization that has no place in a kind and loving world, to deny the past is to doom something to be repeated in the future?  …perhaps a commendation is warranted for every citizen of Evansville/Vanderburgh County who can take the remainder in stride and reaffirm their commitment to inclusion, diversity, peace, love, and understanding in a world that seems to be foaming at the mouth for contention?

IS IT TRUE  for many years we have been telling our readers that the City of Evansville Employee Health Insurance had several million dollar deficits with very little money in the rainy day fund to bring these medical bring bills current? …every time we brought this subject up to the people in the Controllers office all we heard from them were the sound of crickets?