IS IT TRUE? February 26, 2011

IS IT TRUE that the rotting shell of the Executive Inn is finally scheduled for demolition?…that Arena project manager John Kish is now saying that the demolition process will begin sometime in March?…that we are curious about the price that is being paid for this demolition?…that we are equally curious about when the request for bids went out, how many companies submitted bids, and what the range of these prices happened to be?…that as this is a public project that this should have been bid and should be made known to the public?

IS IT TRUE that no contract is in place between the City of Evansville and Woodruff Hospitality yet?…that it was expected that this important step would be completed no later than mid February?…that two demolitions under a single contract would probably be less expensive that two independent contracts?…that if the City of Evansville is going forward with the demolition of the Executive Inn that maybe that job should be upgraded to include the parking garage where the new Hyatt Place Convention Hotel will be built should be done at the same time?…that we are still completely baffled how anyone in their right mind could have ever thought that a refurbishment of the existing Executive Inn would have complemented the new Arena?…that we also wonder how equipment would have been staged into and out of the new Arena with the old Executive Inn still standing?…that it still does not seem like there is a maestro leading the orchestra down on Main Street?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville’s own Gail Riecken, one of the members of the Indiana House of Representatives who are holed up in a hotel in Urbana, IL to obstruct the agenda of the Speaker of the House made the national FOX NEWS report on the Neil Cavuto show yesterday?…that the music in the background during the report about the Indiana Democratic contingency was “Runaway” by Del Shannon?…that we once again encourage our elected representatives to stop this childish tantrum and get themselves back to Indianapolis to do the job that they were elected to do?…that if obstruction of legislation is the right thing to do that there is a right way to do it?…that running for the border to hide behind the fortress of Illinois is the exactly wrong way to do it?…that Indiana is being made into a laughing stock on national news broadcasts all across the country?...that this type of behavior is of no help whatsoever for job creation efforts by the State of Indiana?

IS IT TRUE that just yesterday a lady was attacked by four pit bull dogs while walking on a public sidewalk in South Evansville?…that just last week that the City County Observer reported that one of the negative aspects of looking over the IDEA HOME is the fact that three free roaming pit bulls were hanging out right next door?…that if city beautification programs like Front Door Pride are to ever work that the basics of a safe life must be assured?…that these basics include freedom from violent crime, freedom from property crime, freedom from free ranging pit bull dogs, and a local school that ranks highly in ISTEP achievement?…that building McMansions in unsafe places with poor school performance never really works?