IS IT TRUE For January 16 and 17, 2016

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IS IT TRUE we recently posted we are hearing that a couple past and present city officials are getting “lawyered up” because of a pending Federal investigation? …we hear that the taxpayers are footing the legal bills?  …we are now heading that representative of the Winnecke Administration are denying this claim?  …we would like for someone to ask DMD Director Kelly Couces or the Mayors Chief of Staff if this statement is completely wrong at the next City Council meeting?

IS IT  TRUE that THE DEVELOPMENT COALITION OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA announced last week that they are asking for your input regarding facilities (former fueling stations, schools, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, or commercial facilities) that might be considered Brownfield properties?  …they define  Brownfield property as property that is under-utilized (often sitting vacant for an extended period of time) due to the real or perceived suspicion that there may be some kind of contamination on the property or within the structure?  …we wonder why the City of Evansville feels that Evansville Brownfield Corp. only mission is to deal with blighted homes and not former fueling stations, schools, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, or commercial facilities that are contaminated?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville Brownfield Corp shall be meeting on January 29 2016 somewhere in Evansville? …we are told DMD Director Kelley Coures is keeping information concerning the time and place of the 29th Brownfield meeting secret?  …we hear that Mr. Couces will be ask at the next City Council meeting what time and where will the Evansville Brownfield Corp. meet?

..we hear that the DMD Director Kelly Couces is going to try to convince City Council members that Evansville Brownfield Corp is a separate entity from them and should be allowed to conduct their meetings in private?  we can’t wait for him to explain where the money comes from to operate Evansville Brownfield Corp.?

IS IT TRUE that last week the City County Observer posted that IceMen have territorial rights for professional hockey in this region?  …because of that Evansville would have to seek another hockey franchise other than the ECHL for next season which is an impossible task?

IS IT TRUE we are pleased to see Mayor Winnecke finally taking direct control of the contract talks between the City and the IceMen?  …it was obvious when he allowed the President of the ERC to represent his views on this subject contracts talks went nowhere?  …we respectfully suggest that the Mayor and Ron Geary sit down like to reasonable an intelligent adults and end this contractual stalemate and extend the team’s lease beyond the current season?

IS IT TRUE that the ACLU 2016 legislative session shall be addressing things that they feel politicians are wasting our precious time and resources on frivolous attacks on our civil liberties?  …some of the things the ACLU  will be taking action on in 2016 are: LGBT rights,  Reproductive Freedom and Criminal Justice Reform?

IS IT TRUE that the best keep secret in Indianapolis the City Market Catacombs tours?  … on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month, May through October, and October 31 ttours begin at 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 12:30 p.m., and 1 p.?  …the guided tour of the Catacombs shows you a Roman-looking expanse of brick arches beneath the outdoor Whistler Plaza of City Market.  …the Catacombs qualify as both a ruin and a redevelopment opportunity?   …City Market Catacombs tours last approximately 45 minutes and depart from the west plaza of City Market, 222 E. Market Street, Indianapolis.  …cost: $12 per adult (12 and up); $6 per child (ages 6-12); $10 per member of Indiana Landmarks; $5 per child who are members Indiana Landmarks; Free for children ages 5 and under?

IS IT TRUE that our current “Readers Poll” ask; Should Evansville Brownfield Corp meetings be held in public?

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33 COMMENTS

  1. Waaaaa, — Icemen owner loses $600,000 on failing business, and Waaaaa, –it’s all the Mayor’s/City’s/taxpayer’s fault,—– Waaaaaa.

    • C&P reports that the Icemen home game attendance has dropped almost every year since they took up residency at the Ford Center, 4,019 avg. puts them in the bottom half of the league in attendance. Obviously their fan base is not now, and maybe never, will be enough to show a profit for “Geary’s Folly”. That is unless the City puts his business on —-the “Payroll”.

  2. I do not remember hearing much about this in the local news:

    http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2014/08/15/ceo-elevate-ventures-resigns-money-flap/14137997/

    Elevate Ventures Inc. received $100.K in 2013 from the Economic Development Coalition of Southwestern Indiana. Elevate also showed revenue of $3.2 million in Indiana Economic Development Corporation contracts for 2013.

    Here is Elevate’s form 990 filing:

    http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/274/274118692/274118692_201312_990.pdf?_ga=1.61906095.289781521.1452954672

    and here is the Economic Development Corporation of Southwestern Indiana’s form 990 filing:

    http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/320/320152630/320152630_201412_990O.pdf?_ga=1.29013311.289781521.1452954672

  3. You are really dedicated to research, and I appreciate it. I’m sure a lot of other people feel that way, too. If the local paper had somebody that did what you do, it wouldn’t be broke.

  4. I think (pretty sure) the president of the ERC is out of the city this week. That might be the reason “Mayor Winnecke finally taking direct control of the contract talks between the City and the IceMen”.

  6. Thank you. Thank you. It’s good to see posts uploaded ASAP instead of waiting 30 minutes to an hour for them to show up.

  7. Well who didn’t see all this coming? Once the new novelty factor wore off of hockey, nobody gives a rat’s ass. Couple that with poverty wages in the area, and bam, we have an expensive hockey rink that will sit unused.

    • Bob, are you having memory problems again? Our local progressive community was united in its support of Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel and his new multi-purpose arena. Do you not recall your many tirades against the conservative nay-sayers under your many earlier aliases on other sites? You do not do well to draw attention to our and your predictive failures. The correct position here is that all of this is the fault of the Republicans Winnecke, Pence, and George W. Bush.

      J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
      Maximum co-coordinator
      Organizing for Idiocy
      Evansville Cell

      • You’re a moron. I never was a Ford center cheerleader. I may have made fun of the lazy morons who complained about the superior parking. The Ford center has nothing to do with progressives, it has everything to do with cronyism.

        • Moron, I can get moron I heard a bus driver say once.

          Are you a retired bus driver Bob?….

        • You’re 100% right on that one, Bob! Corruption, conflicts of interest, and cronyism are the cornerstone of local politics and have been for generations.

          • I LOVE the way you kid around, Elkaybee! Take away corruption, conflicts of interest, and cronyism, and 98.6% of our progressive Democratic leadership would be gone. Many in our own local progressive community have held patronage jobs for which they were completely unqualified. Is this a great city or what?!

        • Bob, as I have frequently told you in the past, it makes the rest of our local progressive community look terrible when its members run away from and deny their past positions, as you are doing here. The Ford Center put bagloads of cash into many progressive Democratic pockets. There is nothing to be ashamed about here. Instead, we must cast the blame on Republicans for not not being able to make Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s impossible scheme work.

          J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
          Maximum co-coordinator
          Organizing for Idiocy
          Evansville Cell

          • I don’t know who you think I am, but you’re wrong. Also, get with the program. Party affiliation means nothing at the local level.

  8. Perhaps the most glaring evidence that Indiana is a conservative State is its voting history. Below are two columns of figures that represent Indiana’s voting in the Presidential elections going backwards from the one in 2012. The columns represent the number of times/years Indiana voted for the Republican candidate who lost the election, and the same for the Democrat candidate.

    The State voted:

    Republican and lost……………………………………………………………………..Democrat and lost

    2012………………………………………………………………………………………….1876 (Hayes won)

    1996………………………………………………………………………………………….1848 (Taylor won)

    1992………………………………………………………………………………………….1840 (Van Buren won)

    1976 (Carter won)

    1960 (Kennedy won)

    1948 (Truman won)

    1944 (Roosevelt won)

    1940 (Roosevelt won)

    1916 (Wilson won)

    • Your chart isn’t working for me on mobile, but what are you trying to prove? Did somebody deny that Indiana was a conservative state? We’re well aware.

    • Another indicator: we lag behind liberal states in nearly every single category. Red states lead the nation by a wide margin in: obesity, smoking, high school dropout rate, teen pregnancies, percentage of jobs that pay min wage, percentage of population without insurance, illiteracy, among many other categories. Yet, despite all the evidence to the contrary, some still believe trickle down Reagan voodoo economics actually works. Working 80 hrs a week for a bowl of gruel and a cardboard box to live in, the conservative working man dies waiting for some of that comfort to trickle down to him. It’s like a carrot dangling from a stick to lead the poor, tired horse.

      • Of course, Bob, many of the current blue states were not so long ago red states, and many current red states inherited their poor economic and social development from generations of Democratic control. It is a testimony to the success of the Democratic Party that we have taken over the successful former red states and are destroying and bleeding dry what the Republicans built in them. Many of the current red states are getting too successful and uppity as a result of being freed from our party’s control. We need to redouble our efforts to keep people in them down and obedient to our progressive leadership.

        • Could you name some examples of your generalization? I believe your will find that a majority of the poorest states are also “red” states, if you do some research.

          • @ PAK: Forbes info is not up to date, as KY now has Blithering Matt Bevin as a governor. The party of a state’s governor does NOT determine the political beliefs of a state, either. That is more readily determined by the party which dominates its legislature.

          • Laura:

            [“The more important factor is not the economic ranking of states at a point in time, but the overall trends. An important article by John Merline compared the economic performance of blue states and red states during the presidency of Barack Obama. The trend of economic indicators clearly favors Republican states. Democratic states have experienced lower growth in both jobs and income in the last few years. Home prices have fallen further in blue states, and their unemployment rates are higher. In other words, a dynamic economic analysis of the states casts a far more favorable light on Republican states than static analysis. Since real life is dynamic, not static, Republicans can make the stronger case about which party is best suited to lead the way to greater prosperity.”]

        • Commodore Hugo, you have work to do with English Bob. He forgets the old Obama adoring Administration gave us the Ford Center that he now whines incessantly about. He can’t follow the liberal talking points. Maybe they are too hard. Probably true. Or, maybe, just maybe he has somehow developed the tiniest of independent thought, There is the chance that E. Bob has somehow opened a brain channel and for the first time has the ability to start to understand common sense conservative thinking. Although he often seems like a petulant Forrest Gump on the CCO, there is some remote chance of hope for him if he focuses on results of decisions, and not the feel good reasons that politically correct decisions were made by you friends Hugo.

  9. Great job, Mr. Editor! It’s a lot better not to have to wait for things to be put up.

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