IS IT TRUE January 21, 2013

IS IT TRUE we wish all of our readers a most excellent day that many people enjoy as a paid holiday to commemorate the life’s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?…on some occasions the inauguration of the President of the United States happens on Dr. King’s Day and this is one of those times?…as President Barack Obama is publicly sworn in to begin serving his second term we should all take the time to remember the great nation that was built by those who fled tyranny to establish the United States of America and to author our Constitution?…as President Obama swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States we should all silently ask the powers of the universe to grant him the wisdom to know what that means and the courage to fulfill the oath he will be taking for the 2nd time?

IS IT TRUE Saturday brought us an entertaining day of college basketball with several down to the wire games for ranked teams?…the then #1 Louisville Cardinals seemed bound and determined to hand Syracuse the win and succeeded in doing so?…the most thrilling game of the day was a dogfight between the Butler Bulldogs and the Gonzaga Bulldogs?…these teams fought it out down to the last fraction of a second when Butler hit a floater to win the game and knock off their 3rd top 10 team of the season including the IU Hoosiers?…it should be a foregone conclusion that Butler will be in the Top 10 when today’s rankings come out and will in all likelihood be the highest ranked team from Indiana?…Butler deserves this distinction and continues to be one of the most likeable and exquisitely managed and coached teams in the nation?…the other puzzling thing from this weekend’s games was the victory by Wichita State over Creighton?…we recall that our own University of Evansville Purple Aces defeated Wichita State but got clobbered by Creighton?…when the Aces are consistently the team that beat Wichita State we can expect 25+ wins per year and an attendance increase at Ford Center?…as we have often written loyalty will sell the first 3,000 tickets but winning games is the only way to fill the remaining 7,000 seats and it does not matter if the game is in the Ford Center, Roberts Stadium, or a large pole barn with peach baskets?…winning is what filled Hinkle Fieldhouse and consistent winning is what will hopefully fill the Ford Center for Aces and Eagles games some day?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville once again is experiencing a situation where a shooting has happened on the East Side that no one seems to have witnessed including the two people who got shot?…it would seem to be a foregone conclusion that people getting shot is a bad thing and that the perps who do such things need to be prosecuted and incarcerated?…as long as criminals are allowed to rampage and shoot people and everyday citizens refuse to testify with that old “I didn’t see nothing” excuse, the rampage will continue?…that fixing schools fixes neighborhoods and that fixing neighborhoods fixes cities?…we would like to plead with the citizens of Evansville to get beyond the criminals friend position of “I didn’t see nothing” and help reclaim the parts of this town in need of reclamation?…blight and crime do not ever clean themselves up?

IS IT TRUE that over the weekend the City County Observer passed another readership milestone seeing Google Analytics report that over 2 Million pages have been viewed since the counting started in October of 2010?…the CCO has now had more unique visitors that the entire population of Vanderburgh County?…that even though it is not a year with a big election the 2013 readership exceeds the 2012 readership thusfar by 23.2%?

IS IT TRUE that we wonder on this Dr. Martin Luther King Day, so we as a nation still have a dream and if so what might that dream be?