IS IT TRUE JULY 27, 2015

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IS IT TRUE we hear that a that a grass root political movement will be launched around the last week of September? …this movement is in the planning stages and we shall keep you updated as things progress?  …”when people fear the government we have Tyranny but when government fear the people we have Liberty“?

IS IT TRUE we wonder what’s the deal with City Council and the City Clerk not being paid last Friday? …could Councilman John Friend’s statement that the City is facing a major cash flow crisis be correct? …that this could be another one of Russ Lloyd Jr’s lack of  financial management oversights?

IS IT TRUE that the EVANSVILLE Police Department made national news? …on July 26, 2015 the Associated Press posted the following article about EPD “Ride-Along” policies in the Washington Times? …the (AP) article stated that “Evansville police are reviewing their ride-along policies after an officer’s son was accused of assaulting a man during a department sanctioned ride. The officer’s son allegedly tried to break the cellphone of a man recording an arrest June 28 at a gas station, the Evansville Courier & Press reported”?

IS IT TRUE we wonder why the Chief Bolin isn’t attending “ROLL CALL” shift change sessions like he used to? …many of the EPD rank and file are telling us that they would like to hear directly from Chief Bolin and not from his media person?

IS IT TRUE we are hearing that the Mayor’s political spin doctors are are telling anyone that will listen that the Mayor’s campaign is doing well? …they are telling people that the latest political poll has the Mayor leading Gail Riecken by 23 percentage points? …if you believe the poll numbers we have a Commercial Airport located in Newburgh to sell you?

IS IT TRUE some of our readers are wondering if the following people may have conflict of interest issues by serving on the Brownfields Board? …they are Joshua Armstrong, Kelly Coures and Sara Schuler? …it’s alleged part of Joshua Armstrong’s Chamber of Commerce salary is funded by a grant from DMD/ERC? …DMD Director Kelley Coures has a political patronage job appointed by the Mayor? …Sara Schuler is the City paid representative to the Downtown Convention Hotel project? ….this may be the reason why all three of these Brownfields Board members approve everything the Mayor wants?

Please take time and vote in today’s “Readers Poll”. Don’t miss reading today’s Feature articles because they are always an interesting read. New addition to the CCO is the Cause of Death reports generated by the Vanderburgh County Health Department.

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20 COMMENTS

  2. Bolin is an absolute disgrace. He must have some good dirt on Winnie or Winnie is just that inept and corrupt.

    • I think Bolin is doing just what the Mayor, FOP, and other politically connected parties are wanting with regard to the ‘nagger’ problem–or anyone else who dare question their authority.

  3. Is it true that Pinnacle Properties Partners LLC has no fewer than 22 properties listed in today’s legal section under “notice of real property tax sale”? These are condos in the Keystone Phase II development on the west side of North Green River Road, just south of Heckel Road. What is up with that?

  4. “IS IT TRUE some of our readers are wondering if the following people may have conflict of interest issues by serving on the Brownfields Board? …they are Joshua Armstrong, Kelly Coures and Sara Schuler? …it’s alleged part of Joshua Armstrong’s Chamber of Commerce salary is funded by a grant from DMD/ERC? …DMD Director Kelley Coures has a political patronage job appointed by the Mayor? …Sara Schuler is the City paid representative to the Downtown Convention Hotel project? ….this may be the reason why all three of these Brownfields Board members approve everything the Mayor wants?” (CCO)

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  5. The problems attendant to the EPD pale in comparison to the problems Evansville city government are facing. If city government fails, the EPD will be facing even more problems of a much larger nature than the petty squabbles for leadership in the department.

    Put your focus where it will do the MOST good for the MOST citizens of Evansville. Find a candidate with good moral and ethical standards who possesses some basic understanding of finances: like your outgo should not exceed your income, and back that person to run as an independent candidate. Most of the people I have asked want neither of the two announced candidates for their next mayor.

    • Lived in the Indy area when this was crammed down everyone’s throat and sold as the miracle of the ages. What a piece of crap!! This is how all sports are sold and it is a sad commentary on our times.

  7. You can know these people by the quality of the folks they surround themselves with. If the people of Evansville re-elect Winnecke they will be getting what they deserve, and that isn’t much. His record, such that it is, is one of complete failure. He has no accomplishments to point to. Unfortunately that seems to be way down the list of things that matter to the voters.

    They are indeed trotting the little clown out everytime a camera rolls. If seeing his mug sully your screen earns your vote, cast away. Gilligan has a spot for you, right under the coconut tree. Keep your hands off Mary Ann.

    • I agree with every word, but it will be no different if he’s replaced with Ms. Riecken. The cast of characters will change, but the plot remains the same as long as the makeup of the city council is unchanged.

  8. How do you get to be a member of the board of the Brownfields? Are there Brownfield members or just board members? Brownfield employees? Do other city department have their own non-profit slush fund and we just don’t know it?

    • The city and the EVSC annually send tax dollars, in the form of grants, to the the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, a not-for-profit LLC. The Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences is sitting on a work by Pablo Picasso that they say they must sell because they can neither afford to display nor insure the work. Estimates of its value that I have seen in print suggest that it could bring as much as $40. million.

      My suggestion? Sell the colored glass work and inform the city and the EVSC that they may retain their grant money/tax dollars for the time being!

      • Press, excellent points. Forgot all about the Museums “problem” with their too valuable Picasso. Museum gifts the painting to the EVSC Foundation that then sells the Picasso for $40 million and the EVSC Foundation then gifts $10 million back to the Museum to upgrade their security as they await another Picasso. Next, $20 million to the City for the down hotel (suggesting they call the hotel bar “Hablo at Pablo’s”). Foundation then gifts $5 million to restore Mesker Amphitheater so it can compete with the Ford Center for summer/fall concerts. Finally the EVSC Foundation gifts the remaining $5 million to the Evansville Airport to upgrade and expand their golf course, contingent upon the new 9 hole course (old red course) being named “Schools Out” at Thunderbolt Pass.

  9. Sara Schuler also dips at the public welfare trough by her partnership in VPS Architecture where she sees the benefits of design contracts for architectural services for city projects.

  10. Bob Warren of the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau standing at the podium lamenting the closing of the Clarion INN in one breath and then expounding the “need” for a 250 room facility downtown in the next breath has me more than a bit baffled. Does Mr. Warren really not understand that it was the lack of a sufficient market for their INN that caused the closing of the Clarion?

    That same lack of a market downtown closed the previous Executive Inn, which by the way had a popular bar, an indoor swimming pool, and a decent dining facility.

    I am a free market type and believe that where markets exist, private enterprise is right there to seek a profit and fill a need. The City of Evansville can not afford to be the funding entity for every project on someone’s wish list. Evansville needs to get out of the banking business before it goes broke. And it did not go unnoticed that the counsel for the ERC said that Fifth Third Bank would be handling the bond issue for the proposed convention hotel. You may be able to abstain from voting on a project that you have an interest in if you are a board member of Evansville Brownfields, but what about the connection between the mayor and Fifth Third Bank?

    We all WISH we could build an elegant facility downtown, but the adults in the room know only too well about the financial reality of the project. I think the city would be better served to walk away from the project entirely. Maybe with the possibility of the IU Medical School coming to the downtown the picture has changed and there might now be some private interests that will be interested in building a convention hotel on their own dime, or at least with a much more modest incentive package by the city.

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