IS IT TRUE July 28, 2015

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IS IT TRUE that the ‘RIDE ALONG”  incident involving an Evansville Police Officer and his son should be resolved soon as possible because the longer it takes  Chief Bolin to make a decision concerning this case it becomes a huge political problem for the Mayor?

IS IT TRUE if Chief Bolin treats everyone the same way in the “RIDE ALONG” case there should be no claims of preferential treatment?   … Chief Bolin should change current policy that members of the immediate family of an Officers cannot  participate in the “RIDE ALONG” program?

IS IT TRUE the “Ride Along” program is used to show new Police Department recruits what to expect when patrolling  neighborhoods?  …this program could also be used for the media, the Center City Clergy or you and I to see what exactly happens during exchanges with officers and the public?  …this worthwhile program allows new recruits to see first hand what a dangerous job a Police Officer has?

IS IT TRUE Governor Mike Pence recently made 47 appointments to boards and commissions?   …Michael “Jud” J. Fisher Jr. (Vanderburgh County), reappointed to serve a four-year term and Caren Briel Whitehouse (Vanderburgh County), reappointed to serve a four-year term on the Indiana Commission for Higher Education?

IS IT TRUE we found presentation made by the Director of Jacobsville Join in and the Director of ECHO at last night City Council meeting interesting?   …they kept saying what a wonderful place Jacobsville  area is to live in?  …both Directors talked about the great potential of North Main and Jacobsville ?  …we wonder if both of these ladies live the Jacobsville area?

IS IT TRUE the Director of ECHO told us how wonderful the painted Mural on the side of a building behind McDonalds is?  …she stated  this Mural was Gateway to welcoming people to the North Main and Jacobsville area ?  …it would have been better if the $40,000.00  to paint a mural on the building would have been used to help the needy people in that area?

IS IT TRUE that our regular poster PRESSANYKEY said this about Bob Warren presentation to City Council last night?   “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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  2. How dare you Pressanykey!!! To suggest Sanity and Commonsense should override what the Elitists want,–yes, unabashedly DEMAND. Do you really think the Dull Knives in the Drawer of Evansville’s leadership will listen, or,—abandon their Pipe Dream?—-Damn the reality of Market Forces,–full steam ahead!
    Regardless of his undeniable Medical Acumen,–in the completely different field of Politics,–“Adams the Politician” personifies George Wallace’s definition of an “Educated Idiot”, and is nothing more than a stalking horse for the Wine and Cheese Elitists that remain determined to spend WHAT EVER IT TAKES of the Community’s Treasury, to prop up their “baby”–Old Downtown. Bend over folks, Nothing is going to stop them, repeat, NOTHING is going to stop them,—–they ARE going to have their WAY with you.
    The only escape from their clutches? Take matters in to your OWN hands,– get out of “Little Detroit”.
    –A Sad Sad solution, but given the reality of Politics in Evansville,–it’s the only viable one.

  3. When compared to hotels built in other cities, the cost of this place is bloated. I love how they continue to say “Hilton”.It won’t be a Hilton, not even close,but a subbrand, MAYBE a doubletree. It doesn’t meet specifications for any other HHC brands. No one refers to Doubletree or Hampton inns as hiltons, only scammers.
    Also if the med school sub campus is really going to demand a hotel and bring a commerce boom to downtown then you will have people knocking on the door to build a hotel. Maybe only wanting a tax abatement for a few years, not 20 mil on a bloated 60 mil build.

  4. It is not true the Med School is “coming” to downtown. Evansville taxpayers are going on the hook for $60,000,000+ to “bring” the Med School downtown.

  5. Is it True that any fool can make wild pie-in-the-sky projections about lost Hotel revenue and Bob Warren’s numbers of lost Hotel revenue are just as unsubstantiated and unlikely as his softball tournament projections.

    Any other town would run such a shyster and shill out of town on a rail, but here in Evansville he is seen as a serious guru.

    Is it True that Evansville’s current EXISTING hotels are running way under capacity this summer when they should all be nearly full?

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • Yep, and we’re pretty sure Dunn hospitality is on schedule to build another extended stay “Hotel” facility out along the “qualified throughput logistics actually offered right now along the I-69 gateway as well.
      Privately funded throughout the application also. Analysis and true valuation numbers likely recovered by paid consultation and site profitability numbers are proven solid with given predictable numbers by good site planning and ongoing logistical growth along the gateway area there.

      Whoever “pulled the wool” over the eyes of the IU medical school board on the crumby location in downtown Evansville ought to expand on their talents and go for some big money project focuses,
      Disney world creations and the Jurassic infrastructure commerce park. Go soft on the utilities cost in the pitch however, as that will become a shocking reality with the first few sewer and water bills only to be outweighed by the massive and monster sized Jurassic infrastructures energy bills.

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      adjective: r/.1. (especially of a person) thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.
      “a visionary leader”
      synonyms: inspired, imaginative, creative, inventive, ingenious, enterprising, innovative;
      r/.2. of, relating to, or able to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.
      “a visionary experience”
      noun: r/.1. a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.

      —–>Reality<—— is the conjectured state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible………..

    • I believe numbers flick through his mind like balls and strikes on one of his deluxe scoreboards, that is to say not discernible by ordinary people.

  6. What I can’t figure out is most Dems are always railing against corporate welfare, and yet you have a Democrat controlled city council and they want to give $20 million to a corporation and we get nothing in return except a down sized down scale building.

    • Whatever it is it will probably be less when Kunkel starts moving in the section 8 renters in the McCurdy.

      • mcCurdy will never be done. Fast forward to 2019 and the debate will be how best to demolish it.

        • @ ThatOneGuy:

          Its already progressing to the ground by natural implosion due to what appears to be neglected preventative maintenance. One moderate quake/trembler or wiggle in the fault line the thing will likely drop into the river sand that’s jiggling it. That old building and the “open environmental hazard” Owen block building should just be fodder for the wrecking ball soon, any funds tossed into either will never be fully recovered by anyone. After reading the comments by George Lumley recently our consortium suggested some really innovative solutions, we are not in the cronies stream there locally, so the solutions would go unattended to until they could line up one of the local cronies outfits to absorb any profitable funding created by the really visionary and futuristic usage plan.
          We’ll introduce the innovation elsewhere. Never really heard of the methodology and urban development as suggested by a member before, seems its beginning to catch on in the more progressive global communities though. It’ll be old news and far evolved years ahead before anyone in Evansville would ever even conceive such a conceptualization.

        • McCurdy has been oversold, big time. That puts it second to the wholesale overselling of the Ford Center:

          1) Big acts will return to town;
          2) Will provide economic revitalization to Downtown;
          3) Will draw people from out-of-town;
          4) Private investors will build a Downtown Hotel as a result; and
          5) Will be profitable from day one;

          NONE of these promises has been delivered for a $ 161 Million boat anchor around ankles.

  8. Convention Planners could send their groups to Indy, St.Louis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Louisville, etc. in this region.
    Why Evansville ? And why send them to a 5-story hotel with an outdoor pool ? Don’t see how EVV competes and makes money.

  9. If the younger Mr. Belwood was a new recruit, I do hope his behavior on the ride along eliminates him from consideration for employment on this or any other police force. He obviously does not have the temperament to be fit for such work.

    • Uh, Belwood has had his problems as a cop but this wasn’t one of them. The officer and his kid are named Underwood.

  10. Moving the activities from Roberts Stadium to the downtown didn’t have any positive gains in acts or attendance. UE basketball has actually fallen off

    Building a 240 room hotel downtown after an equivalent on North 41 failed and expecting a different outcome is clearly over the sanity line.

    Sometimes I think The Village Idiot would make a perfect mascot for the City of Evansville

  11. The dumbest thing ever: Building The Betty with less capacity than Roberts. The rigging was BS. Most lighting and effects are led and 1/10th the weight and size.

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