“IS IT TRUE” JULY 23, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

IS IT TRUE that this evening members of the Evansville City Council will discuss approving a request from the Winnecke Administration to take $2,765,000 from the Riverboat Fund to move the LST Boat next to Tropicana Casino-Evansville? …that this money will not only be used to build a new boat dock for the LST but also build a new visitors center at the Tropicana Riverfront Plaza?

IS IT TRUE we must remind City Council that the City of Evansville is responsible for dismantling the current boat dock and visitors center at Marina Point when the LST moves to its new location at the new visitors center at Tropicana Riverfront Plaza?  …we are told by reliable sources that it will cost the taxpayers around $3 million dollars to dismantle the current boat dock and visitors center at Marina Point?  …we are told that members of the Winnecke Administration are telling members of City Council that they have someone to dismantle the current LST boat dock for salvage value only?  …we strongly urge that members of City Council demand that they see a written contract from a salvage company stating that they will dismantle this dock for salvage value only?  …if the Winnecke Administration can produce such a letter from a salvage company they will save the taxpayers of Evansville $3 million dollars?

IS IT TRUE since the taxpayers of Evansville are footing the costs of relocating the LST boat from Marina Point to its new location at the Tropicana Riverfront Plaza we wonder how many members of the LST Board of Directors are from this area?  …we are told that several people feel that if the taxpayers of Evansville are subsidizing the LST than we should have people from Evansville serving on the LST Board of Directors?

IS IT TRUE that last Thursday a group of starry-eyed owners of a training football team in California that typically only attracts 200-300 fans rolled out a presentation to a group of influential people to build a $300 million indoor arena for football and other events?…this either took an amazing level of chutzpah or just an incredibly ignorant understanding of the value of sports arenas?…they were touting the economic development impact of stadiums and actually touted the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana as a financial model for an arena that makes money?…little did they know that someone who knows the numbers for the Ford Center was in the room?…if Ford Center can lose $9 million per year after borrowing $127 million and be touted as a big winner, then these guys will be poised to lose $20 million per year if the just scale the losses of Ford Center on a dollar for dollar basis?

IS IT TRUE they also talked up the YUM Center in Louisville that is also losing money faster than it can be counted?…YUM Center picks the pockets of the City of Louisville and the State of Kentucky for a combined $22 million?…there is a report on the financial performance of sports facilities by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that concludes that no sports stadium has ever worked out well for any state or municipality?…studies from both Harvard and Stanford conclude that the sum total, of economic development from sports arenas, is so negative that such things should never even be represented as having economic development value?

IS IT TRUE that there are still some in Evansville who assert that Ford Center has had such a positive economic impact that it is worth the $9 million per year in losses to the taxpayers of Evansville?…the reality is that the Ford Center couldn’t even generate enough business to keep The Maingate Bar open?…the other reality is that the Doubletree Hotel needed a subsidy of over $20 million and the IU Medical School consumed over $50 million tax dollars?…the truth is that the IU Medical School should have come first and the hotel would not have needed a subsidy?…as for the Ford Center, as pretty as it is, it should have never happened and most people know it?…of course the ones who still tout the Ford Center as the savior of downtown Evansville are the ones who paid a consultant for a nonsensical study and jammed the project down the throat of Evansville without a vote?

IS IT TRUE we wonder what is the status of the ECHO Housing forensic audit?

IS IT TRUE we wonder if the water and sewer bills  at the McCurdy are current?

Today’s “Readers Poll” question is: Are you pleased with the direction that the State of Indiana is headed?

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23 COMMENTS

  1. $3,000,000 to move the LST? Are you kidding me? Great coverage by the CCO, as the City otherwise would waste millions on what should be a simple and inexpensive project. Remember the same genius City spent north of $16 million for Coures Folly, also known as the North Main Street Shopping Cart Path Project, which they built too narrow to install silly concrete planters the locals use to toss their cigarette butts and trash.

  2. The LST represents dedication to our US Veterans who fought and died for their country. I, for one, and proud of the commitment the City is showing our United States Veterans.

    There are people in here who post who regularly write their support of the enemies of the United States like Putin’s communist Russia, support Putin’s attacks through Trump on NATO, and support the ACLU rights of the Nazi’s who marched at Charlottesville. SHAME on you.

    God bless the United States of America. God bless our US Veterans.

    • The LST that was not built in Evansville, is just like any other boat, a hole In the water in which you pour money. That ugly relic represents only the special interest group, as their pet project, and funded by the taxpayers of Evansville. The LST does not deserve a front and center on the riverfront, and should be left at Marina Pointe, or further downstream, perhaps New Orleans.

    • You may have fought but apparently didn’t die, please don’t ride on the backs of those who died. Also, as a life member of 1114 I strongly object to you using the post home as your as posting name. Very unbecoming and inappropriate. Most veterans I know and I know many are very conservative, a few slip through the crack and become veterans of the Kerry ilk and find a common ground with jane. Haven’t been to 1114 lately, is the picture of Jane still located in the urinal?

      • Amazing. You give Hanoi Jane hell for what she over did over 50 years ago but stand by General Bone spur as he kisses Putin’s ass. Trump makes terrible comments about a true hero, Sen McCain but you swallow his BS hook line and sinker

      • Really? That’s two that Nastypeak stepped in it.
        Newspeak is on drugs calling a russian hating God bless America veteran a liberal?
        Back on your heels there buddy?

    • nope. no they dont. thats not what it says.
      and. everyone knows you ignore facts joe. in fact, you fabricate crap all the time
      last. when muellers report comes out, then and only then, will it be known if the dossier is phony or not.
      trump is deferring to putin like the dossier is accurate.

      • Both JoeB and presskey-newspeak go to Russiatoday.com to get their news.
        It’s sick.

        • when you lose 70% of your readers like breitbart did, and you’re laying everybody off and going out of business, will they take russian $ to publish stuff joebiden wants to read?
          of course. same with that gatewaypundit b.s. site

          • The Anti American Commie Gruber Goober Libs have without a doubt lost their mind if they can’t see Maga Trump was indeed spied on by Obama.

          • agree carlos looks like the anti American african queen barry hussin is the one looking @impeachment…………………….and or jail……………………….

          • Carlos. You need to grow up.
            The FBI, NSA and the CIA were being the patriots they are and were tracking known enemies of the US – Russians. It turns out that when they followed them, lo and behold, there were Trump campaign people meeting with them. That you don’t care makes YOU a commie, dummy.

        • Ann, wrong, I go to CNN= communist news network to get the latest updates on the socialist democrat party and the great job they are doing to keep America from being as great as it should be. Trump country is growing like posey county melons.

          • Newspeak, you get REAMED…and the best you got is to bring out the old pot that CNN is communist?

  4. How much did Weinzapfel pay for that LST dock and welcome center? Its only been there around 10 years.

    • Why is the name of the politician who owns the dock and land it is attached to never mentioned? She has collected a pretty good rent the last eight years.

  5. Let it go! Belly aching about the Ford Center forevr and evr. Just stop. ROBERTS IS GONE! GET OVER IT. Help promote thw lace because your paying for it too. Your just hurting its chances.

    • Chances??? Sounds like you need to get over the facts. It’s a loser just like Weiney.

  7. Why would the mayor even ponder spending almost 3 million dollars from the boat fund to move a LST. Then in the background comes, oh by the way, maybe 3 more for destruction of the present docking facility. Now, I am sure if the city had a surplus, that no-one would object to the move. Why can’t the administration realize you can’t just keep borrowing and plundering the boat fund. Did they not learn long ago that if you don’t have the money, it does not happen? Lastly, it is a shame that the BOD for the LST is not Evansville based. What if the out of towers just decided to move the LST? Hell, it was no made here anyway. Still think it is a shame we don’t have an Evansville made P-47 Thunderbolt!!!

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