IS IT TRUE? March 19, 2011

IS IT TRUE? March 19, 2011

IS IT TRUE that when the City County Observer raises question that answers come to us?…that yesterday in this column we asked for the “undisclosed” reason that the demolition of the Executive Inn had be halted literally hours after starting?…that shortly after that we received an email from a man who is most certainly in the know with the answers?…that there are two reasons for the delay?…that Verizon has antennas on the roof and that they have not yet signed a release to allow for them to be removed?…that the new Democratic Party headquarters is not yet prepared for them to move into it?…that those are the reasons?…that this just seems to be one of those things that happens with construction projects?…that in Evansville when one hears the term “undisclosed” everyone’s antennas go up in suspicion of yet another legal but sneaky trick?…that there is much history to support the expectation for legal but sneaky tricks?…that this time that is refreshingly not the case? Power on Woodruff Hospitality!

IS IT TRUE that the business that could have come to Evansville if investment capital had been available had a very successful meeting with INTEL Investments yesterday and has passed the first set of criteria with flying colors?…that this company has leading edge intellectual property in the green energy business space which is a giant multibillion dollar industry?…that just two years ago their first investment presentation was made in Innovation Pointe in Downtown Evansville?…that there were no investment funds available then and that there still aren’t?…that all Evansville has to show for investments that could have attracted a business is some unsold Front Door Pride houses?…that some choices come back to bite you on the backside again and again?

IS IT TRUE that there is a meet the legislators meeting at the Browning Room of the Central Library today?…that Evansville Democratic House member Gail Riecken has said she will be travelling from her possible tax home of Urbana, IL to attend the meeting?…that Ms. Riecken has voiced very strongly that her constituents support her run for the border to prevent a vote on the Right to Work and Educational Reform bills?…that in a poll conducted by the Courier and Press yesterday over 1,200 votes were cast on that very question?…that at 10 PM last night the vote was 2 to 1 in FAVOR of Right to Work and Education Reform?…that wrapped up in that vote is Ms. Riecken’s constituency?…that it seems as though her flight to Illinois with ole Pat Bauer was and is for the purpose of blunting the wishes of her constituency?

IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer’s call for local media outlets to keep up pressure on the City of Evansville to really do something about the deplorable state of the parks is working?…News 25 has kept up the pressure and yesterday had another feature on the state of the Vann-Pollack park and that this time it was the head of the Parks Department that was on the hot seat?…that there was much dodging and shifting of responsibility attempted but that in the end this guy did admit to not having done enough maintenance at the Vann-Pollack park?…that our response to this newfound enlightenment is “INDEED!!”?…that the pot holes in a gravel lot, the cuss words on the walls, the dilapidated buildings, and the disappointment on the face of involved parents should be enough to get the City of Evansville off of its duff and do some real improvements as opposed to what was done last year?…that last year some small improvements were promised but NOT A DARN THING WAS DONE?

IS IT TRUE that at least one candidate for Evansville City Council in an informal conversation on St. Patrick’s Day claimed that there are no problems with the Evansville parks?…that to have such an opinion after the widely publicized incident of a child stepping on a needle and the recent media attention given to the squalor at Vann Pollack park one would have to be completely disinterested or drinking from the City Administrations Kool-Aid pitcher?…that the state of the City of Evansville’s park system will be one of the hot button issues in the 2011 City elections and that anyone who does not have plausible ideas on how to improve the parks and how to pay for it should just drop out of the race now?

IS IT TRUE that David Coker has published an editorial in today’s Courier and Press about the history of Garvin Park and about the slow degradation due to City of Evansville complacency?…that we encourage all of our readers to read David’s column? Here is a link.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/dreams-of-what-garvin-park-could-be/