IS IT TRUE that it’s time for Mayor Terry to acknowledge that the Ford Center is a prime candidate for a forensic audit so she can find out how to make it at least cover expenses or maybe eke out a small profit?
IS IT TRUE that the City of Evansville Employee Health insurance program has been hundreds of thousands of dollars in the red each year for many years? …that it’s time for Mayor Terry to put the City Employees Healthcare package out for a formal competitive bid in hopes that it will be more affordable for City employees?
IS IT TRUE that it’s obvious that the newly appointed Evansville City Controller and members of the Evansville City Council should spend more time analyzing the massive financial debt that the former Mayor of Evansville left Mayor Terry to address?
IS IT TRUE when a responsible Business Executive in the private sector finds out that he is spending more money than he is bringing in he quickly reduces his operating budget? …what is good for the private sector should be good for the public sector?
IS IT TRUE that we are told that many taxpayers are extremely upset that the Evansville City Parks Board has not properly maintained our City Parks over the last several years?
IS IT TRUE that we have been told by reliable sources that the Helfrich Park swimming pool will soon be permanently closed?
IS IT TRUE that we wonder if you would build a new home and had no clear-cut idea of what the final costs would be? …we also wonder if you wanted to purchase a new car and didn’t have any concrete idea of the total costs of the car would you buy it? …we also wonder how members of the Evansville Parks and Recreation Department Board can decide to build “24 Pickleball Courts” at Wesselman Park without having detailed financial costs of phases 1 and 2?
IS IT TRUE that the word gentrification is being bantered about like a weapon?…what gentrification refers to is the mass change in the rental units in a certain area being converted from government-subsidized housing to housing that the new residents pay for themselves?…gentrification is something that cities hope for but sometimes it strikes fear into the hearts and minds of the people who are being displaced?
IS IT TRUE the only problem with gentrification is that it displaces people who have been getting subsidies and who may not have the ability to get by without a housing subsidy?…gentrification has been known to grow homelessness?…in some cases like East Palo Alto, CA gentrification has been an overwhelming success in uplifting the area?…in the liberal bastion of Santa Monica it leads to the city using its laws to round up the homeless and put them on Greyhound busses and give them a one-way ticket to Phoenix, therefore exporting their problem to another state?
IS IT TRUE that we would like to give five (5) cheers to Vanderburgh County Coroner Steven W. Lockyear for doing an incredible job for the taxpayers of this community?
IS IT TRUE It is common knowledge that City Councilwoman Missy Mosby is known for being excellent at serving the needs of her constituents?
IS IT TRUE that the City-County Observer newspaper is a proud supporter of our law enforcement?
IS IT TRUE that everyone has a right to their opinions even if they are wrong?
IS IT TRUE when the people fear the Government we have Tyranny? …when the Government fears the people we have liberty?
IS IT TRUE our “READERS POLLS” are non-scientific but trendy?
