IS IT TRUE MARCH 29, 2017

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IS IT TRUE it seems as though VW Sports LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of VenueWorks that manages and owns a semi-professional hockey team known as the Evansville Thunderbolts has officially become the 100% owner of the team?  …the Thunderbolts practice and plays at the Ford Center?…we are told that in any real world scenario this would constitute a conflict of interest  since VenueWorks is hired by the City of Evansville to manage the Ford Center?

IS IT TRUE the Evansville Icemen started out playing at Swonder Ice Rink located on the former Roberts Stadium property?  … they actually made the finals of their league in their last season there?

IS IT TRUE were told that their are twice as many comps tickets given away for the Thunderbolts home games than paying customers?  …at this point its obvious that Swonder would be a more cost effective place for the Thunderbolts to play?…it also looks like the semi-pro hockey fans of this community have seemly lost some interest in hockey since the IceMen left town?  …it is a shame that it costed us $127 Million to find that out?

IS IT TRUE Evansville is and has always been a town that loves a good game of baseball?…the AAA franchise of the Minnesota Twins called the Evansville Triplets always sold plenty of tickets and put on a good show over at Bosse Field?…the children of Evansville could talk about how last year’s Triplets moved up to the big leagues after signing autographs here?…back when former Mayors Weinzapfel and Russ Lloyd Jr were locked in a competitive campaign, Weinzapfel derided Lloyd for being a fool for wanting to spend a paltry $20 Million on a downtown baseball stadium that was poised to host a AAA team affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers and owned by some retired major league players including Evansville native Don Mattingly?…the poetic justice of calling someone else’s $20 Million baseball stadium folly while plotting to build a $127 million dollar arena thats is causing a serious financial burden on River City for a good long time?

IS IT TRUE we are hearing that the cost of operating the Evansville Thunderbolts could possibly go up because of a contractural amendment between  VW Sports LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of VenueWorks and the City of Evansville? ..we wonder how much more than a million bucks will the City of Evansville are willing to lose for attempting to have a competitive Semi-Pro hockey team in the less than financially successful Ford Center? …please read tomorrows IS IT TRUE and you shall see what we are talking about?

IS IT TRUE that in 1950 a full 87% of the working age men in the United States had a job?…that number has been slowly dropping since then until the number today is only 67%?…that amounts to roughly 30 million able bodied men of prime working age who are electing not to participate in the American economy by working for a living?…every one of these people is a burden on either someone else or on the taxpayers?…the loss of working men in our society is at a crisis point?

FOOTNOTES: Todays “READERS POLL” question is: Do you feel comfortable with the fact that the owners of VenueWorks now has 100% controlling interest of the Thunderbolt Hockey team?

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  1. IS IT TRUE that in 1950 a full 87% of the working age men in the United States had a job?…that number has been slowly dropping since then until the number today is only 67%?… Are you taking into account women were not in the work force in 1950? We had a huge culture change in the 70s and 80s. You can not have 50% more people join a group and not have the the number diluted. All things considered the unemployment rate has stayed the same or is better. You may miss it but men do not rule the workplace as they once did.

    • Since The Editor does not provide where the presented statistics came from, it is impossible to determine if factors such as you described were taken into account when they were calculated. I’m not sure if employment is the ‘zero sum game’ you are implying (i.e., for every woman that gets a job, there will be a man who is unemployed, and vice versa), but it might be.

      Fact of the matter is, we have many millions more people unemployed than we used to, since the U.S. population has roughly doubled since 1950. In my opinion, The Editor gave some plausible reasons for the situation in a previous column (lack of education, lack of needed job skills, offshoring of historically available jobs, inability to pass a drug screen, lack of motivation, etc.).

      • “Fact of the matter is we have millions more unemployed then we use to since the us. population has roughly doubled since 1950″………..we also have twice the mount of consumers then 1950…………..the difference is bringing the jobs back to America as President Trump is without a doubt going to do……..Delta you know that……on a funny note you have shown and brought out once again the ignorance of one classless eville the basement dweller………….PS…….lack of work ehtic trace back to welfare……….

    • From the document for U.S. Labor Force Trends

      “Demographic Trends – As the U.S. population nearly doubled between 1950 and 2000, the labor force has also grown, from 62 million in 1950 to 149 million in 2005. Wages and benefits have increased, and occupations continue to shift from mostly farming and manufacturing work to white-collar jobs. Changes in population composition and labor force participation rates have also resulted in a workforce that includes more older Americans, women, racial and ethnic minorities, and people born outside of the United States”

      Once again I think there are folks more focused on hyperbole than actual facts

      Thanks, DeltaBravo, good call

      http://www.prb.org/pdf08/63.2uslabor.pdf

  2. It is humerous that the city tries to make the citizens feel guilty for not spending their hard earned money to pay for overpriced tickets and concessions for bargain basement entertainment. With the exception of a few events, Venuworks has overpriced all of the entertainment….especially for Evansville. This is NOT, nor will it EVER be, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis….not even Louisville.

    As long as we have the politicians and “patronage” leaders, that we seem to be stuck with, Evansville will not improve. Get rid of the political perks and benefits for all council members….go back to the definition of civil service, then will you find out who really has the best interests of Evansville in mind.

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