IS IT TRUE October 7, 2014

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IS IT TRUE the City County Observer web site design is under construction?  … we have encountered many technical problems with our website over the last five months? …because of those issues we are currently under construction, building a brand new website that’s better than ever? …please accept our sincerest apologies?  …we will soon be back up later this week with our same great content with a new user friendly layout?  …  we thank you for your support of the City-County Observer?

IS IT TRUE that it is Fall Festival week and we encourage our readers to get over to the Westside and enjoy a uniquely Evansville event?…of course the food is the big attraction for the adults but the carnival is a big favorite with the children?…even if the story about being the second largest street festival in the United States is urban myth, this is still a well-run event and offers a good time to all?…the Fall Festival also fills the coffers of local charities with upwards of $200,000 on a good year when the weather cooperates so get on over and try out some chocolate crickets, pronto pups, or even a brain sandwich if you dare?

IS IT TRUE that much hoopla has been made about President Obama’s two hour visit to the tri-state last Friday?…the fact that the event at Millennium Steel was private upset some people as did the choices of Governor Pence and Congressman Buschon as the official greeters of the President?…the reality of the situation is that a Presidential visit is usually seen as a good thing by most people of any community without regard to politics?…such visits do come with a price tag associated with them?…the United States Air Force released the cost to operate Air Force One earlier this year at $228,288 per hour?…given that Evansville is roughly a 4 hour round trip from Washington DC by air the transporting of the President and the others on Air Force One cost the American taxpayers about a Million Bucks?…when you throw in the transport plane for the armored motorcade and the ground support one can easily surmise that President Obama’s trip to Princeton for a private event cost us collectively at least $2 Million plus the aggravation of distractions and closed roads?…that said, it was about time that a sitting President came back to SW Indiana as it has been a good long time since the last visit?

IS IT TRUE the government of Indiana just can’t seem to come to grips with the fact that land based casinos make more sense than rickety old boats?…an exception (or a SNEGAL loophole) was created for the French Lick casino by building a land based casino and then filling the ditch around it with water and declaring it to be a boat?…what is good for French Lick should be good for all of the other aging river boats so let’s get on with some privately financed construction projects to build a collection of land based casinos to replace the nearly end of useful life boats that were a convenient way to legalize gambling in the first place?…they should be reminded that a dollar won or lost is a dollar won or lost whether on land or water, and that a dollar of tax revenue is too?

IS IT TRUE that sometimes by refusing to enter an argument one can define the winner?…that yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States did just that by refusing to hear any appeals with respect to marriage equality?…this refusal on the part of the SCOTUS has be default made marriage equality inevitable?…this is an issue that the City County Observer has supported from day one and will continue to support?…we wish for a day when marriage equality is simply a choice as opposed to a controversy?

IS IT TRUE the nation that invented modern management seems to be suffering a crisis of competence?…the Secret Service can’t protect the White House, public health authorities can’t get their arms around a one-man Ebola outbreak, the army we trained in Iraq collapsed as soon as it was attacked by Islamic extremists, and our own veterans can’t get the care they need at VA hospitals?…lest we forget, it was only a year ago that the White House rolled out its national health insurance program, only to see its website grind to a halt?..one can argue that these problems all have different causes,but it’s hard not to conclude that something basic is amiss in Washington?…the federal government’s personnel system is mired in antiquated civil service rules?… Linda Bilmes, a public policy scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School who worked in the Clinton administration said last week that “You can’t move people around; you can’t pay more to retain your best people; you can’t easily get rid of people you need to get rid of, the pay at the top of the scale is inadequate to attract the best and the brightest into government, and as the old saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. It’s very demoralizing.”

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  3. “we wish for a day when marriage equality is simply a choice as opposed to a controversy?”

    That choice was made over and over by millions of voters, they said NO pretty loudly. Some choice.

  6. Same sex marriage is not marriage equality. It’s is redefining marriage. We now essentially have federal marriage laws. SCOTUS did not want to sign on to being accused of legislating laws to states.

  7. Welcome back, CCO! It’s a good day for good public policy and a bad one for dog-dirty doers of dirt!

  8. It is wonderful to see the CC-O back online. While it has been difficult to witness her vulnerability to attack, her recovery is proof of strength. So, …we have simply witnessed the growing pains of a dear friend,
    CITYCOUNTY-OBSERVER!
    Welcome back. …

  10. Now that C-CO is back, we need to thank the sponsors that help make the whole thing possible. When choosing goods, services or political candidates, remember who pays the bills! …

  11. CCO…”IS IT TRUE that sometimes by refusing to enter an argument one can define the winner?”

    CCO…”this is an issue that the City County Observer has supported from day one and will continue to support?”

    The only thing you left out was: “end of argument!” Ah, if it were just that simple.

  12. it is true CCO the from the VA….SECRET SERVICE……IRS ….. Ebola…….OPEN BORDERS…..OBAMACARE failure……..90 million AMERICANS not in the work force….on and on and on……..it is with out a doubt barry obola is in way over his head………..or barry obola is attempting to destroy America on purpose………

    • AL SHARPIE HAS ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER:

      Hey AL…….you are a fool for focusing on Obama. Obama is President until 2017. That election is over.

      What you REALLY should be upset about is this:

      Billionaire investor Warren Buffett made a bold prediction about the 2016 presidential race at Fortune’s “The Most Powerful Women” summit in California on Tuesday. Buffett said, “Hillary is going to run.” Furthermore, he added that he’s positive she will make it to the White House. “Hillary is going to win,” Buffett said, adding, “I will bet money on it, I don’t do that easily.”

  13. I want to add this. This is one helluva website. Professional all around. The old one was a little amateurish. Reminded me of the C&P site. This is state of the art from top to bottom. Great job cco.

    • ha the C&P is less than amateurish it’s pathetic and obsolete.. I predict that it will be extinct in a few years.

  15. Good job CCO. Fast loading easy to read font.
    Give the casino the hotel land they will have a 600 room grand hotel up in six months. On their dime.

  17. Yes! Welcome back. So good to see this back online again. Now I can start posting again. So did you figure out of the site was actually hacked or not? If it was a hack then I sure hope you find the perms and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

    I just logged back on tonight so I’m going to take a while to look around the new site format. But I’m certainly glad that the site has been put back online. I doubt that the Mayor will agree with me on that position but who the hell is he anyway? LOL

    • He’s Carol’s husband, that’s who he is! He’d better not forget it, either.

  18. I want to know who threatened the President of the USA last week when he was in town and I hope that the Government prosecutes them scum bags to the fullest extent of the law.

  19. Is it true all presidents travel and have secret service protection? Ah, it’s only offensive when it’s Obama. Further proof he could shit golden eggs and cure cancer and it wouldn’t please the right wing echo chamber. Greg Zoeller please provide an estimate of what your political theatre failed bigotry appeals cost the taxpayers you hypocrite.

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