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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 rationally and responsibly.
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IS IT TRUE that there is no greater ambassador of goodwill than a homegrown, non-partisan community newspaper? Â …that local newspapers can serve as a “Community Watchdog” by sounding the alarm when the citizen’s rights are being violated? …we realize that a community can have no greater ambassador of goodwill than one that keeps its citizens informed about their accomplishments and triumphs?

IS IT TRUE that for many years this column has served the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County as the place to go to learn things that are going on in local government that other media is reluctant to cover?…much good has come from things
posted in “IS IT TRUE,” and the comment section has, for the most part, made the City-County Observer the go-to place for open, constructive dialog.

IS IT TRUE that the citizens of Evansville hope that Mayor Stephanie Terry will figure out a creative way to pay down Evansville’s current one (1) billion plus dollars in bond indebtedness?

IS IT TRUE that the taxpayers hope Mayor Stephanie Terry will give them an honest financial assessment on how Evansville will pay the originally projected $400 million cost to build a new Sewer Treatment Plant on the banks of the mighty Ohio?

IS IT TRUE that we are told that many local taxpayers hope that Mayor Stephanie Terry will be involved in the future planning of the proposed EREP multi-million dollar riverfront project?
IS IT TRUE that we find it intriguing when a career politician masterfully tries to convince the economic disadvantage that they understand and feel their despair, grief, and economic plight?  …that the career politician also tries to convince the economic downtrodden that he understands how personal suffering is caused by wage disparities while he enjoys extensive social and financial perks for being a long-term elected public official?