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This “Weekend Open Forum'” should prove to be extremely interesting considering the Hotel and IU Medical School announcements.

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  2. In the spirit of the season, I vow not to be unkind or personal to my fellow posters. In view of the events of the past few days in Evansville, I don’t think the “kindness and not personal rule” should apply to elected and appointed officials. It’s pretty hard to be kind about those folks right now. It looks like they’re getting their “just desserts” after a Christmas dinner of roasted crow. 2015 is going shake out to be a tough year for the liars, thieves, and adulterers in the Civic Center. Lets hope the public finally gets the forensic audit and justice it deserves. If everything goes like I think it may, we should be getting indictments for Christmas in 2015, to follow the great revelation of reality that we are getting this year. That gift is due in no small part to the unwavering voices of the publishers and posters of CCO.

    • You know, you’re right about that. Time to back the Bekins van up to the Civic Center. The lying is what gets me the most. Of course, in their defense, you can’t do what they’ve tried and be honest about it.

      • The “ripples” caused by these sinking ships are going to be interesting, too. The Mayor’s plans for getting rid of the public housing “riff-raff” from his neighborhood are going to have to be put on hold, if there won’t be dorms for a Medical School. That was ridiculous, anyway. What about the units that have been approved on NW Sixth and the “lofts” near Lincoln and Governor? Are we still going to “pony up” for them? The fact that the construction workers won’t be downtown doesn’t bode well for the newly-awarded Mexican restaurant at 4th and Main. Scott Danks’ big bargain building and the accompanying grant for retention of CSO effluent that is going to be built under it may not be such a good thing, either. Has construction started there? It hadn’t about a month ago. I guess it may be a place for the beautiful people to go and drown their sorrows, though.

        • They came close but went to lies rather than tough truths when honesty might have saved them. We must now question everything they ever said before the jerry-built house of cards tumbled down on them. They will pay with their reputiations, such that they are, and should be awarded asterisks in the city history.

          • You put an ‘i’ in reputations. Not good. On second thought you came damn close to properly spelling repudiations, which is a word of some utility when writing of the current city administration.

          • The last mayor who lied to break the bank was rewarded with a chancellorship. I wonder what the machine will reward Winnecke with for his machine serving ineptness. Illinois puts their crooked governors in prison. Evansville has a stash of do nothing jobs at $200k per year for its failed electeds.

          • He, being without question a great educator, might be headed for an as yet uninvented upper tier job at the EVSC.

  3. Is it true that we have Gail Riecken to thank for the sanity that is prevailing in the hotel project being cancelled?

    Is it true that we can’t explain fully the logical steps that lead to that conclusion because of the political correctness and sensitivities to words used to describe political philosophy these days?

    • IThe thought of Gail running against him may have shocked Hizzoner back to reality for a little while. I really think the dam broke on the lies and fantasies of the administration just because the weight of the lies grew to the point that that they couldn’t be held back any longer.

      • Any average Joe with a computer and a modem can expose the lies:

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        municipalbonds.com

        Moody’s downgrades from Aa2 to Aa3 Branson, MO’s issuer rating
        Posted on: April 22, 2014, 8:44 pm

        NEW YORK, April 22, 2014 –Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded to Aa3 from Aa2 the rating on the City of Branson’s (MO) long term issuer rating. Concurrently, Moody’s has downgraded to A3 from A2 the rating on the city’s outstanding lease revenue debt. This action concludes a review for possible downgrade that Moody’s initiated on January 15, 2014 in conjunction with our new local government general obligation (GO) methodology. The issuer rating is based on the city’s implicit general obligation security. The lease revenue rating is secured by an appropriation pledge of the city and secured by a mortgage interest on the properties financed by the issuances, including the city’s convention center and Branson Landing parking garage. The city has $110.3 million of Moody’s rated lease revenue debt outstanding… (more)

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        Finding ethical people within the local government to step up to the plate and admit and take ownership of their mistakes is all but non existent. When those rare people come along, they invariably are attacked by the bottom dwellers who have their hands the deepest into the taxpayers pockets, and the egotistical puppets who do their bidding.

    • Not. Thank the Board of Directors of ONB for halting the Bob Jones foolishness. I would expect Jones to be gone shortly. This makes everyone look foolish, corporations do no suffer fools lightly. I knew they were fools when they hired Williams. Besides Gail is in the same pockets as Winnecke. The unions will go with Winnecke a known quality, Gail will have to wait her turn. She will shortly announce that she has decided to sit this one out.

      • Gail will “wait her turn is right”. You got that part right, maybe.

        I don’t deny the board did what you say. I’m just saying the reasons WHY, they did it now… Unspeakable.

  4. The mayor of Chicago, old Clinton/Obama Ch of Staff and buddy just experienced the crime that others in Chicago have to deal with, his son was mugged. No description of the muggers was released, wonder why? Hope it’s true that a liberal is someone who hasn’t been mugged yet. It appears the War on our police officers has started, an ambush in NY, 2 police officers dead. The line between the forces of good and democrats is being drawn.

  5. Finding people who would spend taxpayers’ dollars as judiciously as if they were their own would be a huge plus.

    • John Hostettler is the only politician I have ever known to do this. He also voted against the Iraq war. He was defeated by Ellsworth of obamacare fame.

      • After the Hostettler and Mourdock defeats I ended a 30+ year subscription with the C&P,,,ENOUGH.

        • I still can’t figure out why Mourdock lost. He was brilliant. And he was right about rape too.

          • He refused to sell his soul for the job. Some people, especiall the liberal media, think it is alright to destroy, as in kill, a baby in the womb if that baby was conceived by a rape. Richard Mourdock is not one of those people.

            “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” (Mother Teresa)

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