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Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb delivers his State of the State address virtually, in Indianapolis
State of the State, Indianapolis, United States - 19 Jan 2021
Gov. Holcomb Issues Statement Following The Senate Passage Of CHIPS Plus Legislation
INDIANAPOLIS- Governor Eric J. Holcomb today released the following statement:
“The U.S. Senate just passed once-in-a-generation legislation that invests in American technology to keep our country safe from any and all of our adversaries. The U.S. House of Representatives should quickly pass the CHIPS Plus legislation to keep America in the fast lane of the technology race and boost our country’s competitiveness globally.
Last week, SkyWater, a major supplier of semiconductors to the Department of Defense, in partnership with Purdue University, announced a 600,000-square-foot semiconductor research and development production facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. The company’s ability to make an investment of this magnitude is reliant upon the passage of CHIPS Plus and federal investment to boost this critical industry sector. This exact legislation also invests in research at our great universities, workforce programs and tech-hubs tailor-made for our state.
If the U.S. wants to be a leader in 21stcentury industries, semiconductors must be our first objective. Members of the U.S. House should vote yes and make this investment, which includes comprehensive oversight responsibilities to ensure taxpayer dollars are invested wisely.â€
RAWLINS, Wyoming—The folks at Buck’s don’t seem to care much about the lonely battle U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, is waging to save her political career, her political party, and her country.
It’s a Friday night at this popular sports pub in downtown Rawlins. The place is crowded. There are no tables to be had, so I crowd into the bar to grab dinner after a long day on the road.
Cheney dominated the tube the night before, when the Jan. 6 Select Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a primetime hearing that demolished any notion that former President Donald Trump hadn’t hoped the insurrection wouldn’t succeed so he could continue to hold power illegally and unconstitutionally.
Cheney has been both the face and the voice of the efforts to hold Trump accountable for his assault on American law, but it has cost her.
Once one of the rising stars in the Republican Party, she now faces a primary challenge here at home. The most recent polls have her trailing Harriet Hageman, a Trump-backed lawyer.
I try to talk with a guy at the bar about Cheney’s lonely struggle, but he shrugs his shoulder and says he hasn’t been paying attention to the hearings.
But he adds that he likes Trump because “he kept his promises.†Then he turns away and reaches for the bowl of peanuts sitting on the bar.
In fact, Trump didn’t keep his promises.
He promised to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for it. Never happened.
He promised to provide cheaper and better healthcare coverage to all Americans. Didn’t do it.
He promised to bring back jobs for working-class Americans. Once again, didn’t deliver.
But I’ve had variations of this conversation many times and in many places. It always leads nowhere.
So, I take a sip of my beer and wait for my food to arrive.
A guy settles onto the stool to my left. He’s young—in his middle 20s—and he has an honest-to-God mullet. He orders a beer and then tries to chat up the bartender, a petite young blonde woman maybe a little younger than he is.
After some awkward banter, he asks her if she’s going to an upcoming frontier days festival. I don’t know about this one, but I’ve been to similar such events before. They’re romanticized celebrations, more myth than fact.
The bartender says she will be going—with her boyfriend. (That’s a hint, buddy.
The guy persists, either not realizing she’s telling him she’s not interested or ignoring the message. To deflect him—and maybe to alert friends that she could have a problem on her hands—she pulls a couple of guys from the other end of the bar into the conversation.
Soon, much of the bar is talking about the upcoming festival.
As I munch on my dinner, I eavesdrop.
I learn that this is the first year since COVID hit that the festival will be back. Everyone says they didn’t realize how much they missed it—how much they wished things could go back to the way they were.
The way they should be.
This is what Liz Cheney is facing.
So many people prefer an imagined west to a real one.
An imagined world to a real one.
A Donald Trump who “kept his promises†to one who violated his oath of office and attacked the very country he’d pledged with his hand on the Bible to defend.
After I finish my meal, I settle up and thank the bartender. The guy will the mullet still hangs in there, but two older and much bigger guys at the end of the bar have their eye on him.
If there’s a problem, he’ll be the one having it.
I walk out into the gathering evening and stroll the streets of Rawlins.
As is the case with many, even most, small to mid-sized American communities, there are vacant buildings, remnants of businesses and jobs that have collapsed or fled.
Up on a rise, a train sits stationary on the track, the twilight framing the cars in the otherwise wide-open landscape, a powerful locomotive waiting for someone to drive it.
This is the real west.
The real world.
Frontier days, indeed.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The opinions expressed by the author do not represent the views of Franklin College.
The University of Southern Indiana Romain College of Business has received a $100,000 gift from Warehouse Services, Inc., to establish a scholarship endowment named for its President, Barry Cox, for students enrolled in the College’s Supply Chain Management Certificate Program. This gift will provide perpetual scholarship support for eligible students.
Eligibility for the Warehouse Services Inc. Barry Cox Scholarship Endowment includes:
Full-time USI undergraduate students must be enrolled in the Supply Chain Management Certificate Program.
Student recipients must be in good academic standing at USI when the scholarship is both awarded and received.
Second preference will be given to full-time USI undergraduate students majoring in management.
Warehouse Services, Inc. provides various supply chain services (e.g., warehousing, distribution, fulfillment services, etc.), and it occupies more than 18 million square feet of distribution space in over 20 locations across North America. Its operating headquarters are in Mount Vernon, Indiana. The company employs many USI alumni in a multitude of positions across its more than 4,000 personnel.
“I am truly grateful to Warehouse Services, Inc. and its President, Mr. Barry Cox, for this generous support of students seeking the new Supply Chain Management Certificate,” says Dr. Abbas Foroughi, Chair of Management and Information Sciences. “Warehouse Services’ strong interest in the certificate underscores how much regional companies value the establishment of this new program. I would also like to thank the Supply Chain Management Committee and other management faculty at USI for their hard work and support in creating this timely certificate.”
In addition, Cox has been a member of the USI Foundation Board Advisory Council for 22 years.
“Mr. Cox has been a generous friend of the University for many years, and he truly values USI’s economic impact on this region and beyond,†says David Bower, Vice President for Development. “The number of USI alumni employed by Warehouse Services underscores that trust in the students we are educating.
ZADAR, Croatia – Another international tournament opportunity is slated to open Friday for University of Evansville head volleyball coach Fernando Morales and 5th-year senior Alondra Vazquez who will represent Puerto Rico in the 2022 Volleyball Challenger Cup.
Taking place in Zadar, Croatia, the Challenger Cup is an 8-team event that is held from July 28-31. The Puerto Rico Women’s National Team opens play on Friday with an 8 p.m. local time (1 p.m. CT) match versus Cameroon. With a victory, the team would guarantee a spot in one of the medal contests while matching up against either France or Colombia for a spot in the championship final.
On the opposite side of the bracket, Belgium opens against the Czech Republic while Croatia faces Kazakhstan. Round two features two matches on Saturday, July 30 with the medal games taking place on July 31. The winners of the competition will earn a promotion to play in the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Nations League replacing the lowest ranked challenger teams of this year’s VNL in each gender.
Morales serves as the head coach of the national squad while Vazquez is an outside hitter.   Earlier in the summer, they were part of the Puerto Rico team who competed at the NORCECA Final Four Qualification Tournament in Mexico. Highlighting the event was a victory over Costa Rica.
Effective immediately, the burn ban issued for Vanderburgh County and the City of Evansville has been rescinded. Please see the attachments for additional information.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -Â Ryan O’Reilly gave up just one run across his 7.1 innings Tuesday night to help guide the Evansville Otters to a 3-1 win over the New York Boulders.
On the opposite mound, July Sosa was impressive for New York, sitting down the first eleven Otters in order to begin the game.
After just four combined hits in the opening four and a half innings, Evansville struck with two outs in the bottom of the fifth.
Following a two-out double by Justin Felix, Tyler Doanes singled to right to give the Otters an early lead. The RBI came on Doanes’ first professional base hit.
Evansville’s 1-0 advantage held onto the seventh, when New York put together a pair of base hits of their own. Austin Dennis evened the game at 1-1 with an RBI double to deep right-center field.
Zach Biermann wasted no time returning the lead to the Otters, homering on the first pitch of the seventh inning. Not only was it the Otters’ first home run in 14 days, but it was also Biermann’s first since July 4th at Gateway.
Elijah MacNamee backed it up with a deep double to center before advancing to third on a sacrifice bunt and scoring on a wild pitch.
Augie Gallardo and Logan Sawyer helped keep the game where it was at, giving Evansville a 3-1 win.
O’Reilly received the win, giving up a single run on five hits across his 7.1 innings. The loss went to Sosa for New York, as he allowed all three runs on six hits. Sawyer grabbed the save in relief, his league-leading 15th.
Though the Otters had no multi-hit performances, Doanes and Biermann were the obvious standouts offensively. The game was Doanes’ professional debut.
The Otters and Boulders continue their three-game set on Wednesday night for Senior Connection Wednesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
Broadcast coverage can be found through FloSports for video streaming, and the audio-only broadcast can be heard on the Otters’ YouTube channel.
VINCENNES, Ind. – The 2021 Region 24 Champion Vincennes University Volleyball team made another big addition with the signing of middle blocker Nisa Salis from Ankara, Turkey.
Salis is the second Trailblazer signee from Ankara in this year’s recruiting class, following Tuana Turhan who signed with Vincennes in May.
Salis is a six-foot-one inch middle blocker who played at Kecioren Private Etlik Anatolian High School and Turkey, while also playing on the Karayollari Sports Ankara Club Team.
“Nisa is an athlete who loves the game of volleyball and communicates with her teammates well,†Nisa’s Club Coach Burak Comert said. “As a middle blocker, she is a successful and disciplined athlete who has high offensive power, tries to perform the task given to her in the game in the best way possible and makes a positive contribution to the team and her friends in matches and training with her energy and ambition in the game. I wish her success in both her academic and volleyball career in this new path she has drawn for herself.â€
Nisa is the daughter of Kemal and Namik Salis and plans to major in Psychology while at Vincennes University.
“Volleyball wise I really wanted to tap into the country of Turkey because volleyball is becoming really big there,†VUVB Head Coach Gary Sien said. “Over the past 10 years Turkey has been one of the rising powers in the sport internationally and much like everywhere else, it doesn’t happen by accident, these athletes have to be brought up and Nisa and Tuana are both products of that system.â€
“That has been something that I have been keeping my eye on since I’ve been at VU, is looking at international students and where internationally to find the best players,†Sien added. “We happened to have an open position still available and we were looking for the best player still available and Nisa was still available.â€
“Nisa has had some NCAA Division I schools looking at her, so that should give an idea of the level of play that she has,†Sien said. “She is also coming in at a position that we only have one returner coming back, so it is nice that we are able to bring in an experienced middle. International players typically can play most anywhere on the floor, because of the level of training and having fewer substitutions. It’s nice to bring those types of players in. Not just players who can play more than one position, but can play multiple positions well.â€
“We expect Nisa to be trained extremely well coming in and we saw on her videos her blocking ability,†Sien added. “In those countries and in that part of the world players have such high understanding of blocking because they are used to trying to stop high-level Division I hitters. Her technique looks very good but it’s also the philosophy of going to get the ball at the net and to score on a block that really stands out. As well as being able to take away part of the court and help funnel the ball to our defenders.â€
The Vincennes University Athletic Department is excited to welcome Nisa Salis to the 2022 Trailblazer recruiting class.
Burn Restirction has been Lifted
