Ability to work weekends, evenings, and flexible hours, as needed. Health, Dental, and Vision insurance available. Experience in Senior Living, preferred.
Schiff Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc.– Evansville, IN
$20 – $25 an hour
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Scheduling, billing, accounts receivables and general administrational roles. Job Types: Full-time, Contract. Evansville, IN 47710: Reliably commute or planning…
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Responsible for performing the clerical and administrative functions for any or all hub and station operational areas, including linehaul, records management,…
Ability to work schedule including Saturday and or Sunday and beyond standard business hours. Receives client families and visitors at the front desk by…
This position assists with taking calls after business hours and on weekends and will be expected to provide direct care supports to individuals as needed as…
Either 8am-5pm or 7:30am – 4:30pm. No weekends or major holidays. Because great care starts with seeing the whole picture. High school diploma or GED required.
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Vice President, Patient and Administrative Services*. This individual will also support as necessary the VP, Clinical Operations, in implementing and managing…
Flexible work schedules — Full time/part-time/supplemental – Day/Eve/Night. Level 4 children’s enrichment centers. Schedule: Part Time – 40, Evening.
Prepare and send monthly statements to tenants. The accounting office clerk is a full-time hourly position with standard working hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p…
Virtual Consult MD* is seeking a motived and energetic Medical Scheduler/Reception with customer service experience for our busy Evansville, Indiana office.
Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.– Boonville, IN
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Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare is currently seeking a full-time *Administrative Assistant *to add to our team of professionals. Generous Paid Time Off plan.
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To EXCEED Hamister Group expectations for revenue, profitability, employee culture, guest experience and quality assurance results by working with and through…
This multifaceted role serves as the administrative assistant to the Senior Vice President. The Administrative Assistant will assist with all administrative,…
This position will provide general office support and assistance for case workers and clients applying for public assistance. Answer and direct incoming calls.
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Support CEO in all aspects of the job while overseeing the administration of day-to-day operations. Performs a variety of administrative activities to ensure…
 On 11/15/2021 at 7:15 a.m., officers were dispatched to an address in the 3200-block of Vann Park Boulevard in reference to a deceased subject.
The reporter stated that she went to the residence and located a family member who appeared to have been stabbed inside of the apartment and unresponsive. The Evansville Police Department and the Evansville Fire Department arrived on the scene and determined that the victim was beyond help. A young juvenile was located sleeping, unharmed, in the apartment when officers arrived.Â
Detectives and Crime Scene Investigators arrived and processed the scene. At this time detectives do have a person of interest who has been detained.Â
If anyone witnessed this incident or has any knowledge of it, they are asked to call the Evansville Police Department’s Detective Office at 812-436-7979 or contact the WeTip Line at 1-800-78-CRIMEÂ
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – University of Southern Indiana Women’s Soccer lost a tough battle to host Drury University, 2-0, in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament Championship match Sunday afternoon. The fifth-seeded Screaming Eagles conclude their season with a 12-6-2 (8-6-1 GLVC) record, while Drury improves to 15-4-1 (11-3-1 GLVC) and earns the conference’s automatic qualifier into the NCAA II Tournament.
Drury got on the board in the first half with a goal at the 25:34 mark. The Panthers went into halftime with the 1-0 lead and extended that advantage in the second half, scoring at the 70:59 mark. The Panthers strongly defended their lead to seal the conference title.
Senior forward Katlyn Andres (Louisville, Kentucky) led the way for the Screaming Eagles with four shots and had the teams only shots-on-goal with two.
Overall in the match, USI held an 11-8 edge in total shots, but trailed in shots-on-goal, 4-2.
The Screaming Eagles now wait for a possible at-large bid into the NCAA Division II Tournament. The selection show is Monday at 5 p.m. (CST) on ncaa.com.
Comparing Performance Of Our Entertainment Venues During The COVID-19 Pandemic Isn’t Reasonable
by City-County Observer Staff
The COVID19 pandemic nearly destroyed the entertainment industry by virtue of the fact that to some degree all states, cities, and counties in the United States had some form of restrictions on attendance at entertainment venues large and small. These restrictions ranged from outright closure in coastal cities and states to social distancing in more conservative regions. A good example to show just how damaging the restrictions were to entertainment venues can be made by first eliminating the revenue stream at the box office and followed up by making cost-cutting near impossible through targeted assistance programs with employment requirements. 2020 and 2021 are thus far the worst businesses conditions for entertainment and sporting venues in a century. It is a wonder that any have survived.
To make comparisons right now to anytime during the pandemic will yield a magnificent number that has absolutely no relevance to the business itself. Making comparisons to 2019 that was before the pandemic may be instructive and aspirational, but the damages done are so massive that comparisons are little more than an academic exercise in futility.
We have been told that a few uninformed individuals have questioned the abysmal performance of Evansville-Vanderburgh County entertainment and sporting venues during the pandemic. Of course, the words were true as such words are all across the nation, but the condescension expressed seemly has absolutely no positive intent or advice.
The reality is that the people of Evansville and Vanderburgh County are once again beginning to enjoy high-quality (two thumbs up) entertainment like the “Off-Broadway” play Anastasia that was at the Old National Events Plaza last week. Concerts, hockey, colleges basketball, and other entertainment-related events are returning to the Ford Center and the Victory Theatre as well. We are told that the Deaconess Sports Park is also planning several “Youth Sports” tournaments beginning this coming spring.  We are pleased to hear that the Evansville Sports Corp. is also making plans to continue improving its Intercollegiate sporting event offerings for the 2022 season. It will take many years to make up for the pandemic-related losses in our local entertainment sector, but at least things are moving in the right direction.
The Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau, which recently changed its name to “Visit Evansville.” Â “Visit Evansville” has long been an entity that felt the need to hire an outsider to lead it because they believed that it would make Evansville a big player in the national tourism industry.
For more than a decade “Visit Evansville” has had a nationally recruited CEO tasked with bringing resort-seeking tourists and national conventions to town. The reality is that this decision wasn’t the correct one and the results confirm that Evansville is and will most likely remain a regional destination that draws visitors mostly from the “Drive Market.” Â
This brings us to the point that a newly appointed CEO of “Visit Evansville” really needs to be from this region because he or she will have the knowledge of how the “Drive Market” thinks and travels. Â As there is now an opening for yet another “Visit Evansville” CEO, it’s time that the current Board considers taking a chance on a talented home-grown CEO to lead this most important revenue-producing organization. Â Bottom line, we have tried outsiders for decades and the results have not been as we dreamed. What do we have to lose by hiring someone who knows all aspects of Evansville-Vanderburgh County for this important position?
A record number of job openings and fewer workers to fill them have left 42 states with more available jobs than people looking for work, according to a Stateline analysis of federal statistics from August, the latest available.
Employers such as RF Buche, who runs a 116-year-old family chain of South Dakota fast-food restaurants and convenience stores, are scrambling to fill shifts and cutting store hours because they can’t find enough help.
“I’m more worried about burnout than anything else, people working extra shifts,†Buche said. “It’s as bad as I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been in this business all my life.â€
The labor shortage, by one measure the most acute since 1968, means higher wages and increased bargaining power for workers. But some experts fear it also could dampen economic growth as the country struggles to recover from the pandemic. And it could make it more difficult to implement the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan Congress approved, which the White House has said is expected to create millions of jobs in fields such as construction and trucking.
South Dakota, where Buche seeks workers, has one of the highest ratios of job openings to unemployed people who might fill them: There are nearly two openings for every unemployed person looking for work.
The ratio of jobs-to-jobless is almost 3 to 1 in Nebraska and more than 2 to 1 in Utah, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, Georgia, Alabama and Montana. In most states, the ratio is higher now than it was before the pandemic.
There are just eight states with more unemployed workers than job openings: Hawaii, followed by California, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, New Mexico, New Jersey and Nevada. Hawaii and Nevada are heavily dependent on tourism, which still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. That may change as the United States reopens its borders to international travelers who are vaccinated.
Most of the states with more jobless people than jobs have plenty of white-collar positions that allow people to work remotely. The labor shortage is most acute in sectors with relatively low pay and high public contacts, such as transportation, food service and hospitality.
The shortage is snarling critical services in many states and cities.
Some Massachusetts towns, for example, are offering up to $310 an hour to snowplow operators amid stiff competition for commercial drivers. Paid firefighters and medics are in short supply in parts of Virginia. A shortage of workers has meant longer waits for public buses in St. Louis and fewer menu options in school cafeterias in Utah.
While the national unemployment rate is down to 4.6% as of October, that’s not true for all groups, according to estimates for the third quarter from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Black workers still face double-digit unemployment in Illinois (10.8%) and California (10.4%), and Hispanic unemployment in New York is 10.7%.
“This brings up the question, ‘Are these employers’ hiring pools as diverse as they could be?’†said Kyle Moore, an economist with the institute. “When wages are high enough and people are satisfied with safety provisions like protective equipment, they will take these jobs.â€
In South Dakota, Buche faces a deficit of about 55 shifts out of the 416 he needs most weeks in his convenience stores and restaurants.
Half of that deficit he attributes to hiring woes, but he said the other half is from part-time employees who don’t want more work and don’t need the money since they’re not splurging on extras such as movies and restaurants.
“We’re losing a lot to COVID fears. They’re not the primary breadwinners and they think ‘Hey, I’ll just stay back home.’ They could get by financially without major concerns,†Buche said. He said his jobs pay more than minimum wage, and he’s recently tried offering $2,000 signing bonuses and employee meal discounts.
Some experts see the dearth of willing workers as a sign that the trauma of the pandemic has prompted people to reassess their career choices, making them less willing to tolerate low pay and unpredictable schedules.
“A lot of businesses are set up for an economy where there’s a bunch of people who are willing to take a minimum wage job with irregular hours,†said Matt Darling, an employment policy fellow at the nonpartisan Niskanen Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. “Those businesses are set up for a strategy that no longer works.â€
Despite offering higher pay, better benefits and more flexibility, many Kentucky employers “still struggle to find workers or even applicants,†said Charles Aull, senior policy analyst for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
Kentucky, which has two job openings for every potential worker, has been struggling with a falling labor force participation rate since 2000, according to a September report from the Kentucky Chamber Foundation. That coincides with a freefall in the state’s coal production, which once provided relatively well-paying jobs.
“The pandemic and economic recovery have accelerated preexisting trends and magnified our weak points,†the report concluded.
Darling said factors such as lower immigration, more workers taking early retirement and generous unemployment benefits all have contributed to the labor shortage. But he pointed out that while the overall labor force participation rate is down, the participation rate for the “prime-age†workforce, ages 25-54, is back to where it was in 2017.
“Unemployment insurance wasn’t holding the labor force back—it was COVID,†said Darling. He added that he stands by an October Niskanen post saying, “Crowded ports and ‘for hire’ signs are the growing pains associated with entering an age of abundance.â€
Other experts also see the openings as a temporary glitch in an improving economy. Mary C. Daly, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, predicted in a blog post that many people who are reluctant to return to work now will jump back into the workforce as the pandemic recedes.
“Myriad factors are tempering labor supply at the moment—the need to care for children, fears of COVID, generous unemployment benefits,†Daly wrote. “But there is no reason to expect those to be permanent … the lesson is simple: Americans want to work, and it would be a mistake to assume otherwise.â€
In South Dakota, where there were 1.6 job openings for every unemployed person the month before the pandemic began, some employers want to lure more workers from other states. The South Dakota Retailers Association is offering $1,000 for anyone who moves to the state and holds a job for at least three months.
The bounty could pay off in places such as North Sioux City, a South Dakota suburb of Sioux City, Iowa, where it might be relatively easy to switch states, said Nathan Sanderson, the retail association’s executive director. The state’s low cost of living and lack of a state income tax also could draw young families.
“Most of the places where there are jobs here would be great places to live and work and raise a family,†Sanderson said.
Some lawmakers in both parties are calling for more immigration to replenish shrinking communities that have factories, farms and nurseries desperate for manual labor.
In states such as South Dakota and Nebraska, immigrants make up a large part of the workforce in meat-packing plants, which kept running through the pandemic to protect the food supply and often saw large COVID-19 outbreaks.
“Everybody is screaming and yelling about the acute nature of the labor shortage at the low end, and they see immigrants at the border ready to work and we need them,†said Bob Worsley, a former Arizona Republican state senator who spoke at a recent immigration conference sponsored by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Worsley cited the woes of an Idaho asparagus farmer who invited people to pick his crop for their own use in April when immigrant workers failed to materialize.
“We need immigrants, and we need to treat them right,†Worsley said. “We’ve mistreated them for decades, every time we’ve allowed immigrants to come in and solve our labor force problems. This goes back to the Irish.â€
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Most of the states with more jobless people than jobs have plenty of white-collar positions that allow people to work remotely. The labor shortage is most acute in sectors with relatively low pay and high public contact, such as transportation, food service and hospitality.
The shortage is snarling critical services in many states and cities.
Some Massachusetts towns, for example, are offering up to $310 an hour to snowplow operators amid stiff competition for commercial drivers. Paid firefighters and medics are in short supply in parts of Virginia. A shortage of workers has meant longer waits for public buses in St. Louis and fewer menu options in school cafeterias in Utah.
While the national unemployment rate is down to 4.6% as of October, that’s not true for all groups, according to estimates for the third quarter from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Black workers still face double-digit unemployment in Illinois (10.8%) and California (10.4%), and Hispanic unemployment in New York is 10.7%.
“This brings up the question, ‘Are these employers’ hiring pools as diverse as they could be?’†said Kyle Moore, an economist with the institute. “When wages are high enough and people are satisfied with safety provisions like protective equipment, they will take these jobs.â€
In South Dakota, Buche faces a deficit of about 55 shifts out of the 416 he needs most weeks in his convenience stores and restaurants.
Half of that deficit he attributes to hiring woes, but he said the other half is from part-time employees who don’t want more work and don’t need the money since they’re not splurging on extras such as movies and restaurants.
“We’re losing a lot to COVID fears. They’re not the primary breadwinners and they think ‘Hey, I’ll just stay back home.’ They could get by financially without major concerns,†Buche said. He said his jobs pay more than minimum wage, and he’s recently tried offering $2,000 signing bonuses and employee meal discounts.
Some experts see the dearth of willing workers as a sign that the trauma of the pandemic has prompted people to reassess their career choices, making them less willing to tolerate low pay and unpredictable schedules.
“A lot of businesses are set up for an economy where there’s a bunch of people who are willing to take a minimum wage job with irregular hours,†said Matt Darling, an employment policy fellow at the nonpartisan Niskanen Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. “Those businesses are set up for a strategy that no longer works.â€
Despite offering higher pay, better benefits and more flexibility, many Kentucky employers “still struggle to find workers, or even applicants,†said Charles Aull, senior policy analyst for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
Kentucky, which has two job openings for every potential worker, has been struggling with a falling labor force participation rate since 2000, according to a September report from the Kentucky Chamber Foundation. That coincides with a freefall in the state’s coal production, which once provided relatively well-paying jobs.
“The pandemic and economic recovery have accelerated preexisting trends and magnified our weak points,†the report concluded.
STATELINE STORYOctober 14, 2019
Help Wanted: Too Many Jobs and Not Enough Workers in Most States
Darling said factors such as lower immigration, more workers taking early retirement and generous unemployment benefits all have contributed to the labor shortage. But he pointed out that while the overall labor force participation rate is down, the participation rate for the “prime age†workforce, ages 25-54, is back to where it was in 2017.
“Unemployment insurance wasn’t holding the labor force back—it was COVID,†said Darling. He added that he stands by an October Niskanen post saying, “Crowded ports and ‘for hire’ signs are the growing pains associated with entering an age of abundance.â€
Other experts also see the openings as a temporary glitch in an improving economy. Mary C. Daly, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, predicted in a blog post that many people who are reluctant to return to work now will jump back into the workforce as the pandemic recedes.
“Myriad factors are tempering labor supply at the moment—the need to care for children, fears of COVID, generous unemployment benefits,†Daly wrote. “But there is no reason to expect those to be permanent … the lesson is simple: Americans want to work, and it would be a mistake to assume otherwise.â€
In South Dakota, where there were 1.6 job openings for every unemployed person the month before the pandemic began, some employers want to lure more workers from other states. The South Dakota Retailers Association is offering $1,000 for anyone who moves to the state and holds a job for at least three months.
The bounty could pay off in places such as North Sioux City, a South Dakota suburb of Sioux City, Iowa, where it might be relatively easy to switch states, said Nathan Sanderson, the retail association’s executive director. The state’s low cost of living and lack of a state income tax also could draw young families.
“Most of the places where there are jobs here would be great places to live and work and raise a family,†Sanderson said.
STATELINE STORYOctober 7, 2021
Afghans Steered to States with ‘Help Wanted’ Signs, Pro-Immigrant Bent
Some lawmakers in both parties are calling for more immigration to replenish shrinking communities that have factories, farms and nurseries desperate for manual labor.
In states such as South Dakota and Nebraska, immigrants make up a large part of the workforce in meat-packing plants, which kept running through the pandemic to protect the food supply and often saw large COVID-19 outbreaks.
“Everybody is screaming and yelling about the acute nature of the labor shortage at the low end, and they see immigrants at the border ready to work and we need them,†said Bob Worsley, a former Arizona Republican state senator who spoke at a recent immigration conference sponsored by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Worsley cited the woes of an Idaho asparagus farmer who invited people to pick his crop for their own use in April when immigrant workers failed to materialize.
“We need immigrants, and we need to treat them right,†Worsley said. “We’ve mistreated them for decades, every time we’ve allowed immigrants to come in and solve our labor force problems. This goes back to the Irish.â€
STATELINE STORYSeptember 28, 2020
Mothers Are 3 Times More Likely Than Fathers to Have Lost Jobs in Pandemic
STATELINE STORYApril 24, 2019
Immigrants Prevented or Minimized Population Loss in a Fifth of U.S. Counties
Monroe County: Where Citizens Will Be In Charge Of Redistricting
By Steve Hinnefeld
This article was published by TheStatehouseFile.com through a partnership with The Indiana Citizen (indianacitizen.org)
Bloomington, Ind.— Last month, Indiana’s Republican legislative supermajority wrapped up a decennial redistricting process that flat-out rejected the idea of having a nonpartisan, independent commission redraw the state’s congressional and legislative district maps.
But 55 miles to the south, in one of Indiana’s few Democratic strongholds, officials in Monroe County and Bloomington instead have embraced the idea. The board of county commissioners and city council, both controlled by Democrats, will rely on separate, politically independent citizen panels—“real-life demonstration projects,’’ said Julia Vaughn, policy director of Common Cause Indiana—that will show that nonpartisan, independent redistricting can work.
Bloomington city council member Steve Volan, who authored the ordinance creating a Citizens’ Redistricting Advisory Commission, said he was inspired by Vaughn’s All IN for Democracy campaign, which tried, without success, to get the Indiana General Assembly to appoint an independent redistricting commission for congressional and legislative redistricting.
“It’s also just the right thing to do,†Volan said. “I mean, I may be a fair-minded person, but I can’t get away from having self-interest†in drawing city maps that include his own voters.
“It shows great leadership, and it’s a good way to hold yourself true to good governance practices,†Vaughn added. “If it’s good for the General Assembly, it should be good for local governments as well.â€
The Monroe County commissioners got the ball rolling earlier this month when they appointed an advisory committee to draw new maps for precincts and for commissioner and county-council election districts. The members are two Republicans, former county commissioner Joyce Poling and local election board member Hal Turner; and two Democrats, former city clerk Regina Moore and local party official Ed Robertson.
The resolution creating the panel says it should draw precincts and districts that are compact and maintain “geographic integrity.†Past voting patterns shouldn’t be considered, it says.
The group will work on a tight deadline because primary filing for the 2022 elections, including county council and commissioner seats, starts in January 2022. Precinct boundaries can’t cross legislative district lines, so the process couldn’t get into full swing until the new districts were finalized on Oct. 4.
“There’s a lot of work to do, so we want them to work as quickly and efficiently as possible,†said county commissioners’ President Julie Thomas. “And they know what they’re up against.â€
Thomas said the commissioners made a deliberate choice to create a politically balanced committee. “There’s going to have to be some consensus building in order to move this package forward,†she said.
At an initial 90-minute meeting on Oct. 18, the panel made plans to meet twice a week and went over some of the challenges it will face: for example, adjusting precinct lines that currently run through apartment buildings or don’t follow city and town boundaries. Members said they will involve the public in drawing county election district maps to the extent they can given the tight deadline.
The city redistricting commission, meanwhile, must wait for the county commissioners to approve precinct boundaries to do its work. The next Bloomington city elections will be in 2023.
The city commission will have nine members: three “affiliated with†each of the two major political parties and three not affiliated with either party. Members can’t be current or recent city officials, candidates or employees or their family members.
Also, at least one Democrat, one Republican and one nonaffiliated member must be Indiana University students. Over 40,000 students are enrolled in IU Bloomington; regardless of how they’re counted, they make up a significant share of the city’s population of 79,168, according to the 2020 census.
“This was a way to sort of give students a chance to be seriously heard at the local level,†Volan said. “They have a right to vote here, the census counts them, they drink the water here and ride the bus here. When they call 911, the fire department from here answers the call.â€
William Ellis, chairman of the Monroe County Republican Party, said county officials took “a step in the right direction†by involving members of his party in local redistricting. But he doesn’t like the fact that the three commissioners, all Democrats, got to appoint the Republican advisory committee members.
“This needs to be a partisan exercise,†he said. “I think the people that are appointed need to be appointed by the party chairs.â€
Ellis said he’s comfortable with Turner and Poling as Republicans on the county panel, even if he doesn’t approve of how they were selected. But he’s not optimistic about the Bloomington commission, partly because it will include political independents. That was also his beef with All IN for Democracy and Democrats who pushed for a state redistricting commission that would include independents.
“There’s no such thing as political independent,†Ellis said. “Everybody has political leanings.â€
He’s also skeptical that city council Democrats will choose GOP commission members whose beliefs truly align with the Republican Party. “I bet you when this is done, I probably will not recognize more than one or two names and they will have not been involved with the party,†he said.
While Indiana legislators didn’t opt for an independent redistricting commission, advocates established the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission, made up of three Republicans, three Democrats and three independents, to model how independent redistricting could work at the state level. One lesson, according to Vaughn of Common Cause Indiana: It can take effort to recruit members.
“I think it’s critically important that you get the right mix of people,†she said. “And that means really working hard to spread the word that this opportunity is available.â€
Volan, the Bloomington City Council member, said he was also inspired to create a local redistricting commission by “a certain local Republican Statehouse representative.†During town-hall meetings in 2019 and 2020, constituents urged Rep. Jeff Ellington, R-Bloomington, to support fair, impartial state redistricting. He responded that local Democrats should put their house in order first.
All nine Bloomington City Council members and all three Monroe County commissioners are Democrats. So are six of the seven members of the Monroe County Council. The one Republican on the county council, Marty Hawk, won her 2018 election by 18 votes.
Countywide, Democrats have outpolled Republicans 70-30 in recent elections for attorney general, secretary of state and auditor, considered a proxy for party identification. Republicans do best in rural areas and the town of Ellettsville, while Bloomington is so overwhelmingly Democratic that the GOP struggles to field candidates. In 2019, it had one candidate for city council and none for mayor.
Ellis, the GOP chairman, said the imbalance results in Republicans feeling like officeholders aren’t responsive to their concerns. He worries that could be the case with redistricting commissions. “One of the worst feelings you can have is the feeling you’re ignored by elected officials,†he said.
Around the state, a lot of Democrats would agree.
Steve Hinnefeld is an adjunct instructor at the Media School at Indiana University and formerly a media specialist at Indiana University and reporter for the Bloomington Herald-Times.
FOOTNOTE: This article was published by TheStatehouseFile.com through a partnership with The Indiana Citizen (indianacitizen.org), a nonpartisan, nonprofit platform dedicated to increasing the number of informed, engaged Hoosier citizens. The Indiana Citizen is separate from the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission and is not involved in its operation.
The Indiana State Police is accepting additional applications for Motor Carrier Inspectors (MCI). Â The MCI positions will staff permanent scale facilities in Lowell, West Harrison, Terre Haute, Richmond, and Seymour. Â Inspectors enforce both state and federal regulations pertaining to commercial motor vehicles operating within the State of Indiana.
Trainees must complete the Motor Carrier Inspector School scheduled to begin on February 6, 2022 and conclude on April 15, 2022. Â The training will be conducted Monday through Friday at the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division in Indianapolis, IN. Â Housing will be provided. Â During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations, and truck inspections.
To participate in the selection process, applicants for the position of Motor Carrier Inspector must meet the following basic requirements:
Be a United States citizen.
Be at least 21 years old by April 15, 2022.
Possess a high school diploma or G.E.D.
Possess a valid driver’s license.
Be required to pass a physical agility test, oral interview, polygraph exam, and a background investigation.
Be required to complete a medical exam, a psychological exam, and a drug test.
Geographical proximity to the scale facility may be a factor in the selection process.
Trainees are paid during the MCI school and are provided with all necessary equipment. The starting salary is $34,987 and will increase to $36,031 at the end of the first year of employment. Over the next ten years with step increases in pay, a Motor Carrier Inspector may reach an annual salary of $52,812. Â A retirement program will be available through PERF.
To apply for a Motor Carrier Inspector position, visit the Indiana State Police website at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/indianasp. Applications for Motor Carrier Inspector must be submitted by 12:00 PM (NOON) (Indianapolis time), Friday, November 19, 2021. Testing for the MCI position will take place on Saturday, November 20, 2021.
The Indiana State Police is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer complying with all provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.