On this date in 1937, the Ohio River, rising all month, reached a flood level of 53 feet. Martial law had been declared, and the National Guard was dispatched to Evansville.
Pictures of the Flood of 1937: Today in History Evansville Under Marshall Law
Jim Redwine Gavel Gamut: Peace in Our Time
GAVEL GAMUT
By Jim Redwine
www.jamesmredwine.com
(Week of 27 January 2025)
PEACE IN OUR TIME
In his Inaugural Address President Trump told us his two main goals were to be a unifier
and a peace maker. Most of us can applaud those aims. Also, most people, whether MAGA or
Trump Haters realize such laudable and difficult objectives will take some time. Even skeptics
must allow for a country as divided as America to be incrementally and slowly to coalesce
behind anyone who announces such commendable, if unlikely, achievements. After all, even
Jesus has had over two thousand years to reign as the Prince of Peace and the whole world seems
still bent on committing either genocide or suicide. Perhaps we should, at least, allow President
Trump more than a couple of weeks. While not convinced by his first term nor his actions
thereafter, I for one can reserve final judgment. On the other hand, President Trump, in my
opinion, has not made an auspicious start.
You may recall, Gentle Reader, that during his first term President Trump sought to
restrict all Muslims from immigrating to America. Several of the countries we seek to have
peaceful relations with are majority adherents of Islam. The U.S. has about four million Muslim
citizens. The earth has a population of about two billion Muslims; that is one Muslim out of
every four humans. To have a peaceful world America must have a leader who does not hate
Muslims.
At his inauguration President Trump had a Catholic bishop, a Protestant cleric and a
Jewish rabbi, but no Islamic imam. There were, also, numerous secular figures involved. While
some citizens of the United States might believe that there should be no emphasis on any
religious faith in our government based on the First Amendment, it has been an American
tradition to involve religion in our inaugurations. This probably does no harm as long as all faiths
are welcome. However, the exclusion of Islam from President Trump’s ceremony was obviously
by his preference. Such exclusion did not help either national unity or the cause of peace.
What President Trump could do is to begin referring to America’s religious tradition as a
Judeo-Christian-Islamic one; after all, each of the three faiths worship the same god and have
many of the same rituals. Such a gesture by our new President would encourage the populace
and especially the news media to include one-fourth of our world family in our aspirations for
unity and peace. I doubt if such a magnanimous gesture by our new leader would escape notice
and, I predict it would receive heartfelt gratitude.
For more Gavel Gamut articles go to www.jamesmredwine.com
Bill setting social-media age limits continues its march through the Senate
Tuesday afternoon, the Indiana Senate convened to discuss 17 pieces of legislation, including three bills that are now on their way to the House of Representatives, while the disputed Senate Bill 11 received futile calls for concern from Democrats before it passed to a third reading.
SB 11 would require social media sites to obtain parental consent for a child under the age of 16 to access them. Two amendments were proposed by Sen. Rodney Pol, D-Michigan City, which would force social media platforms to provide notice to users being investigated for using the site without permission.
“What we are doing here is, we are trying to get these social media networks that do this job we want parents to do without having a fool-proof way of doing so,” said Pol in a speech to the chamber.
Both amendments proposed by Pol received full support from his Democratic colleagues but failed to pique the interest of Republican lawmakers and died on the floor.
The bill’s author, Sen. Mike Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores, expressed his confidence in the bill’s future with TheStatehousefile.com.
“It will go through, no problem at all,” Bohacek said repeatedly.
The key moments of the meeting saw three bills pass the Senate.
SB 80, which attempts to grammatically clean up and clarify areas of Indiana State Code, passed unanimously, having received verbal support from Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis.
SB 127, which among other provisions clarifies that a battery-charged security device is a separate item from an electric fence, passed the Senate unanimously.
Finally, SB 199 is a bill that changes how many candidates in a primary election are needed to agree to the presence of poll watchers at election sites, from 26% of candidates to just two candidates. The bill passed the Senate unanimously, but Sen. J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, while supporting the bill, warned his colleagues of its potential implications.
“This reminds me of the old adage, there are too many cooks in the kitchen,” he said.
Schyler Altherr is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
SKECHERS STORE COMING TO EVANSVILLE
According to an online post from Evansville 411, SKECHERS has plans to open on Evansville’s east side in the Evansville Pavilion Shopping Center.
The Skechers brand has recently experienced a boom with its slip-on shoes and is expanding into new markets. There are currently 5,000 Skechers retail stores worldwide, soon to be 5,001.
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