Macaroni is a male mixed-breed. He’s a happy & fun-loving boy who has done fine with several other dogs during his time at the shelter. He’s only a year old. He was previously adopted from VHS, but after someone found him running loose and contacted his family, they no longer wa
JUST IN: Steve Ary Announces His Candidacy To Run For Mayor Of Evansville
Steve Ary Announces His Candidacy For Mayor Of Evansville In The 2019 General Election
Ary is a Constitutional Conservative running as an Independent, and he believes that the city of Evansville needs to replicate the State of Indiana’s outstanding financial stewardship to get Evansville out of the red and into the black.
He has a twenty-two year history of successfully working in and managing national retail chains and local businesses, managing profit and loss, decreasing spending while increasing revenue. He is innovative and solution-oriented. He is a pastor at CityGate Indiana, a non-denominational church located at 1511 N. Royal Ave. on the East Side of Evansville.
Using his strategic budgeting analysis and procedures, he has turned money-losing businesses and churches around from running in the red to running in the black.
Ary plans to tackle important Evansville issues such as:
- Unnecessary government spending
- Affordable housing
- Gang violence
- Drug activity
- Homelessness
- The pedestrian bridge at Hwy 41 and Washington Ave.
- Energy independence
- Ending local cronyism and corruption
- Pay-to-play in professional service contracts
- School bullying
- Urban blight and abandoned houses
- Real code enforcement
- Clean neighborhoods and public safety
- Alleys, local flooding, and watershedÂ
- Abandoned neighborhoods
Steve Ary believes that after eighteen years of elitist Lloyd Winnecke politics, the forgotten men, women and children of Evansville deserve better than the current physical and financial condition of our city, and that the people of Evansville deserve the “real choice†this election.
For more information, to sign petitions, or to donate, please contact the Committee to Elect Steve Ary at: ary4evansville@gmail.com or call him at 812.549.0885.
Otters Win Wild game, Defeating The Boomers 6-5
In a game that had a total of 13 runs, 24 hits, and four errors, the Evansville Otters defeated the Schaumburg Boomers 7-6 Saturday night to even the weekend series, capping off the Otters’ 25th Anniversary Season Celebration Night.
The entire game can be described as a roller coaster ride, with many ups and downs.
The Otters jumped out to a two-run lead after an RBI double from Ryan Long and an RBI single by Dakota Phillips in the bottom of the first inning.
Following a quiet second and third innings, Schaumburg’s Julio Gonzalez hit an RBI double to give the Boomers their first run of the game in the top of the fourth. He scored on an error from Carlos Castro, as a ground ball rolled under his glove on a ball hit by Connor Oliver, tying the score at two.
In the fifth, Schaumburg’s Dylan Jones, who hit a two-run homer on Friday night, jacked a solo blast to lead off the fifth, giving the Boomers a 3-2 lead.
After Jimmy Galusky singled, Otters rookie left-hander Jacquis Pacheu, making his first professional start, was pulled after striking out catcher Nick Oddo. He finished with a no-decision, throwing 4.1 innings, allowing four runs – three earned – on nine hits and four strikeouts.
Otters reliever Chris Cepeda entered the game and gave up a two-run home run to Clint Hardy, giving the Boomers a 5-2 lead.
The Otters were able to respond in the bottom half of the inning.
With the bases loaded and two outs, Dakota Phillips hit a ground ball down the first base line. Boomers starter Aaron Rozek threw the ball over the head of first baseman Wilkyns Jimenez, allowing all three runs to score and Phillips advancing to second. He was credited with a single, advancing to second on the error, as the Otters were able to tie the game at five.
Rozek went five innings, allowing six runs – five earned – on nine hits and three walks, taking a no-decision.
Rob Calabrese roped an RBI double to the wall in left-centerfield to give the Otters a 6-5 lead.
Schaumburg responded in the top of the sixth as Galuksy’s RBI double scored Jack Parenty to tie the game at six in the sixth.
Cepeda was pulled for Taylor Wright, who shut the Boomers down in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings.
In the bottom of the eighth, Justin Erby led off by reaching on an error by Schaumburg shortstop Alex Polston. Erby was hurt on the play, causing Hunter Cullen to enter the game as a pinch-runner.
A sacrifice bunt by Meggs moved Cullen to second, and a groundout by Cronin advanced him to third.
Keith Grieshaber forced a walk to put runners on the corners for the Otters.
Ryan Long then hit a ground ball to Jimenez at first, but his throw to pitcher Jake Cousins was not in time. It was ruled an error on Jimenez, allowing Cullen to touch home plate, giving the Otters a 7-6 lead.
Danny Hrbek retired the Boomers in order in the ninth, including a strikeout to Clint Hardy, earning his fourth save of the season.
Wright recorded the win for the Otters, finishing 2.2 innings scoreless in relief.
Cousins took the loss, giving up the one unearned run.
“READERS FORUM” JUNE 16, 2019
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Wednesday Q+A with Mike Braun
Wednesday Q+A with Mike Braun
National Journal
Zach C. CohenÂ
June 11, 2019Â
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/679418/wednesday-qa-with-mike-braun
Mike Braun defeated two Republican congressmen and a Democratic senator to win his Senate seat in Indiana last year. The Jasper shipping executive sat down with Zach C. Cohen in his Capitol Hill office last week to talk about the impact of tariffs on his industry, Democrats’ advantage on health care, and fellow GOP senators’ opposition to reform. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What has surprised you most about Washington since taking office?
I knew it’d be a different dynamic, of course, from being a main street entrepreneur and building my business over the years. I never had a board of directors, and it turned into a large national company, so I had the freedom to make moves quickly. … This, of course, would be the antithesis of that.
You’re on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, where Chairman Lamar Alexander and ranking member Patty Murray just released draft legislation trying to tackle health care costs, surprise billing, drug prices. Do you anticipate that that could pass the Senate?
Some of that stuff may get bipartisan support. … It could be the single biggest thing that keeps us from depleting the Medicare trust fund. … Democrats—I think most of them want to just radically change the system. And I think they’ve probably got public sentiment slightly on their side, because it’s broken.
You entered office in the middle of the longest shutdown in American history. You had a few bills aimed at preventing future shutdowns. Is that something that you want to bring up again as we near another funding deadline?
Those kinds of things will be mostly for discussion because everybody has casual discussions like those ideas. But when you talk about not doing a budget and then not getting a paycheck, you’re going to lose a lot of the interest [laughs].
I’m curious to get your thoughts generally on President Trump’s threats to close the border, install tariffs, generally change trade.
I thought tariffs, even though I didn’t like them, made sense against [China]. I even thought they were OK to use as [a] stick to kind of get [the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement] to where it is now, and I thought that happened actually a little quicker than what I figured it would—so short-term pain for long-term realignment or gain. And if you stick by those principles, that always works. It’s just most people just don’t have the stomach to put up with much pain in the short run on anything.
Your shipping company, Meyer Distributing, actually has a few suppliers that have operations in places like Mexico and China. Are you worried about the economic impact?
No, because first of all, I’ve got close to 1,000 suppliers, and 25 percent of the stuff we sell, roughly, is made overseas. I think anybody that took more than 25 percent of their production capabilities and put them overseas had to be careful, especially if all those eggs were in the Chinese basket. That’s risky. … We didn’t want to distribute stuff where we got dependent on if it was all coming from a place like China. … In other words it’s a wake-up call to realign your supply chain [in China] and a lot of other countries.
Your 2018 opponent, former Senator Joe Donnelly, has a new political nonprofit, One Country Project, with the idea of helping Democrats reach out to rural communities. I’m curious what you think about that.
He could try that, but I think Donnelly should probably switch to become a Republican. … Rural America generally doesn’t want more government. It doesn’t want more, I think, of what they’re offering.
Throughout your campaign, you were known for always wearing blue shirts, like you’re wearing now—no tie. Did you have to buy a bunch of white shirts and ties with the new job?
I did … have to buy a few shirts. … I don’t really wear a tie until I have to go into the chamber.
Are there any particular issues that maybe weren’t a priority for you until you got here that you’d like to start focusing on?
I knew what I wanted to focus on. It was reforming the system. … Because I see the demographics and everything over the next four to eight years kind of favoring Democrats until we come up with a way to hold the health care industry accountable—reform it without going into Medicare-for-all. And I believe that would put Republicans back into a strong spot to where we can maybe win 60 seats. But we’d have to be real forceful on showing that we took the industry on. I can’t see more than 10 Republicans that really would like to do that, because most kind of roll over.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY
FATHER DAY MESSAGES
by Indian Express
*Friendship – you are a true friend
Affection – you always display your love for me
Teacher – you have been and still are my best life teacher
Humour – you display and have showed me the importance of laughter
Enthusiasm – your never discouraged, you always encouraged
Role model – you are an example for me to follow! Happy Father’s Day
*There is a saying that goes like this: “Any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a Dad!†You are that special man in my life, thanks Dad.
*Happy Father’s Day! I’ve learned so much from you: patience, kindness, strength & courage. I love you so much, today and always.
Bachelor of Science In Civil Engineering Program To Be Offered Through The USI Pott College of Science, Engineering
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has approved a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) Program to be offered through the University of Southern Indiana Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education beginning in the fall 2019 semester.
“We’re excited about this newest addition to our strong and growing Engineering Program,†said Dr. Zane Mitchell, dean of USI’s Pott College. “This discipline-specific degree will elevate the reputation of our civil engineering graduates while also filling an ongoing and growing need for civil engineers in the region and state. With an already-established foundation for the program in place, we could see our first graduates as early as this December.â€
The new BSCE Program builds upon the strong reputation USI’s Engineering Program has already established for consistently producing graduates that have success in industry and within the profession. Students have opportunities to participate in co-operative education and internships, and to become part of an active student organization. They also experience an applied perspective in the classroom, with a focus on innovative real-world design problems. USI’s engineering courses are taught by experienced faculty, many of whom are also licensed professional engineers—never from graduate students.
State-of-the-art labs, combined with a variety of engineering coursework, prepares graduates through hands-on learning opportunities and several annual design challenges, like steel bridge and concrete canoe competitions. Most recently, USI’s engineering team won first place in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Great Lakes Student Conference Mystery Competition that led to building turbidity filters for filtering clay from water. Additionally, a group of students is traveling with faculty to Africa in Summer 2019 to build a 95-meter bridge in the community of eSwatini (formerly Swaziland).
BSCE courses build directly upon the engineering core curriculum of Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Strength of Materials. Students take courses that cover the full spectrum of subfields in civil engineering, including structural, water resources, environmental, construction materials, transportation and surveying, construction estimating and management, and geotechnical. This wide range of elective courses gives them opportunities for significant breadth in the field of civil engineering.
The program is 127 hours, which includes 47 hours of core civil engineering courses and 16 hours of engineering electives. Students also have access to USI’s Applied Engineering Center, an innovative facility equipped with $3.3M of custom-made manufacturing and engineering equipment.
Civil engineering is a fast-growing field geared toward problem solvers looking to improve and create strong, sustainable solutions for roads, bridges, dams, structures and infrastructure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects an 11% employment growth rate for civil engineers through 2026, and long-term projections show Indiana having a 14% increase in new civil engineering jobs over the next 10 years.
The BSCE Program joins Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree programs as discipline-specific engineering degrees offered through the Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education. The USI Engineering Department also offers a general Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree program which is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.
For more information about the BSCE Program, visit USI.edu/engineering, contact USI Admission at 800-467-1965, or contact Dr. Paul Kuban, chair of the Engineering Department, at pkuban@usi.edu.
Commentary: Democrats, Seizing Defeat From The Jaws Of victory
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.comÂ
INDIANAPOLIS – Will Rogers may have been more than a comedian, a philosopher and a newspaper columnist.
He also may have been a prophet.
“I am not a member of any organized political party,†Rogers once said. “I am a Democrat.â€
Rogers also said Democrats had a special way of conducting a firing squad. They would form a circle, he quipped, and then fire back toward the center.
True then.
True now.
The process for determining the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee is like a demolition derby, only less structured. At the end of this month, all 23 declared candidates will start debating. The field is so large that the event requires multiple nights and a basketball squad’s worth of moderators. With any luck, that first debate might, just might, end sometime before Election Day 2020.
It’s easy to see why just about every Democrat with a pulse in the United States wants to take a shot at the White House. The current occupant of the Oval Office is as vulnerable a candidate as we’re likely to see in several lifetimes.
President Donald Trump and his defenders like to tout the strong economy as his argument for re-election. They never stop to ask themselves two questions.
The first is: Why, if the economy is going so great, does our candidate struggle to maintain a 40 percent approval rating?
The second is: What happens if the economy falters or fails – either through the natural cycle of such things or, just suppose, someone were to start a costly and self-destructive trade war that hammered Republican strongholds in disproportionate fashion? (I know. That second possibility is the stuff of fantasy. No one sane would be dumb enough to threaten imposing tariffs on major trading partners that would punish American consumers just to look tough or distract attention from other problems.)
Given these two realities, the 2020 election should resemble a coronation stroll for the Democrats.
But these are Democrats we’re talking about. They’re skilled at seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. That’s what they’re hard at work doing now.
Republicans are much better at playing the long game.
In the 2018 election, when it became clear GOP candidates were swimming into a tsunami, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told major Republican donors to write off the House of Representatives. Focus on holding onto the Senate, McConnell said.
McConnell may be corrupt and amoral, but he’s no idiot.
He knows the Senate has unique advantages when it comes to exerting leverage. The Senate can prevent presidents from being removed from office.
More important, the Senate can bestow or withhold lifetime appointments to federal benches, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Given McConnell’s ruthless willingness to ignore or rewrite the rules regarding judicial nominations – appointing people to the Supreme Court during an election year is wrong except when he changes his mind – he can make the Senate a formidable bastion for the GOP for years, even decades to come.
Expect McConnell to reprise his 2018 message next year, too. Write off the House and the presidency, he’ll say, but hold onto the Senate at all costs. We can turn the tide from there.
While McConnell and canny Republicans are locking in to protect the Senate, Democrats are breeding presidential candidates like rabbits on fertility drugs. Longshot contenders for the White House who might be credible or even winning Senate candidates are all but guaranteeing that, even if a Democrat does capture the presidency in 2020, she or he won’t be able to do much with it.
Thus, it so often is.
Democrats have dreams.
Republicans have plans.
That’s why the GOP often can overcome long odds and achieve victory.
That thing Will Rogers said about how Democrats form a firing squad?
Prophecy.
Sheer, brilliant prophecy.
FOOTNOTE: ohn 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.