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HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE
Adopt A Pet
Pirate is a female hamster! She’s roughly a year old and has actually been at the shelter awhile. Her sister, Panda, was recently adopted. She is called Pirate because she is missing one eye, but it doesn’t affect her overall health. Hamsters do need to be housed alone, but there are gently-used small animal items for sale at VHS if you don’t have one. Her adoption fee is just $5! Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
Adopt A Pet
Izzy is a black & white female mixed breed! She was adopted from VHS last October, then recently returned because she’s too active. She is almost 2 years old and already spayed, microchipped, vaccinated, and ready to go to her new indoor home TODAY for $110. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
Seven-run seventh helps Otters avoid sweep
Powered by a seven-run seventh inning, the Evansville Otters upended the Windy City Thunderbolts 7-3 to salvage the final game of the series and avoid the sweep at Bosse Field on Sunday afternoon in front of 1,235 fans.
Windy City cracked the scoreboard first with an RBI single in the top of the third from Tim Zier.
In the fourth, Windy City plated two more runs. Ronnie Healy had an RBI single and Joe Becht brought home a run with a sacrifice fly.
The Otters stormed back to take the lead with a seven-run seventh inning where they sent 11 batters to the plate which included nine straight hitters reaching base safely. With the bases loaded, Travis Harrison got the Otters on the board with a two-run single up the middle. Daniel Spingola then followed with another RBI single to tie the game at 3-3. Brant Whiting pushed Evansville in front with a two-run double to left. Jeff Gardner proceeded to double home Whiting and put the Otters ahead 6-3. Gardner was picked off of second base, but Zach Welz singled and was brought home on an RBI triple from Hunter Cullen to cap the inning and push the Otters ahead 7-3.
Sean Adler and Mitch Aker combined to throw the final two frames of the ballgame in relief and sealed the 7-3 win.
Austin Nicely gets the win for the Otters, his fifth on the season. Nicely tossed seven innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on nine hits while striking out a career high nine batters.
Broulio Torres-Perez is hit with the loss for Windy City. Torres-Perez went 6.1 innings and allowed four runs on five hits while striking out seven.
Suspects at Large after Robbing the Windmill Circle K
A pair of suspects are at large after robbing the Windmill Bakery Circle K at US 41 and Petersburg Road this morning.
On July 22, 2018 at 3:47 AM the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to a hold up in progress at the Circle K convenience store located at 6801 US Highway 41 N. According to the clerk, two males wearing hoodies and bandannas covering their faces entered the store and brandished a knife.
Both suspects fled after stealing nearly $900.00 worth of electronic cigarettes. A K-9 team from the Evansville Police Department tracked the suspects, but was unable to locate them.
The suspects are described as one white male, thin build, approximately 5 foot 8 inches tall and one black male thin build approximately 5 foot 10 inches tall. Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating.
“IS IT TRUE” JULY 23, 2018
We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUEâ€Â will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUE that this evening members of the Evansville City Council will discuss approving a request from the Winnecke Administration to take $2,765,000 from the Riverboat Fund to move the LST Boat next to Tropicana Casino-Evansville? …that this money will not only be used to build a new boat dock for the LST but also build a new visitors center at the Tropicana Riverfront Plaza?
IS IT TRUE we must remind City Council that the City of Evansville is responsible for dismantling the current boat dock and visitors center at Marina Point when the LST moves to its new location at the new visitors center at Tropicana Riverfront Plaza?  …we are told by reliable sources that it will cost the taxpayers around $3 million dollars to dismantle the current boat dock and visitors center at Marina Point?  …we are told that members of the Winnecke Administration are telling members of City Council that they have someone to dismantle the current LST boat dock for salvage value only?  …we strongly urge that members of City Council demand that they see a written contract from a salvage company stating that they will dismantle this dock for salvage value only?  …if the Winnecke Administration can produce such a letter from a salvage company they will save the taxpayers of Evansville $3 million dollars?
IS IT TRUE since the taxpayers of Evansville are footing the costs of relocating the LST boat from Marina Point to its new location at the Tropicana Riverfront Plaza we wonder how many members of the LST Board of Directors are from this area? Â …we are told that several people feel that if the taxpayers of Evansville are subsidizing the LST than we should have people from Evansville serving on the LST Board of Directors?
IS IT TRUE that last Thursday a group of starry-eyed owners of a training football team in California that typically only attracts 200-300 fans rolled out a presentation to a group of influential people to build a $300 million indoor arena for football and other events?…this either took an amazing level of chutzpah or just an incredibly ignorant understanding of the value of sports arenas?…they were touting the economic development impact of stadiums and actually touted the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana as a financial model for an arena that makes money?…little did they know that someone who knows the numbers for the Ford Center was in the room?…if Ford Center can lose $9 million per year after borrowing $127 million and be touted as a big winner, then these guys will be poised to lose $20 million per year if the just scale the losses of Ford Center on a dollar for dollar basis?
IS IT TRUE they also talked up the YUM Center in Louisville that is also losing money faster than it can be counted?…YUM Center picks the pockets of the City of Louisville and the State of Kentucky for a combined $22 million?…there is a report on the financial performance of sports facilities by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that concludes that no sports stadium has ever worked out well for any state or municipality?…studies from both Harvard and Stanford conclude that the sum total, of economic development from sports arenas, is so negative that such things should never even be represented as having economic development value?
IS IT TRUE that there are still some in Evansville who assert that Ford Center has had such a positive economic impact that it is worth the $9 million per year in losses to the taxpayers of Evansville?…the reality is that the Ford Center couldn’t even generate enough business to keep The Maingate Bar open?…the other reality is that the Doubletree Hotel needed a subsidy of over $20 million and the IU Medical School consumed over $50 million tax dollars?…the truth is that the IU Medical School should have come first and the hotel would not have needed a subsidy?…as for the Ford Center, as pretty as it is, it should have never happened and most people know it?…of course the ones who still tout the Ford Center as the savior of downtown Evansville are the ones who paid a consultant for a nonsensical study and jammed the project down the throat of Evansville without a vote?
IS IT TRUE we wonder what is the status of the ECHO Housing forensic audit?
IS IT TRUE we wonder if the water and sewer bills  at the McCurdy are current?
Today’s “Readers Pollâ€Â question is: Are you pleased with the direction that the State of Indiana is headed?
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Commentary: Make America Great Again, But For Real
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INDIANAPOLIS – Maybe Donald Trump will make America great again.
Just not the way he thinks.
On Monday, after a private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump held the single most disastrous press conference in American presidential history. He argued, again and again, that the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election was a threat to America and the world. He said, again and again, that he believed Putin rather than U.S. intelligence advisors, including former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Indiana, whom Trump cited by name.
The reaction was swift.
Trump’s abandonment of U.S. interests and embrace of a Russian dictator and murderer was too much for many Republicans.
Coats issued a dignified but stern rebuttal, saying he would continue to defend American security and interests. Coats implied he would do so despite any presidential attempts to deter him from his duty.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, also issued a statement saying he supported all attempts by intelligence and investigatory agencies to protect America’s security and interests, a rebuke to President Trump.
Other Republicans around the country joined in.
Feeling the heat, Trump on Tuesday tried to walk back what he’d said on Monday. Reading from a written statement, he said he “misspoke†– that he meant “wouldn’t†when he said “would.†This explanation satisfied few who paid attention because it ignored the president’s repeated insistence that he accepted Putin’s assurances and doubted the facts presented by his own advisors.
And there was the reason to doubt Trump even meant it.
By Wednesday, he was walking back his attempted walk-back. Via Twitter, Trump’s preferred medium, the president insisted his meeting with Putin had been a great success and that Russia was a true friend to the United States.
This typically Trumpian befuddling episode provoked expected reactions.
The Trump haters who think of this president as a liar, a knave, and a buffoon now had a new term – traitor – to add to their list of epithets for the man.
And the president’s band of defenders made clear that there is no reassurance, however preposterous, Donald Trump offers them that they won’t accept. If Trump tells them that, like so many other dictators who illegally invade other countries and either murder or imprison dissidents, Vladimir Putin is merely misunderstood and desperately in need of kindness and friendship, they’ll not only swallow it.
They’ll ask for seconds.
But the reactions from Coats and Young add something new to the dynamic – a growing awareness that this situation has grown beyond standard political gamesmanship.
When Trump read from his written statement Tuesday, he edited in, in his own handwriting, an assertion that there was “no collusion.â€
It was a revealing addition.
In the president’s mind, this whole thing is about him – his reputation, his brand, his interests, his inconvenience.
But it isn’t about him.
Vladimir Putin and Russia didn’t attack just Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
No, as Dan Coats pointed out, they attacked the United States. They attacked all of us.
They hoped to gain instability within the one nation on earth with the means and the might to check their abuses. They got that. They also hoped to fracture alliances that might contain their ambitions to exert control over other parts of the world. They also have achieved that.
Whether they were able to do this because this U.S. president is too compromised or simply too naïve to understand the nature of the threat Vladimir Putin presents is important, but it’s less important than the fact that Putin and the Russians are trying to attack us again.
And we must stop them.
The president won’t help us with this.
He’s too wrapped up in his own drama to notice anything else.
That means it falls to the rest of us to do our duty as Americans and protect our country.
One of the things that have made this nation special has been our ability to either resolve or put differences aside in times of trouble and danger.
That quality made us great in the past.
And it can make us great again.
FOOTNOTES: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits†WFYI 90.1 and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.  This article was posted by the City-County Observer without bias, opinion or editing.