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Baseball Aces play host to new conference rival Valparaiso this weekend

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The University of Evansville baseball team is hungry for a “w”. The Purple Aces are coming off a tough road loss to tenth-ranked Vanderbilt Tuesday night in Nashville, 6-1 the final.

Valparaiso has found it tough sledding so far in 2018, as well, dropping their first two conference series as the newest member of the Missouri Valley Conference, falling to Bradley and Southern Illinois. The Crusaders over Power Five schools Oklahoma and Michigan State.
The Purple Aces will open the series with sophomore right hander Adam Lukas, who has settled into his role as starter after starting the season in the bullpen. While coming off his roughest start of the season against Bradley last Friday (1.1 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER), Lukas had been impressive in his previous two starts. Against Iowa and Creighton, Lukas went a combined 11 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 13 Ks.

Lukas will be opposed by Jon Tieman, who comes into Friday’s series opener with a 3-3 record and a 5.25 ERA.

On Saturday, the Aces send out junior left hander Alex Weigand, who is coming off, arguably his best start, pitching 5.2 innings of shutout work, while holding Bradley to just two hits, striking out five Braves but got a no-decision.

Weigand will be opposed by Trey Ferketic, who comes into his Saturday start with a 4-2 mark and a 4.35 ERA.

Then on Sunday, head coach Wes Carroll hands the ball to freshman Jace Burke. The right hander from Akron, Ohio will be making his eighth appearance and sixth start of the season. He is currently 0-4, with an 8.38 ERA in his first year with Evansville. Last time out, Burke went four innings, giving up four runs, all earned, on four hits against Bradley. He also struck out and walked three batters each.

His counterpart will be Wes Gordon, who is also 0-4 on the season, with a 7.79 ERA.

The University of Evansville Athletic Department will be hosting a pregame tailgates prior to Saturday’s game against Valparaiso. New men’s head basketball head coach Walter McCarty will throw out the ceremonial pitch that day as well.

Vanderburgh County current warrants

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Vanderburgh County Current Warrants

UE Chemistry Day for 4th-5th graders this Saturday

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UE’s annual Chemistry Day is this Saturday, Apr. 21. UE Chemistry Club members will be working on fun science experiments with 50 local 4th-5th graders from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in Koch Center. This is not open to the public but media are welcome to attend to take photos, film video, interview participants. (Best time for this would be anytime except 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.)

 

USI Board of Trustees to meet in special session to select next president

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The University of Southern Indiana Board of Trustees

 Special session to approve the selection of USI’s fourth president

 1 p.m. Thursday, April 19

 Griffin Center Great Hall. A map of the USI campus that features the Griffin Center can be found on the USI website at USI.edu/map.

PARKING: Parking will be reserved for media members in the Griffin Center parking lot. If necessary, parking will also be available in Lot J. A map of the USI campus that features par

Indiana State Police are Investigating Double Shooting in Oaktown

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Knox County – Indiana State Police are currently investigating a double shooting that occurred at 3386 E. Cardinal Road, Oaktown. The investigation was initiated this evening after a family member requested a welfare check on the occupants.  Officers from the Indiana State Police and Knox County Sheriff’s Department arrived at approximately 7:50 p.m. and found a male inside the garage with serious injuries. A female was found deceased inside the residence. The male was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital, but was later airlifted to Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville.

This is an on-going investigation and additional information will be released as it becomes available.

Indiana State Police Detectives do not believe anyone else was involved in this shooting. The community is not in danger.

Lead Investigating Agency: Indiana State Police

Assisting Agency: Knox County Sheriff’s Department

UPDATE

Indiana State Police Detectives do not believe anyone else was involved in this shooting. The community is not in danger.

The male has been identified as Roger S. Darrough, 63.  He is still being treated for serious injuries at Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville. The deceased female has been identified as Sharon M. Patton, 56.  Darrough and Patton resided together at the residence.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

IS IT TRUE APRIL 19, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” 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 the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau has found a new leader and the name of this 63-year-old spring chicken is Joe Taylor?…Mr. Taylor is coming to Evansville from the Quad Cities area that includes Northwest Illinois and Southeast Iowa?…that is the same general area that outgoing CEO Bob Warren came to Evansville from 8 years ago to close out his career?…Mr. Taylor was scheduled to close out his own career with a retirement that was to occur on December 31, 2018, as verified by his own board of directors?…Taylor may be running double duty in Evansville as he was also responsible for bringing sporting contests to the Quad Cities during his time there?…the City-County Observer welcomes Joe Taylor to Evansville and wishes him much success?…for the first time in perhaps 50 years there is some momentum in downtown Evansville that may succeed in drawing something of substance that exceeds the Lady Quilters of Indiana and the Big Bass Fishermen who occasionally hook one of the Ohio River piranhas with their jitterbugs?

IS IT TRUE we are still complexed why did the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Commissioners decide to hire a new Executive Director from the outside?  …it was clearly obvious that the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau had an extremely qualified individual in their current employment that could have done well in this position

IS IT TRUE some influential people in Evansville must have a desire to become Quad Cities south because the stream of retired or nearly retired talent coming in from that region keeps multiplying?…in addition to former CVB CEO Warren and the new guy Taylor, the recently hired CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana was hired  from a similar position in the Quad Cities?…it is highly probable that these people all have known each other for a long time and may even have a working relationship?…while familiarity may be positive, the Quad Cities are not exactly showing up on the lists of great places to live, work, or visit?…it could be a step up for River City though?

IS IT TRUE that the Kunkel Group has raised its pen and filed a tort claim against the City of Evansville for the excessive charges for water and sewer service at the McCurdy Hotel building that is now Kunkel owned apartments?…among the allegations made by Kunkel are that the City of Evansville has made false statements that have disrupted their operation of an honest business in downtown Evansville?…the Kunkel suit was after the City of Evansville placed a $1.5 million lien on the McCurdy for water use for the first year after the apartments were offered to the public?…one thing that the City County Observer knows for sure is that a building with only 93 apartments can not afford to pay a water bill of over $100,000 per month?

IS IT TRUE that the McCurdy water bill per apartment amounts to roughly $1,300 and that is not something that is consistent with this property having a fighting chance at prospering from their large investment?…by the time all of the expenses of operating this building are considered the Kunkel Group will need to net roughly $2,500 per apartment per month at 100% occupancy all of the time?…that means that a base rent will need to be close to $3,000 for this property to perform well financially?

IS IT TRUE that the new GRAVIS POLL finds that former State Representative Mike Braum is leading the recent political poll?  …this poll shows that Mr. Braun is leading the pack against career politicians Luke Messer and Todd Rokita?  …the poll shows Mr. Braun leading this poll with 26%?  …that Todd Rokita has 16% and Luck Messer has 13% of the vote?  …that around 45% of the voters don’t know who they are voting for in this coming U S Senate Republican primary?

IS IT TRUE if the Veterans Memorial Coliseum is forced to stop providing Friday night BINGO it could cause this historical landmark to close their doors forever?  …that Friday night BINGO is the main source of income for this historical landmark?

IS IT TRUE that we are impressed with Abby Maravich, the Member Engagement Manager for the Southwest Indiana Chamber?  …Abby is very personable and is a very good public relations person?  …the Southwest Indiana Chamber is fortunate to have someone with the qualifications and dedication of Abby Maravich?

IS IT TRUE that Vanderburgh County Attorney Joe Harrison, Jr. is really doing a bang-up job serving the citizens of this community?

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ON EARTH DAY, CONGRESS WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD

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By Joe Guzzardi

Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. Despite hopes that limiting population growth would be the UN’s centerpiece topic, concerned attendees came away disappointed, with the impression that political correctness ruled the day, and that feel-gooders rather than do-gooders dominated the agenda.

The conference offered not a single population or biodiversity session, even though non-human life plays a crucial role in maintaining planetary health. Instead, the conference focused on “leaving no one behind” despite ecological limits and realities. International migration, which is gripping Europe and the United States, was conveyed as a necessity and an unmitigated good. When a realist in the audience asked how it would be possible that some would not inevitably be left behind when the planet adds 80 million people annually to its existing 7.6 billion, the moderator dismissed his question as too negative.

One overall UN theme was contradictory: “think globally, but act locally.” The U.S., while it may or may not be prepared to think globally, has an immigration policy that ruins any chance at positive local action toward sustainability.

The Census Bureau provides an instructive mathematical breakdown on population growth’s components. The current U.S. population is 327 million; one birth occurs every eight seconds, and one net international migrant arrives every 28 seconds, but deaths offset the increases by only one every 11 seconds. The result is that each day the U.S population has a net gain of one person every 14 seconds.

The Pew Research Center projected that by mid-decade the population will increase to more than 441 million, driven by immigration. The same researchers concluded that if immigration were cut in half, population would grow by 70 million; if eliminated, 31 million.

U.S. growth is the direct consequence of Congress’ unwillingness to consider immigration’s long-term effects on the nation’s population, a failure that’s repeated itself for 53 years. Republicans and Democrats are equally culpable.

During the Senate hearing about the effect the 1965 Immigration Act might have on population, New York Sen. Robert Kennedy, responding to North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin’s questions, acknowledged that the legislation would eventually double U.S. population, and that mass immigration to America couldn’t and wouldn’t solve global overpopulation. Senators Ervin and Kennedy were right in their analysis, but wrong in their votes to pass the legislation. Both sides of the aisle overwhelmingly voted for the 1965 Immigration Act.

Since the Immigration Act’s passage and through 2015, with new immigrants, their children and grandchildren, 72 million people were added to the U.S., which accounted for 55 percent of the nation’s population growth. The modern immigration wave vastly exceeds previous migration flows: between 1840 and 1889, 14.3 million immigrants came to the U.S., and between 1890 and 1919, an additional 18.2 million arrived.

Continued growth, the path that the U.S. travels today, will not have a happy ending. And even if it were survivable, indefinite growth is highly undesirable. Demands on infrastructure ,’ transportation, water, schools and housing ,’ have already reached or passed the breaking point in some parts of the U.S., most notably in the American Southwest.

During the 1960s and 1970s when Congress debated the Immigration Act, the U.S. population was 189 million and 213 million, respectively. Yet, no one argued then that America was too small or too economically weak.

Despite overwhelming statistical and irrefutable evidence that the U.S. is on a population collision course, immigration-induced increases remain, to the bewilderment of most Americans, verboten in Congress.

New Executive Director Named For Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau

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New Executive Director Named For Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau

APRIL 18TH, 2018 BRITNEY TAYLOR EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

The Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau announces a new executive director. Joe Taylor will replace long-time executive director Bob Warren.

Taylor comes from the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau where he served as President/CEO since May 1998. The Quad Cities CVB consisted of Davenport/Bettendorf, Iowa and Rock Island/Molina, Illinois.

During his tenure, he was responsible for growing the two-state, multi-jurisdictional CVB with an annual budget of $1.3 million and multiple officers serving the metropolitan and rural areas with a regional population of 350,000.

Taylor has also overseen the operations of the Quad Cities Sports Commission for several years.

His extensive background in sporting events is complemented with a knowledge of hosting meetings and conventions, the riverboat cuisine industry and partnering in riverfront development and gaming.

Taylor will begin as the new executive director on June 4th.

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