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IS IT TRUE DECEMBER 11, 2017

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We hope that todays “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 last week Vanderburgh County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave ask the President of the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau, Dale McCuiston “Who paid for the roasted pig served at this groups annual Christmas lunch”?  …Commissioner Musgrave also ask McCuiston “Who attended this event”? …Mr. McCuiston response to Mrs. Musgrave was; “Too funny Chery!!!”  “LOL.”  “I recall you attending last year and eating your plate full!!!”  Please!”  …Commissioner Musgrave responded to President McCuiston; “Nope, didn’t eat any of it”. “Was it paid for with taxpayer funds”?  “Who was invited”  …So far Commissioner Musgrave questions sent to Mr. McCuiston hasn’t been answered? …we hope that Mr McCuiston will provide a response to County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave questions because it’s the public right to know who attended this event and the financial arrangements concerning this social function?
IS IT TRUE we hope that someone with the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau didn’t decide to have  glutton fest with a whole pig artfully and deliciously prepared for all to enjoy at the annual CVB Board of Directors Christmas celebration paid with local taxpayers funds? …we are not privy to if CVB CEO Bob Warren and his board members  and his guests consumed any alcohol at this event but we hear that darn near any kind of alcohol goes well with slow roasted pork?  …if this event was personally paid by members of the CVB Board or Corporate sponsors we hope they had a good time?  …if this event was paid with taxpayers funds then we demand a refund?
IS IT TRUE at last week New Harmony Planning Commission meeting the board  changed Article 17 of the Town Ordinance by a majority vote?  …the new change in the Ordinance outlaws the use of first floor commercial property in the Business Historic District for residential use, without a variance approval? …the penalty for violating the proposed new Zoning law is a whooping $200 per day fine for each day of the violation, plus up to 90 days in jail for each day of violation?  …the same fine will apply to any property owner who refuses a reasonable opportunity for a town official to inspect the premises?  …the New Harmony Town Council may take up the Article 17 change at the next scheduled Town Council meeting on Tuesday morning at 8:30 on December 19, 2017?  …we hope that the fine citizens of New Harmony will show up in large numbers to object to an obvious governmental overreach by the New Harmony Planning Commission?
IS IT TRUE members of the Evansville Teachers Association (ETA) have ratified the 2017-19 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the ETA and Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) by a vote of 749 in favor of the agreement and 41 not in favor of the agreement?  …the two-year agreement includes base salary increases that will be paid out and added to teachers’ base salaries in 2017-18 and 2018-19?  …that ETA President Michael Rust and his board did a masterful job in insuring that the agreement was reached and ratified? …this tentative agreement is expected to be presented for ratification to the EVSC Board of School Trustees on Monday, November 27, 2017 at the EVSC Board meeting?  …we hope that Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) will approve this agreement because it fair for both sides?
IS IT TRUE at tonight Evansville City Council meeting a City Ordinance sponsored by Jonathan Weaver, Missy Mosby and Jim Brinkmeyer establishing an overlay zone in the West Franklin Street Area that will relaxing certain parking requirements will be discuss and voted on?  …we commend Council members Jonathan Weaver, Missy Mosby and Jim Brinkmeyer for bringing this much needed ordinance to a vote?
IS IT TRUE we highly recommend that you drop by Kruckemeyer and Corn and submit your free entry for a DREAM VACATION GIVEAWAY to the destination of  your choosing?  …the value of this DREAM VACATION GIVEAWAY is $10,000?  …no purchase is necessary?
IS IT TRUE we  still wonder if the official “Swim Meet Time Clock” located at the Northside Lloyd Pool that has been broken for over a year has been repaired?
Todays “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that our tax dollars should not be spent on any holiday gatherings held by members of city or county appointed boards?
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YESTERYEAR: Baynham Shoe Store by Pat Sides

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Customers being fitted for new shoes in the Baynham store appear indifferent to Santa Claus, who is shopping for footwear himself in December 1937. The business, which originated in Lexington, Kentucky, relocated to 323 Main Street in Evansville in 1927. The three men in the rear of the sales room are probably the Baynham brothers, Frank, Henry, and Leslie. Over the years, they developed what they claimed to be the largest independent retail shoe store in the Midwest. Besides the quality of its merchandise, Baynham’s was also known for the live monkeys displayed in glass cages after the store expanded in the 1950s. The Main Street location closed in 1984, and branches still operating in North Park, Washington Square Mall, and Eastland Mall were sold.

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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By connecting its unique competences in life sciences and materials sciences DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to…
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Current Class A CDL license. Current CDL license, repetitious lifting of 60lbs, ability to efficiently use Android devices….
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*Job Summary* Global employment is seeking a qualified candidate to join our team in Sanitation. This position is 3rd shift, requires the ability to operate…
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ASSISTANT MANAGER
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County Commissioners December 12, 2017 Meeting Agenda

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AGENDA

Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners

December 12, 2017 At 3:00 pm, Room 301

  1. Call to Order
  2. Attendance
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Action Items
    1. Resolution to the Indiana General Assembly Regarding House Bill 1006
    2. CO.11-17-027 Amendment to the Ordinance Establishing a County Riverboat Casino Fund
    3. First Reading of CO.V-01-18-002 and Permission to Advertise Notice of Public Hearing
  5. Department Head Reports
  6. New Business
  7. Old Business
    1. Reminder: December 19th meeting cancellation
  8. Public Comment
  9. Consent Items
    1. Approval of December 5, 2017 Meeting Minutes
    2. Approval of November 27, 2017 Special Meeting Minutes
    3. Employment Changes
    4. Contracts, Agreements and Leases
      1. County Clerk: TriState Systems Proposal
      2. County Commissioners:
        1. AT&T Centrex Phone Lines Extension Agreement
        2. County Towing Contact
      3. Health Department:
        1. STD Grant
        2. iSalus Renewal Agreement
      4. Vanderburgh Superior Court:
        1. Contractual Services Agreement with Regene Newman
        2. Contractual Services Agreements for Home Verification
          1. Dion Wingerter
          2. Troy R. Hardin
          3. John Helfrich
    5. Superintendent of County Buildings: 2017 Fall Craft Show Report
    6. Vanderburgh County Engineer
      1. Department Head Report
      2. University Parkway TIF Pay Request #28 for $8,198.00
      3. Travel Request
      4. Claims
  10. Rezoning 
    1. Final Reading of Rezoning Ordinance VC-9-2017 As Amended

Petitioner: Vieira Brothers, Inc

Address: 900 E. Mt. Pleasant Rd

Change from C-4 to M-2 with Amended UDC

  1. Adjournment

Commentary: Flynn And The Force Trump Can’t Resist

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December 2, 2017    Posted by:

By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS – This is how a dam crumbles.

A crack widens to a hole, which then becomes a break and then the accumulating pressure brings the whole thing down.

John Krull, publisher, TheStatehouseFile.com

This seems to be what’s happening within President Donald Trump’s White House now.

The steady, unrelenting pressure brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the ties of the Trump campaign and administration ties with Russia already has produced several cracks – the Paul Manafort indictment, the George Papadopoulos plea bargain – in the president’s stonewall.

But the negotiated guilty plea of lying to the FBI by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn means at least one crack has widened into a hole and maybe even a break.

Flynn was in serious trouble. Mueller had many avenues to prosecute Flynn, several of which could have led to serious prison time for both Flynn and his family. The plea bargain on the smallest of the charges facing Flynn in exchange for cooperating with the special counsel means Flynn likely won’t spend any time behind bars and his family will be left alone.

The only way Flynn could have wiggled out from under that weight was by trading something – something big.

About the only thing he had to offer that Mueller might want is the president himself.

Perhaps this explains the president’s erratic behavior since word first broke that Flynn’s defense team had stopped cooperating with the White House’s lawyers.

Trump’s attorneys have done their best to minimize the impact of that development. After months of praising and defending Flynn, they have pivoted and said the guilty plea for lying demonstrates he can’t be trusted – an obvious attempt to try to discredit damaging testimony from the man before he even delivers it.

That is what lawyers are supposed to do. They’re supposed to protect their client.

What they cannot do is protect Trump from himself.

The news that Flynn had flipped seemed to unhinge the president.

Since it first broke, he’s waded, unnecessarily, into the quagmire enveloping former NBC “Today” host Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct – and thus renewed calls that the accusations Trump has harassed and assaulted women be investigated. He’s suggested that the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape isn’t real – even though he acknowledged it and apologized for it just a year ago. And he has tried to raise again the thoroughly discredited claim that former President Barack Obama isn’t an American citizen.

If all that weren’t enough, he also has gone out of his way to undercut and embarrass his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, while the United States attempts to deal with a potential nuclear threat in North Korea.

The president’s actions are those of a man who is unbalanced.

Or desperate.

This president’s pattern when he is under assault or stress is unvarying. He tries to find a way to go on the counter-attack, either by demeaning or discrediting his opponents or critics. If he can’t do that, Trump creates one diversion or conjures up one smoke screen after another to distract people from what’s going on.

He does this because it is the only way he knows to meet a challenge.

But it isn’t likely to work in this situation.

Robert Mueller is everything Donald Trump is not – disciplined rather than impulsive, self-contained instead of needy, and determined rather than self-pitying.

Some months ago, I talked with Peter Rusthoven, former associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan, a onetime Republican U.S. Senate candidate and a veteran of some savage Washington wars.

Rusthoven said the intelligence and the investigatory communities in the federal government were the two forces that savvy political figures never wanted to alienate – and that Trump had angered them both. Rusthoven predicted the president would learn this lesson to his regret, because both communities moved like powerful rivers, always forward, with a drive that just never lets up.

That’s another way of saying that the dam protecting the president is under immense pressure and about to crumble.

That’s when Donald Trump’s real education will begin.

John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Bequette Tapped As USI Director Of Public Safety

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Steve Bridges, University of Southern Indiana vice president for finance and administration, has tapped Steve Bequette as the USI director of public safety effective January 9, 2018. Bequette replaces current director of public safety Steve Woodall, who will retire from the University after 10 years of service.

In his role, Bequette will be responsible for the security and safety of a diverse community of 15,000+ students, faculty, staff and visitors at USI. He will be the primary point of contact and liaison with external law enforcement agencies (local, state, federal) and emergency response organizations.

Prior to his appointment, Bequette has served as assistant director at USI since 2009. He worked in the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department for 34 years before joining USI, and has more than 12 years of experience in leading criminal investigations. Bequette is a 1980 graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and graduated from the FBI National Academy in 1998 with a focus in executive police management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law enforcement from the University of Evansville.

COA Vacates Carrying A Handgun Without A License Adjudication

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A juvenile adjudicated as a delinquent for two handgun-related offenses will have one of those adjudications vacated after the Indiana Court of Appeals found a lack of statutory authority to support the adjudication.

In J.R. v. State of Indiana, 49A02-1704-JV-754, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Richard Christian was dispatched to an eastside Family Dollar store in January, where he found three males trying to enter a vehicle. They fled when they saw Christian, but officer Nicholas Snow, who was on patrol nearby, caught one of the suspects, later identified as 16-year-old J.R.

Snow conducted a pat-down search of J.R. and did not find anything on his person, but later observed him moving his legs as if he was trying to adjust something. Snow then conducted a second pat-down, this time including a pants sweep, and found a concealed gun.

The state filed a petition alleging J.R. had committed acts that would be considered dangerous possession of a firearm and carrying a handgun without a license, both Class A misdemeanors if committed by an adult. The juvenile court entered true findings on both allegations and placed J.R. on probation, with a suspended commitment to the Department of Correction.

On appeal, J.R. first argued Snow’s second pat-down search violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution. But in a Friday opinion, Indiana Court of Appeals Judge John Baker disagreed, writing instead that J.R. had been hostile toward Snow when he was initially stopped and that his leg movements drew attention to his body.

“These actions gave Officer Snow a particularized and objective basis for suspecting that J.R. was concealing something on his person and justified the officer’s second pat-down search,” Baker wrote.

Similarly, under the three-part test in Litchfield v. State, 824 N.E.2d 356, 359 (Ind. 2005), Snow’s second search was reasonable under the totality of the circumstances and, thus, was not a violation of J.R.’s state constitutional rights, the judge said.

However, the appellate panel agreed with J.R. that his adjudication for carrying a handgun without a license must be vacated, but for a different reason than he put forth. Rather than relying on J.R.’s double jeopardy claim, the court pointed to Indiana Code section 35-47-10-5(a), which holds that a child who possesses a firearm for any purpose not permitted by statute commits dangerous possession of a firearm.

“In other words, Indiana Code section 35-46-2-1 applies only to adults who possess handguns without a license, and as a matter of law, a person under the age of eighteen is not eligible for such a handgun license,” Baker wrote for the unanimous court. “Instead, a person under the age of eighteen, such as J.R., who possess a handgun for any unauthorized reason commits, and only commits, dangerous possession of a firearm.”

Thus, the case was remanded for the carrying adjudication to be vacated and for resentencing, if necessary.

Adopt A Pet

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Magnolia is a 5-year-old female Australian Shepherd mix. She was found as a stray and never reclaimed! She weighs 47 lbs. Her adoption fee is $100 and includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and heartworm test. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for details!

 

Late Rally Propels Morehead State Past Aces

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                                                            Late rally Propels Morehead State past Aces
                                     Noe (17 points), Scott (16), and Dossett (15) all finish in double figures for Evansville

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Back inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse for the first time in nearly three weeks, the University of Evansville women’s basketball team ran out to an early lead before Morehead State pulled away in the final minutes in an 82-75 loss for the Aces on Sunday afternoon.

“We shot the ball really well, we’re at home, and we got out to a really big lead and you can’t lose that opportunity to win,” said Aces head coach Matt Ruffing. “I felt like we got a little complacent and just kind of forgot what we did to get to the point that we did when we were leading 35-15 in the second quarter. That’s on us and we’ll make sure we take care of that.”

Graduate guard Hannah Noe led the Aces in scoring for the fourth time this season, recording 17 points, while junior center Kelsi Scott and senior guard Brooke Dossett both chipped-in double-digit scoring performances with 16 and 15 points, respectively. Morehead State was led by Darianne Seward who scored 31 points and Miranda Crockett who added 25.

Box Score (PDF)

Evansville opened the game on a tear, as the Aces shot 63.6% from the field in the first quarter including going a perfect 8-8 from the charity stripe. In the closing seconds of the quarter, Scott posted up and backed down her defender and scored off the glass to push the Aces’ lead to its largest point in the opening frame at 24-12.

In the second quarter, the Aces utilized the momentum they had built in the first ten minutes. Evansville kept its foot on the accelerator, increasing its advantage all the way to 20 at 35-15 on a jumper by sophomore guard Macie Lively with 7:17 left in the quarter. Following the Aces pushing their lead to its largest point of the game, the Eagles responded with a 19-3 run to close the period, trimming the Aces’ lead to just 38-34 at the half.

On two occasions in the third quarter, Evansville pushed its lead back to 11, but Morehead State once again provided resistance. With the Aces up 55-44 with 5:31 on the clock in the third, the Eagles manufactured another run, this time a 14-4 spree that cut Evansville’s advantage to 59-58 heading into the fourth quarter.

The previous 30 minutes of action featured just one tie, but the final 10 minutes included five ties as each side struggled to take control of the contest. The turning point occurred with under 30 seconds to play when the Eagles went to the line and knocked-down seven of eight attempts at the free throw line to give Morehead State an 82-75 win.

Evansville shot a season-best 56.5% (26-46), while holding Morehead State to just 39.7% (27-68) shooting from the field, but the Eagles forced 29 turnovers by the Aces while committing just 17 of their own.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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