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IS IT TRUE DECEMBER 15, 2015
We hope that todays “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?â€
IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer would like to congratulate the Evansville Courier and Press for picking up on the IS IT TRUE post that was published earlier this week about the Evansville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Holiday Gluttony Feast Part 2? …after CVB being outed 7 years ago for spending over $3,000 for a dinner event held at Biaggi’s Ristorante, the CVB may have done it again with purchasing a $1,100 roasted whole pig from Dewig’s Market in Haubstadt?  …if Evansville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau CEO would had purchased this roasted pig from local vendors he may have paid a lot less for this dish?  …we thought that theme for the Evansville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau was to buy local? … word in the street is that the Evansville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau also had a roasted “The Pig Fest” in 2016?  …it has been reported that the total bill for the 2017 “The Pig Feast” exceeded well over $2,000, excluding any alcohol?
 IS IT TRUE that Bob Warren has headed the CVB for 8 years will announced his retirement around this coming May, 2018?  …since Mr. Warren is in charge of bringing new visitors and investors to Evansville, we hope that were no Muslims or Jewish people that didn’t get offended by this event and stayed away because of this big fat roasted pig had its picture plastered all over Facebook?  …offering mutton alongside “The Pig” may have suited those (and there are many) who do not eat pork?
IS IT TRUE that its been a very long time since someone has channeled Johnny Carson in doing a “Carnak the Magnificent” imitation in making some unrealistic predictions?  ….it looks like the prediction what would happen to downtown Evansville if a new convention hotel was built downtown may be some what off?…we wonder if this is the same “Carnak the Magnificent” who predicted an occupancy rate that would exceed the local averages for the downtown Doubletree? …Mole #21 tells the CCO that the occupancy rate the downtown Doubletree Hotel for the first year may be coming in below 40% which is lower than average for the Tri-State motels?…we wonder if this is the same “Carnak The Magnificent” that agreed with the power that be that the Ford Center and the Doubletree Hotel together would successfully bring lots of conventions and of big acts to town and it would pay for the Ford Center bond debt?  …the reality is that there has literally hasn’t been a single act that has come to the Ford Center that Roberts Stadium couldn’t have handled?…the real miscalculation statement made by the CVB leadership was if the city would bring a big time NCAA Division II sporting event to Evansville it would fill the Ford Center and area hotels never happening?
IS IT TRUEÂ we read that Mr. Warren will announce his retirement in May, 2018 and we wish him well? ..in all fairness Mr. Warren has done a okay job with what he has to work with?…its looks like that all of subsidized fun and games nonsense will not turn Evansville into a major tourist attraction any more than a fancy bike path on North Main Street will turn it into a desirable neighborhood or the Evansville Thunderbolts will make the Ford Center profitable?
Todays “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel when CVB served a roasted pig at their holiday event it attracted new businesses to locate in Evansville?
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City Council Is Expected To Discuss The West Franklin Overlay Draft At Its January 9th meeting
West Franklin Overlay Draft Presented to City Council
DECEMBER 14TH, 2017Â 
TYRONE MORRISÂ EVANSVILLE, INDIANA
 The Evansville Area Plan Commission votes to send the West Franklin overlay draft to City Council for a vote. The draft highlights the recommendations done by Alta Engineerings.
One of the key components of the recommendation was to reduce the minimum number of parking spots by 25 percent. That would ease and simplify parking regulations for businesses.
Area Plan Commission also approved another version of the draft to be sent to the council to allow them to decide to reduce the minimum number of parking spots by 50 percent.
Evansville Area Plan Commision Ron London says, “I think the recommendation report basically kind of follows what all three parties were wanting and everybody has to sacrifice a little bit of something so when it was all set and done it sounded like everyone walked out of the room happy that something’s being done and it can be moved forward.â€
City Council is expected to discuss the West Franklin overlay draft at its January 9th meeting.
Adopt A Pet
This wonderful boy is Captain, a 2-year-old male Newfoundland mix. He’s wonderful. Did we say “wonderful†loud enough? He will not last long! He is currently being treated for demodectic mange, which is why his hair looks sparse. This type of mange is not contagious to people or to other dogs. He’s getting meds for it, and pretty soon his luxurious Newfie hair will be back good as new! Captain has done well with other dogs and with cats since being at the shelter. His $100 adoption fee includes his neuter, microchip, mange treatment, and vaccines. He will have NO adoption fee starting Saturday, December 16th – but if you really want him, do not wait! Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
UE Professor Lisa Nikolidakis Receives 2017 Exemplary Teacher Award
University of Evansville assistant professor of creative writing Lisa Nikolidakis received the University’s 2017 Exemplary Teacher Award during UE’s winter commencement exercise today, Thursday, December 14. Sixty students received degrees during the ceremony.
The Exemplary Teacher Award is given by the University to an exceptional member of the faculty in acknowledgment of his or her teaching excellence.
Nikolidakis earned her PhD in English from Florida State University, and her MA and BA degrees in English from Rutgers.
Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review, Brevity, Passages North, Nimrod, The Greensboro Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her essay “Family Traditions†was selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2016. Her work has been runner-up or honorable mention for numerous prizes, including the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Gulf Coast Prize, the Lamar York Prize for Fiction, the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Prose, the Calvino Prize, the Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize. She has won the A Room Of Her Own’s Orlando Prize and The Briar Cliff Review’s Nonfiction Prize.
She has served as co-director of membership services for VISA: Women in Literary Arts and nonfiction editor for The Southeast Review. At UE, Nikolidakis organized and hosts the #readingseries and Collision: A Writer’s Series.
Judge Gives Fogle Another Avenue To Challenge Sentence
Olivia Covington for www.theindianaiawyer.com
A federal judge is giving former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle another chance to seek relief from his 15-year prison sentence after striking down the most recent of his objections to his sentence on Wednesday.
After Southern District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt rejected Fogle’s challenge to his sentence on the grounds that he is a sovereign citizen not under the jurisdiction of the court, the disgraced spokesman – who was convicted in 2015 on child pornography charges – filed a Rule 52(b) objection to Pratt’s November decision. In his objection, Fogle continued to deny the court’s jurisdiction over him and requested that a final judgment be entered on his motion to correct clear error so that he could appeal.
Pratt denied that request on Wednesday, holding that under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b), Fogle could file an appeal within 14 days of the entry of the order being appealed. However, the judge also gave Fogle until Jan. 12 to notify the court as to whether he would like his motion to be treated as one pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2255. Under that section, a court can grant relief from a federal conviction or sentence “upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or that the sentence was in excess of the maximum by law, or is otherwise subject to collateral attack.â€
If Fogle chooses to proceed under section 2255, Pratt required him to supplement his motion with a complete statement of the claims and grounds on which he challenges his conviction and/or sentence on. Or, he could notify the court that his original filing constitutes all of the claims he could or does assert in his challenge.
If Fogle fails to inform the court of his intent to proceed under section 2255 by Jan. 12, then his motion will be withdrawn as it relates to possible relief under that section.
The case is United States of America v. Jared S. Fogle, 1:15-cr-00159.
