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Holcomb Statement on Anthem and MDwise Leaving Obamacare Marketplace

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INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Eric J. Holcomb offered the following statement regarding Anthem and MDwise plans to leave the Obamacare marketplace in Indiana:

“We’ve been informed that Anthem and MDwise plan to leave the Obamacare marketplace in Indiana. Hoosiers served by these providers under the federal marketplace will keep their coverage through the end of the year, and this action does not apply to those who are insured through their employers or are members of HIP 2.0, Medicaid or Medicare.

“We’ll know the full extent of the issues with the Obamacare marketplace tomorrow when all provider rates are published, but this is more evidence that the current federal system isn’t working. Indiana is one of many states where Obamacare is failing to provide citizens options to affordable, quality healthcare.

“This underscores the need for reform, and Indiana is poised to lead the way if given the flexibility and time to tailor the best solutions.”

Holcomb Statement on U.S. Senate Health Care Bill

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INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Eric J. Holcomb offered the following statement regarding the Senate health care bill unveiled today:

“We will thoroughly examine the language in the U.S. Senate’s health care bill, and we’ll be thoughtful in our analysis of how it may affect Indiana’s programs and citizens—as well as the opportunities it may provide for us to better meet the needs of Hoosiers.

“This week, we learned two health care providers will exit the federal marketplace. Indiana isn’t alone; insurers are pulling out of Obamacare in states across the country. This underscores the need for reform, and Indiana is poised to lead the way if given the flexibility and time to tailor the best solutions to meet the needs of our people.”

LEADERSHIP EVANSVILLE RECEIVES EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

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Leadership Evansville today announced that it has received the Excellence in Innovation Award from the Association of Leadership Programs (ALP) for its VOICE community visioning and change initiative.  Lynn Miller Pease, Chief Executive Officer for Leadership Evansville, will accept the award this Friday evening, June 23, 2017, at the Association of Leadership Programs 2017 National Conference, June 22-24, 2017 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona. Miller-Pease also will lead the conference workshop session “Transformation Through Connection and Collaboration” on Friday.

Leadership Evansville’s VOICE initiative earned the Excellence in Innovation Award for “demonstrating a community-wide process to bring together all members of our community in facilitator-led group discussions to capture, draw out, and carry forward a broad range of ideas and visions for Evansville’s future.”

Leadership Evansville Launched the VOICE initiative in 2012 in partnership with the City of Evansville Mayor’s Office and Mayor Lloyd Winnecke. It’s community visioning sessions enabled participants to have inspiring conversations about their hopes and dreams for our community. VOICE ensured that everyone’s ideas were shared, documented, and made available to the public on a special VOICE website. Over 3,000 people took part in the 32 initial visioning sessions across the community at different times and in neutral locations that enabled it to hear from a diverse population.

Commenting on the award, Leadership Evansville CEO Lynn Miller-Pease said, “We are thrilled to receive this national recognition from ALP!  What an incredible honor for LE – and Evansville – to be recognized for the VOICE initiative, and especially during 2017. This year, Leadership Evansville is celebrating our 40th Anniversary of bringing together diverse servant leaders transforming our community!”

Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke – who partnered with Leadership Evansville to launch VOICE in 2012 – offered his congratulations to Leadership Evansville: “Knowing the transformative impact VOICE has had on the strong momentum building in Evansville, it is a tremendous honor to see this initiative receive national recognition from the Association of Leadership Programs this week. I am excited to see the many positive outcomes that the next phase of VOICE will generate here in Evansville and across our neighboring Tri-State communities.”

Now Leadership Evansville is laying out plans to take VOICE to the next level in 2017 by initiating the process to implement VOICE in five counties – Vanderburgh, Posey, Gibson and Warrick, Indiana; and Henderson, Kentucky. This effort will include visioning and strategic action on a large scale, with everyone visioning their preferred future for the region!

Previous Awards for VOICE

Leadership Evansville’s VOICE initiative has been previously recognized for its innovation and impact by two Indiana organizations.   In 2015, AIM (formerly the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns) named Evansville’s VOICE initiative the recipient of its Community Achievement Award for transformational impact at the regional level.  In August 2015, the Indiana Leadership Association (ILA) named Leadership Evansville the recipient of its 2015 Excellence in Innovation Award.

Community Impact

Since 2012, VOICE-inspired servant-leader-led projects have made a phenomenal impact on the community, including:

  • ParksFest, a popular volunteer-led free outdoor music and arts festival attracting over 15,000 people ;
  • Franklin Street Bazaar, the weekly Spring-through-Fall outdoor farmers market extravaganza with arts and crafts, entertainment, and food;
  • Bryce’s Basket, the community-wide gleaning process to collect locally-grown garden produce (over 900 lbs.) and distribute it to those in need.

In addition, organizations and agencies throughout the region have used VOICE visions and information to shape their long-term planning, goal-setting, and strategies, ensuring that our citizens’ hopes and dreams for the community have real impact today and into the future. Examples include the Regional Cities Initiative, Promise Zone Grant Proposal, METS Transportation Study, Downtown Master Plan, Evansville-area Trails Coalition Bike Share Program, and Evansville’s process to secure the IU Medical School in downtown Evansville, to name a few.

About Association of Leadership Programs (ALP):

ALP is a national organization that strives to recognize excellence, foster innovation, share best practices, build networks with colleagues, and provide educational training and development to advance the effectiveness of community leadership programs and professionals.

About Leadership Evansville

Leadership Evansville was founded in 1976 by a group of future-thinking local leaders, whose original commitment to community-wide betterment remains unique and strong. Leadership Evansville brings together people with different talents, gifts and perspectives and transforms these individuals into leaders who embrace the concept of community trusteeship and the collaborative process.  They help develop in them an understanding of how today’s leaders function and teaches them the skills to apply this knowledge in provided real life opportunities through practice and performance. These attitudes, skills and processes are taught to adults, youth, organizations, not-for-profits, businesses, educational institutions, neighborhood associations, churches, and other leadership programs.

Total Eclipse of the Arts, Events, And More!

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Join us to launch Art in the City!
Join us at the Arts Council to help us kick off our members-only exhibit, Art in the City! The exhibit features more than 50 different local artists whose pieces span a wide range of mediums — all showcasing the amazing talent right here in the Evansville area!
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 23
5:30 p.m.
Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, 318 Main St., Evansville
EAT IN THE CITY
EAT AND HELP ARTSWIN FRIDAY!
Don’t forget! Friday, June 23 also is Eat in the City, when nine local establishments will donate 5% of their dinnertime sales to the Arts Council! Make reservations now to eat out tomorrow at Angelo’s, Arazu on Main, The Dapper Pig, Evansville Brewhouse, Gangnam Korean BBQ, Lamasco Bar and Grill, Peephole Bar and Grill, River City, and Sauced!
2017 ARTS COUNCIL AWARDS
SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE
Total Eclipse of the Arts, our 2017 Arts Council awards ceremony, is coming up in August! This high-profile, annual event honors individuals, businesses, and organizations that have made a significant contribution to local arts. If you or your business is interested in sponsoring this event or a table at the event, please contact us at 812-422-2111 or jennifer.young@artswin.org to find the right sponsorship level to fit your needs!
ARTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP
BENEFITS FOR YOUR BUSINESS/GROUP!
A business/organization membership to the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana is a great way to show your support of local arts and receive benefits for your group as well! Benefits at this level include: arts/cultural events or announcements listed in e-newsletter; art-based job/internship postings listed in e-newsletter; recognition in gallery and on website; first-entry fees waived for up to five employee submissions; opportunity to include information in Arts Council gallery; and waived security fee for rental of gallery space.

Experience Some Real, Authentic, Japanese Food At Crazy Sake

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Experience Some Real, Authentic, Japanese Food At Crazy Sake

by Bryan Fox 

Wanna get a chance to experience some real, authentic, Japanese food but reside in SW Indiana? Look no further than Crazy Sake, located on Evansville’s east side.

Crazy Sake provides customers with a variety of Japanese dishes and dining experiences. While most establishments offer the same kind of styles to its customers, Crazy Sake offers you 3 different ways you can enjoy your dine-out. One of these options include the Western tradition of dining at a sit-down table or booth. Crazy Sake, like most Japanese restaurants, gives its customers the chance to watch the chefs cook their meals in front of them on the grill as another dining option. However, what most Japanese restaurants don’t offer, at least not in this country, is the full fledged Japanese dining experience. While most of us have seen this in the movies, we probably have never gone to a restaurant where we can take off our shoes and sit on the floor ala traditional Japanese. Crazy Sake offers this. You actually wouldn’t sit on the floor as it’s raise off the ground but it gives you that same feel.

Crazy Sake also has a private room reserved for birthday parties and other special occasions. In this room you once again are given the option of eating in the traditional Western sense or sitting on the floor to enjoy your meal.

Crazy Sake offers a variety of dishes. This includes “All You Can Eat Appetizers and Sushi” as indicated on the front window pane. Other popular items on the list include: crispy calamari, crab angel, sake don, and seaweed salad. Menu items that are highly recommended are the BBQ Squid and Gyoza. The BBQ Squid gives you the same sense as eating wings except not as messy and the Gyoza is comparable to soft pork.

Crazy Sake has been opened for a year. It’s located at 5720 Virginia St in Evansville. If you want a real Japanese dining experience, Crazy Sake is your place. It won’t disappoint.

BILL COSBY

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Complementary Hospitality Tent

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The Vanderburgh Democrat Party will have a complimentary hospitality tent at the Shriners Fest this year.
Please stop by for complementary hamburgers, hotdogs and cold beverages. We will be there on Thursday June 22nd and Friday June 23rd from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM and from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. and on Saturday June 25th from 12:00 noon to 6:00 PM.
Our tent is located midway between Sycamore and Vine Streets.

Three USI Athletes Earn Academic All-America Honors

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The University of Southern Indiana landed three student-athletes on the CoSIDA Academic All-All-America Men’s and Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field teams Thursday.

Senior Jessica Reeves (Midland, Michigan) and junior Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) represented the Screaming Eagles on the women’s side while senior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana) was the lone selection for the men. Broughton and Roberts earned second-team honors, while Reeves was selected to the third-team.

Gaining her fourth All-America honor during the fall, Roberts repeats as an Academic All-America honoree with a spot on the second-team for consecutive years. Finishing fifth at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships, Roberts sits in a tie for the highest USI finish at the national meet. A pre-occupational therapy major with a 3.82 GPA, Roberts sat out both track & field seasons.

A four-time All-American in his senior season, Broughton is also an Academic All-American. Earning is first cross Country All-America award; Broughton was the top USI finisher at the national meet with a 27th-place finish.

Broughton earned a 4.0 GPA as a Master’s in Sport Management student, while also earning three All-America awards during the track & field seasons as a part of the distance medley relay team’s fourth-place finish and his fifth-place performance in the 3,000-meters during the indoor season. Broughton was named second-team All-American, placing 11th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase during the outdoor campaign.

Finishing her USI athletic career in the fall, Reeves became an All-American for the first time after a ninth-place finish at the NCAA II Cross Country Championships. With a 3.64 GPA in the Master’s of Occupational Therapy program, Reeves also earns third-team Academic All-America honors.

With a victory at the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championship, Reeves was also named the Midwest Region Runner of the Year with the top time in school-history, 20 minutes, 08.90 seconds.

In the last four years, USI Cross Country/Track & Field student-athletes have racked up 11 Academic All-America awards. USI’s men have recorded four straight top-10 finishes in the USTFCCCA Program of the Year standings with a ninth place finish in 2016-17.

CSCAA Honors 25 Hoosiers for Academic Excellence

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Twenty-five members of the 2016-17 Indiana University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams earned Scholar All-America honors from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) on Thursday.

Women: Mackenzie Atencio (HM), Olivia Barker (HM), Delaney Barnard, Michal Bower, Marie Chamberlain (HM), Shelly Drozda (HM), Christie Jensen (HM), Sam Lisy (HM), Stephanie Marchuk, Laura Morley (HM) and Ali Rockett

Men: Levi Brock (HM), Cody Coldren, James Connor, Adam Destrampe (HM)
Bob Glover, Trey Hubbuch (HM), Max Irwin (HM), Vini Lanza, Sam Lorentz, Oliver Patrouch (HM), Blake Pieroni, Josh Romany, Joey Snodderly (HM) and Anze Tavcar

Also on Thursday, both the men’s and women’s teams were tabbed as CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams. To be selected as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team, programs must have achieved a grade point average of 3.00 or higher over the Spring semester.

To receive CSCAA Scholar All-America recognition, student-athletes must have achieved a grade-point average of 3.50 or higher and participated in their respective NCAA Championships.

Those receiving CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention have also received a grade-point average of 3.50 or higher and achieved either an NCAA ‘B’ time standard or an NCAA Zone Diving qualifying score.

Founded in 1922, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) – the oldest organization of college coaches in America -is a professional organization of college swimming and diving coaches dedicated to serving and providing leadership for the advancement of the sport of swimming & diving at the collegiate level.

Rep. Messer Joins Task Force to Reduce Size of Federal Gov’t, Empower States

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The Task Force on Intergovernmental Affairs held its first hearing today

WASHINGTON (Thursday, June 22, 2017) — Rep. Luke Messer (IN-06) joined House Speaker Paul Ryan and a bipartisan group of 12 members of Congress today for the inaugural hearing of the Task Force on Intergovernmental Affairs. This group is tasked with reducing the size of the federal government and helping return power to the states.

Messer was appointed by Speaker Ryan to serve on the Task Force, alongside 12 other Congressional appointees.

“This is an exciting opportunity and an important mission,” Messer said after the hearing. “We can better empower the American people by bringing government down to the local level, and Indiana’s successes in this area will serve as a model for other states. The best government is closest to the people it serves.”

The Task Force will partner with state and local governments to help uncover federal abuses of power, and return control to state and local entities. The Task Force will also provide a forum for states, cities, and counties to showcase innovation and creativity in solving public policy problems.

“Federalism is a foundational principle of our Constitution, and Washington has so much to learn about how state and local leaders are driving innovation and responsive government,” Speaker Ryan said before today’s hearing. “There’s no question we can all work as better partners, and I want to thank Chairman Bishop and the bipartisan group of lawmakers who have stepped forward to join this effort.

Witnesses during today’s hearing included National Governors Association CEO & Executive Director Scott Pattison, National Association of Counties President & Leon County, FL Commissioner Bryan Desloge, Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris and College Park, Maryland Mayor Patrick L. Wojahn.

Membership of the Task Force includes, Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN), Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Rep. Jenniffer Gonzáles-Colón (R-PR), Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA), Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) and Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL)

A full video of today’s hearing can be found here. Messer’s remarks begin at the 18:30 mark.

 

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