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IS IT TRUE APRIL 18, 2017

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IS IT TRUE that with the obsession about tweeting the #strongcity by the downtown glitterati it makes one wonder just what the heck these people mean when they are trying to convince themselves and others that Evansville is a #strongcity?…it is safe to assume that any city claiming to be strong should have a strong balance sheet and operate at a surplus?…another indicator of a strong city would be a minimal debt level?…finally a strong city should offer state of the art basic services to it’s citizens in every area of infrastructure?…the City of Evansville by those metrics is anything but a #strongcity?…when it comes to finances, the City is one change in accounting practices to being out of the time shifting practice of fluffing up the end of the year books by delaying payments to make balances look better?…Evansville has such high levels of debt that it is literally right up against it’s bonding limits for general funds?…that means that anything bought has to pay for itself or the bonds will have difficulty getting underwritten?
IS IT TRUE maybe the term #cityatrisk would be more appropriate for Evansville?…Evansville is a risk of having the EPA come to town and start fining them every day that the decrepit sewer system is not fixed?…Evansville is at risk of having more and more ancient water pipes either fail creating potholes in the streets or spewing brown oxidized water into people’s homes?…Evansville is at risk for a combined sewer overflow of raw sewage every time the rains come pouring down?…that creates #risks for disease and foul odor almost continuously?…the most pathetic thing about #cityatrisk is that the people in charge of the risky business don’t have the presence of mind to understand that the city has many risks to its citizens that degrade lifestyle and add to the cost of living?
 
IS IT TRUE at this point there are a number of other hashtags that could work well for Evansville?…here is a small collection for our readers to ponder #snegalcity,#dependsonboatmoneycity, #lowwagecity, #shrinkingcity, #exposedcity, and #notastrongcity?
IS IT TRUE last week we had the opportunity to visit the pre-construction site of the soon to be opened KC Marina Pointe Bar-Restaurant?…when finished this Bar-Restaurant will be something to behold?…that the KC Marina Pointe owner is going first class in installing kitchen and bar equipment in this upscale watering hole on the waterfront? …the newly built stage shall be the largest one of any Bar-Restaurant within a 200 mile radius and shall be equipped with the most up-to-date sound system available on the market today?…KC‘s Marina Pointe is installing around 40 big screen TVs throughout? …we were extremely surprised to see the extensive offerings listed on their menu?…when KC’s Marina Pointe is opened it shall draw people from not only from downtown and the Westside but people from all over the Tri-State?…when all said and done we predict that the Westside business leaders and bar owners will have some major regrets that they didn’t push members of the Appeals Board of  Area Planning Commission to approve Mr. Chessers request to open a similar Bar-Restaurant on West Franklin Street?…we wonder if Mayor Winnecke would call this another good example of “explosive growth” within in the city limits of Evansville?…we urge you to drop by and ask owner Kerry Chesser or his project manager Chad Brady to give you a quick guided tour of this soon to be open river front establishment?  …this project was done without using one dine of taxpayers dollars or receiving a tax credit?

IS IT TRUE we are  told that many Westside Republicans and Independents are pleased to hear that Wadesville Republican Sen. Jim Tomes has a primary challenger for the 2018 election?   … the young,  well educated and personable Westside Republican Brady Hall plans to formally announce his candidacy for  State Senate District 49 seat on April 22?  …we predict that Senator Tomes is getting ready to experience the biggest political battle of his career?

Todays “READERS POLL” question is: Do you feel that City Council Finance Chairman Dan McGinn needs to  sit the record straight concerning the true financial status of the City?

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CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Time Running Out For Agreement Between Indiana Lawmakers

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Time Running Out For Agreement Between Indiana Lawmakers

Friday is the deadline for lawmakers in Indiana to come up with an agreement on a road-funding plan. A conference committee has been going over the differences between what the House and Senate want the bill to call for. Lawmakers are needing…

Central High School to Host “Paul Gries Field” Dedication

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Tuesday, April 18 at 3:45 pm

Central High School Baseball Field - 5400 N 1st Ave

Central High School, EVSC, and the EVSC Foundation will ​honor Coach Paul Gries (Central High School baseball coach,  ​(​1981-2001) with a special dedication ceremony to rename Central’s baseball field the “Paul Gries Field”.

Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will ​read ​a ​proclamation ​announcing April 18th as Paul Gries Day as well as special guest Andy Benes, 1985 Central High School graduate and former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher.

The Paul Gries Fund was established last April to improve and maintain the school’s baseball facility.

This dedication concludes the Paul Gries Campaign, but individuals can still honor Coach Gries with a donation. All donations go toward improving the baseball facility at Central. For more information or to make a gift, call 812-435-0913 or send an email to info@evscfoundation.org.

 

February 2017 Bar Exam Results Released

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February 2017 Bar Exam Results Released

IL for www.theindianalawyer.com

A total of 126 people passed the Indiana Bar Exam given in February 2017. The Indiana Board of Law Examiners released the list of successful test takers Monday but did not provide additional information on the overall number of exam takers and the overall pass rate.

The list of those who passed can be found here.

For the most part, Indiana’s overall passage rate for the February exam had been roughly hovering between 67 percent and 70 percent since 2007. It dipped in 2014 to 61 percent then bottomed out at 55 percent in 2016.

Last week, the American Bar Association Journal reported that the February 2017 multistate bar exam results were the lowest since the test was first given in 1972. The average score was 134.1, down from last February’s average score of 135.

Among those who passed Indiana’s February 2017 were four members of the inaugural class at Indiana Tech Law School. This brings the school’s total to seven from last May’s graduating class who have passed the bar.

Indiana Tech Law School has announced it will be closing in June.

Zimmer, State Get Partial Judgments From Tax Court

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Zimmer, State Get Partial Judgments From Tax Court

Olivia Covington for www.theindlianalawyer.com

The Indiana Tax Court has granted summary judgment to both the Indiana Department of Revenue and an in-state manufacturer, holding that the state’s use tax applies to some of the manufacturer’s products that are stored in Indiana, but not to those products used solely for out-of-state work.

In Zimmer, Inc. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue, 49T10-1507-TA-25, Zimmer, Inc., a Warsaw corporation that designs, manufactures and distributes medical products, marketed its products at dozens of out-of-state trade shows and conventions during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 tax years. In preparation for one of the largest conventions, Zimmer hired an Illinois-based exhibit house to annually design and manufacture a new exhibition booth, which incorporated some of the original, repaired, refurbished or modified components of previous exhibition booths.

Each year, Zimmer arranged for some components of its previous exhibition booth to be shipped to the Illinois exhibit house, while other components were kept in an Indiana warehouse. Then, the components would be shipped from the Illinois location and Indiana warehouse to be set up at the out-of-state convention site.

At the conclusion of a convention, all of the components would be returned to Zimmer’s Indiana warehouse for storage. However, any components that were found to have major damage were either shipped to Illinois for immediate repair or set aside in the warehouse for subsequent in-house repair or other modification.

After Zimmer filed a claim seeking a nearly $1.1 million refund in sales tax remitted on the purchase of items used to manufacture its products, the Indiana Department of State Revenue conducted an audit on Zimmer and determined that the company owed $523,890.93 in use tax on its exhibition booth components. The department granted Zimmer’s refund claim in part, offsetting the refunded amount by the use-tax liability.

After the department denied Zimmer’s protest of the use-tax determination, the company appealed to the Indiana Tax Court, and both parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment. Indiana Tax Court Judge Martha Blood Wentworth granted each of those motions in part on Thursday.

In its appellate argument, the department claimed that Zimmer’s in-state storage of the exhibition booth components subjected it to the use tax “because the type of storage excluded from use tax requires permanent use outside the state, not – as here – continuous revolutions between in-state storage and out-of-state use.”

But Wentworth rejected that argument, writing that “Nowhere in Indiana Code section 6-2.5-3-1(b) is there an express temporal limitation on storage or a prohibition on returning previously stored property to Indiana for continued storage.” Instead, the judge said the statutory exclusion from the tax applies when property is stored in Indiana for subsequent use solely outside of the state, as is the case with Zimmer.

However, Wentworth agreed with the department that the repair of damaged components by an in-house carpenter at Zimmer’s warehouse constituted a taxable use because the designated evidence “does not establish that those repairs were necessary for storage to occur or that the exhibition booth components (or any others) deteriorated during storage.”

Thus, the tax court granted summary judgment to Zimmer on the exhibition components that were stored in Indiana for solely out-of-state use, while granting summary judgment to the Department of Revenue on the components that were repaired in Indiana.

 

This Week at USI – April 17, 2017

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33rd Heritage Artisans Days continue to align with grade school curriculum
Historic New Harmony’s 33rd Annual Heritage Artisans Days will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., April 19- 21, in New Harmony, Indiana. This tristate tradition celebrates 19th century arts, crafts and industry through demonstrations and activities. The event continues to be a hands-on educational experience for school groups from Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Read More

3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20

USI students create custom mobile app for local business
The University of Southern Indiana’s Center for Applied Research has collaborated with Pacific Press Technologies to develop a mobile application for the company’s customers. A presentation unveiling the app will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 in the University Suite, University Center West. This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served. Read More

April 20 – 23

USI Theatre wraps up 2016-2017 season with “Little Women”
University of Southern Indiana Theatre will end the 2016-2017 season April 20-23 with Little Women, the recent Broadway musical version of the Louisa May Alcott classic 19th century novel, directed by Elliot Wasserman, professor of Theatre and chair of the Performing Arts Department. Tickets are $12 for USI students, $18 for adults, $15 for USI employees, and $16 for seniors (60+) and non-USI students. Shows start at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinee. Read More

Now through April 30

47th Annual USI Juried Student Art Show
The 47th Annual University of Southern Indiana Juried Student Art Show will be on display April 2 – 30 in the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries, located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center on the USI campus. Juror Arthur Fields has selected 172 artworks from over 400 entered to be exhibited. Read More

April 7 – 26

Southwest Indiana AHEC co-sponsors “African Americans and the Disability Experience” exhibit
Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC) is partnering with the Evansville African American Museum for a special exhibition, African Americans and the Disability Experience: From Colonial Times, Desegregation, Advocacy and Achievement, April 7-26. Read More

Hot Jobs in Evansville

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Best Buy  12,640 reviews – Evansville, IN
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Ohio Valley Eye Institute, PC – Evansville, IN
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Almost Kin – Evansville, IN
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Ascension Information Services  5 reviews – Evansville, IN
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Around The Clock Care  6 reviews – Evansville, IN
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Express Enrollment Day April 19 at Ivy Tech Southwest

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Express Enrollment Day April 19 at Ivy Tech Southwest

Ivy Tech Community College Southwest will host Express Enrollment Day for individuals interested in enrolling in classes for summer or fall 2017, on April 20. The free event is  designed to assist interested individuals in completing the enrollment process, potentially, all in one day!

The event is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Ivy Tech 3501 N. First Avenue, Evansville, IN.

At the event students will have the opportunity to:

  • Complete the FAFSA or have their financial aid questions answered.  Also, students can learn more about aid such as grants, scholarships and loans.
  • Create their MyIvy account, complete their FYIvy and schedule a face-to-face orientation session.
  • Determine what assessments may be needed to enroll.
  • Meet with an academic advisor.
  • Register for classes.

Here is what students should bring to Express Enrollment:

  • Government issued ID
  • Tax information for 2015 (if filing a FAFSA-Ivy Tech code 009917)
  • High School and/or College Transcripts – whichever applies
  • An idea of what he/she would like to study

For more information and to RSVP, visit ivytech.edu/EEStatewide.

 

Governor Holcomb’s Schedule for Week of April 16, 2017

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Below find Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb’s public schedule for the week of April 16, 2017.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

What: East Chicago Superfund Site Visit

 

When: Details to follow

 

 

Friday, April 21, 2017

What: Aerospace & Defense in Indiana Breakfast

 

Host: Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Conexus Indiana and Indianapolis Business Journal

 

When: 7:30 to 10 a.m. EDT, with closing remarks by the governor at 9:45 a.m.

 

Where: Marriott Indianapolis

350 W. Maryland Street

Indianapolis, IN 46225