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City Is Responsible For Thunderbolts Financial Losses For The 2016-2017 Hockey Season?

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City Is  Responsible ForThunderbolts Financial Losses For The 2016-2017 Hockey Season
City Is Also Paying All The Utilities Bills A t The Ford Center
Attached below is the e-mail that Scott A Schoenike the Executive Director of the Ford Center sent Pastor Steve Ary concerning the utilities at the Ford Center and acquisition contracts between VenuWorks and the City of Evansville.  Mr. Schoenike answered the questions that we have been asking concerning the Ford Center utilities and Thunderbolts acquisition contracts between VenuWorks and the City of Evansville.
We are puzzled why this information wasn’t provided to Pastor Steve Ary, City County Observer or the general public by City Council Finance Chairman Dan McGinn (R), or by City Controller Russ Lloyd  Jr.
We wonder if our friends with the local main stream media will inform their readers and viewers that the taxpayers of Evansville are responsible for all theThunderbolts financial losses for the 2016-2017 hockey season?  We also wonder if they will report that the City of Evansville are paying all the utilities bills at the Ford Center?  We predict that they won’t touch this story because they will consider this to be “FAKE NEWS”!
POSTED BELOW IS THE UN-EDITED E-MAIL RESPONSE BY MR SCHOENIKE SENT TO PASTOR STEVE ARY CONCERNING THE AGREEMENTS MADE BETWEEN VENUWORKS AND THE CITY OF EVANSVILLE.   MR. SCHOENIKE’S  E-MAIL SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!
Mr. Ary,
Please find the information below in response to your questions from Monday night.  These answers are provided by Scott Schoenike.
Thank you,
Ashten Stenftenagel
Deputy City Clerk
Office of the City Clerk, City of Evansville
 MR. SCHOENIKE’S  E-MAIL SENT TO PASTOR STEVE ARY VIE DEPUTY CITY CLERK OF EVANSVILLE
Utilities 2015:    $610,828.14
Utilities 2016      $614,363.52
The City ultimately ends of paying the utility bill.  The process is a little complex but this is the way Harding Shymanski recommended after our annual audit for the city in all years of operation (2011-2016).  Since we don’t control the maintenance or operation of the utilities at the Ford Center by contract utilities are not suppose to be paid by VenuWorks. For simplicity VenuWorks pays the utility bills throughout the year, at the end of the year we bill back the city the annual total paid for utilities and then give the city the cash to pay us back.  On the line item city budget Fund 0474 and 0408 Arena this adjustment is taken into account and includes utilities being paid in the approximate $1million paid to the city.
In regards to the question if the hockey team loses money who pays.  It would be paid out of the Ford Center Operating budget which is city funds.  The big picture would be the loss of hockey would negatively affect the bottom line of the Ford Center.  So the way I look at it is the $1 million operating revenue budgeted for VenuWorks in the City Budget does not change even though hockey operations are now indirectly part of the Ford Center budget.  Without hockey at the Ford Center the budgeted $1 million operating revenue would not be possible.
 Thanks
Scott A Schoenike
Executive Director
www.thefordcenter.com
www.victorytheatre.com
Managed by VenuWorks of Evansville, LLC
FOOTNOTE: todays “READERS POLL” question is :Do you feel that the majority of our elected officials knowingly withheld information about who is paying the utilities bills at the Ford Center?

CHANNEL 44 NEWS: EPD Rolls Out New Golf Cart

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EPD Rolls Out New Golf Cart

Evansville Police Department are revealing its newest cruiser; a golf-cart fully decked out with all the bells and whistles. EPD Officials say an area business donated the tricked out cart to the department. EPD has only had it for a couple days…

VERY CLEAR!

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COA Affirms 65-year Sentence For Man Who Killed Officer

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COA Affirms 65-year Sentence For Man Who Killed Officer

Olivia Covington for www.theindianalawyer.com

The Dearborn Circuit Court did not err in imposing a 65-year sentence on a man convicted of felony murder after he shot and killed a deputy sheriff in the line of duty, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

In Tommy R. Pruitt v. State of Indiana, 15A05-1606-CR-1235, Morgan County Deputy Sheriff Daniel Starnes noticed Tommy Pruitt driving erratically, so he initiated a traffic stop and obtained Pruitt’s information. Starnes then learned about a recent robbery that suggested Pruitt might have been in possession of stolen weapons, and when Starnes approached Pruitt’s car the second time, Pruitt opened fire.

Starnes was shot five times and eventually died. Pruitt was charged and convicted of murder, attempted murder, possession of a handgun without a license, resisting law enforcement and four counts of receiving stolen property. After the jury recommended the death penalty, the Dearborn Circuit Court imposed a death penalty sentence for murder and sentenced Pruitt to an aggregate of 115 years for the remaining charges.

After moving through the state courts, Pruitt was granted a conditional writ of habeas corpus in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which vacated the death penalty after finding Pruitt had demonstrated that he was intellectually disabled and, thus, constitutionally ineligible for the death penalty. The state was ordered to either initiate a new penalty-phase proceeding or release Pruitt, so the case was remanded to the trial court for resentencing on the murder conviction in April 2016.

Pruitt asked the trial court to consider and take judicial notice of the entire record, including the post-conviction proceedings, to find intellectual disability and mental illness as mitigating circumstances. The trial court reviewed the existing records from 2003 to 2016, and also considered the nature of Starnes’ murder, Pruitt’s criminal history and his post-sentence behavior as aggravating factors.

After giving “due consideration and weight” to Pruitt’s mental health, the Dearborn Superior Court resentenced Pruitt to the maximum enhanced term of 65 years for murder, with credit for time served, and ordered that sentence to be served consecutively with the 115-year sentence imposed for his previous convictions.

On appeal, Pruitt first argued because he committed his crime in June 2001, his enhanced sentence violated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) because “his Sixth Amendment right to have the facts supporting the enhancement of his sentence tried to a jury was violated.”

But Judge James Kirsch, writing for a unanimous panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals, said Tuesday Pruitt had forfeited his Blakely argument because he did not raise such an argument during his resentencing hearings. Further, the trial court would have imposed the same 65-year-sentence had it considered only the aggravators that comply with Blakely, Kirsch said, so the court did not err in its sentencing.

The appellate panel also rejected Pruitt’s argument that his sentence for murder was inappropriate, finding the trial court “properly determined that Pruitt deliberately elected to shoot Deputy Starnes … and was fully award of the wrongfulness of his conduct.”

Eagles Secure Seven All-Region Awards During Outdoor Season

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Five University of Southern Indiana Track & Field student-athletes were honored with U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association All-Midwest Region accolades Tuesday afternoon.

The Screaming Eagles collected a total of seven USTFCCCA All-Region awards, with junior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) earning accolades in three separate events. Grau outdoor All-Region honors during the outdoor season included the 800-meters, 1,500-meters, and 5,000-meters.

With two NCAA Division II automatic qualifying times, Grau owns the fourth fastest time in the 1,500-meters and the fifth fastest in the 5,000-meters in the NCAA II this season. He also has a provisional time in the 800-meters, ranking 38th.

Two Eagles earned All-Region nods in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with some of the top times in the country. Senior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana), a 2016 All-American in the event, ranks 12th in the country, while junior James Cecil (Owensboro, Kentucky) ranks 21st. Both runners have earned NCAA II provisional times on the season. It is the first track & field All-Region award for Cecil.

Senior Noah Lutz (Evansville, Indiana) is the final men’s athlete to pick up All-Region honors with the 14th-fastest time in the NCAA II this season in the 10,000-meters. It is the first All-Region award for Lutz during either track & field season.

Junior Jessica Lincoln (Palatine, Indiana) was the lone women’s athlete to pick-up an All-Region nod, doing so for the first time in here track & field career. Lincoln owns the 19th-fastest time in the NCAA II this season with her finish in the 10,000-meters at the MT. Sac Relays.

The Eagles still await their NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships fate with the final declarations yet to be announced. Those that advance to the Championships will compete May 25-27 in Bradenton, Florida.

HACKED WORLD

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IS STEPHEN HAWKING WATCHING CABLE NEWS

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IS STEPHEN HAWKING WATCHING CABLE NEWS

By Rick Jensen

The House is holding inconsequential hearings on why Donald Trump hired, and then fired, General Mike Flynn as National Security Director.

Amid it all, we’ve learned that President Obama vaguely warned Trump about Flynn.

“‘Given the importance of the job, the President thought there were better people for it, and that Flynn wasn’t up for the job,’ a former senior Obama administration official told CNN.

So that was the big warning:Obama didn’t think highly of Flynn.

Your grain of salt includes the fact that Obama thought highly of Tim Geitner, the disgraced Treasury Secretary who kind of forgot to pay his taxes for a few years. He also liked Susan Rice, who lied to the U.N., the American people and the world, communist “Energy Czar” Van Jones and many others.

Fortunately, Trump decided within a couple of weeks that Flynn was on the take from foreign countries without full disclosure and fired him.

The star witnesses against Flynn include former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, whom Trump fired for refusing to enforce the President’s travel ban.

Yates called it illegal, even though it had not been adjudicated.That makes her a bona fide hero to Democrats.

The way Trump fired her makes her even more of a hero, perhaps a Hollywood movie hero at some point.

Trump’s press release excoriated Yates: “The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel. Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.”

“Betrayed.”Weak on borders.”Weak on illegal immigration.”

Those words are a badge of honor for a liberal Democrat.

So, she had to know she would be asked to resign once she decided to tell the boss she refused to do her job.

It’s not too hard to guess what Democrats really want from these hearings is for someone to say Trump knew all along that Flynn was conspiring with the Russians to leverage the election in his favor with the phished Hillary campaign emails.

Sure, that would give Democrats more arguments to declare Trump’s presidency “illegitimate,” but they’re already doing that.

Stunningly, two more star witnesses are Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former NSA Director General Michael Hayden, both of questionable integrity.

Clapper testified “President Putin directed an influence campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process.He did so to demean Secretary Clinton and he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.”,

This testimony could be devastating except for the source.Clapper has already lied to Congress under oath about NSA eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.

The Republicans were too cowardly to prosecute.

He also lied about Trump’s “wiretap” claim.

“There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign,” Mr. Clapper once said.

Reporters learned that the F.B.I. did obtain a court-approved wiretap on campaign advisor Carter Page, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent.

Hayden also lied to Congress under oath about the NSA eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.

No matter what these hearings reveal, it will matter little when the witnesses are as corrupt as any defendant may be.

As truthful as Yates may be about her warning a Trump associate, Clapper and Hayden poison the well.

Then Trump fires FBI Director James Comey as the hearings heat up and to their own detriment Democrats’ televised passion against firing Comey is just as passionate as their original mania for him to be fired.

All of the players seem to be nuts.

Richard Branson now promises Stephen Hawking a ride on his private spaceship as Hawking dreams of humans populating other planets while this one spins into eventual oblivion.

Does he really think these human frailties won’t follow?

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© Copyright 2017 Rick Jense

Customers Encouraged To Service Air Conditioners; Reminded Of Rebates For High-Efficiency Cooling Systems

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Customers Encouraged To Service Air Conditioners; Reminded Of Rebates For High-Efficiency Cooling Systems

Evansville, Ind. – With the rising temperatures and increasing humidity, Vectren is reminding customers to have a training heating and air professional perform routine maintenance on their air conditioning systems to improve efficiency and comfort. Customers should maintain their cooling system to prevent future problems and unwanted costs.

“Undoubtedly, many customers will turn to their air conditioners this week as temperatures push the upper 80s,” said Brad Ellsworth, president of Vectren Energy Delivery South. “As we enter the cooling season, we encourage customers to properly maintain their air conditioning systems to ensure they perform optimally during the summer months.”

According to www.energystar.gov, routine maintenance check-ups should include the following actions to ensure your house or business stays cool:

Check thermostat settings to ensure your cooling system keeps you comfortable when you are home and saves energy while you are away.

  • Tighten all electrical connections and measure voltage and current on motors.
  • Lubricate all moving parts to reduce friction in motors, which increases the amount of electricity used.
  • Check controls of the system to ensure proper and safe operation.
  • Regularly clean and/or replace your air conditioner filter to help your unit run at full efficiency and supply better air flow.
  • Clear leaves and other debris away from your air conditioner’s condensing unit on the outside of your home and hose off any accumulated dirt.
  • Check your air conditioner’s refrigerant level – too much or too little will make your system less efficient and reduce the life of the equipment.
  • Clean and adjust blower components to reduce problems with air flow, which can also make your system run less efficiently.

Vectren offers several energy efficiency and rebate programs for residential and business customers, including cash rebates for residential customers of $200 to $400 for a high-efficiency central air conditioning unit, depending on the SEER level, and heat pumps. Learn more about Vectren’s programs at www.vectren.com/savings or call 866-240-8476.

About Vectren

Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC) is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Ind.

Vectren’s energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to more than 1 million customers in adjoining service territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and about 20 percent of Ohio, primarily in the west-central area. Vectren’s nonutility subsidiaries and affiliates currently offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the U.S. These include infrastructure services and energy services. To learn more about Vectren, visit www.vectren.com.