Evansville Parking Enforcement Officer Injured

An Evansville parking enforcement officer is hit by a car on the job. Jeffrey Korstketter is in custody, accused of battery and criminal recklessness while armed with a deadly weapon. E-P-D reports the incident happened in the 100 block of Locust..

Ranking The Presidents

by Bryan Fox

Creating a ranking of any kind usually sparks passions and debates. For years, historians have debated on ranking the presidents. While many historians agree on a few of the usual suspects, many have disagreed on the order and who belongs at the top of this iconic lists. For some, their personal political leanings influence who makes the top of their list. At any rate, ranking the presidents are always interesting. Personally, every president leaves being 1 or 2 legacies whether they be good or bad. Some presidents have had the fortunes (or misfortunes) of events that occurred during their time in office while others cemented their legacies themselves.Without further ado, here is a list we feel are the top 10 best presidents. We based this on their lasting legacies, accomplishments, and popularity during their times in office. Call this ranking the presidents 2.0.

1. Abraham Lincoln-With the nation only being about 85 years old, his leadership saved the union from permanent separation. You can credit him for being the reason we are the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. By pardoning the Confederacy, Lincoln was able to bring the country together like no one could imagine after a brutal civil war.

2. Theodore Roosevelt-You might be surprised to see him this high on the list; even before his second cousin (see #3). But during his time as president, Americans saw the building of the Panama Canal and breaking of the trusts. The reason why we have so many national parks and forests that still exists today is because of his efforts to preserve them.

3. Franklin Roosevelt-FDR came into office at the worse economic crisis in the countries history. Of course, I’m referring to The Great Depression. Out of this came FDR’s New Deal, which at the time helped people get jobs and it created the social security system we still have today. FDR showed great leadership during the second war as well. He will forever be the only president elected 4 times to the office.

4. George Washington-Being labeled “The Father Of Our Country” will get you some points. But during his time in office, he was more than a figurehead. Jay’s Treaty was a huge accomplishment as it kept the young nation out of war and resolved past issues between the United States and Britain. Washington also set the precedent of only serving two terms. A precedent that held for over 130 years.

5. Harry Truman-He dropped the bomb. But he did much more than that during his time in office. He also signed into law The Marshall Plan which greatly aided in rebuilding Europe after World War 2.

6. James Polk-Dark horse on the list. In his 1 terms as POTUS, Polk gained the Oregon territory by threatening to go to war with Britain. Britain didn’t want war, but a compromise was made so the U.S. present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. He did go to war with Mexico in which the states of Texas, New Mexico, and California were gained as a result of that war.

7. Ronald Reagan-Call him the father of modern conservatism. During Reagan’s time, the country saw a period of prosperity. He will still be best know for ending the Cold War by bringing the Soviets to its knees and basically bankrupting them. He was so well-liked that he carried 49 states when he won re-election.

8. Woodrow Wilson-You don’t like paying income taxes? This is the guy to blame. No matter how unpopular, the income tax still exists. Wilson also had the idea of The League of Nations. While it never panned out, it would be considered a prelude to The United Nations. Wilson also showed leadership when the country was brought into World War 1.

9. Dwight Eisenhower-Sure glad we have the interstates. “Ike” was the one who brought this idea to America. Also, NASA was created under his administration. Both of these accomplishments remain in use today.

10. James Monroe-President during “The Era of Good Feeling.” Monroe is best known for having a doctrine named after him. The Monroe Doctrine basically told Europe there will be no more colonization in the Western Hemisphere. Florida was also acquired by the U.S under his administration. Monroe was so popular during his day he didn’t even have an opponent when he ran for a second term.

ROOKIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE
by Michael Reagan

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Major League Baseball has an annual training season in Florida.
Maybe President Trump should have gone somewhere outside of Washington to hold tryouts for a month to see who on his team was ready to play in the big leagues.

At least he should have picked some veteran coaches who know how the professional Washington game is played, are loyal to him and who know how to make the White House work smoothly.
All incoming presidents, even veteran politicians, have trouble with their White House advisers and underlings at first.

But as a political outsider and a disrupter, Trump is facing more trouble than most of his predecessors.
The Democrats, their hysterical pals in the media and the permanent Washington bureaucracy are doing their best to slow him up or bring him down. But so far Trump – the rookie manager in chief – has been his own worst enemy.

He assembled a White House team made up of third-round draft picks and minor leaguers and put them on the field before he knew whether they could hit a curve or field a hard grounder.
What we’re seeing in the White House – “Leakville,” as I refer to it now – is a bunch of rookies trying to run the most important government operation in the world.

It should never have gotten to this level of ineptitude, President Trump is responsible for it, and only he can fix it. A large part of his problem is that he doesn’t have a chief of staff in the White House — he has two of them, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon.

Anyone who’s ever managed a Starbucks knows when two or more people are “in charge,” no one is really in charge.  And when two or three people are in charge, then no one is ultimately responsible for anything that happens and chaos and confusion run amok.  The bumbled and hasty rollout of the executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven Muslim countries was a textbook example of what happens when no single person is in charge of the White House staff  The case of Michael Flynn, Trump’s starting

National Security Adviser, was another “rookie mistake” by a staffer that should never have happened.Flynn should have known better. He wasn’t called up from the Class D Leagues. He had 30 years of exemplary military experience and had worked in the Obama administration.
What was he thinking? What made him believe he had the right to lie to the vice president – if that’s what he really did?

Flynn’s been cut from the team and he’ll be a source of bad PR for Trump for months.
I’d hate to be Sean Spicer, who has to go in front of the Washington press corps and deal with the latest twists in the Flynn case or explain the White House’s bungle of the day.

President Trump is doing fine by holding all those meetings with business executives and foreign leaders and issuing executive orders.
It’s his rookie squad that’s holding him back. They seem more interested in serving their own interests, not his.

It’s now up to the president to find a way to plug up the leaks and put together a competent, loyal and trusted White House staff.
He has to work fast. The regular season is almost a month old and he still doesn’t have a coaching staff or a starting lineup.

And as Manager Trump has already found out the hard way, there are no exhibition games played in the White House.
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JoJo Gentry is a native of Anderson, Indiana, and she joins WEVV from WTHR-TV and WISH-TV in Indianapolis.

A recent graduate of Butler University, JoJo competed on the Butler Women’s Golf Team while pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. During her time at Butler, she spent four years covering sports in local and national media markets with the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and National Sports Journalism Center. She was also a reporting intern at WTHR-TV and WISH-TV in Indianapolis, where she covered high school basketball for ‘Operation Basketball’ at WTHR-TV and general news assignments at WISH-TV.

JoJo says “It’s an honor to do what I love in my home state! Indiana is a great place to live and work, where people are surrounded by Hoosier hospitality and community engagement. I look forward to calling Evansville my home, meeting new people, and learning more about the community through sharing sports stories.”