June 23 – June 29This Week in Indiana History
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Indiana Quick Quiz1. Name the famous horse from Oxford, Indiana. 2. How many counties were in Indiana at the time of statehood in 1816? 3. What city served as the first capital of the Indiana Territory? 4. Which Indiana Governor had the nickname “Bluejeans”? Answers Below
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Answers1. Dan Patch 2.15 3. Vincennes 4. James D. Williams
An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. Gene Stratton-Porter, American writer and naturalist
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Hoosier History Highlights
EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT
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JUST IN: NCAA Platform Champion Tyler Qualifies for Paris
NCAA Platform Champion Tyler Qualifies for Paris
JUNE 22, 2024
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming and diving senior Carson Tyler has qualified for his first Olympics, winning the 10-meter event Saturday (June 22) at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials inside the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The two-time defending champion in the platform diving event, Tyler won the tower event with a score of 965.45, combining his scores from Thursday’s semifinal and Saturday’s final. Tyler earned at least 70 points on all six dives Saturday. His highest-scoring dive came in the fifth round from a back 3 ½ somersault tuck for a total of 90.75 as three judges each gave Tyler a 9.5.
Tyler qualifies for Paris following one of the most successful individual diving seasons in NCAA history. As a junior, Tyler won NCAA and Big Ten Championships on both the 3-meter springboard and platform, while also earning medals on the 1-meter board at each level. His 56 points at the NCAA Championships outscored every other diving team.
Tyler becomes the seventh Indiana University athlete to qualify for the 2024 Olympics, as well as the second diver and first American male (from any sport) representing IU. Jessica Parratto clinched her third Olympics on Tuesday in the women’s synchronized 10-meter event. With Parratto and Tyler qualified for Paris, Indiana swimming and diving program has produced an Olympic diver in every Summer Games since 1964.
Tyler will dive again on Sunday in the men’s 3-meter final. Through the semifinal, Tyler currently sits second in the event with a score of 485.60 – 55.5 points higher than third place. Should he place within the top two, Tyler will become the third U.S. diver since at least 1976 to qualify for the Olympics in both individual events – joining Greg Louganis, who did it in 1976, 1984, and 1988, and Mark Ruiz in 2000.
Warrick County Health Department Investigation Leads to an Additional Arrest
Warrick County – An investigation by the Indiana State Police has led to another arrest in Warrick County.
On December 26, 2023, the Warrick County Commissioners publicly announced Marlin Weisheit, 72, of Boonville, as the interim administrator for the Warrick County Health Department. Four days prior, a contract between the Warrick County Commissioners and Weisheit was signed agreeing Weisheit is an independent contractor and is not a representative of Warrick County or a county employee. Indiana law states the health officer for Warrick County is responsible for appointing the Administrator of the Health Department.
Indiana State Police Sergeant/Detective Brock Werne revealed the health administrator had denied Weisheit the position of Administrator of the Health Department between December 26, 2023, and April 15, 2024.
The Warrick County Health Administrator officially consented to hiring Weisheit on April 16, 2024, and the commissioners approved his appointment at a public meeting. Weisheit’s first day of employment with the Warrick County Health Department as a county employee was April 23, 2024. According to Detective Werne, the claims for hours worked by Weisheit between January 2 and February 29, 2024, were paid in the amount of $9,600 from the health department funds without the knowledge or approval of the health administrator. Between April 26 and May 2, Weisheit allegedly used the health administrator’s stamp without his approval or authority to transfer funds within the health department’s budget to pay a lease agreement with Liberty Concepts, INC, Boonville. The investigation revealed the health administrator would not authorize payments to Liberty from the health department due to the contract being between the commissioners and Liberty Concepts, INC.
After reviewing this investigation, Perry County Special Prosecutor, Samantha Hurst, filed criminal charges against Weisheit. At approximately 3:55 p.m. EST, Indiana State Police arrested Weisheit at the Warrick County Jail without incident. Weisheit was released after posting bond.
All inquiries about this investigation can be made to the Perry County Prosecutor’s Office.
Arrested and Charges:
- Marlin Weisheit, 72, Boonville, IN
- Official Misconduct, Level 6 Felony
- Conversion, Level 6 Felony (2 Counts)
All suspects are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
Otters drop series opener with ‘Bolts
The Otters (14-23) gave up an early lead to the ThunderBolts (16-22) and could not recover.
In the first and second frames, the opposition tallied five unanswered runs on the board, highlighted by a two-run home run to open play.
Evansville plated one in the fourth inning. Pavin Parks led off with a double and was later brought in when Logan Brown smoked an RBI-double to right-center field.
The final Otters run of the game came in the fifth inning. For the second inning in a row, Evansville garnered a leadoff two-bagger, this time from Blake Mozley. Giovanni DiGiacomo followed suit with a double of his own to score another run and make it a 5-2 game.
Later, the ThunderBolts added one more in the eighth and a pair in the ninth to cap off the scoring.
On the rubber, the southpaw Braden Scott (0-6) took the loss and went six innings, giving up as many hits and five runs. After the second, he did not allow another run and struck out eight on the day. Buddie Pindel (5-2) earned the win.
Six of the nine Otters hits were accumulated by DiGiacomo, Brown and Parks, each tallying two.
The series against Windy City will continue tomorrow with a 6:35 p.m. CT first pitch. Coverage is available on the Otters Digital Network and FloBaseball.
Senators Braun and Reverend Warnock Lead Bipartisan Bill to Train More Hoosiers for Good-Paying Jobs
The Pathways to Prosperity Act would take critical steps to expand federal resources available to community and technical colleges to support partnerships between colleges and employers
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Braun and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) introduced the Pathways to Prosperity Act. This bill is designed to strengthen America’s workforce development pipeline between community/technical colleges and good-paying jobs from local employers.
The bipartisan Pathways to Prosperity Act expands the existing Strengthening Community Colleges Grant Program. This federal program provides competitive grants to community/technical colleges to support partnerships with employers. These partnerships align workforce development programs in community/technical colleges to local industry needs. The idea is to establish, improve, or expand high-quality workforce development programs to get more Hoosiers into jobs that require skills training.
Senator Braun also authored the JOBS Act with Senator Tim Kaine which would make it possible to use Pell Grants for career and technical education programs.
“There are many good-paying jobs out there that go unfilled because of a lack of skills and career/technical training,” said Senator Mike Braun. “This bill will help close the gap and give more Hoosiers access to skills training programs that will put them on the path to a better career and higher pay for their families.”
“I tell business leaders all the time, come to Georgia; Georgia is open for business. As these new, good-paying jobs come to the Peach State, it’s important that these local jobs are filled locally. That means we need a workforce that’s trained to step into these roles,” said Senator Reverend Warnock. “That’s why I’ve introduced new bipartisan legislation to strengthen our workforce development pipeline by giving technical colleges federal resources to collaborate with local industry partners to train Georgians up for the jobs coming to our state. This legislation is a win for workers who will have access to better-paying jobs; a win for businesses that will be able to find more of the workers they need where and when they need them; a win for our community and technical colleges to help keep their classrooms full; and a major win for our state’s economy that will benefit from thriving businesses and a world-class, homegrown workforce.”
Specifically, the Pathways to Prosperity Act of 2024 would provide funding to:
- Set up, enhance, or broaden the quality of educational or career training initiatives at community colleges.
- Enhance opportunities for individuals to attain nationally or regionally recognized postsecondary credentials in high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors or occupations.
- Develop or scale up career training, career pathways, or work-based learning options like apprenticeships.
- Assist individuals with barriers to employment with accessing programs.
- Provide support services to help participants complete education and training.
Bill text available here.
Kelley Coures Spotlight Presentation At Willard Library Today
Local Author Spotlight: Kelley Coures Presents Book Today At Willard Library
JUNE 22, 20 24
Join us for an enlightening Local Author Spotlight presentation featuring Kelley Coures and his captivating book, Out in Evansville. Learn about the rich history of Evansville’s LGBTQ+ community as Coures shares poignant stories of identity and resilience.
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Browning Gallery
Event Highlights:
- Author Presentation: Kelley Coures will discuss his book and the compelling history it unveils.
- Q&A Session: Engage with the author and ask your burning questions.
- Book Signing: Get your copy of Out in Evansville signed by Kelley Coures.
About the Book:
Out in Evansville reveals the turbulent journey of the LGBTQ+ community in Evansville. From facing arrests and ostracization to celebrating public festivals and drag shows, this community has shown remarkable resilience. In the early days, local newspapers bullied LGBTQ+ individuals, even encouraging them to commit suicide. The 1950s and 1960s saw a series of murders that went unpunished, and the 1980s AIDS epidemic further marginalized the community. Yet today, the LGBTQ+ population of Evansville proudly marches in the annual Pride parade, reflecting over a century of uneven progress. Kelley Coures tells this often tragic, yet at times hopeful, story with depth and sensitivity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about an important chapter in our local history and to support a talented local author!
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Ivy Tech Evansville and Aurora Material Solutions Launch Apprenticeship Program
Ivy Tech Evansville and Aurora Material Solutions Launch Apprenticeship Program to Support Advanced Manufacturing Workforce
JUNE 22, 2024
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Ivy Tech Community College Evansville and Aurora Material Solutions (formerly Aurora Plastics) today announced details of a new apprenticeship program aimed at building a diverse pipeline of highly skilled advanced manufacturing talent. As part of the partnership, apprentices will pursue an industrial maintenance repair technician certificate with Ivy Tech Evansville in a structured and progressive learning environment while employed by Aurora Material Solutions. The partnership announced today is registered with the U.S. Department of Labor and is made possible by a $4.7 million grant through the agency’s Apprenticeship Building America program.
They are headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio with a technical and production facility in Evansville, Aurora Materials Solutionsmanufactures high-quality advanced polymers, custom thermoplastics and compounds for a variety of applications in the automotive, building and construction, industrial, consumer goods, medical, electrical, transportation and cable industries. As part of the Ivy Tech partnership, over the course of four years, apprentices will develop the skills required for two or more maintenance and craft occupations to support machines, mechanical equipment and facilities upkeep.
Ivy Tech customized Aurora Material Solutions’ training program in partnership with Ivy+ Career Link, the College’s transformative approach to career and workforce development that partners with employers to design training solutions that meet their specific talent needs – how, when and where they need it. The program includes 30 credit hours of coursework on topics such as industrial electricity, fluid power, welding, workplace safety, motor controls and machine maintenance and installation.
“Ivy Tech applauds Aurora Material Solutions for providing their industrial maintenance employees with the opportunity to access high-quality skills training that will help advance their career in advanced manufacturing,” said Scott Derr, lead project navigator for the U.S. Department of Labor Apprenticeship Building America grant, Ivy Tech. “We are proud to expand the number of registered apprenticeships throughout the state of Indiana through the Apprenticeships Building America program. This partnership is the first this grant has supported in southwest Indiana, but certainly not the last.”
“Investing in Ivy Tech apprenticeship programs is not just about shaping the future workforce; it’s about empowering students to turn their passions into professions, fostering innovation and driving economic growth,” said David Bacon, plant manager, Aurora Materials Solutions.
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How the Republican Party Betrayed America By Richard Moss, MD
Richard Moss, M.D., Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, pulls no punches in his latest book titled The Empire of Eunuchs: How the Republican Party Betrayed America he accuses the Republican Party as being “no different than the very same Democrat Party it claims to oppose.”
Calling the daily assault on our country “a destructive jihad against the [American] economy,” Moss clearly elucidates how both parties have threatened the republic and its founding principles as they attack the federal and constitutional systems. Coupled with the failure of both parties to protect American interests, are the globalists, which if they get their way will usher in a world where “we cease to be human.”
Moss highlights the Republican Party “never truly addressing the annual deficits, mounting debt, increasing dependency, and expanding unfunded liabilities.”
As far as Moss is concerned, the Republican Party is “a weak, limp, rudderless organization that has achieved little or none of its stated goals and purposes.”
He asserts that it is only by a “rebranded, committed, conservative, economic, Christian nationalist party (which as a Jew, [he] fully embraces) supportive and dedicated to American sovereignty, can the great American experiment survive.”
His is a clarion call for an America Reborn party that is willing to “fight and die on cultural issues,” which he believes, are even more important than budgets and tax policy if the nation is to survive.
He argues that “those who believe in the American enterprise desperately need to reform the Republican Party from within or create a new one.”
If Republicans continue to fall sway to the “woke, identarian, intersectional, racialized, feminized, transgendered, and anti-American Democrat party” which is ultimately laying the ground for “future gulags and reeducation camps like the Leninist and Maoist forebears of the 20th century,” America will continue its downward trajectory.
Having discarded the founders, liberty, and the rule of law, the Republican and Democrat parties — which he now calls the Uniparty, are both going in the same direction. Both want to “expand the government, erode liberty, spend and borrow the nation into oblivion, destroy the middle class” and eviscerate free market capitalism. This is being done concurrently with the “destruction of our culture, norms, religion and two-parent married families.” While the Democrats may get there quicker, the Republicans will just “slow boil” into communism.
Moss’ book challenges his readers into understanding that the Uniparty is “busy destroying culture and civilization, [as] they move like termites from one foundational beam to the next, eroding the structure and tenets of society.” Hence, transgenderism is endorsed and never refuted by the Republican establishment.
The cry of systemic racism is never exposed for the actual racism of its proponents and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mantra is never revealed for the inherent evil where equity “means equal outcomes, achieved if necessary by unequal treatment, biased competition and preferential judging” — hardly the genuine aim of equality that is so deeply rooted in U.S.A. history.
Moss courageously rips off the curtain of the Marxist manipulation of language so that social justice is revealed for the base injustice that it is.
Moss maintains that it should not be that difficult to challenge these bankrupt and destructive ideas. They have been repeatedly used in other communist countries and have a “proven track record of poverty, unemployment, scarcity, misery, prison camps, torture, slavery, mass executions, and, not infrequently, genocide.”
Is Moss exaggerating? Is he a bit hyperbolic in his assertions?
Despite mounds of evidence, people still do not comprehend that “socialism and central planning never fail to fail.”
One need only see the assault on law and order that is wreaking havoc at the southern border and in Democrat-controlled cities to realize that Moss is right on target.
Because of their failure to offer an alternative vision, Republicans are allowing the country to morph into a lawless, bankrupt banana republic.
Clearly a student of history, Moss fights against the oft-repeated but incorrect “three-fifths clause” and explains that it was “actually an anti-slavery provision made by anti-slavery delegates not to diminish blacks but to reduce Congressional representation of pro-slave states.”
Moss spares nothing when he describes how Franklin Delano Roosevelt, long revered by Americans, actually ushered in the ever-enlarging role of central government, which ultimately became “legal government-sponsored theft.”
Moss writes of his own evolution as a political thinker and candidate when he ran for office in October 2015, 2018, and 2024.
But in 2010 as a friend who challenged him asked “for once in your endless rants, tell what you would do specifically, not what should not be done.”
Moss’ response:
- Repeal Obamacare.
- Return government spending to 2008 levels or even earlier.
- Limit government spending to 20% of GDP or less.
- Sunset resolution on all mandates, programs, and agencies every two years.
- Cut federal bureaucracy across the board by 20%
- End public sector unions
- Must find a constitutional basis for any new legislation
- End autopilot programs where multitude of programs are automatically increased and no vote or debate has occurred
- No further bailouts or takeovers
- End various subsidies and corporate welfare
- End illegal immigration
Part autobiography, part political tract, The Empire of Eunuchs also encompasses articles that Moss has written over the years concerning the political morass America finds itself.
Moss’ angst is just.
He takes on Mike Pence’s decision concerning Trump’s election and maintains that Pence should have allowed the ten-day moratorium since there was a precedent for that. In fact, Pence had the “right — and duty to allow that investigative process to unfold.”
The Empire of Eunuchs is a righteous clarion call for true action. It is a fitting description for a party that has capitulated so much that one cannot tell the difference between them and the insufferable Democrat Party. Repeatedly, Moss makes the point that if we lose the culture, the politics are lost as well. Dependence on the government is the surest path to the end of the country. Yet, “pathetic Republicans refuse to make the case. More than the stupid party, they [are] the party of Eunuchs, of cowards, the new castrati.”
In reality, America must die in order for the Left to succeed. The Left is all about “power and its permanent acquisition.” While conservatives live for other things, like… families, homes, churches, jobs, careers, businesses, and hobbies, the Left is singularly focused. Their family is the Democrat Party. Their church is the Left. They live for politics and power. Their dogma, Marxism. Centralized government power is their highest goal.
With laser focus, Moss asks if the Republican Party is ready for the” mythic and cataclysmic battle that is occurring under our noses.”
Up to now, it would appear that the Republican Party is a group of ineffectual people, eunuchs who would rather bow to the radical left than stand up for the values of America.
Moss calls out the constant Republican urge of “reaching across the aisle” which only results in yet another furthering of the leftist cause.
Moss is not afraid to voice his thoughts and ideas. In a recent piece, he proposes what solidly red states can do to defend the rule of law and our G-d given, inalienable rights.
Is Richard Moss a maverick who will help usher in a renewal of America? Time will tell. Other Americans can read his impassioned book and spread his message.
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