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AGENDA
Vanderburgh County
Board of Commissioners
February 7, 2017
3:00 pm, Room 301
INDIANAPOLIS – Below find Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb’s public schedule for the week of February 5, 2017.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017
What: State Workforce Innovation Council Meeting
When: 12 to 2:30 p.m. EST, with opening comments by Governor Holcomb at 12 p.m.
Where: Indiana Government Center
Conference Room B
302 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
*This event is open to the public and media.
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Friday, February 10, 2017
What: Hamilton County Business Issues Committee Legislative Breakfast
Host: OneZone Commerce
When: 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST. Panel with Governor Holcomb at 8:15 a.m.
Where: Conner Prairie
13400 Allisonville Road
Fishers, IN 46038
*This event is for registered attendees only. Media are welcome.
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
What: Ribbon cutting and open house for Bridges of Hope, a clinical substance use treatment facility
Host: Bridges of Hope
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST, with remarks by Governor at 10 a.m.
Where: 2200 Madison Square
Anderson, IN 46011
*This event is open to the public and media.
UE earns 4-3 win over Racers in opener
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – In the first home matches of the spring season, the University of Evansville women’s tennis team earned a split on the day, defeating Murray State by a 4-3 final before falling to Austin Peay by a 4-3 score in the evening match at Tri-State Athletic Club.
UE opened the day with a 4-3 win over Murray State. After the Racers earned the doubles points, the Aces rallied back with four singles triumphs to win the match. Diana Tkachenko got the job done at #2 singles, defeating Sara Loncarevis, 6-0, 6-1. Evansville also took flights 4-6, starting with Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga. She topped Alina Schibol, 6-3, 6-3. Theodora Soldatou was victorious over Jeanne Masson, 6-4, 6-0 while Andjela Brguljan won in a third set tiebreaker. She defeated Sara Bjork, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 to clinch the decisive point.
“Despite this being our first home match who came out a little flat and weren’t ready to play for the doubles. Murray did a great job of taking advantage to build early leads at both 1 and 3 doubles,†UE head coach Jayson Wiseman said. “Our team showed a ton of heart to come back and win for singles matches. I’m very proud of all of them for the way they fought the last one on every court, even the losses we had in singles were good losses. Our senior leader Andjela Brguljan did a great job of stepping up and closing out the match in a 3rd set tiebreaker. We’re very pleased with the win.â€
Austin Peay completed the day with a 4-3 win over the Purple Aces. After clinching the doubles point, the Governors earned wins in flights 1, 3 and 6 to win the match. The Aces earned three singles wins. Tkachenko defeated Claudia Yanes Garcia, 6-4, 6-0 to go undefeated on the day at #2 singles. Pascual-Larrinaga was also undefeated in singles play on Friday. She topped Brittney Covington in flight five, 6-0, 6-2.
Daria Pentsova took the other win for UE in the fourth flight, topping Ana Albertson, 6-3, 6-2.
“Our team did a great job of battling on every Court I just wasn’t enough today to take down a very tough APSU,†Wiseman added. “Their team came ready to play and every time that look like we’re about to take a lead, they came charging back to even the match and eventually were able to clinch it with a three set match at number three singles. We made it tough on ourselves by not taking the doubles, so that is something we’ll need to clean up and get better before we take on IU on Sunday. Overall it was a great day of tennis and it was good to get our first win of the season.”
On Sunday, the Aces head to Bloomington to face Indiana University. The match will take place at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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Making Sense by Michael Reagan
The Trump Train is rolling on.
It’s going so fast and in so many directions at once that its critics can’t catch up.
All week long President Trump has filled the headlines with news.
He’s nominated Neil Gorsuch — a great judge who understands and reveres what the Constitution says, not what he’d like it to say — to fill Antonin Scalia’s un-fillable seat on the Supreme Court.
He’s seen his major cabinet picks at State, Treasury, the EPA, HHS, etc., finally get confirmed, despite the whining and foot dragging of Senate Democrats.
He’s issued executive orders on taxes, regulations and who knows what else.
And he’s had tough-guy Michael Flynn, his National Security Advisor, sternly warn the Iranians that we’re no longer going to stand idly by as they make trouble in the Mideast and test-rattle their ballistic missiles.
By the time this column gets into print, we could be invading Yemen.
Things are happening fast in Washington —- at “Trump Speed,†as someone has said.
It seems like a month ago that the Trump administration’s so-called “Muslim ban†was announced, but it was actually only last week.
The president’s executive order restricted travelers from seven terrorist-breeding countries from coming into the USA for three months, and also suspended the refugee program for four months until a better system of vetting could be devised.
The whole thing was a total political and public relations disaster for the president —- a textbook example of how not to communicate to the American people.
What President Trump should have done was address the country from the Oval Office, fully explain what he was about to sign and then sign it.
He should have pointed out that it was temporary, that it was based on national security and geography, not religion, and that the seven countries listed were the same ones that had been singled out by the Obama administration as terrorism incubators.
All the problems and confusion and minor tragedies at airports for incoming travelers should have been foreseen and should never have occurred.
All the liberal howlings that Trump was discriminating against the Muslim religion or that the ban was unconstitutional would not have been eliminated, but they would have been blunted.
The crowds of knuckleheads who protested at airports still would have shown up with their pre-printed anti-Trump signs, but they would have been much smaller.
The whole fiasco showed that Trump and his team are still rookies who have a lot to learn about planning, explaining and spinning their executive edicts and decisions.
Trump got a D- for his “Muslim ban†announcement.
But the media got a solid F for the sloppy, misleading and partisan way they covered it.
The media didn’t put the executive order in perspective, didn’t explain that it was based on geography and didn’t explain that the seven countries on the list came from the Obama administration.
In their fervor to get Trump they didn’t bother to point out that President Obama’s administration had slowed down the processing of Iraqis refugees coming to the U.S. for six months in 2011 for security reasons.
The most outrageous thing the media did was to fan the idea that an executive order aimed at regulating the freedom of foreign visitors was unconstitutional.
It was perfectly constitutional. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t apply to foreign visitors.
The only people who have the constitutional right to come into the U.S. are American citizens.
Every country has restrictions for its visitors. For example, you don’t have a right to go into Canada if you have a DUI.
It’s an extreme tough rule, but I don’t see the ACLU or Alcoholics Anonymous demonstrating against Canada.
If anyone was responsible for all the sign-waving protestors who clogged up our airports last weekend, it was the dominant liberal media —- which is clearly interested more in bashing Trump and getting ratings than the truth.
Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine
www.jamesmredwine.com (Week of 06 February 2017)
SAFE LANGUAGE
“Love†and “hate†have become meaningless. Not too long ago, say before the pervasiveness of cable TV, most humans, especially male humans, reserved “I love you/it/them, etc.†for those few special people and things we actually did love. “I hate you/it/them, etc.†was only applied to those rare persons and things we had a personal reason to hate.
Now everyone “loves†everything from certain soft drinks to ball teams and “hates†everything else. Love and hate are applied like a coat of paint to everything that we used to “like†or “dislikeâ€.
And when it comes to commenting on the words or actions of others, say public officials, the national news media no longer takes the effort to produce facts which might prove a statement careless or incorrect, now the shortcut is to assert all statements are “false†or “liesâ€.
This deterioration in communication is probably due to our human need to keep others in those places we believe they should stay. And since we may no longer beat down our opponents with ad hominem appellations, i.e., politically incorrect terms, we just say they speak with forked tongues. This development was an unintended consequence of the p.c. movement.
No one may be publicly denigrated or even described by gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, physical attributes or age without exposing the speaker to a cacophony of boos from the political correctness police. I say good! As one who grew up in a legally segregated state at a period in history when only Anglo-Saxon males were judged worthy, I say America has taken several steps forward since World War II. It is instructive that our notions of acceptable speech now make it unwise to set out, even in a newspaper column condemning prejudicial slang, examples of such hurtful words as …. Well, you may supply your own.
However, we humans appear to be incapable of not ascribing bad motives to those with whom we disagree. And now, since we cannot rely upon demeaning terms as short-hand for those we despise or even just disagree with, we have turned to saying we hate them, they are liars, their premises are false and their motives are suspect. For some sociologically implausible rationale, it is reprehensible to refer to persons by catch phrases but perfectly fine to assert they are motivated by avarice and evil designs or have the morals of Wylie Coyote.
The national news media of today would never use politically incorrect terms for public officials but also seldom report what the officials say without gratuitously stating it is false. Setting out the facts and leaving it to the viewer or listener to come to her/his own conclusions does not seem to occur to the national media. One need only turn on the nightly news on any given evening to see how we have progressed in politically correct speech and regressed in consideration for differences in opinions.
Another interesting phenomenon has been the gradual merging of male and female speech. Until social pressure forced men to speak less paternalistically and chauvinistically, women were rarely heard, at least publicly, engaging in demeaning terminology. However, if one observes the plethora of female news anchors on today’s airwaves, venomous attacks, often factually unsupported ones, pour out without regard to the gender of the anchors.
And it is not just the media. Many of us, at least it seems to me, are now so bereft of acceptable demeaning terms for those unlike ourselves, we must seek to bring them down to our level by other means. We are uncomfortable not being able to differentiate “us†from “themâ€.
This phenomenon has been years in the making and is not the province of just one sociological group or political party. I recall when Congressman Joe Wilson, who still represents South Carolina, during President Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress in September 2009 publicly yelled at the president, “You lie!†And I find it difficult to watch CNN anymore as they assert virtually every statement by President Trump is, “False!â€, without giving any supporting data for their accusations.
I do not wish for a return to those Jim Crow days when any group one claimed to be a part of felt comfortable denigrating any other group. However, perhaps we have exchanged politically incorrect speech for terms every bit as demeaning to individuals and perhaps even more dangerous to our democracy.
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