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GREGG CAMPAIGN RESPONDS TO PENCE NEGATIVE ATTACK AD

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GREGG CAMPAIGN RESPONDS TO PENCE NEGATIVE ATTACK AD

The 30-second ad, which does not provide a single citation or source for any of the accusations, is running statewide.

“Mike Pence has failed as governor. His record is one that has brought scorn and embarrassment to Hoosiers, hurt our economy and set us all back,” said Tim Henderson, Gregg for Governor campaign manager. “Now, he’s not even man enough to put his own name on this attack.”

Please find a fact check on Mike Pence’s ad below.

Charge: “…helped turn a $2 billion surplus into a massive deficit”

Facts: Brian Bosma and John Gregg shared Governing Magazine’s 2002 Public Official of the Year Award. [Governing, 2002]

Bosma: “I think John (Gregg) and I both realize that while political position certainly plays a part in the legislative process, responsible adults have to bring the process to a responsible close for the benefit of those who are governed.”  “The final product didn’t please anyone entirely, perhaps least of all Gregg and Bosma, who both voted ‘no.’ But the pair was able to work together to pool what votes were needed to pass a bill that modernized a badly outmoded tax code. The two hugged emotionally when the vote was over. ‘I think John and I both realize,’ Bosma says, ‘that while political position certainly plays a part in the legislative process, responsible adults have to bring the process to a responsible close for the benefit of those who are governed.’” [Governing, 2002]

Indianapolis Star Editorial: “Lawmakers put aside personal and political agendas to pass a needed tax and budget bill.”

“Lawmakers put aside personal and political agendas to pass a needed tax and budget bill. Painful but necessary. In passing HB 1001 this weekend, the Indiana General Assembly has protected Hoosiers from a coming tax-and-budget explosion. With time running out on their special session, lawmakers did what needed to be done to keep property taxes low, boost Indiana’s economy and close a $1 billion budget gap. The bill passed Saturday wasn’t perfect, but it was a good deal better than earlier versions and it contained necessary ingredients to address the state’s most serious economic issues, which included an imminent spike in property taxes in 2003 following reassessment, the increasingly hostile tax environment facing Indiana businesses and red ink that was threatening deep cuts in essential human services and education.” [Indianapolis Star, 6/24/02]

Charge: “…supported higher taxes on Indiana families and business…”  Facts: In the 2002 restructuring, “the legislature provided approximately $1 billion in property tax relief for homeowners.”

“The 2002 reassessment was based on 1999 market values and the first time the market value-in-use system of assessment was used. Many homeowners experienced dramatic property tax increases, especially those with well-maintained older homes that had been under-assessed for many years. The prior system failed to take into account remodeling and rehabilitation of older properties. In response to the increase in residential taxes, the legislature provided approximately $1 billion in property tax relief for homeowners. However, property tax relief continued to be a growing expense for the state. In 2007, to assist in balancing the state budget, the General Assembly capped property tax relief to homeowners for the first time at approximately $2 billion.” [IACED, January 2008]

The 2002 restructuring deal began the elimination of the inventory tax by offering a 100 percent deduction.
“This is the beginning of the end of Indiana’s inventory tax. Starting with inventories assessed in 2006, for taxes payable in 2007, there will be a 100% deduction applied to the assessed values of inventories. Inventories will be assessed, but they won’t be taxed. Until then a more generous exemption will be applied to certain types of inventories. Counties can decide to impose an income tax, and use the revenue to end the inventory tax sooner. The $37,500 credit was an earlier inventory tax break that will be obsolete now that inventories won’t be taxed.” [Purdue Agriculture Economy, As Accessed 5/15/2016]

Charge: “…did side work for scandal-ridden Enron….

Fact: John Gregg did zoning work to construct a power plant.
“I had represented a company in Knox County that had built a power plan. An attorney doing legal work out of Louisville had called and asked me if I’d help him do some of the zoning. I do a lot of zoning work; it’s a large percentage of my income from the Vincennes law office. The company would pay me but I worked with their independent attorney, who was a great guy to work with. I didn’t think anything of it. I did stuff for them off and on for a year and a half, on their power plant and related issues. The company—well, you’d recognize the name, it was known as Enron—sadly went in the tank.” [“From Sandborn to the Statehouse,” pp 132-133]

WHERE’S THE STIMULUS FUNDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE?

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By Susan Stamper Brown

While traveling across the country with your kids this summer, be sure to buckle-up and do your best to overlook all the potholes and crumbling bridges out there. Even if funding was available, things will probably remain in disrepair until your kids are grown, thanks to big government regulations and red tape.

Former Obama administration’s U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood told CNN’s Rene Marsh during a recent four-part investigative report that America is “like a Third World country” when it comes to infrastructure and said, “The reason we have 57,000 deficient bridges is because we have not made the investment as a national government.”

Apparently Mr. LaHood forgot about all the money taxpayers were forced to “invest” when the $831 billion Stimulus Bill was passed in 2009. We were told it would quickly lower unemployment with the creation of “shovel-ready” construction jobs intended to repair failing infrastructure across the country.
In fact, the promise of “shovel-ready” jobs was the big selling point President Obama used to urge Congress to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [ARRA]. Of course, he later admitted, “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”

Apparently, shovel-ready jobs weren’t shovel-ready because government couldn’t get out of its own way, thanks to its own regulations and red tape. (Yet another reason why this blond columnist is a fan of small government.)

While the White House’s final report to Congress in 2014 stated the stimulus “initiated more than 15,000 transportation projects,” they obviously weren’t completed, given the numbers in Table 8 on page 34 of the report reflects just $30 billion, or around 3 percent, was spent on infrastructure.
In her CNN report, Ms. Marsh said the Memorial Bridge near the nation’s capital “will be shut down in five years if it doesn’t get the $250 million needed for repairs.” So why wasn’t it fixed with stimulus funds?
Where’s the $105.3 billion the ARRA allotted for infrastructure investment, with approximately $48.1 billion earmarked for transportation?

We do know that the Clintons reportedly received a slice of the stimulus pie. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bill Clinton’s presidential center received $2.5 million in federal stimulus money to build a “historic bridge.” We also know that $1.3 million was wasted on all those annoying ARRA signs the Obama administration planted on roads and highways across the country.

Another $3 million was “invested” for a turtle tunnel in north Florida, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The Washington Free Beacon reported some of the “most outrageous” ARRA spending included: $152,000 to prepare lesbians for adoptive parenthood; $600,000 to plant trees in rich neighborhoods; $384,949 to study duck penises; $1.2 million to study erectile dysfunction in overweight men; $100,000 for anti-capitalism puppet shows and $535 million on the now famously defunct solar company, Solyndra.
In fact, the Washington Times reports: “Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $2.2 billion in expected costs from the federal government’s energy loan guarantee programs.”
Moreover, Obama’s original stimulus bill envisioned several high-speed trains bulleting across the country, but only California bit the boondoggle bait, finally breaking ground last year. Californians forged ahead despite losing public support because they wanted to avoid returning billions in stimulus money. So they began the first segment in the middle; essentially building “a train from nowhere to nowhere, ridden by almost no one,” National Review reports.

So here we are, America’s infrastructure is Third World-ish with roads jarred by potholes, crumbling bridges, antiquated railways and subpar airports. And as always, Washington’s big government red-tape political elites delight in spending hard-earned taxpayer dollars like drunken sailors on liberty, funding pet projects like studying duck penises and building Clinton bridges, turtle tunnels and trains to nowhere.

Warrant Accountability Event

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When/where: Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon located in the Civic Center downtown in Room 110

What is it?
It’s an event to allow Vanderburgh County residents to turn themselves in (without being arrested) and have their warrant lifted. A new court date will be scheduled.

Why?
Currently there are more than 12,000 warrants in Vanderburgh County. This offers an opportunity for citizens who have missed a court date to have a new one set and to make a fresh start.

Instructions:
Warrants must be for misdemeanor, Level 5 and Level 6 felony charges only.
Stop by room 110 during the designated hours and a judge will schedule a future court date.
Have a form of ID available.

If you have questions about your case, you can visit mycase.in.gov.
For questions about the event, call 812-435-5688.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is not a way for participants to be cleared of any crimes! It is a two-hour window for people to avoid being arrested in the future for a warrant.

UE Awarded Ball Venture Grant for Changemaker Incubator

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The University of Evansville’s Institute for Global Enterprise has received a $20,000 Ball Venture Fund award to build a Changemaker Incubator on campus. The Ball Venture Fund, established by the Ball Brothers Foundation and administered the Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), provides seed funding for innovative start-up programs at ICI member institutions. UE’s grant was one of four selected out of 36 submissions this year.

This is the second year in a row the University of Evansville has received a Ball Venture Fund grant. The award last year provided start-up funding to establish UE’s Neuromarketing Research Center, a consulting practice using tools and techniques on the forefront of marketing and neuroscience to provide customer insights to clients.

The Changemaker Incubator will accelerate the growth of social enterprise start-ups by providing space for social entrepreneurs to gather, exchange ideas, connect with mentors, collaborate with community partners, pitch ideas, and develop skills necessary to get their ideas off the ground. UE hosts annual Changemaker Challenges that empower young people to use innovation for positive change in the world.

The High School Changemaker Challenge awards high school students scholarships to study and further develop their innovative ideas at UE, and the Collegiate Changemaker Challenge provides seed funding for social initiatives. The Changemaker Incubator will create a space to support these young people as they create lasting and measurable impact for the common good.

The Changemaker Incubator will be housed in UE’s newly-renovated Bower-Suhrheinrich Library. It will include furniture that inspires and encourages collaboration and will be equipped with technology to enable cooperation between UE students and students from all over the world. Currently, Changemaker students collaborate with people in Canada, Africa, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, and Germany.

For example, a team of students is designing a sustainable art therapy program for recovering addicts in a rehab center in rural Guatemala. Building off a successful alternative energy consulting group at UE, another team will launch an alternative energy initiative at Harlaxton College, UE’s study abroad location in the UK.

“Developing entrepreneurial ideas that make a difference in the world is something that resonates well with this generation of young people, and the impact they will make is profound. We are delighted about the possibilities this incubator space will provide for these Changemakers who are tackling important issues and offering fresh perspectives and innovative solutions,” says Jill Griffin, executive director for the Institute of Global Enterprise. The incubator is set to open before the end of the year.

Link To Death Records 5-23 to 27-16

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Death Records 5-23 TO 5-27-16

Taking Care of Business Tuesdays

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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS TUESDAYS:
a workshop & lecture series
for Arts Council members
 
Join us for an artist social tomorrow night from 5:30 – 7:00 pm! We will have refreshments and mingle to get to know each other. Hope to see you there!
 
The TCB Tuesdays events will be held every first Tuesday of the month, providing lectures and networking opportunities for artists members.
2016 TCB TUESDAYS CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
  • June 7th, Social event
  •  July 5th, IAC grants and Regional Resources, with speaker Paige Sharp
  • Aug 2nd, Commissions and Proposals, with speaker Al Holen
  • Sept 6th, Social event
  •   Oct 4th, Gallery Work, with speaker Garry Holstein
  •  Nov 1st, Marketing Art Business, with the AD Club
  •  Dec 6th, Holiday Social event

EVSC Board Approves New Director of Development

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Tonight (June 6), the EVSC Board of School Trustees approved the appointment of Caren Whitehouse to the position of director of development. As director of development, Whitehouse will lead the EVSC’s development efforts, building and sustaining partnerships and individual relationships in accordance with EVSC’s strategic and transformational vision. Whitehouse also will oversee and promote the district’s alumni programs.

Most recently, Whitehouse served as the executive director of the Vanderburgh County Medical Society where she assisted local physicians in fulfilling the mission of promoting the continual improvement of community health and wellness.

Whitehouse holds a B.S. degree in organizational management from Oakland City University and an Associate of Science degree from the University of Evansville.

Whitehouse has served in a number of ways on community boards and organizations, including Gilda’s Club of Evansville, the Rotary Club of Evansville, Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare Board, IU School of Medicine Evansville Community Council, Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center and many more. She also serves as the 8th Congressional Representative for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and participated in the Richard G. Luger Excellence in Public Service Series.

More than 230 attorneys suspended for CLE, fee noncompliance

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The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday released its list of attorneys who have failed to pay attorney registration fees, have not complied with continuing legal education requirements and/or failed to submit Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts certifications.

The 21-page order includes 238 attorneys, many of whom are out-of-state attorneys admitted to practice in Indiana. Attorneys have until 12:01 a.m. July 1 to rectify their placement on the list by paying the applicable penalties and resolving their issues or they will be suspended from practicing law in Indiana.

Attorneys who have already asked for an extension of time to comply with the rules regarding CLE requirements do not appear on the list, which can be accessed here.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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 Below is a list of the felony cases filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office last week.

Joshau Xavier Kuhlenschmidt Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

April Faye Goodman Neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, Level 3 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Keith Crotti Aggravated battery, Level 3 felony

Neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, Level 3 felony

Conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Neglect of a dependent, Level 6 felony

Inference with the reporting of a crime, Class A misdemeanor

Interference with the reporting of a crime, Class A misdemeanor

 

Donye Raishijon Morris Theft, Level 6 felony

False informing, Class B misdemeanor

 

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