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Click to see Mayor Winnecke’s Campaign Financial Report
Dear City County Observer Supporters:
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For over a year we have been told by reliable sources that Mayor Winnecke 2014 Campaign Financial report shall be extremely interesting.  Last week we receive a complete copy of the Mayors 2014 Financial Political Contribution report.
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Starting today we shall be posting links to the entire 149 page report concerning all the income and expenses pertaining to the Mayors 2014 political income and expense reports without editing. Â
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Todays post is a link covering pages  1 t0 49 of the Mayors 2014 political contribution report.  For rest of the week we shall be posting pages 50 to 149 in sections because the size of this report.  Once we have posted all 149 pages we guarantee that you shall be amazed to read how the Mayor spent his 2014 campaign contributions in an off year election.  You also shall be amazed to read how much his campaign received from outside Vanderburgh County.Â
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Now Open: St. Mary’s Urgent Care BoonvilleÂ
Have you received your flu shot? Or maybe you feel sick, but can’t get an immediate appointment with your doctor? St. Mary’s Urgent Care Boonville is now an option for you. Urgent Care Boonville is open daily from Noon to 9:00 p.m. The state-of-the art facility is conveniently located on Liberty Boulevard, just in front of the Boonville Walmart.
It was built around the goal of providing the most personalized care possible and offers family medical care from Pediatric to Geriatric. The building has the same unique look of St. Mary’s Epworth Crossing, thanks to a generous gift of $200,000 from the St. Mary’s Warrick Hospital Foundation, which merged with the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation in October 2014 to become the St. Mary’s Health Foundation.
Services include:
*On-site digital X-ray
*School and sport physicals
*Treatment of acute injuries, illnesses and minor emergencies
*Occupational medicine services
*Immunizations
*Allergy injections
*Flu vaccines
*Physicians board-certified in family medicine and internal medicine
*And more
To view photos from the Blessing and Ribbon Cutting for St. Mary’s Urgent Care Boonville, please click here. To learn more about Urgent Care Boonville, visit stmarys.org/urgentcare.
Register for Art Noir Today!
| Artist Diane Albin to Jury Annual Exhibit, Art Noir |
| The Arts Council is pleased to present the annual exhibit Art Noir, a black and white juried exhibit. The Arts Council will be accepting artist registrations through January 27th. Art Noir will open with a reception on February 13th from 5-7pm, and will run through March 13th at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana’s Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery, located at 318 Main Street in downtown Evansville. This year’s juror is Diane Albin from Owensboro, KY. View the juror’s work at www.behance.net/dalbin. The exhibit calendar and award information is listed below. For more information and to view the full prospectus, please visit artswin.org.
Exhibit Calendar: Registration Deadline: January 27th Artwork Drop-off: February 6th Juried: February 9th Artist Notification Email: February 10th Non-accepted Pick-up: February 11th Opening Reception: February 13, 5-7pm Exhibit Closes: March 13th Artwork Pick-up: March 13th *All dates work within the Gallery’s regularly scheduled hours (10am-4pm), with the exception of the opening reception on February 13th (5-7pm).
Awards: Best of Show: $300 1st Place- $200 2nd Place- $150 3rd Place- $50
Juror:Â Dianne Albin, Owensboro, KYÂ www.behance.net/dalbin “We are constantly changed by life, and as an artist I am challenged not only to respond to what is most obvious, but also to those deeper, richer aspects that most define what it means to be human.” |
A Summary of Indiana’s Budget Process
As an engineer, I enjoy analyzing data and looking for innovative solutions. That is one reason I was pleased to be assigned to the House Ways and Means Committee which is tasked with reviewing our state’s finances and funding our constituents’ priorities while remaining fiscally responsible. Education, economic development and transportation infrastructure are a few of this session’s priorities, but the most important priority is to pass an honestly balanced budget without increasing taxes on hardworking Hoosiers. By continuing to live within our means, we will secure our economy for future generations.
I hold a strong core belief that the government is designed to serve the people and that the more active citizens are in their government, the better it functions. To this end, I constantly strive to inform individuals of what their government is doing and how. I hope this summary of Indiana’s budget process will encourage more public involvement in this version of Indiana’s biennial budget.
Crafting and passing the biennial budget typically takes the entire session and is the last bill we vote on. However, the budgetary process actually began a year ago when state agencies submitted their funding requests to the State Budget Agency. This agency is responsible for reviewing each submission to ensure that each proposal is an effective and appropriate use of taxpayer dollars. The agency then passes the reviewed requests on to the Budget Committee which is comprised of four legislators: one Democrat and one Republican from the House and Senate as well as the Budget Agency Director.
The Budget Committee compiles and considers information from public hearings, funding requests and revenue forecasts, which provide an economic outlook for the state, and creates an itemized budget proposal. The proposal then goes to the governor for review. Once approved, the governor’s Office of Management and Budget will present the proposal to the General Assembly, which occurred last week.
At this point, House Speaker Brian Bosma will assign the proposal a bill number, traditionally House Bill 1001. House Bill 1001 then goes to the Ways and Means Committee for review. As a member of this committee, my colleagues and I will listen to hours of testimony from state agencies, public colleges and the public on various proposed aspects of the budget. This provides us the chance to ask questions on why an agency or organization has allotted funds for specific line items. I encourage everyone to watch these committee meetings live at iga.in.gov. After receiving this testimony, we will meticulously review and potentially amend the budget bill, line by line.
Once a final version of the budget passes out of Ways and Means it goes to the House floor where every legislator then has the opportunity to offer amendments. After all amendments have been made, the budget will be voted on in its entirety and passed along to the Senate where a similar process takes place. After both the House and Senate approve the same version of the bill, the budget becomes final.
It is a privilege to serve on Ways and Means and to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent in a responsible manner that best benefits Hoosiers. I will continue to work for our community, and I welcome your input throughout the coming months. Please contact my office by phone at 317-232-9671 or by email at h78@iga.in.gov with your comments and concerns on the budget bill or any other matter.
IS IT TRUE January 26, 2015
IS IT TRUE it is of some significance that one of the largest contributors to the Winnecke Campaign during 2014 when their was no election was the appointed City Attorney Ted Ziemer?…billing Ted, as some of our readers call him added over $10,000 to the coffers of his contractual employer?…that is a pretty darn good return on investment for Mr. Ziemer, as it is typical for the City of Evansville to run a legal tab of over a million bucks a year?…in all fairness this happens everywhere, but it is an absolutely disgusting fact of American politics that contributions grease the skids for contracts?…every dollar that is rebated to a politician by a contractor that has benefited or expects to benefit from their guy winning is a dollar “SNEGALLY Taken” from the funds to repair the roads, fix the sewers, make the sidewalks ADA compliant, or cleaning the teeth of the indigent?…the whole time honored process stink and both parties promote it?…there needs to be a better way to fund campaigns than doing so by political patronage kick backs on public contracts that really rob the taxpayer to pay cronies?
IS IT TRUE we are surprised to hear that the Mayors and his Chief of Staff had a telephone conference last week with HCW concerning the proposed Downtown Hotel plans? …We are stunned to hear that the President of the Evansville City Council wasn’t invited to participate in this extremely important telephone conference since the Mayors Chief of Staff pledged to do so at the last City Council meeting?
IS IT TRUE we have all been put on notice that Mayor Winnecke is once again going to update us on the status of the downgrading of the hotel in an attempt to get the project going with the money that is available?…considering the accuracy of previous updates if the Mayor says the sky is blue we had better verify it ourselves before we believe a word?…we await the next photo op and newsworthy blurbs more jaded than before? Â …we hope the Mayor will bring a copy of the officially signed “Hotel Franchise Agreement” between HCW and Hilton Corporation at todays City Council meeting since the taxpayers have so far paid $77,000 towards acquiring this agreement?
IS IT TRUE the new year has brought with it some unwelcome and unexpected negative economic news with layoffs accelerating in the oil business, financial institutions, and closer to home in the agricultural equipment business?…the layoff announcements that are close to home are the 1,410 layoffs that were just announced at the John Deere company in Illinois?…as has been typical in the last several years the outcomes are getting difficult to predict using official economical metrics?…the most recent new unemployment claims were higher than expected in a country that has been treated to falling official unemployment rates?
IS IT TRUE Friday’s annual report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that union membership fell to 11.1% of US workers from 11.3% in the previous year?…nearly half of all American union workers now work for government which has 35.7% of its employees in a union?…private businesses now only have 6.6% of their workers represented by unions and with the expiration of some contracts in the newly right to work Michigan that number is poised to fall even further?…the story behind the numbers seems to be that given a choice, many union members prefer not to pay for the privilege of union membership?…Indiana, which recently became a right to work state bucked the trend gaining some 50,000 union members which translated into a growth from 9.3% to 10.7% over the same period?
IS IT TRUE some Evansville thieves sunk to a new low recently in robbing and vandalizing a house of worship?…the church robbed was the Harvest House Church that was broken into, had some expensive musical instruments taken, and some vandalizing done?…we recognize this is an incident that does not reflect on the entire community but it really does speak to the degradation of respect for personal property that Evansville and the entire country seem to have drifted into?…the fact that it was a church that was robbed is a bit more insulting but at the end of the day it is knowing that we are living among people who would rob a church that makes life feel just a little bit less secure?…this particular crime is reminiscent of an old movie where some kids stole from the poor box in a church to bet on the races?
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Severely injured worker allowed to make case to jury
Marilyn Odendahl for www.theindianalawyer.com
A man who sustained life-changing injuries from a workplace accident is entitled to have his day in court to present his claims to a jury, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.
The Court of Appeals reversed the order of summary judgment in favor of the defendant in Adam Nagel and Emily Nagel v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co., 45A03-1403-CT-103. In a footnote, the appellate court noted although there are discrepancies in the plaintiff’s account of the accident, they are for a jury to address.
Adam Nagel, as an employee of ThyssenKrupp Safeway, Inc., was on the crew to construct a scaffold attached to a cooling tower at the NIPSCO power plant in Chesterton. The parts for the project were placed near a silo that collected fly ash. Semi-tractors pulling tanker trailers frequently veered off the road and got very close the parts.
What happened to Nagel is not exactly known, but co-workers found him face down on the ground unconscious and severely injured. Nagel’s recollection is that he was looking for a part when he glimpsed a truck tire and then felt something strike him.
He was in a coma for six weeks and continues to suffer from serious mental and physical problems.
NIPSCO argued to the Court of Appeals that it did not owe a duty of care to Nagel because he was an independent contractor working on its premises.
Pointing to Rhodes v. Wright, 805 N.E.2d 382, 386 (Ind. 2004) which held there was a genuine issue of material fact to be decided by a jury as to who controlled the property at the time and place of the accident, the Court of Appeals ruled the Nagels’ claims should be heard by a jury.
NIPSCO had control not only of the staging area where the parts were stored but also of the road and traffic flow at the power plant, the court stated. NIPSCO would have “reasonably expected†Nagel to walk in the vicinity of the parts, and the power company knew about the danger of the location.
“Finally, even if the danger here was obvious (to Nagel), it is a question of fact as to whether NIPSCO could or should have done more to reduce the danger, i.e., by directing Safeway to move the parts rack to a safer location and/or by instituting better road design or traffic control methods, at least while Safeway’s work in the vicinity of the fly ash silo was ongoing,†Judge Michael Barnes wrote for the court. “NIPSCO was not entitled to summary judgment on the basis that the danger here was allegedly obvious and thus there was no breach of duty to Adam.â€