IS IT TRUE that the newly appointed Evansville Water and Sewer Board was told to go back and re-vote on past decisions made in January by the previous board because the makeup of the past board was deemed illegal?…we wonder if the Mayor is also going to require other City appointed boards to go back and re-vote on issues that other boards that had serving illegally since the new residency ordinance was passed by City Council? Â …we wonder why the Mayor didn’t inform his buddies in the mainstream media about this issue?
IS IT TRUE that 4th Ward City Councilwoman Connie Robinson shall announce this Wednesday at  4 PM at the Civic Center that she will seek re-election?  …you can expect a large group of 4th Ward voters to show up in support of Connie Robinson re-election announcement? …we hope that one of the At-large City Council members will take special note and see who attends Mrs. Robinson re-election announcement event?  …its  alleged if the 4th Ward have a heavy voter turnout on primary day that one At-Large City Councilman political career may be over?
IS IT TRUE the Evansville City Council is coming under fire in the mainstream media for allegedly being a clown show that cannot get anything done or agree on anything at all?…it is suspected that the source of these zingers is the Office of the Mayor which is complicit in any look of silliness on the City Council by continually doing things behind closed doors and failing to keep the City Council out of the loop on many important decisions? …is it any wonder that the City Council would be indignant about being blinded to the fact that the Mayor’s office authorized a $200,000 advance loan to Earthcare Energy,  spending hundred of thousands  of  taxpayers dollars on  vacant buildings and giving them away to special friends or has staged several theatrical ground breaking ceremonies for the downtown hotel which is still not designed in a way that it can attract financing?…the reality is that the Winnecke Administration has been a clown show and some members of the City Council have been in the rumble seat?…the City Council has been flying blind largely due to the fact that they are intentionally left out of the information loop?…as long as business continues to be done in a vacuum, the clown show will continue?
IS IT TRUE we are hearing that rank and file members of the Evansville Police Department are extremely upset with the Chief of Police decision to pay select officers “Special Duty Pay”  for attending a most important public relations trip to Disney World trip in Orlando, Florida ? …we agree that treating a group of Glenwood honor students to a free trip to Disney World is positive act? ….we do feel that officers who attended this worth while trip should had taken vacation time to attend trip and not being paid with “Special Duty Pay” from city funds?
IS IT TRUE President Barack Obama proposed a nearly $4 trillion budget package Monday aimed at improving the nation’s infrastructure and boosting middle-class Americans, but with a cost of tax increases on businesses and the wealthy as well as an end to existing spending caps?…the budget, much of which Mr. Obama has detailed over the past month, makes a case for easing Washington’s emphasis on deficit-reduction measures, given the strengthening economy?…it makes no new effort to fix the swelling costs of Social Security, Medicare, and the off budget obligations of public employee pensions which are the 800 pound gorilla in room when it comes to government spending?…neither party nor any President since the turn of the century has shown any willingness to tackle the real hard questions of long term financial obligations in the future to cash the checks written on the future generations?
IS IT TRUE that Super Bowl 49, just hosted by Phoenix, Arizona was one of the best played games from a spectators perspective in many years?…the University of Phoenix stadium which also hosts the Fiesta Bowl is a perfect venue for big time football games and the City of Phoenix seems to have a knack for doing a good job with such large events?…that was not always the case as back in 1950 Evansville, Indiana had a larger population than Phoenix by over 20,000 people?…to be specific in 1950 Evansville was home to 128,636 people while the water starved desert town of Phoenix had only 106,818 people and no prospects to be a significant city?…that was then and this is now?…in the last 65 years Phoenix has grown to become a major metropolis of 1.5 Million while Evansville has depopulated to only 120,000 after the most recent annexation?…to think that Evansville in an economic forecast model in 1950 would have had better prospects for the future than Phoenix is mind boggling to some, but the reality is that things were done much differently in the two cities and through a 65 year lens, Evansville’s mistakes are easy to characterize?…the problem is that Evansville keeps doing the same things and expecting different results which according to Dr. Albert Einstein is the very definition of insanity?…if the leaders of the past 65 years would have simply exercised a good game of “monkey see, monkey do”, who knows, perhaps Super Bowl 50 would be on the banks of the Ohio instead of San Jose, CA, that was also smaller than Evansville in 1950?
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