IS IT TRUE we are hearing that Mayor Winnecke and his DMD Director are going to announce next week that they have just found another Builder/Developer/Investor that is ready to commit to build a new Downtown Evansville Hotel? …we hope that the Mayor and his DMD Director are working diligently in giving millions of hard earned tax dollars to anyone who asks without proper vetting? …we look forward to hearing who the Mayor has selected as the newest builder of the Downtown Hotel of 2015? …we can’t wait to hear what the Mayor and his hand picked DMD Director promised to give the new Downtown Hotel Developer without talking with the Evansville City Council or proper vetting?

IS IT TRUE we are wondering if HCW isn’t named to be the newest Downtown Hotel Developer for 2015 how much will the City and Evansville Redevelopment will have to pay them for past prep work they have done on the recently failed Downtown Hotel? …our ‘MOLES” tell us the City and Evansville Redevelopment Commission may have to pay HCW anywhere from $1 million to $2 million of our hard earned tax dollars for a failed project for past work preformed?

IS IT TRUE we hear if the City and the Mayors politically controlled Evansville Redevelopment Commission doesn’t decide to select HCW as the newest Hotel Developer for 2015 we hear that a highly regarded Hotel Developer and a well known investor may be interested in building a reasonable and affordable Downtown Hotel without very little public subsidies? …we are stunned to hear that the Mayor and his DMD Director haven’t sent out a new “Request for Proposal to Bid” to area builders and investors seeking their input for the new 2015 Downtown Hotel plans? …we say get ready for another Winnecke “Ready, Fire and Aim news conference that once again shall guarantee the City taxpayers that have finally have found someone that going to build a newly designed 2015 Hotel for Downtown Evansville? …we say , let the “Main Stream Media Circus” begin?

IS IT TRUE 2014 has ended, we have all overdosed on college football, eaten ourselves into a need for some exercise and the new year is upon us?…2015 is an election year in the City of Evansville and it looks like it may just be one for the record books?…as in 2011 the drama is high for an upcoming announcement by an upstart who may mount a challenge to the power of a presumably invincible incumbent?…in 2011 it was Rick Davis, who in his own way dispensed with the rumored “Mayor for Life”, Jonathan Weinzapfel and his hand picked successor Troy Tornatta in the Democrat primary?…in 2015, we will soon know if Gail Riecken will move forward in an attempt to unite the fractured Vanderburgh Democrat Party to seek the Office of the Mayor of Evansville?…there are even rumblings of a Libertarian candidate and an Independent candidate coming forward both of which could pick off some of the base of the major parties making things even more interesting?

IS IT TRUE if you do not live within the political boundaries of the City of Evansville, today is the second day that you are not eligible to serve on appointed boards or commissions controlled by the Mayor or the City Council?…it is safe to assume for the time being that there are at least 60 unfilled openings on various boards in need of a competent city dweller who is willing to fill them?…we shall soon learn who these new appointments are and how they are vetted?…we are betting the vetting process will require no more than a pulse and a nod and wink commitment to the appointer’s agenda?…that would be par for the course?…in nearly every other jurisdiction with appointed boards and commissions, there are openings announced and an interview process in place to choose the most qualified and willing candidates?…it is very much like being hired in places that have a planning process?…this is a good time for the City of Evansville to take a baby step into the modern world and establish a process to attract and vet candidates?…this should happen before a new herd of back room cronies are appointed?…it would be better to take a couple of months and do this right than to round up the regular suspects for political appointments?

IS IT TRUE the CCO was surprised to see the editorial board of the Courier & Press assert that Evansville once had a “bustling” convention business?…we are wondering exactly when that may have been the case because it has not been true for at least 30 years and maybe longer?…returning to the glory days of the past to a time when obsolete products and activities were the rage is about as sane as sending the economic development team out to attract a buggy whip factory?…the internet and meeting simulators have diminished the convention business to the point that conventions are now looked at with jaded eyes by boards of directors?…sure there are some die hard shows that have a primary focus on debauchery that are held in Las Vegas or some other major city, but the days of places like Evansville landing big national conventions are over?…we may get the “Bass Fishermen of Kentuckiana” or the Quilter’s Guild but small local gatherings that like to call themselves conventions is all we can expect?…It has often been said that “if you tell a lie loud enough and often enough people will think it is true”?…it seems as though the local mainstream paper has not only bought into the propaganda, they have become the instrument of delivery as well?

IS IT TRUE we have already asserted many times that a 250 room downtown hotel is a WANT by the elites and politicos and is not a NEED for anyone?…we stand by our assertion?…we will know when the hotel becomes a NEED when some private investment group feels a NEED to put one there without a public handout?…until then it is nothing more than a political payback for campaign contributions and votes?

IS IT TRUE that the CCO reaffirms our commitment to seek out what is wrong and to expose it in hopes that someone with power, authority, and money will fix it?…we offer a quote from this writers friend Elon Musk to support our way of doing things?…we recognize that it does take a person that seeks out the knowledge of what is wrong and solves these problems through scientific discovery followed by implementation to make real progress become reality?…here is what Elon has to say about it?

“You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.” – Elon Musk

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