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Sen. Joe Donnelly’s Office Would Not Provide Details About The Search To Fill Court Vacancies

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With U.S. District Judge Robert Miller Jr. preparing to take senior status in January, Indiana will have three judicial vacancies to fill on the federal bench.

Across the country, openings in district and circuit courts are increasing and have become a growing concern in the legal community. Currently the federal judiciary has 70 vacancies with 31 considered judicial emergencies and an additional 17 openings pending, according to statistics from the U.S. Courts.

Sen. Joe Donnelly’s office would not provide details about the search to fill the vacancies in Indiana but said the Indiana Democrat has been working to identify qualified candidates.

“(Sen. Donnelly) is hopeful that following in the bipartisan tradition of past Hoosier Senators, including Sens. (Richard) Lugar and (Evan) Bayh, we will soon be able to advance nominees to fill these positions,” said Sarah Rothschild, communications director for Donnelly.

Candidates for the openings in the federal courts are traditionally recommended to the president by the state’s senators. Donnelly had been optimistic about naming a candidate by mid-2015 but he and Republican Sen. Dan Coats have not spoken publically about the vacancies since May when Coats called for the appointment of a judicial nominating commission to help find qualified individuals to serve in the federal courts.

Miller is scheduled to become a senior judge Jan. 11, 2016, the day after he marks his 30th anniversary as a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has had a vacancy since Judge Sarah Evans Barker stepped into senior status June 30, 2014. In addition, Indiana has a vacancy to fill on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals created by theretirement of Judge John Tinder in August 2015.

Although Barker is now a senior judge, she has continued to carry a full docket and expects to do so until a replacement is named. Miller is anticipating he will still handle a full load of cases as well.

Helpful info about new moped laws that take effect Jan. 1, 2015

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      After a great deal of work among interested parties, new state laws take effect on Jan. 1, 2015, governing the licensing and use of “motor driven cycles” (previously referred to as “mopeds” or “motorized bicycles”).

      The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) has compiled a handy summary of these new laws and has posted a FAQ online.

This BMV website also lists helpful safety recommendations for those who plan to operate motorcycles or motor driven cycles on Indiana’s public roadways.

If you have additional questions or concerns about the new state laws governing the operation of motor driven cycles, please contact me.

 

Happy New Year

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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year with good health and happiness throughout the coming year. From all of us at The City County Observer

ST. Mary’s Earns National Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

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St. Mary’s Cancer Program has been granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons.

To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet or exceed 34 quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.  Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation is only awarded to a facility that exceeds standard requirements at the time of its triennial survey.

St. Mary’s Cancer Program takes a multidisciplinary approach to treating cancer as a complex group of diseases that requires consultation among surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, diagnostic radiologists, pathologists and other cancer specialists.  This multidisciplinary partnership results in improved patient care.

“At St. Mary’s, we pride ourselves in giving the most advanced, highest quality cancer care in the region – healing body, mind and spirit,” said Sheila Hauck DNP, RN, OCN, NEA-BC Director of Oncology, Palliative Care, and Professional Practice.

The CoC Accreditation Program provides the framework for St. Mary’s to improve its quality of patient care through various cancer-related programs that focus on the full spectrum of cancer care – including prevention, early diagnosis, cancer staging, optimal treatment, rehabilitation, life-long follow-up for recurrent disease and end-of-life care.  When patients receive care at a CoC facility, they also have access to information on clinical trials and new treatments, genetic counseling and patient centered services – including psycho-social support, a patient navigation process and a survivorship care plan that documents the care each patient receives and seeks to improve cancer survivors’ quality of life.

St. Mary’s, which is part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system, continues to maintain a cancer registry and contributes data to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a joint program of the CoC and American Cancer Society (ACS).  This nationwide oncology outcomes database is the largest clinical disease registry in the world.  Data on all types of cancer are tracked and analyzed through the NCDB and used to explore trends in cancer care.  CoC-accredited cancer centers, in turn, have access to information derived from this type of data analysis, which is used to create national, regional and state benchmark reports.  These reports help CoC facilities with their quality improvement efforts.

Happy New Year From The City-CountyObserver

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BREAKING NEWS: MAYOR WINNECKE CITES CITY PROGRESS IN 2014 IN RE-ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER

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Dear Friends,
As another chapter in our city’s history is now complete, it is important to take
time to reflect before looking forward.
2014 was filled with positive progress for the city of Evansville.
Here are just a few of the highlights;
* Lowest Unemployment Rate in 5 years (5.2%)
* Spent $5M less than the budget approved by council
* Over 1,000 new jobs created + retained
* New Haier America Research & Development Center Landed
* Consecutive Clean Financial Audits
* Positive Bond Ratings Reaffirmed by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s
* Retained the LST in its home port of Evansville
* Full Cloverleaf Interchange at US 41/Lloyd Expressway is underway
* Meth Labs have decreased by 50%
* Secured Medical School at downtown location
Even with progress, challenges still exist and I am committed to putting forth the time and effort to continuously improve our great city.
Clearly, there is work left to be done and my intention is to seek a second term as your Mayor. I have never wavered on my passion and desire to serve the city I love.
Therefore, I plan on filing for the office of Mayor at Noon on Monday, January 12th in the Election Office of the Civic Center. 
 
Please join me in the first step of the 2015 campaign that will send the message that our positive progress will continue.
Happy New Year!

New Year’s Eve Safety Tip Reminders

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The Indiana State Police join public safety agencies across Indiana with this final reminder on safety tips for New Year’s Eve:

· Party responsibly, don’t drink and drive

· Have a designated driver or plan to stay overnight at your party location

· A taxicab fare is thousands of dollars less than a DUI arrest or a funeral

· Do not fire guns in the air on New Year’s Eve or any other time of the year

o Gravity is not suspended on New Year’s Eve and bullets fired into the air will return to earth with sufficient force to cause death or property damage to whoever or whatever they strike

· If you are in the presence of a person who has excessively consumed alcohol and they become unresponsive, do not assume they will ‘sleep it off’

o Alcohol poisoning can cause death; seek emergency medical assistance for intoxicated persons that are unresponsive

o While persons under the age of 21 should not be consuming alcoholic beverages, they should not let this prevent them from seeking assistance for impaired youth

§ Youth who summon help for an impaired juvenile are immune from prosecution for minor consuming alcohol when they stay with the intoxicated youth and cooperate with law enforcement responding to the scene

· For a safe end to 2014 and a healthy start in 2015, party responsibl

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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EPD Activity Report December 31, 2014

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EPD Activity Report

The Gifts They Should’ve Gotten

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Raging Moderate by Will Durst

Hey guys. Did this whole crazy holy daze madcap bedlam thing sneak up on you this year, making the world speed up like a maglev Bullet Train going downhill lit by a strobe, like it did us? There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.

In 2014, Thanksgiving fell on November 27th: making it a mere 28 days between the Turkey and the Tree. Next year the gap grows by a day; then two days for leap year, until way way in the future, Year of Our Lord 2018, we’re talking maximum separation: 33 days. And you can bet those extra 5 days will seem a blessed eternity, especially to our poor bedraggled brothers and sisters employed in the online retail industry. Let the drone- ducking commence.

So while we salute all you incredibly stalwart consumers for navigating Demolition Derby parking lots in the honorable quest of sinking heavily into debt to celebrate the birth of that Jewish hippie kid, let us also take this time to offer up to the least deserving of us, our annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant, WILL DUR$T’$ 2014 XMA$ GIFT WI$H LI$T. These are the presents that folks presumably did not receive wrapped in brightly colored packages under dangerously parched fir trees, but most certainly deserved.

For Barack Obama: A Kevlar bubble, as he will now be taking shots from many vantages.

For CNN: Something to talk about other than ISIS and Ebola. And not ISIS infected with Ebola.

For Alec Baldwin: An unlimited refillable prescription for Xanax in a carrying case suitable for travel.

For Democrats in Congress: Scuba gear until they learn to grow gills for breathing underwater.

For Republicans in Congress: Enough rope to tie up Obama’s agenda for 2 years, but not enough to hang themselves with.

For Ted Cruz: A money order in the exact amount of a one- way ticket on the clue train.

For Harry Reid: A big old Lazy- Boy recliner so at least he can be comfortable doing nothing.

For Fox News: Hard evidence that the credit card used to pay for the rental car that took terrorists to the American Embassy in Benghazi has been traced to a shell corporation whose CEO is Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff.

For Malaysian Airlines: A name change.

For Jeb Bush: A name change.

For Mitch McConnell: An oilcan.

For Elizabeth Warren: A lingering bug to hit Hillary Clinton clearing the Democratic field for 2016.

For Joe Biden: A lingering bug to hit Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren clearing the Democratic field for 2016.

For Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: More Republicans to support his run for the Presidency and less Democrats.

For Speaker of the House John Boehner: A gift certificate good for one surgical procedure to remove that unsightly Tea Party growth clinging to his back.

For Medical Science to study: Dick Cheney’s heart. George Bush’s brain. And Barack Obama’s leadership skills.

For Scott Brown: Cheap property in either Vermont or Maine. Or both.

For Shia LaBoeuf: A muzzle. Permanent. Steel. Welded with titanium rivets.

For Brad Keselowski: A sponsorship deal with UFC.

For Miley Cyrus: A sponsorship deal with any designer who can provide actual clothes.

For Bill Cosby: Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak.

For Fidel Castro: A tricked out 2015 Ford F-150 to replace that 59 Chevy.

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Copyright ©2014, Will Durst, distributed by the Cagle Cartoons Inc. syndicate.

Will Durst is an award- winning, nationally acclaimed political comic. Go to willdurst.com for more about the documentary film “3 Still Standing,” and a calendar guide to personal appearances such as the Will & Willie Podcast December 17th & the Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show XXII, now until January 3.

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