IS IT TRUE the City County Observer has 159 “CCO Moles” to protect because they have provided valuable resources to force  ‘GOOD PUBLIC POLICY” decisions from our elected and appointed officials?…we have never revealed our sources and will not be starting to now?…we wonder if Evansville’s mainstream media like the Evansville Courier and Press protects it’s sources?…if the truth were of concern to the Courier and Press and to the individual who granted them an interview yesterday they would have made an attempt to verify the content that was blabbed to them but they did not even try?…no one from the City County Observer was contacted before the name of the CCO editor was printed yesterday?…at least the CCO does verify sources and stories when the stakes are high?
IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer is not in possession of any transcript of any recording made of the exit interview of the 2012 City of Evansville audits?…the CCO has not published or claimed to have seen any such transcript?…we have a search bar on the site so City Councilman John Friend who told the Courier and Press that we had published this transcript is free to check any time he pleases as is the Courier and WFIE 14?…we have indeed asked about such a transcript and would love to see it if it exists, but as of this day we would swear on a stack of bibles that we have neither seen, read, or published any transcript of the nature that Councilman Friend claimed that we published?
IS IT TRUE that if we indeed had a recording of the City of Evansville audit our intention would be to wait until the official audit is made public so we could compare both documents?…if at that time the contents had changed materially with respect to the financial dealing of 2012 we would publish the contents and ask some very hard questions about how the dealings of 2012 could be changed in 2014?…what we continue to wonder is why the city audit taken so long to be made public?…it has now been over 2 months since the exit interview and any sane individual would wonder if whitewashing was happening?…audits typically are released within 30 days even when the opinions are less than flattering?…this one is now at the 65th day since the exit interview?
IS IT TRUE if we were to give up our sources that have functions in the Civic Center and all of them were fired,then the Civic Center would be a very empty place?…the questions that should be asked are why such a large number of the people of Evansville feel it is necessary to provide the CCO with information THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ANYWAY?…we also wonder how many other elected officials have recorded meetings including meetings held in the Office of the Mayor?…Evansville has serious problems and carrying on Salem Witch Trials to avoid the lens of the people’s focus on real problems like botched software integration, non-reconciled books, dilapidated homes, disfunctional sewers, horrible roads, and out of ADA compliance sidewalks is simply kindergarten level governance?…the real question should be “don’t these people have anything more important to do?”
IS IT TRUE we have received Mole Tips from employees of the main stream media because their management wouldn’t let them publish the story?…everyone in town should ask themselves why?…there are many times a year do we get e-mails from State, City and County elected, appointed officials information worthy of IIT posts?
IS IT TRUEÂ just today we got a very detailed email from a local official regarding the capacity of the downtown TIF to service the bonds it is expected to service?…the opinion of the author was that the TIF would be coming up short with the projects currently approved?…without giving away the source we assure you the initials of this person is not SBR?
