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EXPERIENCE THE EXCITEMENT OF A VIBRANT DOWNTOWN WITH POP UP MAIN STREET

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A collaborative group of Evansville residents have organized a one-day pop-up event to show people what a vibrant downtown Evansville could be by bringing multiple businesses, vendors and organizations together, while working with existing downtown businesses, giving residents an unique opportunity and reason to experience downtown Evansville. This free and family-friendly pop-up event will coincide with the Division II Elite 8 basketball tournament, allowing Evansville visitors to experience Evansville’s downtown. Three vacant buildings along Main Street and the Sycamore building will be used to host this event. Pop Up Main Street was inspired by the Evansville VOICE initiative.

            Leadership Evansville, Evansville VOICE, the Growth Alliance of Evansville, Evansville Living, Keep Evansville Beautiful and AXIOM are sponsors of Pop Up Main Street. The list of diverse confirmed vendors who will “pop-up” on Main Street offer something for everyone. Some of these vendors include: Single Thread Boutique, Taylor’s Leather Works, The Dressing Room, Mike Marten Art, United States of Indiana, Fire It Up, Fusion Day Spa and many more! For a full list of vendors participating in this pop-up click here.

While attending a City Core VOICE meeting, some VOICE participants discussed what a vibrant downtown could be and decided to take action. After learning about the new trend many cities around the country are doing, they decided a pop-up event would best showcase what a vibrant downtown Evansville could be for existing residents and visitors. A pop-up retail space is a venue that is temporary. The trend involves “popping-up” in vacant locations for short periods of time. These shops, while small and temporary, can build interest by consumer experience.

March 29, 2014

10 a.m. – 7p.m.

Downtown Evansville (Locations: 204 Main Street, 420 Main Street, Former Stratman’s building, and the Sycamore building)

 

 

Two Defendants Found Guilty

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 Last month, Reko Levels was found guilty of Theft – D Felony. After the Theft trial, Levels was found guilty of a Habitual Enhancement by the same jury.

 

Today in court, Magistrate Kelly Fink sentenced Levels to two and a half years for the Theft – D Felony and an additional four years for the habitual enhancement, citing his extensive criminal history. In total, he will serve six and a half years with the Indiana Department of Corrections.

 

Levels was convicted of stealing a cell phone from a gas station employee in October of 2013.

 

For further information on the case listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton, Director of Public Relations at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org.

 

 

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Judges reduce rapist’s sentence to 165 years

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The Indiana Court of Appeals Wednesday slashed 105 years from a convicted rapist’s sentence, concluding the original 270-year sentence was far outside the norm for a single episode of conduct against a single victim.

Shawn Corbally broke into a Greenwood woman’s apartment in July 2012 and forced M.R. to engage in numerous sexual acts for two hours while making threats to harm her or her children, who were in the apartment. Her 1-year-old child was asleep in the bed with her when Corbally began assaulting the woman. She was able to identify Corbally because she saw his tattoo on his left arm depicting bricks. She also saw he was wearing cargo shorts and was able to see his face when he led her outside.

Police recovered his and M.R.’s DNA on the camouflage shorts they found in Corbally’s duffle bag. He was convicted of Class A felony burglary, Class A felony rape, four counts of Class A felony criminal deviate conduct, and two counts of Class B felony criminal confinement. He was sentenced to 270 years.

Corbally appealed in Shawn Lawrence Corbally v. State of Indiana, 41A04-1304-CR-175, on two grounds: that the trial court improperly allowed Greenwood Police Department investigator Patti Cummings to relate the contents of her interview with the victim, and that his sentence is inappropriate.

Cummings testified as to what M.R. had told her about the attack during an interview conducted the day after it occurred. Corbally’s attorney objected, arguing the state was asking Cummings to relate hearsay, but withdrew the objection after she told the court she could not stipulate to M.R.’s credibility.

The trial court erred in telling Corbally’s attorney that any challenge to M.R.’s credibility allowed the state to introduce prior consistent statements by her, the Court of Appeals held. The judges were skeptical of the state’s argument that Cummings’ testimony should be allowed because it was in some way related to the course of investigation work that led to Corbally’s arrest.

“Cummings almost completely rehashed the grisly details of the crimes as already testified to by M.R. Such evidence was entirely irrelevant to the course of the investigation, and it was not admissible as ‘course-of-investigation’ evidence. The trial court abused its discretion in admitting this evidence,” Judge Michael Barnes wrote.

But, this admission was a harmless error, the judges ruled, as there is overwhelming independent evidence of Corbally’s guilt.

Barnes and Judge Elaine Brown chose to reduce Corbally’s sentence after looking at other cases involving similar circumstances. Barnes noted that the longest affirmed sentence imposed for a single episode of sexual violence against one victim was 151 years since the adoption of the “inappropriate” standard for reviewing sentences. The majority decided to reduce his sentence to an aggregate of 165 years after concluding his 270-year sentence is an “outlier” in need of revision.

Judge Margret Robb dissented without opinion regarding the sentencing issue.

Ivy Sentenced

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On February 19, 2014 a Vanderburgh County Jury deliberated for six hours before finding Edward Jerome Ivy Guilty of Attempted Murder – A Felony and Intimidation – C Felony. After the jury returned a verdict, Ivy pleaded guilty to a Habitual Offender Enhancement.

Today in court, Judge Robert Pigman sentenced Ivy to 65 years to be served in the Indiana Department of Corrections.

Ivy was involved in an October, 2013 stabbing incident in Vanderburgh County. The victim survived stab wounds to the abdomen and neck.

For further information on the case listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton, Director of Public Relations at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

SENTENCE CHART

 

Class Range

Murder 45-65 Years

Class A Felony 20-50 Years

Class B Felony 6-20 Years

Class C Felony 2-8 Years

Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years

Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year

Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days

Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days

Sen. Coats offers bill to curb federal regulations

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By Antonio Cordero

TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS – Cost vs. benefit. Small businesses all across Indiana live and die by that creed, but excessive federal regulations tend to tip the scale too far toward cost, critics say.

U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., talks about legislation he's introduced to try to make federal regulations less onerous on small businesses. Photo by Antonio Cordero, TheStatehouseFile.com

U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., talks about legislation he’s introduced to try to make federal regulations less onerous on small businesses. Photo by Antonio Cordero, TheStatehouseFile.com

So Republican Sen. Dan Coats held a press conference Tuesday at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to talk about his proposed Sound Regulation Act.

The bill would force every regulatory federal agency to undergo a neutral, non-partisan test of cost verses benefits. The bill would also require the agencies to consider at least three possible options to achieve the regulatory objective. Agencies would be required to choose the lowest cost option, unless there are other overriding factors.

Coats said regulations cost businesses time and resources.

“When it comes to regulation, there are examples that just fill the book in terms of how businesses are having to spend more and more time filling out forms, complying with regulations, trying to understand the hundreds if not thousands of regulations that are being imposed on an annual basis,” Coats said. “Instead of doing the business that they are running and being out in front of the counter, selling their product, running their business efficiently and effectively, competing with others around the state and the world in terms of their product, they’re back in the back room filling forms.”

More than 4,000 federal regulations are in the pipeline today. And Coats said excessive government regulations can only be tackled by large companies with a big staff fully dedicated to the compliance of the rules.

“It’s one thing for City Bank or one thing for General Motors to be able to hire a back room full of lawyers and a back room full of accountants to pour through all these regulations, get the reports into Washington on time, make sure the company is responding to this imposition of regulation after regulation, and to challenge those,” he said.

“But for small businesses in particular, for those running a farm or running a small business, they don’t have the resources nor do they have the time to go back in the back room and comply with all these regulations,” Coats said. “We can go through hundreds of examples of regulations that simply don’t meet the cost-benefit test.”

Devin Anderson, chief executive officer of E&A Industries in Indianapolis, showed his support for the bill and said he “would like Washington to approach the rule-making process with common sense.”

“The reality is that Washington is slowly, but very effectively stifling and choking small business every single day. We’re being asked to help lead this economic recovery by creating jobs, but in reality, we’re just trying to avoid death by a thousand cuts,” Anderson said.

Coats said bipartisan support of the bill would be necessary for it to pass.

“My appeal to them (other lawmakers) is simply, ‘Let’s do some things on a bipartisan basis. You can go home and talk about how you’re working with the other side to get something constructive done.’ And so, I’m trying to take this out of the politics,” he said. “I’m not trying to just use the political equation to gain the thing, because I know the only way we’re going to pass this is with bipartisan support.”

Antonio Cordero is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

IS IT TRUE March 20, 2014

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IS IT TRUE that the bizarre way that meth impairs the though process of human beings played out yesterday in Evansville in a most unusual and disturbing way yesterday?…that a man from a prominent Evansville family that are long time business owners who have a custom of naming their children after car models allegedly constructed 3 bombs resembling grenades and had intentions to kill some police officers who are charged with ridding our community of the scourge of meth?… Franz Corvette Costello of the respected family that we who live in Evansville take pride in telling our friends about is the alleged perpetrator of this heinous act?…this is a most demented way of thinking and speaks to the addictive power of meth?…it also speaks to the power of this drug to destroy human beings in a way that few other addictive substances can?…in our last mayoral campaign both Democrat Rick Davis and now Mayor Lloyd Winnecke agreed that the ingredients to make meth should be by prescription only?…we know that our Mayor’s can’t fiat such laws into place but it is truly disappointing that the effort to control the substances used to make meth by Mayor Winnecke have grabbed no headlines at all, but things like dog parks have?…meth is a serious problem and we encourage our mayor to show just how serious of a person he wants to be and get in front of this issue?…if Mayor Winnecke finds a way to restrict access to these ingredients that is an effort worthy of a positive legacy?…dog parks, hotels, and other fun and games nonsense come and go but the tragedy of human addiction damages a community forever?…we encourage our mayor to do what he can about this in a very visible way?

IS IT TRUE that we are hearing about some instances where ObamaCare is actually making positive differences for some of our citizens?…the demographic that benefits from the ACA is a small one but if one is over 55 years of age and has some medical issues the ACA seems to be something good?…we have learned of many instances both locally and in other parts of America where older people with medical conditions have gotten large reductions in their insurance premiums and lower drug prices for maintenance prescriptions?…while that is quite positive the fact remains that for each older and sicker person who benefits from the exchange there will need to be 10 or more young and healthy people to enter the system to pay for those benefits?…this is quite similar to the Social Security system where those who work pay taxes to pay for the benefits to those who are retired?…just as the Social Security Administration depends on a sufficient number of workers to pay for the retirement of people who worked at one time, ACA needs young payers who use few benefits to cover the ailments of the older and sicker ones?…the challenge is that these older and sicker ones did not pay in when they were young leaving today’s young to choose whether or not to join this game or not?

IS IT TRUE it is 230 days until the election of 2014?…the website electionprojection.com has not changed in its predictions for the national elections in more than a month?…the current tally projected is that the Republicans will take the Senate adding 6 seats to enjoy a 51 – 47 – 2 majority and stay in control of the House of Representatives by a comfortable margin?…such a control situation will make President Obama’s last two years in office rather difficult indeed?

IS IT TRUE there is one federal government program that seems to work quite well and even earn a profit (that the feds call negative subsidies because the word profit is not even understood) that is returned to the general fund?…the Export Import Bank of the United States finances and insures transactions between foreign businesses and American businesses?…this entity earns just over a Billion dollars a year on a loan portfolio of $35 Billion?…this leads to the creation and sustaining of over 200,000 American jobs?…this is not a business that a for profit commercial bank could service because of the risk of trade agreement enforcement?…the City County Observer encourages local business that want to enter or expand their exporting business to take advantage of this exemplary federal entity that actually works?

Obamacare Premiums Likely to Skyrocket Next Year

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Health industry officials say Obamacare premiums will likely double, and in some cases triple, in certain parts of the country next year, and announcements of rate hikes could come within months, potentially adding to the pressure on Democrats going into the midterm elections.

The botched rollout of the federal healthcare program, including its numerous delays and changes, is one of the chief reasons for impending hikes, officials told The Hill, as is the impact on insurers of Obamacare’s new fees and regulatory restrictions.

“Everyone knows that the way the exchange has rolled out … is going to lead to higher costs,” a senior insurance executive who requested anonymity told The Hill.

Another official told The Hill, “All these major delays on very significant portions of the law are going to change what it’s going to cost.”

But the most significant cause of rate increases, officials say, is related to the administration’s erroneous projections about the number of young healthy consumers who would enroll.

“Demographics matter a lot because they will help determine whether the health insurance market goes into a death spiral (or requires hefty federal subsidies to keep it from doing so),” Megan McArdle writes in her column for Bloomberg View.

“Young healthy people, and a lot of them, are needed to keep the market stable and premiums low. As we head into the final few weeks, we have a pretty good idea of how many young healthy people there will be, and the answer is: a whole lot fewer than the healthcare wonks were expecting.”

The Obama administration estimated that roughly 40 percent of Obamacare’s enrollees would need to be between the ages of 18 and 35 to keep Obamacare financially solvent and premiums would cover costs.

The picture is expected to become clearer as insurers begin the process this spring of filing their rate proposals with state insurance commissioners.

It is possible that some insurers will continue to hold rates low to remain competitive, though some initially underpriced their policies to attract customers in the first year, expecting to raise rates in the second year, according to The Hill.

If the predictions of major rate increases come to fruition, the political fallout for the Democrats — who will already be under intense pressure in the midterm elections due to the troubled healthcare law — could be even more significant.

Rate hikes would also likely undermine Obamacare enrollment efforts in 2015, The Hill reported.

Source: The Hill

IRA BEUMER TO PLEAD GUILTY

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After two days trial, Ira Beumer is to plead guilty to C-Felony, Reckless Homicide.

The C Felony Reckless Homicide carries a potential sentence of 2-8 years. Judge David Kiely will sentence Beumer, likely within the next month.

The Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office will issue a statement today.

For further information on the case listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton, Director of Public Relations at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

SENTENCE CHART

 

Class Range

Murder 45-65 Years

Class A Felony 20-50 Years

Class B Felony 6-20 Years

Class C Felony 2-8 Years

Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years

Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year

Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days

Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days

IS IT TRUE March 19, 2014

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IS IT TRUE that the debriefing sessions for both the 2012 audits of the City of Evansville’s books and the Water and Sewer Utilities books have been completed?…we hear that there were not many smiles in the room when any of the findings were being discussed?…City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr. now has less than a week to respond to the wording of the audit and to try to explain away any of the plethora of conditional statements associated with audits of the recent past?…in all fairness the Weinzapfel Administrations bumbling and fumbling of the software integration project that should have been routine and parallel to the phasing out of the old system deal Controller Lloyd one of the worse starting points in the history of local government?…what is baffling is why the Winnecke Administration has not taken full advantage of the many opportunities to pin the tail on the DONKEY?…most of the problems they have been dealing with were made in Evansville and many were made in the period from 2004 – 2012?

IS IT TRUE we have learned through Mole #21 that the law firm associated with City Attorney Ted Ziemer billed the City of Evansville $1,325,977 in 2012 (the first year of the Winnecke Administration), and $1,455,071 in 2013?…it seems as though Ziemer’s firm got a 10% raise in business in a single year?…there are billing records for each month of both years in 48 separate categories will all of the usual expectations being serviced such as police, fire, water, sewer, hotel, greyhound, old post office, TIF, Zoo, etc?…there is no category period for Earthcare Energy LLC?…we wonder just where all of the contract work and the phone calls to “stay in touch” are categorized?…the Earthcare Energy LLC legal work may be buried somewhere in the hefty legal spending of the Department of Metropolitan Development?

IS IT TRUE that former USI basketball coach Bruce Pearl who has never had a losing season but has been found to be in violation of NCAA rules on a couple of occasions is returning to coaching?…the Auburn Tigers have hired Coach Pearl who scored a national championship at USI to a multi-year contract that we are sure is worth millions of dollars?…as basketball coaches go, Coach Pearl is among the best in the land and we are sure that we will see some serious improvement in the Auburn program starting next year?

IS IT TRUE we are getting concerned that nothing will ever happen down at the McCurdy Hotel?…it has been over 2,000 days since a smiling Mayor Weinzapfel mugged for the cameras and announced that some of his future political supporters would be refurbishing the historic hotel into luxury apartments?…the McCurdy is just another one of the legacy failures that the Weinzapfel Administration hoisted onto Mayor Winnecke?…another day, another mess is becoming the mantra for downtown development?

IS IT TRUE in a nearly magical turnaround the poll on the Courier & Press regarding the grades that Mayor Winnecke has earned so far took a turn for the worse?…Mayor Winnecke was sitting on a report card with all As after the poll was up two days and just over 200 people had registered their votes?…in a single day the poll attracted enough votes to turn every one of those A grades into an F?…this was as if one side was corrupting the poll during the first two days and the other side did the same during the final day?…if you think about it there may have only been two people voting in that poll over and over simply by clearing their cookies time and time again so they could skew the poll?

EPD Activity Report: March 18, 2014

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EPD Activity Report: March 18, 2014

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