IS IT TRUE the Civic Center Moles tell us that Mayor Winnecke is fighting like the dickens right to the end to do his best to get the IU Medical School to choose downtown Evansville as it’s favored location at the announcement tomorrow?…the Mayor cast his lot with downtown from the beginning and has stuck with it?…if nothing else Mayor Winnecke has certainly been persistent in his pursuit of the IU Medical School for the downtown?…we trust that the Mayor realizes that win, lose, or draw for the downtown location, Evansville and the entire metro will benefit greatly from this medical school?…we hope that there are no hard feelings period on Friday regardless of which location is chosen?…each site has its merits including the downtown but the CCO reader’s poll that was up last week is predicting that the Warrick County site will be chosen for its proximity to teaching beds, abundant apartment complexes, low crime rate, and working infrastructure?…we will all know in about 36 hours?

IS IT TRUE in sort of a surprise, Mayor Winnecke told another news outlet that there will have to be changes made to the downtown convention hotel design if the IU Medical School does indeed choose a downtown location?…that is an odd and inconsistent revelation coming from a guy who just a few days ago was lampooning John Dunn of Dunn Hospitality of costing Evansville a convention by requesting a market study from the Hilton organization that will cause an 80 day delay?…a design change will cause more of a delay than 80 days just by not having the permitting process initialized?…maybe Dunn Hospitality saved the Mayor’s bacon and gave him a straw man to rage against as opposed to announcing a delay due to not applying for a franchise on time or proving loan approval, which according to the Mayor’s own words cannot have happened by the March 31, 2014 contractual deadline?…the powers that be will by definition be forced to officially extend a deadline for this hotel AGAIN, and they won’t even know how much until the news about the IU Medical School is announced?…the flying circus on MLK continues to amaze anyone outside of the fishbowl?

IS IT TRUE the audit of the City of Evansville should be released tomorrow so the CCO published the 2011 audit today with excerpts of the findings so our readers can compare notes when the 2012 audit is released a full 15.5 months after the audit period has lapsed?…such a delay is necessarily a reflection on the haphazard accounting practices of the City of Evansville going back well into the Weinzapfel administration?…one would think that the people of this town would deserve more than uncertainty and mismanagement by local elected officials?

IS IT TRUE we hear that the County officials are considering tapping into the reserve accounts to do a little road repair?…a little is indeed the right word for only $500,000 of government spending?…we trust that if the reserves are tapped that there is a valid prevention based justification to do so?…this winter did indeed create a rainy day moment for the 2014 budgets when it comes to road repairs and we are lucky there is a rainy day fund to tap to do this work?…we hope the County Council will advise us as to how they plan to replenish that rainy day fund so there will be one the next time mother nature slaps Evansville upside the head?

IS IT TRUE the Facebook page that was established to defame John Dunn continues to struggle with getting anyone to like it?…as of this writing there were still not 40 people who are willing to put their names and faces on the line to sanction this asinine stunt?…we are encouraged that only a handful of hardcore entitlement minded people willing to sanction hate for a private businessman who has filled the coffers of Evansville charities and employ Evansville people for his entire career are not getting any traction?…from the looks of our comment section left wing democrats, right wind republicans, and nearly everyone in between supports Mr. Dunn’s actions?…the CCO agrees and hopes these Komrads learn a harsh lesson from the failure of their little Marxist rant?

IS IT TRUE one of the reasons given by the anti-business group against John Dunn for him being singled out for protecting his own business interests is the potential for losing one convention of the Cities and Towns of Indiana due to the delay in the construction?…that is one convention and a rather small one at that?…the CCO realizes there is potential for that to happen and that it may give them a hollow talking point as the delay was created by HCW dragging its feet and not applying for a franchise of any kind until too late?…we wonder how many conventions have been lost in the last 5 years because there has been no convention hotel at all?…there is no convention hotel because the City of Evansville miscalculated, jumped the gun, and eventually demolished the old Executive Inn before it should have?…if the dubious claims that a convention hotel will bring in as many as 50 conventions a year are true then the CITY OF EVANSVILLE is responsible for the loss of 250 (50 x 5) conventions and countless dollars?…if the building formerly known as the Centre and managed by the County Commissioners were run like a business the City of Evansville would already be the respondent in a lawsuit for destroying the business model of the Centre with their ill conceived buffoonery?

IS IT TRUE in a way what the City of Evansville did to the Centre’s cash stream by prematurely tearing down the Executive Inn is exactly what they are doing to Dunn Hospitality by subsidizing a branded competitor in the same market?…even marginally decent minds should realize that the bad guy in both of these transactions is the City of Evansville?…maybe that is why the number of “likes” on the anti John Dunn Facebook page has not grown beyond several dozen finger pointing people who believe in the anti-business practices when it comes to a successful person’s private business?

IS IT TRUE the golden shovel day has happened for the ball fields out by the Goebel Soccer Complex?…after 5 years of bumbling the project moved to a location that is already being used for children’s sports?…this may not be the best place for this project but it is better than Roberts Stadium?…after 5 years the cost of the 8 ballfields and their gilded accessories has been reduced from the original $20 Million price tag to $14 Million which is still among the highest priced youth ball diamonds in the country at $1.75 Million per ballfield?…we also wonder what kind of intoxicants were being served at the golden shovel event to convince Bob Warren of the CVB that 8 ballfields have the capacity to draw up to 200,000 visitors who spend $16 Million per year?…those numbers are coming from the same orifice that Mayor Winnecke’s 800 jobs at the new hotel came from?…the last time the CVB wanted to build 8 ballfields their claim of bringing a paltry 100,000 visitors to town was refuted with data from other similar venues that only attracted 40,000 visitors per year?…we can expect 40,000 visitors per year when the ballfields are managed well and little more?…most of these will be coming from driving distance and will go home at night?…to bring in 200,000 visitors per year in the 20 or so weeks per year that Evansville has good weather would mean 10,000 visitors per softball tournament (200,000/20)?…that would require about 200 teams per tournament?…it is mystifying as to why such Quixotic claims are cooked up by public officials?…Warren, Winnecke, and others who toss our unrealistic projections not only sound like fools they are setting themselves up for failure?

IS IT TRUE that County Councilman Pete Swaim has broken from the small pack of Republican candidates who are ignoring the CCO and has agreed to answer the questions we put together earlier this week?…we welcome Councilman Swaim back into the fold and will publish his answers without edit, opinion, or bias?…with this step forward it seems as though only Commissioner Abell and Party Chairman Wayne Parke are the remaining pair of the political boycott hardliners left out there?…we wonder if those two are part of the lynch mob that is chasing John Dunn around for exercising his rights as an American and a business owner?

IS IT TRUE Friday is a big day in Southwest Indiana?…IU will be announcing the location of the new medical school AND the audit of the City of Evansville will be posted to the SBOA website?…we will know with that audit whether the City of Evansville has finally cleaned the mess left of the financial records by the Weinzapfel administration or whether Controller Russ Lloyd is looking at another year of sleepless nights cleaning the mess he was left with?