IS IT TRUE that the delay in releasing the 2012 audit of the City of Evansville and the Water & Sewer Utility for an unreasonable amount of time is beginning to have the smell of politics written all over it?…the audits that high level sources tell the CCO are both ADVERSE OPINIONS could easily be exploited by opponents of “machine” candidates in the primary as evidence that the good ship Evansville and its minions are floundering at sea without at captain?…the City County Observer calls on the Indiana State Board of Accounts and the politically appointed Indiana Auditor Suzanne Crouch to release these audits before noon today so the people of Vanderburgh County can have this information available to consider as they make their choices for whom they will cast ballots?…anything less puts the SBOA’s judgement in question and their supposed neutrality at risk?
IS IT TRUE it is being reported that yet another of the beautiful old historic homes has had the brakes put onto it’s restoration because it is not perceived to be a worthwhile investment?…this is what happens when values are not even sufficient to cover the cost of repairs as has been the case in Evansville’s historic district for many years?…older homes with this kind of character are very expensive to refurbish so irregardless of how cheap one may be investors looking for a return will not do quality refurbishments of these homes?…the great ladies of Evansville are at the mercy of Victorian home lovers with the means to spend up to a million dollars to refurbish a home that has a market value of less than half of that?…as long as that is the case investors will continue to do minimal repairs and break these great homes into multiple rental units blunting the Historic districts transformation from modern day flop houses intermixed with very well refurbished examples of period architecture?
IS IT TRUE the City County Observer is flattered to have some of the Mole Nation telling us that the Abell for Commissioner team is preemptively blaming the CCO as responsible IF Commissioner Abell loses her bid for the Republican nomination tomorrow?…the CCO has not even made any endorsement in that race?…if Commissioner Abell’s opponent Bruce Ungenthiem can get enough juice from running a single banner ad in the CCO to take out a long established politician in a primary then we are way more influential than we ever imagined?
IS IT TRUE the forces who are incensed over income inequality in America have taken a step that is unheard of in a New York Times article titled “College, the Great Unequalizer”?…in this article Russ Douthat opines that FLAGSHIP STATE UNIVERSITIES (like IU, Purdue, UK, etc.) are nothing more than places for the children of the elite class to party and establish social connections?…these are of course represented as social connections that make their life better than even the non-elite class people who attend these FLAGSHIP STATE UNIVERSITIES and never fit into the Muffy and Chip filled fraternities and sororities?…we guess the next logical step in this war on inequality will be for someone to decide that since educations fuel prosperity that we all need to be forbidden from seeking educations so that we can all be equally uneducated?…this is a step too far in the efforts to move toward income equality?…President Reagan wrongly attributed the following statement to President Abraham Lincoln but there is much wisdom held in the following CANNOTITUDES that should be ingrained in the minds of Americans seeking to climb the ladder of success without trying to do so by destroying the people who have climbed that ladder before them?
You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
