IS IT TRUE January 23, 2014
IS IT TRUE there are times when politicians on the stump or at a breakfast allow things to slip from their mouths that turn out to be politically incorrect and cause them grief from their own kind?…it seems as though Marsha Abell is trying hard to “clarify†her position on using public dollars to attract the IU Medical School to Vanderburgh County?…there have been so many people tell us that Marsha was clearly against using a red cent of TIF money to help attract the IU Medical School to the privately owned site on the Eastside called the Promenade?…it was also clear according to numerous people who attended the breakfast that Marsha did not want to use public funds to invest in sewers and water to attract the medical school and that she thinks that Warrick County can make those investments and east Evansville will still prosper?…Abell was supposedly mute on the USI proposal and only gave passing lip service to the fact that downtown Evansville is a different case?…this seems pretty easy to understand to the City County Observer?…our translation of this is that Marsha is not interested in putting county money that she has some control over into either the Promenade or USI proposals because both are essentially the same in the big picture from a county perspective?…Marsha did indeed leave the door open for the County to funnel money into the City of Evansville’s forthcoming proposal to entice the IU Medical School to downtown Evansville?…we welcome a position paper on the IU Medical School attraction package from Commissioner Abell and will publish it without edit, opinion, or bias?…if Commissioner Abell is really interested in putting her position out there she should take us up on this opportunity to control her own position so her surrogates don’t have to walk things back for her?
IS IT TRUE for a brief amount of time yesterday the Courier and Press was free to read with the little blue logos that indicate you must pay to read this all gone?…the CCO got several emails and calls to tell us that the CP had knuckled under the loss of traffic and changed their policy?…they have not and the little blue logos are back this morning?…it must have been a lapse of the webmaster?
IS IT TRUE the CCO inadvertently published the wrong date for the UE vs. Wichita State game yesterday?…the real date is February 16th as opposed to the 19th and we still hope to see the Shockers come to town ranked #1 in the nation and that the Aces shock their world?
IS IT TRUE this writer was invited to give a speech on the establishment and operation of Innovation Hubs yesterday in Lancaster, CA?…since last Tuesday when President Obama announced a national Innovation Hub initiative the invitations are flowing in because the California Innovation Hub initiative that inspired the national initiative was written in Palm Springs in 2010 with one of the principle authors moving on to the Obama Administration as the Chief Operating Officer of the United States EDA?…that is where President Obama got the idea so the eyes of the nation are now on Palm Springs and the other California iHubs?…that is all a bit thrilling but all of our funding is still local so there are no federal strings on me?
IS IT TRUE there was an employee of the City of Lancaster in the discussion of what the State of California provided that confessed to political correctness gone mad?…my answer to the question was that “all I got was a Christmas card from Governor Brown and it really said Merry Christmas and I appreciated that the Governor was secure enough in who he was to say Merry Christmas instead of some mindless substitute to avoid using the words Merry Christmas?â€â€¦this employee then stated that in the name of political correctness that his city council had just changed the name of Easter to “Spring Dayâ€?…there was a gasp of disbelief in the room and several comments that were really unflattering?…even the employee in the building where he was employed stated that this move was seen by most as crossing the line with politically correct craziness?…the CCO agrees that political correctness has gone beyond the point of sanity and needs to just back off?…if this keeps up in the not too distant future Americans may need a communications chip embedded into their brains to avoid the thousands of phrases that will have been banned to pander to every whining individual who registers a complaint of any kind?…PC is BS?
IS IT TRUE that yesterday District 78 State Rep Holli Sullivan voted to send the same sex marriage legislation to the full house for a vote? …we reported for a week that Mrs Sullivan was indeed going to vote to send this issue to the full house for a vote and indeed she did?
