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There will be a 10:30 press conference at EPD Headquarters. The press conference will address a Facebook post that alleges misconduct by an EPD officer during an arrest at Haynie’s Corner just after Midnight on Sunday morning.
Prosecutor Nick Hermann will be holding a press conference Monday, June 17
Prosecutor Nick Hermann will be holding a press conference TODAY – Monday, June 17, 2013 in the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office at 1:00 P.M. This press conference will be held to announce the formation of WeTip, the new tip line of Vanderburgh County. WeTip is a completely anonymous Tip-line that will help local law enforcement identify criminals and fight crime. Any and all persons of the media are welcome to attend this event. After giving details, Prosecutor Hermann will be fielding questions on the program.
Sgt. Jason Cullum of the Evansville Police Department will also be in speaking on this.
Please direct any questions you have on this to me until that point, but Prosecutor Hermann will explain how it all works and will be open for questions Monday. Also, please do not release information on this until Monday as the program will not be active until after the press conference.
CMT ON TOUR:HUNTER HAYES Let’s Get Crazy Tour
Friday, November 8 @ 7:00pm
Seats are $39.50 and $29.50.
Tickets go on-sale Friday, June 21st at 10:00am. HUNTER HAYES PRE-SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE THIS THURSDAY ONLY BETWEEN 10:00AM AND 10:00PM THROUGH HUNTERHAYES.COM!
THE CENTRE
Tri-State Business Expo – July 11
PEF/EVSC Summer Musical “Beauty and the Beast” – July 11-14
J&J Ventures Dart & Pool Tournament – Aug. 2-4
100 Men Who Cook – Aug. 24
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County – Oct. 17 @ 7:30pm
Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales – Oct. 27 @ 12:00pm & 3:00pm
CMT On Tour: Hunter Hayes Let’s Be Crazy Tour – Nov. 8 @ 7:00pm
CENTRE’D ON KIDS 2014
Junie B. Jones – Feb. 5 @ 9:00am & 12:00pm
The Monster Who Ate My Peas – March 17 @ 9:00am & 12:00pm
Are You My Mother? – Apr. 22 @ 9:00am & 12:00pm
BROADWAY AT THE CENTRE 2013-2014
Elvis Lives! – Oct. 19 @ 7:30pm
Mamma Mia! – December 13 @ 7:30pm
Straight No Chaser – December 20 @ 7:30pm
Hello Dolly! starring Sally Struthers – January 12 @ 7:00pm
Bring It On: The Musical – February 9 @ 7:00pm
Hair – March 10 @ 7:30pm
Million Dollar Quartet – March 26 @ 7:30pm
No Need to Re-write History Mr. President by: Carl Cannon
No Need to Re-write History Mr. President by: Carl Cannon
In a sign of our (not very civil) times, Michelle Obama was heckled at a recent Democratic Party fundraiser by a perturbed lesbian activist, Ellen Sturtz. The first lady seemed ruffled. “One of the things I don’t do well is this,” she said, as she left the podium, moving toward the protester.
Looking at Sturtz, but addressing the crowd, Mrs. Obama said, “You can listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”
The Democratic donors understandably picked the woman they’d paid $500 to see, and Sturtz was escorted out. “It was pretty aggressive,” Sturtz told reporters. “She came right down in my face. I was taken aback.”
The episode, as well as Sturtz’s misplaced effrontery, prompted hand-wringing about “white privilege” and racially coded language centered on presumed stereotypes of “angry black women.”
Those old enough to remember the 1993 Michael Douglas movie “Falling Down” recall the “angry white male” stereotype, a trope that Democrats have milked for many elections, so perhaps it’s time to give it a rest. As for Michelle Obama, she apparently doesn’t like being interrupted. Who does?
There was something subtly bothersome about the White House reaction to this incident, however. “It’s my personal opinion that she handled it brilliantly,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. That was my view, too, but it seemed Carney glanced at a crib sheet before divulging that nugget.
Also, the official White House transcript did not include the first lady’s comments to her heckler. Perhaps that’s because Mrs. Obama left the stage and was away from the microphone. That’s the most likely explanation, but other odd occurrences have taken place in transcripts emanating from this White House.
Officials in Obama’s press office have been known to try and seek changes in “pool” reports written by reporters for other reporters at events with limited capacity – before they are sent out. And, as the reelection campaign was heating up last year, White House image-makers inserted bullet points bragging about Obama into the official biographies of previous U.S. presidents on the White House website.
In their telling, Barack Obama’s greatness was foreshadowed by actions of almost every U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge. (Inexplicably, Gerald Ford was left out of the revisionism. One assumes it was an oversight.)
The word for this kind of thing is Orwellian, and it’s overused in American politics today. Or, maybe not. The phrase comes from “1984,” George Orwell’s postwar classic. The novel is set in a frightening future controlled by a leader (Big Brother) whose power is enhanced by a pervasive cult of personality.
The book’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works in the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite newspaper articles from the past to conform to the current policies and predictions of Big Brother and his political party.
Today, a theme runs through this administration that connects controversies ranging from the IRS scandal and the Benghazi tragedy to policy battles such as the stimulus package and the cost of Obamacare: not only is this White House is always on-message, but President Obama is never wrong, Republicans are invariably partisan, the president’s critics are always clueless.
It says so right here in today’s “talking points.”
In another early 1990s film, “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson also plays an angry white man. He’s a Marine colonel named Nathan Jessup. As the movie speeds to his dramatic conclusion, Col. Jessup asks an interrogating JAG lawyer played by Tom Cruise, “You want answers?”
“I want the truth,” he is told.
“You can’t handle the truth!” Col. Jessup thunders.
But judges in the court martial could handle the truth, as could the Marine Corps – and the country. And we can now, too. Sometimes, it’s all we really want.
Source: RCP
IS IT TRUE THAT COUNCILMEN JOHN FRIENDS STATEMENT ABOUT FORMER MAYOR TO PRESS IS SHOCKER?
IS IT TRUE the CCO was shocked and amazed to see the article in the Courier quoting City Councilman John Friend as saying that former Mayor Weinzapfel was “A GREAT MAYOR”?…given that Councilman Friend honestly and legitimately described the state of the unreconciled accounts of the City of Evansville as “A MESS” at Monday night’s City Council meeting, this either constitutes a serious spin on a partial statement by the CP or a collossal FLIP-FLOP on the part of Councilman Friend?…either way the record of failures to honestly “set the record straight” by Mayor Weinzapfel’s scrub the record manifesto issued this week are chronicled very well below?…if this constitutes “GREATNESS” in the minds of our City Council the we hope to God no one really makes a mess in the future?…anyone that would call the following factual analysis the work of GREATNESS including Councilman Friend either does not know GREATNESS from is own arse, has succumbed to external pressures and threats, or is pushing some personal agenda by feeding the ego of our former mayor and his protectors?
FROM FRIDAY:
IS IT TRUE former Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel came out of hiding after spending the last 18 months out of office and pursuing a private business career to defend his administration’s stewardship of the City of Evansville?…the tipping point to draw the former Mayor into the fray was a statement that City Councilman and Budget Chairman John Friend made at the last City Council meeting?…the words that broke the former Mayor’s silence were “Russ, I know you inherited a mess†with Councilman Friend referring to the continuing saga of non-reconciled accounts and misplaced money in the City of Evansville’s budget?…the former Mayor jumped back into the public eye to “set the record straight†which usually means to turn untruths into truths?…we shall examine just how much of the former Mayor’s statements were changing untruths to truths and how much he may have been channeling some of history’s most lethal revisionists?
IS IT TRUE in the text of his prepared statement designed to refute Councilman Friends characterization of the City of Evansville’s accounts as a “mess†former Mayor Weinzapfel stated, “the books were finally balanced and no irregularities were foundâ€?…as Mayor Weinzapfel passed on the baton of the rickety ship Evansville to Mayor Winnecke on January 1, 2012 what we must examine is the state of the books on that day?…former Mayor Weinzapfel’s assertion in his public statement is in direct conflict not just with Councilman Friend and current Controller Russ Lloyd Jr., he also contradicts an official audit by the Indiana State Board of Accountancy with respect to the audit of the transactions of 2011?…the City of Evansville even today cannot agree that the accounts are reconciled and still does not have a clean audit since 2010?…any sane individual who examines public legal documents would have to conclude that the former Mayor’s statement is not correct and designed to mislead anyone who reads it?…very soon we should have the audit for the first post Weinzapfel audit along with a study by McGladrie in hand to shine some light on whether Russ Lloyd Jr. who inherited this unmitigated disaster of accounting has been successful in cleaning what Councilman Friend charitably referred to as a simple “messâ€
IS IT TRUE the former Mayor followed up with “My administration left city finances in a better position than what we inherited. In fact, due to strong management and the willingness to make tough decisions, the combined cash balances in the general fund and parks fund went from $2.7 million when I took office in January 2004 to $7.6 million when I left office in December 2011â€?…he had to get a jab in on Controller Lloyd and indeed he did just like when he campaigned for Mayor on a platform that stated just how irresponsible it was for then Mayor Russ Lloyd to propose building a baseball stadium downtown?…with respect to hoarding money in the parks fund now we know how our parks deteriorated into cesspools of filth and homes to drug and gang activity?…maybe if our former Mayor would have spent some of that money the condoms, needles, whiskey bottles, and bums would not be gracing our parks?
IS IT TRUE in what may be the most ridiculous part of former Mayor Weinzapfel’s statement he tries to take credit for any downtown hotel that may happen by claiming “We brokered a deal with a developer to build a new convention hotel in downtownâ€?…he actually broker three deals none of which could perform and all of which squandered time and taxpayer dollars?…if there has been any mess cleaning with respect to the hotel it has been Mayor Winnecke cleaning the mess of a convention hotel fiasco that former Mayor Weinzapfel made?…speaking of hotels and messes there is also the debacle known as the McCurdy Hotel that the former Mayor brokered a deal for that squandered $1.4 Million taxpayer dollars, displaced a group of retirees, and left a melting shell of a building complete with graffiti, open windows, snakes, and a beanstalk on the riverfront?
IS IT TRUE the former Mayor also proudly stated that “We put together a program with Johnson Controls to establish city-wide wifi and create a fiber optic network that offered tremendous economic development opportunitiesâ€?…the contract he signed in his last days was so marginal that the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission shot it down in flames?…this would constitute another mess and point of contention that has marred the City Council’s ability to work constructively with Mayor Winnecke while another Weinzapfel mess is unwound by removing unneeded things like his vaunted fiber optic network?
IS IT TRUE that when finally asked about the rumor that he would be running for congress, the former Mayor said “never say never†which may be the personal reason for acting so indignant over the word “messâ€?…in many areas, Mayor Weinzapfel did indeed leave a legacy of “mess†or worse but that would not play well in a future campaign?…should he dust off the campaign suit and tap the over $500,000 in campaign funds he left office with to run for something else, his opponent would be well served to kick off his or her campaign announcement on the steps of the McCurdy and adopt a broom as a symbol of the messes left by former Mayor Weinzapfel?
IS IT TRUE this future opponent’s speech should include references to the SNEGAL Homestead Tax Credit disaster, squandering money on Front Door Pride, the Freedom Festival, the fact that an audit says the Ford Center was over budget, the storage now needed making the Ford Center even $10 Million more than it was, and the sneaky way Tom Barnett was paid?…John Friend really was being nice by saying Weinzapfel left a mess?…a two year old who throws food on the floor leaves a mess, a politician that leaves this many fiascos of waste and incompetence in his wake creates a legacy disaster?
Board Of School Trustee Will Meet In Executive Session
The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet in executive session at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, June 17, 2013, in the John H. Schroeder Conference Centre at the EVSC Administration Building, 951 Walnut, IN 47713, Evansville, IN. The session will be conducted according to Senate Enrolled Act 313, Section 1, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1, as amended. The purpose of the meeting is for discussion of collective bargaining, (2)(A); initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing, (2)(B); purchase or lease of property, (2)(D); and job performance evaluation of individual employees, (9).
The regular meeting of the School Board will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the EVSC Board Room, same address.
Complaints filed against Terre Haute-based Hoosiers Prescription Shop & its owner
State says pharmacy dispensed high number
of oxycodone tablets to out-of-state patients
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office recently filed licensing complaints against the Hoosier Prescription Shop, and its owner and pharmacist Ashok A. Patel.
According to the complaints, Patel dispensed about 22,000 oxycodone tablets to 71 out-of-state patients over a seven-month period in 2012. All of the prescriptions were paid for in cash, totaling about $53,000, and written by 18 out-of-state physicians.
The Indiana Board of Pharmacy received notice from a company, which supplies pharmacies with controlled substances, that it quit filling orders from the Terre Haute-based pharmacy. The board conducted an investigation and a compliance officer discovered the out-of-state patient files.
“These licensing complaints are just a part of our overall effort to crack down on the number of controlled substances that are being wrongfully added to the illegal supply of narcotics,†Zoeller said. “My office is committed to protecting patients and appreciates the coordination from the Indiana Board of Pharmacy to bring licensing actions against violators.â€
According to the complaint, the majority of the customers were from Kentucky, but others traveled from Ohio, Georgia and Florida. The majority of prescriptions were written by physicians located in Georgia and central Florida. The average prescription per patient was 122 tablets and all were filled between February and August of last year.
Zoeller said that it is not a violation to fill prescriptions for out-of-state patients or accept prescriptions from out-of-state physicians. However, the Attorney General’s office alleges Patel failed to “exercise appropriate professional judgment†in filling a high number of prescriptions for controlled substances from out-of-state patients and their prescribers.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared prescription drug abuse an epidemic.
The Indiana Board of Pharmacy, which has the authority to determine the appropriate discipline, will likely consider the formal complaints at its next meeting on July 8.
Since 2012, the Attorney General’s office has filed 15 licensing actions against physicians for overprescribing with several cases involving deaths. The growing number of overprescribing incidents resulted in the creation of the Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force launched by Zoeller. The group is made up of state legislators, law enforcement, health officials, pharmacists, state and local agencies and education providers. Members focus on education, treatment and recovery, prescription drug monitoring, prescription disposal and take-back and enforcement
“Complete Street†Project to Transform Oak Hill Road
A portion of Oak Hill Road, from Pigeon Creek to Lake Drive, is closed to thru traffic due to construction on the next segment of the city’s first “Complete Street†project. Information about the scope of the project, construction schedule, contacts and more are available online at www.oakhillroadreconstruction.com.
The contractor, Ragle, Inc., started work today on phase I of an 80 percent federally funded overhaul of Oak Hill Road from Morgan Avenue to Lynch Road. Access to side streets and adjacent properties will be maintained, and thru traffic will be detoured around the Oak Hill Road closure using Morgan Avenue, U.S. 41, and Lynch Road. The project is estimated to cost more than $4.8 million and is set for completion in July 2014.
“The greatest singular improvement to traffic will be the construction of a dedicated, two-way, continuous left-turn lane in the middle of the road. With the addition of this lane, through traffic will not have to stop for left-turning vehicles,†said City Engineer Pat Keepes. “Other aspects of the project include complete removal and replacement of the pavement; construction of sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and storm sewers; and dedicated bicycle lanes to create a “Complete Street.†The completed project will result in a safer and more efficient Oak Hill Road.
Questions about the construction work may be directed to the project field office at (812) 471-9434. For your convenience, the website at www.oakhillroadreconstruction.com will be updated as detour routes change.