THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING OF THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS COMMISSION WILL CONVENE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 2013 AT 8:00 A.M.
THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE CASINO AZTAR EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE CENTER, MAPLE ROOM C. THEY ARE LOCATED AT 421 NW RIVERSIDE DRIVE IN EVANSVILLE, IN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND IS SCHEDULED FOR 8:00 A.M.
http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/inmates/copyofdefault.aspx
From Sheriff’s Website
Inmate: MICKENS, ANDREW
DOB: 5/14/1987 12:00:00 AM
Race/Sex: B /M
Address: 615 SE THIRD ST
City State: EVANSVILLE , IN
Booked: 1/26/2013 8:47:00 AM
Charge Bond
FAILURE TO APPEAR-ORIGINAL CHARGE MISD $100.00
ROBBERY-ARMED W/ FIREARM [BF] $15,000.00
Court Date: 1/30/2013 9:30:00 AM
Type: SUP2
IS IT TRUE the dust up over the fact that 8 members of the Evansville City Council gave in to Mayor Winnecke’s demand that they come into his office for a one-on-one meeting and sign a non disclosure agreement in order to be given a copy of the proposal from HCW Development of Branson, MO to put up a convention hotel with all the trimmings including retail space of the lot next to the Ford Center?…the 9th member of the City Council Al Lindsey requested a copy of the proposal but was denied access because he has a fundamental belief that anything asking to get a $40 Million taxpayer handout should be done in an open forum?…the real cash value of the improvements are going to be what they are with little room for variance so the range of negotiation that will be acceptable to any developer will be small?…building a hotel in downtown Evansville is not the plans to the D-Day Invasion so the cloak of secrecy that the Mayor has demanded is pretty much political theatrics?…before the City Council will vote yay or nay on financing this hotel the details of any negotiation will be made public?…to do everything behind closed doors now under the threat of prosecution for talking is just fanning the fires of mistrust of the Winnecke Administration and oddly enough the fires are being fanned by the Winnecke Administration?…the secrecy has not kept the naysayers from complaining, it has not kept the speculators from speculating, and it will not likely change the eventual outcome?…if this was such a great proposal (as in a private investor is building a hotel with their own money) it would certainly already be made public?
IS IT TRUE that the CCO will not be surprised of a group of innkeepers already doing business in Evansville take the torch of discontent that was started by Mr. Nickolick who owns a local hotel last week?…there are indeed local innkeepers who have done their homework on the feasibility of a hotel in downtown Evansville as a prosperous investment and have determined that it is not one?…one developer is actually going forward with a Comfort Inn and has not come forward to ask for any government handout to do so?…for this or any other private investor to be forced to collect the taxes that are then given to their out-of-town competitor is about as destructive to free enterprise as the Gulags that made people dig their own graves?
IS IT TRUE that old curmudgeon Morton Marcus put what he intended to be a smack down on the state of the State of Indiana in his most recent column?…his factual observations of the trends in the economic progress, or lack thereof in Indiana are something that we all should take to mind and do a careful analysis of why the drip drip drip of prosperity has once again eluded the Hoosier state?… In 2003, Indiana’s per capita income was 9 percent below the national average?…in 2003 Indiana ranked 33rd among the 50 states in per capita income but in 8 short years our rank fell to 40th in the nation at 14 percent below the United States average?…Indiana’s average annual growth rate was only 2.4 percent, the fourth lowest in the nation?…the only states that Indiana seemed to be able to lead in economic categories chosen to profile by Marcus are Ohio and Michigan?…considering that Michigan was the only state in America to lose population from census to census it was only population losses that kept Michigan from leading Indiana?…economic decline is a tough problem to get to the bottom of and one that seldom finds the political will to make necessary changes to fix?…all of the states floating around the bottom of the growth rank have built temples to sport while ignoring critical infrastructure?…these states have also gone for the band-aid of job creation which is to subsidize and celebrate jobs that are lower on the food chain than the ones they replaced?…there are many institutionalized policies that are encouraging the decline of Indiana and other places?…the ranking will not start to rise again until the infatuation with games and fun are replaced in government by infrastructure, knowledge, and investment in intellectual property based business?
Evansburg, In.
Have you ever wondered why most cities with Evansville’s population size in the fifties continued to grow and prosper, while we struggle to stay ahead of Owensboro, Kentucky!
Well, it is too painful to go into, the lost of industry and jobs, so let’s just stick to the two local arena stories. Hank Roberts built a stadium on the growing East side, which ultimately seated 12,500 and with acres of adjacent parking. The Roberts design had four entrances and 75% of the exterior accommodated exits.
Our city then builds a downtown arena which has a questionable amount of seating, perhaps up to 10,000. The arena has only one front entrance. If there is a plan to vacate they building in an emergency, it has not been shared with the public. Presently, everyone will rush to the front, and the fittest will make it out! Fortunately, most of the handicapped people have already questioned their demise. Limited parking will be a blessing to them!
Now, comes the other part. The city leaders sell the public on an arena with an attached hotel, we even leave one side of the arena, the Southside, blank for the hotel attachment. The “rubber stamp” city council approves the plan. Then we learn that the old hotel is about to collapse due to age, and the plan is discarded. We, are then told by convention experts that the city needs a 400 to 500 room hotel to accommodate conventions, arena and Centre events.
So, after months of planning and delays, we now have a new hotel plan. And just like the old arena plans, the facility to seat 12,500 sinks to 10,000 and just like the former Executive Inn with 500 rooms, the new plan now shrinks to possibly 230 rooms (Courier article 1-26-13.) Unlike Owensboro, Kentucky, this city never aims high on anything. It seems like everything they plan is scaled back, even before a spade hits the ground.
This city needs to sharpen its blade!
Date: January 31, 2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Founded and hosted by GRAMMY®-nominated Christian music mainstay NewSong and presented by World Vision, the Winter Jam 2013 Tour Spectacular will be headlined by GRAMMY®-winning, multi-platinum recording artist TobyMac. The tour will also feature RED, Matthew West, Jamie Grace, Sidewalk Prophets and Royal Tailor, with a message from national speaker Nick Hall. In addition, the Youth Music Vault Pre-Jam Party will include performances from Jason Castro, OBB and Capital Kings.
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The 10th-ranked University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team withstood a second half rally by Lewis University to win, 65-64, Saturday afternoon in Romeoville, Illinois. USI rises to 14-3 overall and 7-2 in the GLVC, while Lewis goes to 12-5, 5-4 GLVC.
After a slow start in the first half, a barrage of three-point bombs from junior guard Lawrence Thomas (Springfield, Illinois) and junior forward Orlando Rutledge (Louisville, Kentucky) took a three-point USI lead, 21-18, to 13 points, 34-21, in a matter of three minutes. USI would push the lead to 17 points by halftime, 43-26, on a three-pointer by junior guard Ben Jones (Robinson, Illinois) with 33 seconds left before intermission.
The Screaming Eagles were a blistering 60.7 percent from the field in the first half (17-28), hitting seven of their last 10 shots in the final seven minutes before the break. They also were 60 percent (6-10) from beyond the three-point arc during the first stanza.
USI quickly extended the lead to 19-points three times in the first five minutes of the second half, the third coming with 14:56 left, 51-32. This is when the Flyers mounted a comeback, cutting the Eagles advantage to one point, 56-55, on a 33-5 run.
A lay-up by USI senior center Keith DeWitt (High Point, North Carolina) pushed the lead back three, 58-55, when the Flyers closed to within one point again, 58-57, with 1:04 to play. Thomas went back to work on the offensive end, hitting a three-point heartbreaker to give the Eagles some breathing room at 61-57.
After the Flyers cut the Eagles lead in half, Rutledge and Thomas clinched the game for USI by connecting on both ends of one-and-one trips to the charity stripe. The Flyers hit a three with two ticks left on the clock for the final score of 65-64.
The Eagles scored only 22 points in the second half and cooled off to 31.8 percent from the field (7-22). USI also was outrebounded in the second half, 19-14, and 35-29 in the game.
Individually, Thomas finished the game with a season-best and game-high 20 points. He was a hot seven-of-11 from the field, four-of-seven from beyond the three-point arc, and two-of-two from the line.
Rutledge followed Thomas with 13 points, while DeWitt rounded out the USI double-digit scorers with 10 points. Junior forward Taylor Wischmeier (Brownstown, Indiana) was the Eagles’ top rebounder with seven boards.
The Eagles return to the friendly confines of the Physical Activities Center January 31 when they host eighth-ranked Bellarmine University for a 7:30 p.m. contest.USI returns to the road February 2 when it goes to McKendree University for the first GLVC game between the two programs.
Source: GoUSIEagles.com
Hilliard Lyons’ John Roberts, who has been named one of the nation’s leading analysts by The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, will speak at 4 p.m. Monday, January 28 in Smythe Lecture Hall (Room 170) in the University of Evansville’s Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building. His presentation, “Life as an Analyst and 2013 Market Outlook,†is free and open to the public.
Roberts is senior vice president and director of research for Hilliard Lyons, one of the nation’s oldest investment firms. Roberts oversees a research team of 15 investment and research analysts and support staff. Hilliard Lyons’ research department analysts have been recognized numerous times at the national level by The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street,†and over the survey’s 20-year history, six research analysts have been placed in the top five among their respective industry groups a total of 17 times.
Roberts has been ranked as the top REIT analyst by The Wall Street Journal and has been rated as a top 10 equity analyst by Forbes.com. Before joining Hilliard Lyons in 1997, John served as vice president, director of research and chief financial officer at First Honolulu Securities. He has also been a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Mills Dowling, a senior securities analyst at 13D Research, and a senior securities analyst in the REIT group at Stifel Nicolaus.
Roberts holds an MBA in finance and operations management from Syracuse University and a BS in business economics from Fordham University.
Source: Evansville.edu
At approximately 3:50 am today, Deputy Robert Schmitt was on patrol traveling south on north Saint Joseph Avenue when he observed a 2006, black, Dodge Charger traveling northbound. Deputy Schmitt knew this to be a vehicle which matched the description of a vehicle stolen from a north side business on Saturday evening. Deputies also knew the vehicle was stolen by a 14 year old, white male juvenile.
Deputy Schmitt followed the vehicle through the Darmstadt area and confirmed that the vehicle was the stolen vehicle. Deputy Schmitt with the assistance of several other deputies who had arrived in the area, attempted to stop the vehicle in front of the 4H Center. The vehicle did not stop and started fleeing recklessly at a high rate of speed down US Highway 41 North.
When the suspect vehicle approached the intersection of US Highway 41 North and State Road 57, deputies had deployed “stop sticks†and the suspect vehicle struck them, deflating the tires. The suspect continued to drive at a high rate of speed, on shredded tires, through a north side neighborhood.
Eventually the suspect vehicle traveled down a dead end street. When the suspect driver realized he could not go in further, he started to drive through residential backyards until he finally came to a stop. At that time, he and another 14 year old juvenile passenger fled the scene, north through the woods.
Deputy Schmitt with his K9 partner, “Bossâ€, were able to track the suspects. The juvenile passenger was captured a short time later without incident and was placed in temporary custody. Deputy Schmitt and K9 Deputy Boss, continued to track the suspect driver north through the woods to a north side residence.
Deputies spoke with the homeowners who stated the suspect had called the house however the suspect was not there. The homeowners did direct deputies to a residence where they knew the suspect went to.
When deputies arrived at the residence where they believed the suspect to be, they spoke with the homeowners who cooperated and stated the suspect was inside. Once inside, the deputies located the juvenile suspect hiding in a closest. The juvenile suspect surrendered without incident and was taken into custody.
After deputies contacted the juvenile suspect’s parents, he was transported to the Youth Correctional Center in Evansville. The juvenile passenger was released to his parents. The juvenile suspect, who resides from Evansville, was charged with the following crimes:
Auto Theft – Class D felony
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class D felony
Criminal Recklessness – Class A misdemeanor
Reckless Driving – Class A misdemeanor
