News Release

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – I-69 is one of the few new-terrain interstates being constructed in the United States. As access to an interstate is key to economic development, University of Southern Indiana has initiated discussions – including an initial meeting on November 12 in Huntingburg, Ind. — to ensure thoughtful consideration and collaborative planning is in place for this important opportunity in the region.

“By bringing together industry leaders, community leaders, and other key stakeholders to discuss the potential that the I-69 development brings, we can maximize the economic development opportunities, especially around high-tech and innovation businesses,” said Mark Bernhard, associate provost for USI’s Division of Outreach and Engagement. “We want to fully engage others to capitalize on the opportunity in front of us.”

“Significantly increased accessibility and connectivity through strengthened infrastructure have a measurable impact on economic growth,” said R.J. Reynolds, president and CEO of Radius Indiana, a regional partnership representing eight counties in South Central Indiana.

“Indiana is one of the top five states in which to do business and is now forging ahead by strengthening its infrastructure with I-69. As we all work together to build and support the I-69 Innovation Corridor, the impact on economic growth for the region will be greater than we’ve yet conceived.”

Participants have been invited to attend a planning meeting November 12 to share their insights, opinions, and suggestions regarding the potential for the EVV-Crane I-69 Innovation Corridor Development. Topics for discussion include understanding the economic potential for the region, including technology transfer from Crane, and how those opportunities can be realized along the interstate corridor.

“Innovation needs to become a core competency as we work to solve complex problems now and in the future,” Don Schulte, director of engagement for Crane, said. “I believe this initiative provides great opportunities to develop systematic and disciplined regional approaches to innovation that can be leveraged to develop a culture that promotes technology-based economic development.”

As the planning continues, information regarding outcomes and progress will be shared with the public.

Source: University of Southern Indiana

*I will be a full time Coroner, serving the citizens of Vanderburgh County – in the office every day.

*I will hire deputy coroners with careers or backgrounds that are associated with medical fields or law enforcement – a professional staff.

*I will create a better working relationship with first responders, hospital emergency room personnel, health department, and funeral homes – a partnership.

*I will work closely with social groups to search for answers to issues facing the community such as; prescription drug overdose deaths, suicides, violence with our youth and other death trends – proactive in the community.

*I will have more direct supervision over the office of Vanderburgh County Coroner – responsibility will be mine.

*I will bring evidence handling and collection of pharmaceutical drugs, money, and valuables within the standards of law enforcement agencies – better accountability.

*I will have a position on the Indiana State Coroner’s Training Board – creates recognition and respect from other Indiana County Coroners.

*I will create a more professional image of our county by instilling standards of behavior by leading by example, training and reinforcement of professional guidelines – excellence is a habit.

*I will utilize existing technology to track trends relevant to the Coroner’s duties – prevention and awareness.

*I will integrate the Coroner’s office with the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy to promote a better understanding with law enforcement agencies – a teaching mission.

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“We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” said Hillary Clinton. Secretary Clinton was talking about the fellow who made the supposedly Islamophobic video that supposedly set off the sacking of the Benghazi consulate. And, indeed, she did “have that person arrested.” By happy coincidence, his bail hearing has been set for three days after the election, by which time he will have served his purpose.”

“The only remaining question was whether the administration had knowingly lied or was merely innocently stupid. The innocent-stupidity line became harder to maintain this week after Fox News obtained State Department e-mails revealing that shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern, less than a half hour after the assault in Benghazi began, the White House situation room knew the exact nature of it.

“After seven hours fighting numerically superior forces, my son’s life was sacrificed because of the White House’s decision. Why would Obama and Biden do such a thing? Because to launch a military operation against an al-Qaeda affiliate on the anniversary of 9/11 would have exposed the hollowness of their boast through convention week and the days thereafter — that Osama was dead and al-Qaeda was finished. And so Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Chris Stevens were left to die, and a decision taken to blame an entirely irrelevant video and, as Secretary Clinton threatened, “have that person arrested.” And, in the weeks that followed, the government of the United States lied to its own citizens as thoroughly and energetically as any totalitarian state, complete with the midnight knock on the door from not-so-secret policemen sent to haul the designated fall-guy into custody.”

“The Obama administration created a wholly fictional story line, and devoted its full resources to maintaining it…Nevertheless, when the president and other prominent officials stand by as four Americans die and then abuse their sacrifice as contemptuously as this administration did, decency requires that they be voted out of office as an act of urgent political hygiene.”

“Charles Woods says that at the ceremony Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a “loud and boisterous” voice, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?”

“Yet oddly enough, the more furiously Obama and Biden have waved their binders and talked up Sandra Fluke, the more his supposed lead among women has withered away.”

“Both videos — the one faking Obamagasm and the one faking a Benghazi pretext — exemplify the wretched shrinkage that befalls those unable to conceive of anything except in the most self-servingly political terms. Both, in different ways, exemplify why Obama and Biden are unfit for office. One video testifies to a horrible murderous lie at the heart of a head of state’s most solemn responsibility, the other to the glib shallow narcissism of a pop-culture presidency, right down to the numbing relentless peer pressure: C’mon, all the cool kids are doing it; why be the last hold-out?

If voting for Obama is like the first time you have sex, it’s very difficult to lose your virginity twice. A flailing, pitiful campaign has now adopted Queen Victoria’s supposed wedding advice to her daughter: “Lie back and think of England.” Lie back and think of America. And then get up and get dressed. Who wants to sleep with a $16 trillion broke loser twice?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331806/incredible-shrinking-president-mark-steyn#