IS IT TRUE that Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana has been unanimously approved to succeed France Cordova as the President of Purdue University?…the Governor’s new job will start as soon as his current duties as are completed?…this puts to rest much speculation that the Republican candidate for President of the United States Mitt Romney would eventually tap the talents of Governor Daniels to be his running mate?…that deprives us all of the opportunity to see a Vice Presidential debate between Governor Daniels and Vice President Joe Biden?…that not even the best spin doctors would have been able to help the outcome of such an event if there had been such a thing?…that this is a piece of entertainment that we shall miss but that based on the other people being considered by Romney we will not be treated to another Biden vs. Palin battle of intelligence?…that despite some hard core academics howling because Governor Daniels does not have a Ph.D and shouldn’t be a college president it would seem that somewhere in his highly successful career that whatever credential for being president of Purdue a 40 year old doctorate would have provided it that Governor Daniels has exceeded that credential?…that the people howling of a small number of people over the Governor’s academic credentials need to get over it and put their own Ph.D to work by picking up a POST HOLE DIGGER and making good use of it?

IS IT TRUE there are many people who have been contacting the CCO and expressing displeasure with the decision announced this week with respect to Roberts Stadium?…this new kind of objection really has nothing to do with the wrecking ball or the park that has been proposed?…these comments have been entirely directed at spending the estimated $8 Million to do this at a time that about $1 Billion in mandatory improvements are staring the City of Evansville right in the face over an EPA mandate on our sewers and 600 miles of obsolete water pipes?…that the Weinzapfel Administration was known for choosing short term game related expenditures over real needed infrastructure and that now the coffers are depleted yet Evansville still has a BILLION DOLLAR MONSTER in its living room?…that going forward with the construction of parks when we can’t even manage to clean and manicure what we have and with a BILLION DOLLAR MONSTER in the room is simply irresponsible?…that we hoped for better from Mayor Winnecke?

IS IT TRUE that the United States Supreme Court made a decision yesterday that overruled a lower court decision regarding the collection of union dues for political funds?…that the SCOTUS has ruled against an action taken by the California SEIU that carte blanche assessed its members for a 25% hike in dues for the purpose of establishing a “political fight back fund” to oppose then Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger’s ability to modify salaries, benefits, and pensions?…there has been a law on the books known as “the Hudson notice” that has required unions to notify their members and be given permission to make dues assessments for any purpose other than the cost of collective bargaining efforts?…the SEIU in this case just flat out ignored the law and had their actions upheld by the California 9th Circuit Court?…this important action by the Supreme Court will serve to weaken union shop politics buy more importantly establishes that the Constitution of the United States is the law of the land and that activist judges, courts, or other high ranking bodies like the Congress still can not violate the Constitution?…that this vote may just be a preview of the near future with respect to ObamaCare?

IS IT TRUE that Democrat Party Chairman Jack McNeely has sent a letter to the 8 Democrats on the Evansville City Council encouraging them to take whatever strong arm action that they can to pressure the garbage collection company into doing what the Teamsters want them to?…that while in his former job as a union boss this was expected of Mr. McNeely, in his present role it is highly inappropriate?…that actions just like this recent action by Chairman McNeely also went on in California with the overturned SEIU strong arm tactics?…that there are things that are right for union bosses and others that are appropriate for a party chair and that these things do not always equate?

IS IT TRUE that there is never a circumstance when an elected entity like the Evansville City Council should do the bidding of either the union or the company?…this is a private matter and our elected officials need to maintain their objectivity by staying out of it?

IS IT TRUE the Leapfrog Group releases an annual report on the best hospitals in the United States?…that this year only 65 hospitals in the country were honored with the distinction of being a Leapfrog Top Hospital?…not one hospital in the entire State of Indiana was on the list?…that California hospitals dominated the list taking 21 of the 65 awards?…the closest geographic distance for someone in Evansville to travel to be in a Leapfrog Top Hospital would be to travel to the Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, TN or The Christ Hospital of Cincinnati?…that the closest children’s hospital to make the list was Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center?…it would be just wonderful if an Evansville hospital would be the first Indiana hospital to make the Leapfrog Top Hospital list and that the City County Observer encourages the local hospitals to make that a goal?

IS IT TRUE the Evansville Parks Board did as expected yesterday and voted unanimously to demolish Roberts Stadium?…that after a number of years of assaults started on Roberts by former Mayor Weinzapfel to prepare the stadium for being declared beyond repair that the prophesy hatched by the Weinzapfel Administration will finally be carried out by the Winnecke Administration?…that as much as there were lots of ideas that were put forward to use Roberts Stadium for, not one thin dime was offered up from the private investment community to utilize the stadium for a profit seeking opportunity?…that the only thing the Winnecke Administration could have done would have been to put up a for sale sign or hold a public auction to collect some small pittance and place it back on the tax rolls?…that after Roberts has met its demise at the hands of local government the best action to take is to sell the 37 acres and use the funds to establish a savings account to repair the sewers which are under EPA order?…that spending $8 Million on a park at a time that the parks are maintained on a third world level is just nuts?…that maybe Roberts had to go but there is no reason and no justification for dropping $8 Million on a park that probably won’t even be mowed on a regular basis?…that 2,300 acres for taking drugs, having sex, and drinking booze is enough for any town?…if Evansville wants to really get some cash then the City should auction off about 1,000 acres of parks so they can actually have a prayer of doing sufficient maintenance on what we have?

IS IT TRUE that on a national level the President of the United States has asserted executive privilege to keep the United States Congress from getting its hands on the documentation about the gun running operation that the Justice Department carried out in Mexico?…that this is a curious position for President Obama to take since no one really disputed Attorney General Holder’s sworn testimony that the White House did not know about or participate in gun running?…the natural thing to think is that the White House or even the President may have their fingerprints on this after all or the executive privilege is meaningless?…that if Attorney General Holder was holding back and President Obama was not involved then the course of action that starts with a charge of Contempt of Congress against Attorney General Holder should have been allowed to run its course?…that this will have some negative effect on the re-election campaign of President Obama whether he was in on it or not?…that some things are pretty mystifying?

IS IT TRUE that the Federal Reserve issued a report yesterday that basically puts the American people on notice that high unemployment will continue through the end of 2014 and that economic growth will be much lower that was projected even in April?…that the Great Recession seems to be dragging into what history may look back on and deem to have been a 2nd Great Depression?…that the traditional bag of tricks to stimulate the economy have just not done the trick and that some serious change to the change is needed?