IS IT TRUE that a well-known citizen of this community is being urged by numerous people of all political persuasion to run against County Commission President, Marsha Abell?…that this individual is none other than the Chairman of CORE, Bruce Ungethiem?…we hear if Mr. Ungethiem runs, Abell can expect the issues of her rudeness towards the taxpayers, nepotism and her pro-consolidation stance will be campaign issues?…if Mr. Ungethien decides to run, he shall be a candidate in the Republican primary? … that he shall enjoy votes from many crossover Democrats, Tea Party supporters and Independents? …we hear Mr. Ungethiem has about $50,000 worth of political contributions committed by his grassroots supporters so far?…that Ms. Abell can expect people of the 4th Ward to come out in droves to support Mr. Ungethiem?…if Mr. Ungenthiem runs for Vanderburgh County Commissioner, Ms. Abell shall be in the political battle of her career?

IS IT TRUE that in today’s modern technology, commerce is driven by the internet, specifically, email?… that the Evansville Redevelopment Commission says that they, the commission, discovered the missing $1.6 million, not discovered for over 13 months?…that the City, including the Commission and the Evansville Redevelopment Authority, approve bank transactions by way of Email?…that Mr. Hooper, the director of the Commission, came before the Council together with Jane Reel declaring that the funds have been reconciled?…that Councilman John Friend, CPA, requested the email traffic between the Bank and the ERA be presented to the Finance Committee concerning the found money and are still waiting for those emails?… that the North High School bond funds were disbursed from the same bank and on October 4, 2012, the $1.6 million was taking from the North High School by the bank and deposited into the City’s account?…that some are asking the question, if the EVSC had sufficient funds to cover the seizure?

IS IT TRUE that a recent readers poll that the CCO was running for a future Mayoral contest for the City of Evansville was corrupted by someone who worked very hard to skew the poll in favor of one of the candidates presented?…the level of corruption of the data was so large that we decided to remove the poll, put some extra security in place, and to restart the poll with Sheriff Eric Williams as an option?…we do have the ability to see the vote logs so we know that the actual result of the corrupted poll with the corruption removed had a “Strong Libertarian” candidate leading both Mayor Winnecke and Councilman John Friend by about a 2 to 1 margin?…that Mayor Winnecke and Councilman Friend were in a statistical tie before the poll was removed?…we will be very interested to see the results with the addition of Sheriff Williams and the elimination of corruption of the data?

IS IT TRUE that we are working on a couple of end of the year articles that have to do with the best things that happened in Evansville in 2012, the most dumbfounding negative things that happened in 2012, and of course what City government should concentrate on getting right in 2013?…we would appreciate nominations from our readership and will give each nomination due consideration for inclusion into the articles?

IS IT TRUE that a local for-profit “Business Incubator” is leasing part of their facility to an area church? …that the owners of the “Business Incubator” were told by Evansville Area Plan officials that they had to file a special use permit in order that they can continue to lease this facility to this church?…we were told that the for profit “Business Incubator” has the correct zoning to lease their facility to developing business?…we would like to point out to the leadership of “Evansville Area Planning” that they should also apply the same principals to C K Newsome Community Center because they also are allowing a church to hold services in that publicly funded facility?

IS IT TRUE that today the entire Evansville region is covered with roughly 6 inches of snow and the snow is still falling?…those of you who have to get out in this weather for the purpose of driving should be extra careful because somebody won’t?…those who have the luxury of spending another day sitting by the fire drinking hot chocolate and enjoying leftovers should afford yourselves that luxury and remove the possibility for an accident?

IS IT TRUE that just a week after the murders in Connecticut that has softened the people of the United States up to consider limiting the second amendment rights of the people to bear arms, Evansville had a crime that reminds us all of just why the founding fathers saw the right to bear arms as a fundamental right?…that a young man who sounds very much like a thug broke into a house near downtown Evansville with the intention to beat and use a stun gun on a girl of 17?…the thug allegedly had the girl down in the back yard beating her when the girl’s 79 year old grandfather interrupted the beating?…the young thug then allegedly threatened to beat the old man and use a stun gun on him?…that fearing for his life and the life of his granddaughter this 79 year old pulled out a handgun and shot the thug?…were it not for this grandfather’s right to bear arms then Evansville may well have been the location of yet another double murder in 2012 and the thug would be on the run?…similar stories where private gun ownership has saved good lives happen every day across this country?…similar stories happened on the same day as the Evansville incident in Los Angeles and Northern California?…most incidents of self defense that involve a gun go unreported because the gun is not fired?

IS IT TRUE that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel stated “never let a crisis go to waste”?…that the proponents of limiting the powers of the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution will certainly see the Connecticut murders as a “crisis” to be leveraged for their own purposes?…a study released in the Wall Street Journal that showed murders vs. gun stores in graphical form concluded that THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN GUN STORES AND MURDERS?…what was concluded and did correlate was that the denser people are packed together the higher the murder rates rise?…urban places consistently had the highest murder rates but the lowest number of gun stores?…rural areas have the highest rates of gun ownership, the most gun stores, and the lowest murder rates?…the murders in Connecticut were a personal problem of a disturbed young man?…these murders happened in a “gun free” zone?…the murder rate in the City of Chicago soared in 2012 right after Chicago instituted one of the most stringent gun control laws in America?…blaming guns for mental health issues makes about as much sense as blaming shoes when a person can’t run fast?

IS IT TRUE that President Obama is cutting his Hawaii vacation short to head back to Washington to work on the avoidance of the so called “fiscal cliff”?…this is of course the right thing to do and does show the kind of leadership that the American people deserve?…the CCO wishes the President and Congress well but has little expectation?…the first 6 weeks of this 7 week MADE IN CONGRESS drama have been dominated by ideological idiocy on the part of all of the players involved?…going over the fiscal cliff may be a good life lesson for the American people anyway?…getting a 2% across the board pay cut in the form of the temporary cuts in Social Security taxes expiring will be an immediate reminder of the failure of government to think as opposed to just kicking the can down the road?…the IRS has not changed any withholding tables to reflect any changes in the income tax rates that will be automatic and that part of people’s paychecks will not be effected YET?…that when the rates are decided any increases will be doubled up so that the withholding for the entire year will reflect those rates?…even if a deal is reached the IRS DOES NOT HAVE A SNOW BALL’S CHANCE IN HELL OF CHANGING THE WITHHOLDING RULES IN 4 WORKING DAYS SO THE CLIFF WILL HIT EVERY PAYCHECK IN AMERICA STARTING NEXT FRIDAY?…let this false urgency that was created by congress be a lesson to the people of this country about the utter ineptness of the Executive and Legislative branches of our government?