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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, September 07, 2012.

Nichole Coppersmith Theft – Class D Felony

Emily Karnes Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated –Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)
Unlawful Possession or Use of a Legend Drug – Class D Felony

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Carly Settles at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at csettles@vanderburghgov.org.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
SENTENCE CHART

Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year
Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days
Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days

Steel Magnolias at Evansville Civic Theatre

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Showing:
7:30 PM
September 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29
2:00 PM
September 23, 30

Welcome to Truvy’s Beauty Salon, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, who’s been in a bad mood for forty years; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is about to marry a “good ole boy.” Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play turns from light hearted comedy to a harsh reflection on loss. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the women, but also draws on their underlying strength—and love—which gives the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

Visit http://evansvillecivictheatre.org for more information

USI Trustees approve biennial budgets and new degree program

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The Board of Trustees at the University of Southern Indiana met on Thursday, September 6 and reviewed and approved the 2013-2015 operating and capital improvements budget request that will be submitted to the Indiana General Assembly.

The operating budget was developed using the performance funding metrics created by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE). The trustees learned that USI showed improvement in each of the five metrics for which it could compete; overall degree completion; at-risk degree completion; student persistence;, on-time graduation rates; and an institution-defined productivity metric to increase distance education programming and participation.

The performance funding metrics generated funding of $2.9 million in 2013-2014 and $3.4 million in 2014-2015. The ICHE proposes creating a Performance Funding Pool by reducing each institution’s 2012-2013 operating base by 6 percent in 2013-2014 and 7 percent in 2014-2015 to fund the metrics. To reach those amounts, reallocation from the University’s operating budget of more than $2.4 million in 2013-2014 and $2.8 million in 2014-2015 would revert to the pool. Based on the recommended metrics and funding formula, USI’s base operating appropriation would increase by approximately 1.5 percent over the biennium.

USI will request the Indiana General Assembly also address the base operating funding differential through an appropriation adjustment of an additional $5 million in each year of the biennium. This would increase USI’s appropriation per-Hoosier-full-time student to approximately 75 percent of the statewide average.

In its 2013-2015 capital improvement budget request, USI seeks bonding authorization for one capital project. The proposed $18 million project includes renovation and expansion of the Physical Activities Center and renovation of classrooms and laboratories in the Science Center and Technology Center. The request also includes $2.7 million for general repair and rehabilitation in both years of the biennium.

The budget includes a line item appropriation request for the operation of Historic New Harmony of $519,807 for 2013-2014 and $574,387 for 2014-2015.

The trustees also approved housing rates and meal plan rates for the 2013-2014 academic year.

In other business, the trustees approved a new degree program. The College of Liberal Arts will request approval from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to offer a bachelor degree program in anthropology to begin in spring 2013. The program is comprised of 120 hours.

The anthropology program will meet regional and state needs by providing students the knowledge and skills to succeed in a variety of positions related to anthropology and will prepare students to succeed in graduate study in anthropology, medicine, archaeology, cultural and heritage management, and other closely related fields. The degree will prepare students as cultural and linguistic anthropologists who work in federal, state, and local government, including the military, healthcare centers, nonprofit associations, and marketing firms. The degree also can prepare physical anthropologists who work in biomedical research, human engineering, private genetics laboratories, pharmaceutical firms, and archaeological work.

Source: USI.edu

IS IT TRUE September 10, 2012

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Snegal: Sneaky but Legal

IS IT TRUE September 10, 2012

IS IT TRUE the City of Carmel, Indiana an upscale suburb of Indianapolis that recently had the distinction of being called the “Best Place in America” to live has itself in a tight spot financially?…it is actually more than a tight spot, it is a situation called unsustainable by financial analysts and the City of Carmel will soon run out of money and default on debt is changes their massive debt is not refinanced at a lower interest rate?…the way that this seemingly prosperous city that is home to the entrepreneurs and movers and shakers of the Indianapolis area got into a default position should sound familiar and surprise no one?…what happened is that Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard and his hand-picked appointees in the Carmel Redevelopment Commission used loopholes in Indiana law to borrow roughly $260 Million to go on a binge building beautiful temples to art and excessive living without even asking the Carmel City Council to approve the funding?…Brainard and his cronies on the CRC must have been borrowing from The Bank of Guido as their interest rates are around 8%?…that now Brainard and his cronies way out is to get the Carmel City Council to issue general obligation bonds to refinance their building binge debt at lower interest rates?…the people of Carmel and their City Council will probably have to give in because the alternative is to become the Stockton of the Midwest?…without a change in Indiana law Brainard and his pals on the CRC could then turn around and start another binge by borrowing hard money from Guido?…You can read more details about the travails of Indiana’s richest city per capita on the following link?

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201209081517/NEWS/209090333&nclick_check=1

IS IT TRUE that in another article in the Indianapolis Star the details of just how Mayor Brainard and his select members of the Carmel Redevelopment Commission used loopholes in Indiana Law to use third parties and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to build things without asking the City Council or the people of Carmel via a referendum?…Mayor Brainard of course sought legal council to get favorable opinions prior to embarking on this SNEGAL ambition?…that even with expensive favorable opinions from elite Indianapolis law firms that are as familiar as the names of relatives in the Evansville Civic Center and among local elected officials that this borrowing activity is still under the scrutiny of the Indiana State Board of Accounts?…you can read all about this SNEGAL scheme on the following link?

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120908/NEWS/209090334

IS IT TRUE that all of this coming from Carmel makes us wonder if Evansville is sitting on a debt bomb that could easily reach a tipping point that forces the “tax increase or default” scenario to unfold on the banks of the Ohio?…the dragging out of the budgets of the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County are clear signals of caution which can be a good thing?…the words from Civic Center moles regarding what the forthcoming Indiana State Board of Accounts report will contain about the financial activities of the City of Evansville also will invite comparisons to financially embattled cities?

IS IT TRUE that Vanderburgh County officeholders got a directive Friday from the Vanderburgh County Auditor to fill out transfer documents or documents seeking an appropriation to supplement fourth quarter PERF payments to the State of Indiana?…this request was supposedly made because of an apparent failure to communicate?…since there is no surplus to transfer in most departments, one must assume the majority of department heads will be seeking additional appropriations to cover employee retirement funding.

What Makes Cities Grow: Carl Schramm

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Excerpts:

What makes cities grow? This question is the subject of countless magazine articles peddling lists of “best cities” and is fodder for consulting firms looking to sell advice. But in reality, the most reliable measure of a city’s future health is whether employment is expanding or contracting. Declining cities are not home to growing businesses that need people. Only true believers in the come-back story would move to Detroit, Cleveland, or Buffalo right now — the three big cities with the highest unemployment rates in the nation.

So what features of a city correlate with expanding employment? The index-making experts offer all kinds of explanations. Some say it’s smart people, as measured by the percentage of persons holding various university degrees. But using degrees as a proxy for the quality of a city’s human capital can be very misleading, as anyone who has hired real people will attest. Richard Florida advances the “smart people expand employment” theme through a surrogate measure — the housing and entertainment infrastructure and culture (of tolerance) that attract creative people. My observations suggest that these ideas are headed in the right direction, but it is doubtful they are insights that suggest actions able to improve a city’s growth path.

Sometimes such expert advice proves ruinous. Kansas City provides an example. About eight years ago the city bought into the notion that a downtown entertainment district that included open-container laws would bring needed life to the inner core. So called “creatives” would flock to the Emerald City from all over the Midwest to start businesses and give needed vibrancy to America’s least dynamic town — it won’t grow and it won’t shrink. After operating for several years this multi-block restaurant, bar, and night-club zone is underperforming — it is producing only about a third of projected revenue to service its city-issued debt…What municipality doesn’t think their future would be improved by having a downtown mall, an aquarium, or new sports stadiums?

The flaw with the Kansas City strategy is common to many municipal growth strategies. They are founded on the implicit belief that outsiders are smarter than native people and the city must attract talent. This is similar to the even greater development fallacy of “smokestack chasing” — recruiting existing businesses to relocate to a city in response to tax relief and public subsidies for new plant and equipment spending. History tells us that the essence of growth in any place is the exertions of people who already live there. Any city’s history of economic success is a story of its resident entrepreneurs (even if they were born someplace else) who decided to take the risk of starting a business.

What’s important isn’t so much the university itself, but rather the entrepreneurial culture that accompanies many of them. Indeed, the cities with faster growing work forces are home to universities with particularly entrepreneurial cultures. The cultures in Seattle, San Diego, Columbus, Raleigh, and San Jose (proximate as it is to Palo Alto) reflect the particularly entrepreneurial capacities of their universities. One might even offer that, in the future, the universities that will be regarded as the best will be the ones with an explicit focus on inventing and innovating in their research and teaching such that they become schools for creative entrepreneurs.

Mayors, local elites, business leaders, and citizens interested in improving the future of their local economies should encourage their universities to strengthen their faculty and research to produce more ideas that can be commercialized.

Link to Article:
http://www.fourpercentgrowth.org/2012/09/the-town-gown-connection/

City-County to Release New Joint Website on Monday

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
LLOYD WINNECKE
September 8, 2012 Contact: Ella Johnson-Watson
For Immediate Release 812-436-4965

City-County Redesigned Website to “Go Live” Monday

EVANSVILLE, IN – Please join Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, Vanderburgh County Commissioner Marsha Abell and members of the city and county Information Technology team for a news conference to launch the redesigned city-county website and reveal the new website url. The news conference is set for Monday, September 10, at 1 p.m. in the Mayor’s Office, Room 302, at the Civic Center.

Mayor Winnecke’s Weekend Schedule

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News Advisory
Mayor Winnecke’s Weekend Schedule
Saturday, September 9, 2012

Mayor Winnecke and Third Ward City Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley will be joined by Clean Evansville volunteers picking up trash around the Jacobsville Neighborhood. The clean-up begins

at 8 a.m. and will wrap-up at 10 a.m. at the Bosse Field Parking lot.

At 11 a.m., Mayor Winnecke will deliver the official welcome at the opening of the 14th Annual Family Day in the Park. Family Day in the Park, sponsored by WEOA Radio and the Evansville Black Women’s Task Force, features music, live entertainment, food, children’s activities, card tournaments and more. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the parking lot near the CK Newsome Community Center, 100 E. Walnut Street.
On Saturday evening, Mayor Winnecke and First Lady Carol McClintock will attend the First Annual Firefighters Recognition Ball and the Evansville Police Foundation’s annual Cop-Acabana gala. The Firefighter Recognition Ball will be held at the SWIRCA Ivy Room, 16 W. Virginia St., and the Evansville Police Foundation’s annual gala will be at Cambridge Country Club, 1120 Cambridge Village Square. Both events begin at 6 p.m.

Sunday, September 10, 2012
Mayor Winnecke and First Lady McClintock will attend the annual “First Responders” service at NorthWoods Church, 9920 N. Green River Rd. The service is in memory of 9/11 victims and will celebrate the hard work and dedication of all first responders.

A Very Good Analysis of the August Employment Report

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– Nonfarm payrolls increased by only 96,000 in August, the Labor Department said, versus expectations of 125,000 jobs or more. The manufacturing sector, much touted by the president in his convention speech, lost 15,000 jobs.

– Since the start of the year, job growth has averaged 139,000 per month vs. an average monthly gain of 153,000 in 2011.

– As the chart at the top shows, the unemployment rate remains far above the rate predicted by Team Obama if Congress passed the stimulus. (This is the Romer-Bernstein chart.)

Excerpts:

– While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3% in July, it was due to a big drop in the labor force participation rate (the share of Americans with a job or looking for one). If fewer Americans hadn’t given up looking for work, the unemployment rate would have risen.

– Reuters notes that the participation rate is now at its lowest level since September 1981.

– If the labor force participation rate was the same as when Obama took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate would be 11.2%.

– If the participation rate had just stayed the same as last month, the unemployment rate would be 8.4%.

– The Labor Department also said that 41,000 fewer jobs were created in June and July than previously reported. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised from 64,000 to 45,000, and the change for July was revised from 163,000 to 141,000.

– The broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes part-time workers who want full-time work, is at 14.7%.

– The employment-population ratio is perhaps the broadest measure of the health of the labor market. It just shows how many Americans — not in the military or in prison — as a share of the population actually have some sort of a job. That number fell last month to 58.3%, just off its Great Recession lows.

– The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.4 hours in August. The manufacturing workweek declined by 0.2 hour to 40.5 hours, and factory overtime was unchanged at 3.2 hours.

– The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.7 hours.

– In August, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 1 cent to $23.52. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings rose by just 1.7 percent.

– In August, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees edged down by 1 cent to $19.75.

Again, a terribly anemic report that shows a stagnant economy — not one ready to boom.

Very good charts and graphs to show data on link.

Link:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/the-awful-awful-august-jobs-report/

Casino Aztar is Your Award Winning Destination!

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Casino Aztar is Your Award Winning Destination!

The votes are in, the ballots have been counted, and guests have chosen Casino Aztar as an award winning destination!

Southern Gaming and Destinations Magazine readers awarded Casino Aztar with three 2012 “Best Of” Awards: Second Place for Best Night Life and Third Place for both Best Casino Floor and Best Poker Room.

More than 160,000 total votes were cast in the Evansville Courier & Press 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards and Casino Aztar was presented with four awards! Blush Ultralounge received a Gold Award for Best Place for a Martini and Cavanaugh’s received a Gold Award for Best Place for a Steak. Hoosiers Lounge was selected as the Platinum Award winner for Best Place to Hear Live Music and Le Merigot was selected as the Platinum Award winner for Best Local Hotel.

Casino Player Magazine readers awarded Casino Aztar with 14 “Best of Gaming” Awards! Hoosier’s Lounge received Second Place for Best Bar/Lounge and Cavanaugh’s received Second Place for Best Seafood. In addition, Casino Aztar received 12 Third Place Awards: Best Casino, Best Rooms, Best Suites, Casino Where You Feel Luckiest, Best Reel Slots, Best Video Slots, Best Video Poker, Best Roulette, Best Live Poker, Blush – Best Nightclub, Cavanaugh’s – Best Steakhouse, and Temptations – Best Buffet.

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