IS IT TRUE November 16, 2012
IS IT TRUE another American icon business has gotten approval from its board of directors to cease operations?…this time it is the Hostess Brands that has been supplying products like Twinkies and Ding-Dongs faithfully for well over 50 years?…on Nov. 12, Hostess Brands permanently closed three plants as a result of the work stoppage.?…on Nov. 14, the Company announced it would be forced to liquidate if sufficient employees did not return to work to restore normal operations by 5 p.m., EST p.m., Nov. 15?…that deadline came and went which put the board of directors in a position of making a decision that will put substantially all of its 16,500 employees out of work?…this is 16,500 paychecks that will now be going onto unemployment until their benefits have been used up?…that 850 of these workers are our fellow Hoosiers?…we wish this iconic American business and its workers a smooth transition to their next phase of life whatever that turns out to be?…the official statement is on the following link?
https://city-countyobserver.com/2012/11/16/hostess-brands-to-close-16500-jobs-face-elimination-850-are-hoosiers/
IS IT TRUE Alex Jarvis has advised the CCO that our Civic Center based Mole who said that Mr. Jarvis had inquired about becoming the next Chairman of the Vanderburgh County Democratic Party is not correct?…former Weinzapfel Administration Fire Chief and Evansville City Councilman Keith Jarboe has not come forward to deny what the Civic Center Mole reported about his intentions?…it seems as though the Civic Center Mole was at least half correct and that for today we will take Mr. Jarvis at his word that he has not sought that position in any way?
IS IT TRUE it seems as though nearly everyone who is asked is in favor of the City of Evansville going forward with hiring an independent auditor to do a deep dive into the finances of the City in view of the fact that the accounts have not been balanced in nearly two years and over a million bucks was misplaced without notice?…it is mystifying as to why two members of the Evansville City Council, namely Missy Mosby and Jonathan Weaver voted against learning some more details about the financial fiascos of 2011 and 2012?…this does not exhibit good judgment with respect to stewardship of the taxpayer’s money?…we encourage the constituents of these two council members to demand an explanation for these NO votes which do not seem to make any practical sense at all?
IS IT TRUE Mole # 16 tells us that the Winnecke Administration has quietly resubmitted a slightly smaller version of the Johnson Controls deal shoved through in the last hour by the Weinzapfel Administration last December?…the first try was turned down by State of Indiana authorities for not meeting the requirements for a “no cost†contract?…the CCO hopes that some independent auditors will get their hands on this resubmission to see if this one is as porous and indefensible as the first one was?…there are rumblings around town that the Winnecke Administration will be seeking to offer a subsidy of roughly $20 Million to whichever company turns out to be the winning bidder on the downtown Convention Hotel project?…it took 4 years and three false starts for the City of Evansville to come to this inconvenient reality that was published first in the City County Observer?…that most human beings can study and be granted a bachelor’s degree in four years but it took our City government four years of denial and over $100,000 in consultants fees to learn this lesson?…in any scholarly setting the local government would have been tossed out of school 3 years ago for multiple cases of academic probation?…we wait on pins and needle for the Executive Inn Dilemma and the McCurdy Debacle to finally come to a practical solution that could have easily been reached four years ago if financial competence was practiced in the Weinzapfel Administration?