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Michael Lockard Announces Candidacy for Vanderburgh County Commissioner District Three
February 8, 2024 – Michael Lockard, a dedicated community leader and na􀆟ve of Evansville,has officially filed to run for Vanderburgh County Commissioner District Three in thexDemocra􀆟c Primary.
With a deep commitment to public service and a passion for improving the lives of his fellow residents, Lockard is eager to bring his extensive experience to the forefront of local government. A prominent figure in both local and state boards and commissions, Lockard has been an ac􀆟ve par􀆟cipant in shaping the future of Evansville and the surrounding areas for over 35 years. His decision to pursue the posi􀆟on of County Commissioner stems from his unwavering dedica􀆟on to civic engagement and his desire to give back to the community that has played a vital role in shaping his life.
Throughout his career, Lockard has demonstrated a strong sense of leadership and a deep understanding of the issues facing Vanderburgh County. His vision for the future is centered around fostering collabora􀆟on, promo􀆟ng economic growth, and enhancing the quality of life for all residents. As a candidate for County Commissioner, Lockard aims to leverage his exper􀆟se and experience to address cri􀆟cal issues such as infrastructure development, public safety, and economic revitaliza􀆟on. His pla􀆞orm is founded on principles of transparency, accountability, and inclusivity, with a focus on crea􀆟ng a thriving and resilient community for genera􀆟ons to come.
For more informa􀆟on about Michael Lockard and his campaign for Vanderburgh County Commissioner District Three, please contact Michael at 812-604-3502. You can contact his campaign at votelockard@gmx.com
Senior taxpayers may be able to reduce their amount of taxable income by reviewing the list of Indiana deductions from income to see if they are eligible to claim them. Among these are:
Civil Service Annuity deduction
Disability Retirement deduction
Human Services tax deduction for Medicaid recipients staying at a care facility or hospital
Indiana partnership long term care policy premiums deduction
Military Retirement Income and/or Survivor’s Benefits deduction
Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits
Seniors may be entitled to the Unified tax credit for the elderly. Most can claim this credit by filing their taxes on Form IT-40 or Form IT-40 PNR.
Low-income seniors may be eligible to file the shorter Form SC-40 to claim their refund of this credit if they meet the qualifications.
Indiana residents who have a total value of their exemptions that exceed their federal gross income before deductions, do not need to file an Indiana income tax return. More information is available on DOR’s Who Must File a Tax Return webpage.
Snowbirds
Any Hoosier who spends a significant amount of time escaping winter in a different state (or country) is considered a full-year resident and does not have to be physically present in Indiana the entire year. However, if you have any questions, you may want to review the residency definitions on DOR’s Individual Income Tax Overview page, and consulting a tax professional can help you navigate the specifics of residency, tax benefits and deductions.
Close to 100 kids from Evansville were in attendance
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – In a community event that served close to 100 members of the Evansville community, the University of Evansville Athletics Department teamed up with Fifth Third Bank to hold a National Girls and Women in Sports Day celebration on Saturday.
“Our inaugural UE National Girls and Women is Sports Day was a huge success,†UE Director of Athletics Dr. Kenneth “Ziggy†Siegfried exclaimed. “This special day would not have been possible without the support of Fifth Third Bank. A big thank you to Fifth Third Bank, the NGWSD Committee, our female student-athletes, and all the participants. We look forward to continuing this event in the future.â€
A full afternoon was on the docket for the local youth who numbered close to 100 in attendance. Female Purple Aces student-athletes took part in a clinic that saw the attendees go from station to station as to experience multiple facets of sports. Participants played softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, golf and track while spending time with some of UE’s Athletic Trainers to learn about those operations.
“This event brought together some of the most important values that Fifth Third Bank stands for – community, education and mentorship,†John Raisor of Fifth Third Bank said. “We were pleased to team up with the University of Evansville to put on an unforgettable event that impacted so many within the Evansville community.â€
Aces Spirit Squad members got things started, spending time with the participants to teach them a few cheers before everyone split into smaller groups. After moving through all stations of the clinic, the attendees enjoyed a meal that was made possible by Fifth Third Bank before attending the UE women’s basketball game inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse. Families of the clinic participants joined them for the basketball game, adding over 300 to the crowd.
The reach of the day’s events was not limited to members of the local community. Prior to the clinic, a luncheon for UE’s 120 female student-athletes, female sport coaches and female administrators and staff took place. Aces Deputy Athletics Director for Internal Operations Sarah Solinsky moderated a panel with women’s sports pioneer Lois Patton and former women’s basketball player Kiya (Griffin) Lander.
Going forward, the department has aspirations to hold the event on an annual basis while seeing its reach expand and continue to have an impact on the local community.
Amy Canterbury to file for Vanderburgh County Commissioner, District 3
Who: Amy Canterbury, CEO of United Way of Southwestern Indiana
What: Amy Canterbury will be filing her declaration of candidacy to run for Vanderburgh County Commissioner District 3 in the 2024 Republican Primary. Media availability will be granted, and a press release will follow.
When: Thursday, February 8th; 2:30 PM CST
Where: Vanderburgh County Courthouse Election Office; 1 NW Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Civic Center Complex, Room 216, Evansville, IN 47708
VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University Trailblazers climbed back into the top-five in this week’s NJCAA Division I National rankings, moving up one spot to No. 5.
The Blazers looked to be off to a quick start Wednesday night when VU hosted Shawnee Community College from Ullin, Illinois, but quickly fell behind after going cold offensively late in the first half.
Trailing by as many as 11 in the second half, the Trailblazers battled their way back to pick up a 67-62 victory over the Saints.
Vincennes got off to a quick start Wednesday night in front of the home crowd, scoring 12 of the first 15 points of the game to build an early nine point lead, which would hold at 16-7.
Shawnee would come to life though midway through the opening period, outscoring VU 11-2 to even the score at 18-18 and later use a 12-2 run to take a 30-21 lead.
VU would cut the deficit down to eight with a late free throw to end the first half, heading into the locker room trailing Shawnee 30-22.
Shawnee continued to ride the momentum of their first half run into the second half, building their largest lead of the game at 37-26 and holding a 41-31 lead.
VU answered back in a big way to swing the momentum back with 11 unanswered to take a 42-41 lead with just under 12:30 remaining on the clock.
The lead changed hands nine times during the second half of play, with VU trailing by four at 50-46 before rallying back again to take a 51-50 lead with under six minutes to play.
Vincennes got a big late game boost from back-to-back threes by sophomore Kent King (Washington, D.C.) and freshman Lebron Thomas (Bishopville, S.C.), connecting from behind the arc just before the shot clock buzzer sounded to give the Blazers a 61-56 advantage.
This lead would hold for the Blazers as VU put the game away at the free throw line, giving Vincennes the 67-62 victory over the Saints.
“Cold would be an understatement to describe the end of that first half,†VU Hall of Fame Head Coach Todd Franklin said. “We just quit functioning. Over the last two and a half weeks I’ve said that I’m going to sit over here and there’s no more ‘I can’t play because Coach is being too tough’. I’m still giving the instructions and I didn’t see any reason in the world why we shouldn’t be able to function but we didn’t.â€
“We were in a position early to really put them down and in trouble,†Franklin added. “The game was really sitting there and it was there for us to take control of the game and we went from that to nobody functioning. We’ve got an army of sophomores. We’ve got an army of sophomores who have been through it and have played in an Elite Eight. Been in big games, been in these positions, etc. But if you watched that half, did you see anything that said we have a bunch of old sophomores? So it’s a problem.â€
“Somehow I haven’t gotten across to them whatever it is, but we can’t continue with that,†Franklin said. “We’ll see if we make some changes before Saturday because that can’t happen. Shawnee doubled the post. That’s it. They totally sold out to double the post. We work on that, obviously, because we go into the post all of the time. We train for that and have actions that get us open, but it really didn’t matter because we really didn’t want any part of it. The perimeter didn’t want any part of it. They didn’t want any part of an open shot. The post still could have gone up and scored but they didn’t go through it with enough intensity.â€
VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University Lady Trailblazers shooters were on fire from long range Wednesday night in the Physical Education Complex, riding an outstanding 19 three-point makes to setting a new VU school record for most points in a single quarter after scoring 49 points in the third quarter.
The Lady Blazers controlled the game wire-to-wire to pick up a massive 138-56 victory over the Lady Saints, the second most points a Lady Trailblazers team has ever scored in a single game.
VU set the tone early against Shawnee, after the Lady Saints scored the first three-pointer of the game, Vincennes answered back with 19 straight and extended into a 31-2 scoring run.
Vincennes closed out the first 10 minutes of play to hold a 33-7 lead over the Lady Saints.
VU kept the defensive pressure up in the second quarter, using a 14-0 scoring run to build a 53-15 lead and closed out the first half on an 11-0 run to take a 68-20 lead at the halftime break.
The scoring run continued out of the locker room, with the Lady Blazers opening the second half with 12 straight points and closed out the third quarter on a 29-3 scoring run to hold a 117-30 lead going into the final period of play.
In the fourth quarter, the Lady Blazers let fly almost exclusively from behind the three point arc.
While the Lady Saints were able to put together a few small scoring runs and ultimately win the fourth quarter scoring, it was far from enough as the Blazers cruised to a 138-56 victory over Shawnee.
The Lady Blazers obviously filled up the stats sheet Wednesday night, led by another outstanding outside shooting game by freshman Karina Scott (Noblesville, Ind.) who connected on a career-high eight three-pointers to set a new career-high of 28 points. Scott also came away with three rebounds, three assists and three steals.
Freshman Destinee Hooks (Indianapolis, Ind.) was the second VU scorer to cross the 20-point mark, finishing with 20 points, four assists, four steals and three rebounds.
Sophomore Brie Miller (Bainbridge, Ind.) just missed out on another double-double off the bench, scoring 19 points and grabbing nine rebounds on the night.
Freshmen Giavonnie Belton (Indianapolis, Ind.) and Makyla Tucker (Indianapolis, Ind.) came off the bench to score in double figures, with Belton finishing with 16 points, five assist and four rebounds and Tucker ending her night with 14 points, five assists and three rebounds.
Sophomore Katrina Litte (Valmiera, Latvia) picked up her first collegiate double-double, coming away with 14 points, a career-high 11 assists and six steals.
Sophomore Elikya Baseyila (Paris, France) also recorded a double-double, her seventh of the season and 19th of her VU career, ending with 12 points and a team-high 14 rebounds.
Sophomore Maycee Lange was the final VU scorer in double figures and not only recorded a double-double, but was very close to notching a triple double, finishing with 11 points, 10 rebounds and a season-high nine assists.
The Lady Trailblazers will look to keep this strong momentum going as VU heads into their next game, Wednesday, Feb. 14 when Vincennes hosts No. 6-ranked Wabash Valley College in a game that will not count towards the Region 24 standings.
Sometimes, solutions to problems just present themselves.
Conservatives across the nation have worked themselves into high dudgeon over two developments—Drag Queen Story Hours and the flow of undocumented immigrants across the southern border of the United States.
Drag Queen Story Hours began years ago when LGBTQ citizens in some cities started hosting reading sessions in public libraries.
Conservative critics jumped on the story hours. They said the drag queens were “grooming†children. One might have thought, though, if that were their intent, the readers would have chosen venues where parents, library staffers and other members of the public couldn’t attend, but, nonetheless, the critics felt they had identified a grave threat to the civic good.
The drag queens said they hosted the story hours to let children know that not everyone in the world is heterosexual. The drag queens also wanted to show not just children but all other people that they were, well, also just people themselves.
And if they are people, too, then they have the same First Amendment rights as everyone else. That means telling them they can’t read or say what they wish to any audience that wishes to hear them violates the Constitution.
Okay, so that’s one problem.
The other is the border.
Conservatives such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, are upset—really, really, really upset—that undocumented immigrants are crossing into the country. Abbott decided to give vent to his anger by threatening to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying border agents could cut razor wire blocking entry into the state.
Abbott has managed to persuade 25 other Republican governors—including Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb—to sign a statement agreeing with him. Abbott even lured a handful of those governors, including Holcomb, to come to Texas to stand in symbolic solidarity with him at the Lone Star State’s southern border.
Here’s the rub.
The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants the federal government sole authority to conduct foreign policy. What’s more, Article 1, Section 8, clause 4 of the Constitution specifically grants Congress the sole power to determine immigration and naturalization policy.
So, if Abbott, Holcomb and the other Republican governors have their knickers twisted in knots because of their distress over immigration, they should travel to Washington, D.C., and pester Congress to do something about the situation.
Why didn’t they?
Well, probably because U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, has said he and his GOP colleagues in the people’s chamber don’t want to do anything about immigration right now. Johnson said this even though the U.S. Senate just passed—with both Republican and Democratic votes—a new package that would fund the toughest border security measures in American history.
Confused?
That’s forgivable.
Johnson, who also says the border “crisis†is the biggest challenge confronting the United States, is taking his marching orders from former President Donald Trump. Trump wants Republicans to do nothing about the border for now because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to receive any credit for solving the problem.
Just how Biden would receive credit for solving a problem he had to be prodded and even dragooned into acknowledging, Trump doesn’t say—maybe because figuring that out would require actual thought.
Trump’s intransigence leaves Republicans who have spent decades fulminating over immigration in a quandary.
They don’t want to defy Trump for fear that daddy—whose already shaky hold on his notorious temper erodes still further when he’s facing multiple charges for criminal conduct—will spank them.
So, instead they choose to deny reality and defy both the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court, while also proclaiming themselves law-and-order governors and strict constitutional constructionists.
This is a problem.
Well, really two problems, if you count the drag-queen drama.
Fortunately, there is a solution.
Instead of having drag queens host story hours at public libraries, why don’t we have them read the U.S. Constitution to the nation’s governors? The text seems to be one with which Abbott, Holcomb and the others who took part in the photo op in Texas are unacquainted.
Having drag queens read it to them would accomplish two things.
It would remind the governors where their duties lie—hint, not in crafting foreign or immigration policy—and it would acquaint them with the notion that every American has rights guaranteed by our founding charter.
See?
Two problems.
One tidy solution.
John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The views expressed are those of the author only and should not be attributed to Franklin College.
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