Opinion
Lastest news as of May 22, 2013, 12:54 pm
I am outraged by the apparent lack of control with my tax dollars. Is it now time to oust all of the local politicians and take our city back?
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Once again we see the Republican controlled state of Indiana make another foolish move. The fertizler plant that our so-called governor cancelled would not have produced anything in relation to explosives.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
I was appalled to read that $22 million had been spent on painting the twin bridges and they are already rusting.
For that much money couldn’t we have just hired a couple of people for life with a couple buckets of paint and have them continuously painting and maintaining the bridges?
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
This is a reply to columnist Susan Estrich. Absolutely correct that the spin did not make the scandal. The fact that the State Department put four Americans, one our Ambassador, in harm’s way and retired from them, and they were killed is the scandal.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
I would like to respond to Victor Stone’s letter, “Evansville earned ‘miserable’ label.” If Mr. Stone thinks Evansville is so “insular,” “intolerable,” “complicit,” “egregious” and hypocritical, why doesn’t he just get out.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
This past weekend, a very proud Nashville, Tenn., opened its massive $585 million Music City Center, a $2.1 million square foot convention center designed to bring the city more visitors and economic growth. We found it ironic that only a few days later it was reported that a delegation of Evansville City Council members told Mayor Lloyd Winnecke that our proposed 253-bed convention hotel is too big.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
If you look up “Fertilizer” online in Wikipedia, it is defined as “Any organic or inorganic material of natural or synthetic origin that is added to soil to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
At the first whiff of a scandal, we all become Deciders. Recently, the news grinders gushed overlapping reports of two new alleged scandals:
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Well, it’s happened again! A person of “trust” in government or a nonprofit organization has been found to be stealing funds. This is all due, in my opinion, to the laziness or ineptitude of others. These crimes are preventable if only the bank statement or credit card statement goes to someone other than the person writing the checks or using the card.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Who would ever want to look upon their leader as a person who stands in front of the world mirror and sees nothing, not even his own image? A leader who looks into the mirror and wonders, “surely there must be somebody in there?” A leader who came from nowhere and is going nowhere.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Gov. Mike Pence, who campaigned as a champion of jobs creation, disappointed those who envision opportunity for Southern Indiana development last week with his decision to put the brakes on $1.3 billion in Indiana-issued bonds for a jobs rich Pakistani-sponsored fertilizer plant in Posey County.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Many residents responded with shock at Evansville being rated in the top 10 most miserable cities in America.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Purdue is known for the pioneers and adventurers it produces, those whose sense of wonder has led them to frontiers of new knowledge, across our planet and beyond it. But even a Nobel laureate or an astronaut could not surpass by much the curiosity of a newly minted college graduate: I wonder what’s next? Am I good enough? Most of all, in what kind of world will I live my adult life?
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
While it would be easy to pile on Lloyd Winnecke over the upcoming and massive sewer infrastructure project, as some are attempting, let’s not forget that this mess can be traced back more than five decades through multiple city administrations.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Mr. President, the buck stops with you.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
In May of 2012 it was announced that Evansville was going to create a park on the old Kenny Kent property downtown. This park was supposed to be name “Bicentennial Park.” What ever happened to this idea?
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
I’d like to respond to Mr. Qualkenbush’s letter from May 15. I have a few questions for him, on Benghazi.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Kudos to Vince Vawter for writing the novel “Paperboy” about a child dealing with his stuttering problem in Memphis in the 1950’s. People who stutter of past generations never had the opportunity to see stuttering portrayed in a real and compassionate way much like “Paperboy” has done. I am totally confident that this novel will serve to help countless young people who stutter in terms of developing self-image and seeking speech therapy.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
A woman can’t have a free choice abortion, but a girl child, 15 years old, can legally take a morning after pill? It is difficult for me to figure.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Fifty years ago, a panel of unelected bureaucrats unfairly granted liquor stores the sole right to sell cold beer. This past week, the members of the Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association initiated a lawsuit asking for just one thing — to be treated fairly when it comes to the sale of beer.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Tears fall for one of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.’s finest superintendent’s, Victor L. Fisher Jr., who died May 5. Both of his parents were teachers. He was named EVSC superintendent in 1973 and retired from the leadership position in 1986.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
The long, lonely desert roads leading to and from Benghazi have proved to be treacherous to travelers and invaders from the Mediterranean and around the world for many centuries.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Want to know what’s causing a lot of people in Washington to work long hours right now? Here’s a hint: it’s not immigration reform or gun control or, for that matter, any other legislation coming down the pike. Instead, it’s a pair of 3-year-old laws.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
Please, there’s no reason to impeach President Barack Obama and it is overreach to say we’re getting Watergate again. But the scandals are piling up on each other, or, to use another metaphor, it’s not just raining. It’s pouring.
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
The National Transportation Safety Board has seen fit to recommend lowering the BAC to .05. The American Restaurant Association says this would “target moderate drinkers.” Sen Potts says it would amount to “harassment.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the mantra been, for years, “Don’t Drink and Drive? “ Did I miss something? Has it really been “Don’t Drink Too Much”? or “Drink Just a Little? “ Why would the tolerance level not be zero?
Source: Opinion - Courier Press
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