Evansville for Change

Independent Voters will decide who to vote for in the November 2010 election mainly based on their view of the US economy, where it is now and where they expect it is headed. At first glance, that might seem like an easy choice. Unemployment and Underemployment Rates are sky high and so is the US [...]

VOP House Party August 26th 6-8PM Hosted by Zachary and Megan Heronemus Location: 521 S. Villa Dr Food and Beverages will be provided. Donation suggestions for VOP are $10-25 Please RSVP to Rick Davis @ 598-7123 JFK Family Fun Day August 28th 12-8PM Location: Burdette Park Cost is $10 per family and this includes access [...]

When I study the backgrounds of Dan Coats and Brad Ellsworth, who are running for the US Senate from the State of Indiana, one issue clearly trumps all others. Why in the world would any fair-minded independent voter vote for someone who previously served in the US Senate for 18 years, and then subsequently worked [...]

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Evansville For Change’s Meet & Greet was a success. Our thanks go out to all who attended. In addition, we would like to extend a special thanks to our candidates who gave us the opportunity to get acquainted with them. Laurel

The Glenwood Neighborhood cleanup is this Saturday July 10th at 8am at Zion Missionary Baptist Church (1800 S. Governor Avenue). We have volunteered at this event in the past. Usually they need help cooking hotdogs and cleaning up neighborhood. If you have a shirt from a previous walk, please wear it as they are out [...]

By exhaustively studying the financial performance in the 2000s Decade of the 30 Dow Industrial companies, the link below presents the case for Big US Multinational Corps, in all fairness, to now step up and help fund desperately-needed, bold US private sector job creation in the near term and a robust US Government Debt Reduction [...]

State Convention  - June 26th   Downtown Marriott in Indianapolis. Block of rooms for convention have been filled at this hotel. There are still rooms in this hotel.  Courtyard Marriott is a block away.  Cheaper parking is available in parking garage instead of at hotel.  Registration is at 8:00 am.   Alternates can attend, but [...]

President: Steven Smith Vice-President:  Katie Griffin Secretary: Cathy Edrington Communications & Membership Directors (2 positions): DeLois Freeman & Laurel Rold Phone Bank Captain:  Steven Smith Canvass Captain: Ann Shank Voter Registration Captain:  Andrea Baltzell

The US is now in crisis with three monumental problems….the Gulf Oil Spill, Joblessness and the Federal Deficit. My suggestion here is for the country to use the disastrous Gulf Oil Spill as an opportunity to spark a country-wide private sector job creating, fiscally sound economic recovery. My proposal here is to provide very bold, [...]

Here’s a summary of the total percentage profit improvement from the last two Clinton/Gore Presidential years (1999 and 2000) to the last two Bush/Cheney Presidential years (2007 and 2008) of the following groups of large corporations: 16 Largest, most profitable non-energy Dow Industrial companies……+66% 4 Huge Big Oil companies……………………………………………………….+289% 20 Other Big Oil companies……………………………………………………..+733% 13 [...]

Everyone’s very familiar with how BP, Transocean and Halliburton have all acted so irresponsibly in the recent disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But I’m not sure that everyone is as familiar with many of the financial specifics of just what was going on with Big Oil during the Bush/Cheney years (2001-2008).

April job additions of 290,000 was indeed very good news. On the very positive side, 80,000 jobs were added in Professional and Business Services, with only 26,000 of these being in the Temporary Help Services. The Leisure and Hospitality sectors added 45,000 jobs. The Manufacturing jobs added were 44,000. Jobs added in health care were [...]

The link below presents a US job creation proposal that would make Research Tax Credits more lucrative to all US businesses for the next three years, and perhaps even permanently. This proposal is particularly beneficial to small businesses. Job Creation Proposal for Enhanced Three-Year Research Tax Credits

While everyone has to be extremely pleased with the Obama Administration-driven upward explosion of the US stock market in the past 13 months, a problem I continue to have with the US Congress, and frankly with President Obama’s economic team as well, is that they continue to spend an inordinate amount of time on things [...]

Ann Shank can always be depended on doing great research on current issues. Check out the resources she has provided below to further understand the HCR bill. Click here for very good summary time line of health reform. Click here to view a calculator to see how  reform may affect you. Click here to view [...]

If you, like so many people I have spoken to, are wondering which parts of the health care reform bill will kick in this year, check out the latest video on the right side of this page.  The President does a great job of  summarizing what major changes we will see beginning immediately. I have [...]

Here’s the case for using wise, measured tax incentives to stimulate Backshoring, a necessary step to bring down the very high US unemployment and underemployment rates. And it’s a win for everyone…a huge US deficit reduction, multinational corps increase their profits, and the US severely depleted middle class is revived. Sound too good to be [...]

At around 5:30 pm EDT, Rep. Ellsworth announced that he will vote yes on the health insurance reform bill.  Read his full comments here.

I think President Obama’s Health Care Plan is very well designed and by far the pinnacle point of his Presidency. Everyone will quibble with certain parts of it, but I really liked every one of the many changes that he made. I would have liked to see the hospitals pony up more money, but after [...]