Is it possible that this is the very same Gary Goodwin who is a Bicknell council member who was accused and arrested for some kind of payroll fraud at a hospital that he was employed at?

The very same Gary Goodwin that was found guilty and set to jail and put on some kind of work release?

The very same Gary Goodwin that moved out of the district that he is supposed to be representing shortly after being elected?

The very same Gary Goodwin who knew that he was in trouble before the Bicknell elections but chose to let it ride and fooled the people of Bicknell?

The same Gary Goodwin who was asked to resign his council post by the Knox County Republican party but refused?

The very same Gary Goodwin who stopped attending Bicknell City Council meetings long ago even when he was not in jail?

Is this the very same Gary Goodwin whom the Bicknell Mayor has not asked for his resignation and the very same Gary Goodwin whom the City Council has not removed from his seat due to lack of performance?

Well anyway I guess it may be a good value on property at least a much better value than Gary Goodwin's efforts to help Bicknell pull out of the slump that it is in.

From The Independent (the Bicknell newspaper) notice of property tax sale.

Just wondering
John R. Stanczak

Rod Mullins told me that even though Bicknell didn't think that he was qualified to tear down the old buildings, houses and so forth, in Bicknell but that Linton did so even though Bicknell passed on a local to fill a contract he is working in Linton.

Question; are any contracts being completed by Bicknell residents or are we sending all of the money out of town much like the power plant if you don't count rent.

Camp grounds are going to be closing for the winter soon so what is the City of Bicknell doing to accommodate the Edwardsport power plant workers? An idea why don't we put in a temporary camp ground at our Industrial Park? $200.00 plus utilities not bad; money can pay off some of the sewer bill and water and sewer payments just a bonus. I guess Mullins is setting up some more camp sites.

I've read and talked to people about this housing project where we sell to the poor and I guess send them to keep you new home cleaned up and pay your payment classes but for the life of me I can't see this project working. First spots are rarely changed and most poor people are poor because they don't or won't change. I remember when the county or state sent several people, poor, to school and at the time I was running the pizza parlor when they would come in after school and set talking and eating. They sounded like actual college students or business people but as soon as the classes ended so did the advancement and everything went back to what it was. Remember when the state sent all of the poor something like $2,500.00 because they were poor? Spent the money and returned to where they were. Point is I can't see this working but I hope I am wrong; I know that I am not wrong when I say that these sales if and when they actually materialize will kill the resale of existing homes especially in Bicknell.

Mullins suggests selling the houses to people who qualify for actual loans and help with the financing by reducing the houses by 20 or 30% so that a bank will finance.

John R. Stanczak

So the city gets some millions of dollars to tear down and rebuild new homes and duplexes via a grant; the plan as I have been told is to sell the homes at cost to people making less than $40,000.00 per year.

Sounds like a fair plan and it would seem that the new living quarters in Bicknell would or will make that particular neighborhood look good.

A couple things that I don't really understand is that Bicknell is going to sell houses at cost that they have little or no cost in, grants are not loans therefore I assume that the city will have no cost in the dwellings, so will the actual cost to people making less than $40,000.00 actually be $0.00? If the city actually ask for real money to sell the houses where will the money earned on a $0.00 investment be applied once collected?

Another point is if they are selling the homes really cheap or actually giving them away to people making less than $40,000.00 is this actually a problem because other people will also like to buy cheap houses and would certainly be interested in a free home but will the rule force them out of the competition? Is this a type of extreme prejudice based on income or is it simple favoring one class over another? Will somebody sue?

If the city is actually planning to sell the homes cheap how are they planning to finance them in President Obama's lending market? Maybe the city is planning to sell some to the houses for money like actual down payments and regular loans when people can find banks who will loan to people making less than $40,000.00 with the understanding that they themselves will most likely become a new home owner of a property in Bicknell sometime down the road from the loan dispersement date and then use that money to finance the others much like a contract sale with the city being the owner holding the papers on the house and foreclosing and repairing then reselling on another contract. Or are they just planning to give the homes away so that the receiver of the home will have no personal investment in them and thereby little if any interest in maintaining it?

How does the mayor plan to assist the people in Bicknell who have most if not all of their net worth tied up in their home in Bicknell that will not sell and how will the mayor offset their losses when what little market there is becomes nonexistent once the city floods the market with homes that they have no investment in?

Just some thoughts
John R. Stanczak

The question of gun control is the government nearly all made up as lawyers appears to be the same as every other type of law that is voted into existence by or supposed representatives; lawyers pass laws that keep lawyers busy. Everybody should understand that there is no constitutional president for separation of church and State outside of the fact that the State cannot assign a government religion.

Gun laws are the same the representatives that are sent to Washington also should understand that every citizen has the right to own guns, not a gun but guns.

Just as in every action (laws) that is taken by lawyers, that I believe understands that they are voting against the people, is nothing more than a setup to see how much the general public or voting public will push back. If they push back is too much then the law is reduced but rarely discarded. In most cases laws like the health care public option is sidelined until the people can be rocked back to sleep then it is reintroduced and passed hopefully before the voters wake up.

The other way to side step the voters is to launch a massive campaign to sell the project and to belittle those opposed; much as they did with the last legislation to extend unemployment benefits; democrats want to give the out of work more time an money to allow them to live until the economy that Bush killed is revived by Obama while the republicans wanted to walk away from the out of work and leave them to starve. The facts were that the republicans wanted the same thing as the democrats but wanted to take the money from the stimulus money that the government is setting on and pay for the benefits while the democrats wanted to keep sitting on the money and charge the cost of the benefits to our grand children. Who is right you make the call.

It has been proven over and over throughout history all over the world that laws to control the people along with socialism, disarmament, high debt and all other government entitlements only choke off the production of nations and people which is time forces the nation to either revert back to what worked or disappear from the world scene.

Right now our government is being controlled by a huge majority of socialist who have invested time and money into infiltrating our public schools and colleges along with our judicial system and governments and it was the people who fell for the misguided idea that everybody is owed everything.

Only the people can give up their rights and lives and only the people can reclaim them.

John R. Stanczak
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Workers at the power plant need rentals close to the plant and Bicknell is close. I think that it would be to the advantage of both Bicknell and Bicknell residents to look into renting property that they now have for sale.

Property value and property sales are low and slow and with the city planning to build more homes to sell at low costs Bicknell home investments is not likely to be on the positive side in the very near furture; if possible property investment can be added to the positive list even while sales are nearly zero simply by renting to people who need them and for a change people who will not destroy their rentals.

The City had the opertunity to set up the Bicknell Industrial Park as a camper site for rentals but declined because of either the lack of ability to think ahead or because they are not aware of the high cost of living in Bicknell.

Very soon electricity rates will reach a 19% increase and most likely after that it will level at about a 40% increase; this means that my winter bill will go from $500.00 to $620.00 all while the mayor and council are not addressing the sewer/water rates or the property tax rates.

Bicknell's loss of population has damaged Bicknell and will continue to harm Bicknell and the recent cencus will cause a loss of State money Bicknell to Bicknell on every front determined by population and that will certainly start costing people jobs as city employees.

It is too late for any administration to address the 2020 cencus but it is now time for the city to start trying to increase the population of Bicknell which is the first step to getting control of the cost of living in Bicknell.

John R. Stanczak

Sources have advised me that Duke will not be hiring local for permanent positions with the possible exceptions of gate guards and janitors.
All personnel will be engineers and will be brought in from colleges at a reduced salary. The salary reduction will come from the graduates who are not in the top 10% of their gradating classes. Duke supposedly will hire them on long term fixed salary contracts that is made possible because of the stiff competition for engineering jobs in the lower 60% to 90% grade percentage of each college graduation class.

John R. Stanczak

President Obama has a problem that he didn't foresee when he decided to run for President of the United States of America because of his inexperience at actual management.

The president has never been in the position of actually deciding on a plan of action that does not relate entirely to it being somebody else's fault that he can chase after to pay him for his efforts. In other words President Obama has spent his entire adult life running here and there in a continuous effort to make the “man” pay for whatever injustice that he and his group has decided is an injustice and as president he has found a problem there is no “man” to chase after because he is the “man”.

He has spent most of his time as president trying to keep everybody believing that former President Bush is the “man” along with

Years ago I pointed out to the then Mayor Tom Trowbridge that raising the sewer rates by 136% when it was not necessary would cost Bicknell in population, income at the sewer payment/collection station downtown and checks from the State. Mayor Tom Trowbridge fought with me nearly daily to get his own way and the council chose to go with him down the street of destruction of which only Gary Goodwin is still a part of and should be removed from.
Today Bicknell's tax rate is the highest in Knox County our sewer rates are one of the highest and business in Bicknell is falling all due to the efforts of the probable worst mayor in Bicknell history Mayor Tom Trowbridge. This is also a problem pushed upon the residents of Bicknell by our then council members who were also blind to what the future would hold.

It is almost certain that this census count of Bicknell's population will show a residence drop of at least one third in the last 10 years or to about 2,100 people from 3,300 and this is a problem that the current Mayor will be forced to face.

Today it is obvious that Bicknell in the last 7 years has had the misfortune of having the worst mayor and fortunately has now most likely the best mayor in its history to help us overcome the Trowbridge legacy.

Unlike our previous mayor this mayor can find grants and is not afraid to take up repair and clean up projects in and around town and even if I may not have followed his exact agenda I am certain that he is doing what he actually believes is best for Bicknell and its citizens unlike the previous mayor that was working for his own ego.
Mayor Jon Flickinger will now be faced with a large shortfall in operating money once the 2010 census is completed and I am afraid that jobs in the city may be at stake as I predicted to both Mayor Trowbridge and the council. Now Mayor Flickinger is faced with the problem of how to maintain city jobs without enough money to pay them and I am sure that he will do as well as anybody could as one of the Bicknell City employees told me he is a good mayor and is not afraid to pursue what is best for Bicknell.

John R. Stanczak

According to the radio Indiana's Brad Ellsworth representing the 8th District has decided to vote “YES” on Obama's 2800 page health care bill while disregarding all of the thousands of emails and telephone calls from the people in his district telling him to vote “NO”.
It appears that Nancy Pelosi has assured him that she will see that just enough early health benefits will be given to his Indiana district to allow him to get enough votes to keep him in office as a Senator.
I guess I really never expected him to work for the people but just in case he does come to his senses maybe we should all send another mass telephone and email barrage to his offices in hopes that he may decide to listen to the people; I know that it is a long shot but it can't hurt.
Maybe he should be reminded that it will be impossible for Nancy to set up the people of Indiana before the Indiana primary election and that he will be eliminated from the race long before the general elections this fall.
John R. Stanczak

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