Evansville needs to have an honest conversation about the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership (E-REP), the private group branding itself as “the region’s economic engine.”

Former Evansville Mayor Winnecke just wrote an op-ed celebrating the I-69 Ohio River Crossing as our next big “transformational” moment. But mega-projects are not what is putting families under pressure here. The everyday cost of living is.

People aren’t leaving Evansville because of a lack of bridges. We are losing families because we pay one of the highest residential energy rates in Indiana. CenterPoint Energy, the company draining the most money from Southern Indiana households every single month, sits at the E-REP decision making table.

That is a real transparency problem.

If E-REP wants the public to beli

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