What We’re Watching

The issues, in one place.

Data centers, surveillance, roads, spending, leadership. A lot of neighbors are fighting a lot of battles, often alone. This is the shared map. We track every issue around one standard: residents deserve transparency and a real voice. We take no partisan side. We ask the questions and follow the facts.

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Aerial view of a large modern data center complex in a flat Midwestern landscape with an amber pause symbol and road barrier in the foreground.
August 20, 2026

Indiana Puts the Brakes on New Data Centers: Indianapolis Moratorium Joins a Statewide Pause

On August 19, 2026, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6-0 to place a temporary moratorium on new data-center development inside Marion County through…
 Protecting Posey County Water from Data Centers
Clark
July 23, 2026

What’s Behind the NDA? Posey County, Charlestown, and a Big Week for Southern Indiana’s Data Center Question

By Evan Plainman for Unite The Divided On Tuesday, at a public meeting in Mount Vernon, Posey County Commission President Bill Collins confirmed what…
 License plate reader camera on a pole and police drone overlooking a quiet Southern Indiana intersection at dusk
Dubois
July 21, 2026

Citizen Briefing: Surveillance Camera Networks (Flock and Similar Systems) in Southern Indiana

What is happening locally Evansville Police Department has operated 55 Flock automated license-plate readers since at least 2022. The cameras were funded through donations…
 EVAN Watching Our Energy Rates & Affordability Crisis
July 11, 2026

Energy Costs and the Affordability Crisis, Who Sets Your Rates, and Why They Keep Rising

Almost nothing hits a household budget as directly and as universally as the utility bill. Electricity and gas are not optional, so when rates…
July 11, 2026

Potholes & Following the Money Behind What Gets Fixed

Roads, bridges, drainage, sidewalks, and sewers are the least glamorous things local government does, and the most universal. Everyone uses them, everyone notices when…
 EVAN WATCHING POLICE DRONES
July 11, 2026

Police Drones, Eyes in the Sky and the Rules That Should Come With Them

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using drones, small unmanned aircraft with cameras, for everything from searching for missing people to surveying accident scenes to…
 EVAN Watching Data Centers
July 11, 2026

Data Centers, Their Footprint, and Your Right to the Numbers

Data centers are the giant warehouses of computers that power the internet, cloud storage, and the current boom in artificial intelligence. As AI demand…
 EVAN IS WATCHING
July 11, 2026

Flock Cameras, Surveillance, and Your Right to Know

Automated license plate readers, most made by a company called Flock Safety, are cameras that photograph vehicles, log their plates, and record where and…
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