The end of summer holiday was uncharacteristically rich in news items.
Silvercrest, in New Albany, to house seniors (News and Tribune).
The endangered Silvercrest site has been purchased by local developer and Southeast Christian stalwart Matt Chalfant, who sees senior citizen housing as its future. Area preservationists are both relieved and wary; Chalfant’s previous record as a developer is long on cornfield conversions and short on adaptive re-use. It is as yet uncertain whether religious litmus tests will be required for lodgers.
Ind. Decisions - "Court stomps Indiana wine shipping laws" (Indiana Law Blog).
As Indiana’s wholesalers babble nonsensically and pose grim (and unrealistic) scenarios of Internet alcohol sales to minors, there’s been another welcome chink taken out of the armor of their diminishing monopoly: “Two years after wine lovers thought markets had been opened to them, a federal court in Indiana may have finally kicked down the doors.”
Hearing set on New Albany district borders (Courier-Journal).
Under pressure from a federal lawsuit and after years of delay, the New Albany City Council is finally taking steps to redistrict itself. A public hearing to get residents' views on redrawing the boundaries of the six districts from which council members are elected has been set for Sept. 14.
In other words, having been forced into compliance at the point of a court edict, city council president Larry Kochert now emits bountiful sweetness and light with regard to redistricting. Isn’t it funny how federal mandates tend to focus one’s concentration on matters previously deemed unimportant?
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