Like Louisville, New Albany "must get smarter if it wants to get richer"

Tonight’s late night reading is provided by the Louisville Courier-Journal of Sunday, January 23.

Since its inception, NA Confidential has considered New Albany as it is, but more importantly, as it might be.

It is for the sake of the city’s future that we scrutinize the present, firm in our belief that amid the reigning chaos and visionless chicanery engendered by business-as-usual clique of white-bread politicos, staid community stalwarts, socially corrosive slum lords and assorted anti-progressive killjoys, there exists the diverse and creative preconditions of a renaissance.

To be sure, New Albany cannot be compared to Louisville, but the following articles espouse themes of critical importance to our city, including the importance of education, the vitality of downtown districts, and the benefits of economic equity within strong neighborhoods.

Annoyingly, far too many of these intensely relevant themes provide answers for questions that the moribund political leadership of New Albany not only won’t ask, but too often seems unaware even exist.

NA Confidential has no interest in political gamesmanship, both within and between the local Democratic and Republican parties. Rather, we ask their intellectually suspect representatives to read the following and indicate some measure of comprehension with respect to the themes presented therein.

'Distinctive, equitable, competitive': Setting an agenda beyond merger, by Bruce Katz and Mark Muro

Editorial: “A competitive city”