Two Tribune views on this fine Sunday morning

Both NA Confidential (kippers and espresso) and Volunteer Hoosier (breakfast choice unknown) have read this morning’s New Albany Tribune.

Here is VH’s take on the Tribune’s place in the community:

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Leave it to Randy (VH) to find the “up” side of the Tribune just as Roger’s (NAC) frustration with the newspaper has reached another in a long series of boiling points.

Specifically, the Tribune has been almost completely silent with regard to the Indiana legislative controversy over redistributing riverboat casino monies from host counties (like our neighbor, Harrison) to the remainder of the state.

To be sure, NA Confidential’s polemics on this issue have been intentionally couched in terms of a rampaging state G.O.P. attacking all principles of taste and decency, but our deadly accurate rhetorical flourishes aside, the topic remains one of deep pertinence to every resident of this state irrespective of party affiliation.

On this, the Tribune has next to nothing to say. Crickets chirp, and pins are heard dropping.

But ... when a longtime Providence High School football coach and teacher is made redundant a year short of retirement, managing editor Chris Morris produces a 500-word editorial protesting the injustice.

Chris’s editorial appears in today’s Tribune, and it is a fine piece of writing, and yet, as unjust as the terminated teacher’s ousting appears to be, shouldn’t the cynical reaming of entire counties filled with people just like the Providence coach inspire something of the same indignation?

If not, then why?

Once again, the Louisville Courier-Journal provides the only coverage of the casino redistribution controversy:

Riverboat casino-budget plan may be floating away by Lesley Stedman Wiedenbener of the Courier-Journal (limited shelf life on C-J links).