Good Friday

While religiosity is met with varying levels of (dis)pleasure around NAC, the consideration of a particular Friday as good or bad is still up for grabs. At the moment, I’m inclined to err on the side of the positive.


1. It’s amusing to see the largely undeveloped arguments of certain council members consistently creep up in other arenas hosted by fictitious authors. There’re more connections there during any given week than at, well... Connections. It’s even more amusing to share in the laughter such creep generates. Laughing is healthy. Thanks.

2. There are still some rough edges, but the Tribune seems to be making like the birds and bees, using the chutzpah of spring as an excuse to produce. They’ve been out-reporting the Courier on local issues fairly regularly lately and it’s not gone unnoticed in this camp or at the C-J, where we’re beginning to see new names on the Indiana page in response. Being first and reputable is a good thing. Bugging Gannett is even better.

3. The Courier did manage a good story about a group of English educators who traveled to Scribner Middle School from the UK to observe progressive education methods, including one class in which students assembled poetry with verbiage taken from various other media. The literacy and international exchange are impressive but it’s the assembled expression of seventh grader Dakota Bennett that warrants sharing: Zippo the Jack Russell terrier kills 10 in Chevy Suburban wasteland. I wonder how it feels for the inaccurately self-styled “most powerful developer in Southern Indiana” to be outwitted by a 13-year-old (or Zippo for that matter)? Dakota represented our community to an international audience well. Perhaps we should collectively consider that making New Albany look and feel like every other sprawling, non-descript suburb (known as vision in Gary-speak) might not be the best strategy to entice him to continue his astute observations from a local perch.

4. Sewer progress.

5. Scribner Place progress.

6. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled this week that state law does not prohibit unmarried couples from filing a joint petition to adopt children, giving each parent equal custody. What this means is that, until Indiana aimlessly wanders into the 21st century and accepts that two people making a caring, life-long commitment to each other shouldn’t be illegal, gay and lesbian couples can jointly adopt children and be legally recognized as the loving parents they’ve always been.

7. As much as the word “never” gets cast as bait to the scarred-lip fishes of New Albany, it’s relative worth as a word is steadily being diminished by groups of dedicated citizens who simply refuse to accept that our city will always be nothing more than a holding tank for chum. I’ve never believed that anyway.