"Truths I Learned by the Cement Pond," Vol. 62.

“Don’t let it burn a hole in your pocket!”

3rd district councilman Steve Price, on the approaching $3 million jail bond “windfall.”

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"Hindsight is always 20-20 vision."

CM Price again.

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"No, that's not ... "

CM Price, shrugging and with palms downturned, to attorney John Kraft, who had suggested that the council might want to ask its legal representative for legal advice pertaining to a point of law.

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Here are the first two published accounts of last night's city council meeting:

Post Number 175,City Council meeting-07/20/2006,by Maury K. Goldberg (New Albany Today blog).

New Albany's financial windfall fuels debate; Council disagrees on uses for money, by Ben Zion Hershberg (short shelf life for Courier-Journal links).

We'll be back later Friday morning.