The $60,000 Question: If we submit an invoice, will they stiff us?

The bookseller's on a roll.

His new survey proposal set grime-encrusted wheels to spinning, and eventually a precedent was disgorged. We've all been here before. Sort of.

But first, the 2013 hiking idea. I endorse it, and I'll be there on the 10th.

I'll also submit an invoice.

The $60,000 Hike – Sunday, Nov. 10, by Randy Smith (The NewAlbanist)

Despite the fact that New Albany employs a full-time Streets Commissioner (and staff), a Neighborhoods Coordinator, an economic development director, and police and fire chiefs charged with guarding our safety …

… the bureaucrats have decreed that the quite simple task of reverting downtown streets to their original design for two-way traffic will first require a “study” costing $60,000 ...

... In the spirit of saving our city a substantial sum, I propose “The $60,000 Hike.”

Has it really been just shy of eight years ago since we last indulged in some mapping?

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2005

Taking a walk, by Randy Smith (Volunteer Hoosier)

Our intrepid band of surveyors launched today, and while allusions to Lewis & Clark would be inappropriate, the frigid temperatures lent an air of bicentennial authenticity.

Working as a team, we were able to piece together some of the raw data, architectural heritage, and unfiltered rumor about one segment of the downtown business district. We managed to do a fairly decent survey of the west bank of Pearl Street from Oak Street to Main Street.