Tonight is Drinking Progressively -- now with too many syllables.

Drinking Progressively is tonight at Bank Street Brewhouse from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Reading Room. There is much to discuss: The school corporation's referendum, the Speck study and Pillsbury's probable closure, among other topics.

Drinking Progressively is a brief weekly meeting to discuss local issues in an informal atmosphere -- with beer. We're keeping it local, and surveying a non-partisan program to improve New Albany progressively.

Happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step.

Drinking Progressively hopes to answer the question: Can we make New Albany a place where we want to stay, not leave?

Drinking Progressively is about the development of the ideal civic platform for progress, as opposed to regress, and it is open to all. The intent is ecumenical, so party affiliations (or none at all) are irrelevant. Come and go as you please; no mandatory anything.