Showing posts with label Aaron M. Renn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aaron M. Renn. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

I Know I'm Not Wrong.

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Aaron "Urbanophile" Renn moved back to Indiana (Indianapolis) from New York City earlier this year . This column was published ...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Branding Gahan's "sweet spot," part two: He's selling a whole city in his own image, but personality cults aren't pretty pictures.

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Part one here. There can be no doubt. Jeff Gahan's  "sweetest spot" is himself . In his What is character and why it r...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Jeff Gahan has been branding the city in his own image, and using our money to do it, but we need collective thinking, not the shoddy veneer of a personality cult.

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Here's one definition of branding. The process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers' mind...
Monday, November 26, 2018

The Urbanophile nails it: "Louisville Bridges Project Is the Biggest Transportation Boondoggle of the 21st Century."

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Go there and read all about it. The Urbanophile is remorseless. I differ with only one point. By rights I should be writing this fo...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Sunday "must read": Aaron Renn's review of Hillbilly Elegy.

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It isn't a reinvention of the wheel to observe that in the more capable of hands, boilerplate constructions like obituaries, ballgame...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Renn: "Louisville Bridges Project Proceeds From Tragedy to Farce."

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Just read it and weep -- not in sorrow, but at the sheer volume of the stupidity inherent in the Oligarch's River Bridges Project. ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

ORBP: "Indiana’s worst transportation finance decision since the 1830s epic canal fiasco that bankrupted the state."

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Silence remains somewhat other than golden, but let's not drag folks like Diane Benedetti, Kerry Stemler and Ed Clere into a discussion ...
Friday, January 13, 2012

At The Urbanophile: "Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 4 – A Better Plan."

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Aaron M. Renn's series concludes with the fourth installment, and suggestions for a better Ohio River Bridges Project plan. Indiana’s ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

At The Urbanophile: "Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 3 – INDOT’s Mini-Big Dig."

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Links to the first two parts of the series are included, so click through to The Urbanophile , and join Renn in asking: Does INDOT really kn...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

At The Urbanophile: "Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 2: Hoosiers to Pay Even More With Tolling."

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Here's the link to the second part of The Urbanophile series, with a key excerpt. Wonder if Ed Clere and Ron Grooms are reading? Ind...

At The Urbanophile: "Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 1: A Financial Fiasco."

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Me thinks this series by Aaron M. Renn in The Urbanophile will be required reading these next few days. Indiana's Bridge Deal Boondo...
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