Showing posts with label Board of Public Works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Board of Public Works. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2016

ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART TWO: Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the city (still) with the hex (2014).

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ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART TWO:  Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the city (still) with the hex (2014) . A weekly column by ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

We measure in inches: ADA sidewalk requirements are crucial, unless we don't bother enforcing them.

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Board of Public Works and Safety, 03-29-16. As a preface to what follows, see the photo above. Parking on the sidewalk on this one bloc...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Them bats in Pinocchio Rosenbarger's belfry: BOW talks Greenway, and a night on Bald Mountain.

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For your listening and dancing pleasure, a selection of waltzes from last week's (March 29) Bored of Works meeting. Once agai...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Dog daze: With Gahan back in the safe house, civilian architect Timperman now is the city's official spokesman.

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You just knew there had to be a catch -- and I don't mean dogs playing Frisbee. When Mayor Jeff Gahan donned his standard issue sui...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Autodidact -- and how David Duggins denigrates one of them amid Team Gahan's zeal for a dog park.

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Welcome to another installment of SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS , a regular Wednesday feature at NA Confidential . But why new words? W...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2016

View the new Special Event Permit Application for Bicentennial Park, City Square and the Riverfront Amphitheater.

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The permit presumably is in draft form and will be rubber-stamped at this morning's Bored of Works meeting. It includes the new city ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

City Hall's street grid surrender: "All the extra expense, time, and proposed iterations have nothing to do with securing federal funds."

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Perhaps owing to the approach of the primary, hell has broken loose these past few days, and I'm struggling to keep up with the dai...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The predicted gutting of Speck begins as Mayor Jeff Gahan gives the finger to complete streets advocates.

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If you'd like to see complete streets on your lifetime, removing Jeff Gahan from office has become the sole option. Firm hired to ...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

As Warren Naps, speeds like this kill an urban neighborhood.

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72 mph on Spring Street at 6:20 p.m. on a Friday evening. Granted, it was a stray hot rodder, and not the norm. It's the highest s...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Warren, why did the Bored of Works scrap Speck on State Street?

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On Tuesday, New Albany's  unelected DemoDisneyDixiecratic Party annex, otherwise known as the Bored of Works, got started gutting Jeff...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Unelected Bored of Works gets started gutting Speck as mayor endorses PAC checks from afar.

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The first Speck amputation was announced yesterday, as improvements suggested for the State Street corridor were unceremoniously jettisone...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 82: With Speck hearings concluded, the Bored of Works can return to fluffing the trucking lobby.

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Do you think the Bored of Works will cancel its meeting today? After all, dozens of appointed city employees currently rove the city, taki...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 81: Bored of Works versus Irv Stumler, no holds barred.

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Cisa Barry Bumped into Irv Stumler today, who was passing out postcards raising questions about the "Missing: Facts about the Stree...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 80: It's our weekly melted sing-along with the Bored of Works.

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As Warren Naps, this week's question for the Bored comes from reader K, via Facebook. Dear City of New Albany, I just watched on...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 79: Bored of Works duty arousal duly begins now.

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Last week, chirpy chairman Warren Naps skillfully guided the Bored of Works through a difficult digression about civic sidewalk irresponsibi...
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