Showing posts with label City of New Albany Comprehensive Plan 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City of New Albany Comprehensive Plan 2017. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Chronicles of New Gahania: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness.

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Recently I made a reference to New Albany as the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness. Here's the explanation. ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

GIVE GAHAN A PINK SLIP: (Wednesday) When he seized NAHA, Slick Jeffie depicted himself as a wise, caped, fatherly hero, when in fact he was more two-faced than Harvey Dent.

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Last week was so much fun, let's do it again. As a run-up to Decision 2019, I'm headed back into the ON THE AVENUES archive for ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 15: Beam, Longest and Neff -- they're why Jeff Gahan is HERE and awash in cash, 16,500 times over.

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Previously: The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 14: Kentucky-based GRW Engineers and the subtle art of the $200 out-of-state handshake. ...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Let's talk about the 8% and their affordable slots in the 14-story luxury middle finger high atop Summit Springs.

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Before proceeding, click through to Facebook and watch a brief video about Summit Springs watersports.   You probably remember this. ...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Gahan Money Machine: The Beam, Longest and Neff firm takes its turn at the wheel of the mayor's gravy train.

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The city's newly ordained symbol is an anchor buried beneath the Ohio River mud flats, but there are no brakes on the Gahan Campaign Fin...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

It wasn't about drainage at all. Rather, an irrational fear of density doomed the West Street Mews.

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The single most hilarious aspect of Coffey's resistance is the juxtaposition of these two statements, both coming from the Wizard...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Sociology in(action): A brief history of the ESNA and Midtown (SEJ) non-merger, 2009 - 2012.

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INTRODUCTION New Albany's fresh new Comprehensive Plan includes a full page of bromide-laden boilerplate about neighborhood associatio...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Time to learn facts, Democrats: Myths and misperceptions about public housing ... and lessons from Chicago's reform effort.

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It doesn't come as any great surprise that Jeff Gahan would like to replace affordable housing in New Albany with various manifestati...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Gahan's Grab: Yes, principled Democratic positions on public housing actually DO exist, and here's one of them. But first, some Kool Aid!

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We live in bizarre times. Mayor Jeff Gahan, a presumed Democrat (this being an ever shakier proposition), currently is putting into mot...

Endeavor Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness.

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It took a few days for me to see it, but last night's council meeting provided the necessary epiphany. Why have I reacted so strong...