Showing posts with label Jack Messer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Messer. Show all posts
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Messer is right: The new council must make redistricting a priority.

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You could forgive Jack Messer for saying, “Eight (years) is enough,” but the former two-term city council person attended last Thursday even...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Flip a coin: Four-corner stall or fast break?

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Over at Facebook the other day, I queried at-large council member (and independent mayoral candidate) Jack Messer about his opposition to ex...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

New Albany mayoral politics as Duck Duck Goose without the saving grace of limitless vodka.

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Here's the way the C-J's Harold Adams phrases the scrum on Twitter: Four vie for mayor in New Albany: Two city councilmen, a polit...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

OSIN reader backs Jack.

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Previously, we have expressed a preference for Jeff Gahan in the forthcoming mayoral race: Decision 2011: Gahan tops this field. Following ...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

The nightmare scenario: Weapons of mass pub grub destruction.

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(Feast BBQ is going into the old Shirl-Ray's spot across from the YMCA. To learn more, visit their Facebook page ) If you derive a sense...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Why wait for the election?

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If Jack's already mayor, and the transition already is beginning, then there's really no sense in me voting, because victory in inev...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Decision 2011: Gahan tops this field.

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The mayoral contest analysis now beckons. Candidate listings are cribbed from the clerk's office, followed by brief comments by the seni...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

On our mayoral candidates and 1Si's attempted usurpation of the local political process.

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New Albany First, the city’s first-ever grassroots, local and independent business alliance, held an information session last evening at the...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Windstream second-guessing sweeps NA: Which language is who speaking, when, and why?

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If it was my job to prepare a lesson plan encompassing the following news item, it would include a few simple questions. Coffey: Windstream ...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Messer declares.

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The News and Tribune observes that Jack Messer's New Albany mayoral run (as an independent) was not an easy choice ‎, because of the ...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

"We Back Jack at GoDaddy.com," and other famous campaign slogans.

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I get the eerie feeling we've all been here before ...
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We've got mayoral candidates.

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First there's Jack Messer (as an independent): Messer confirms mayoral run . He'll have to get a few signatures before the end of th...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

That's some quorum: Price, Coffey join Benedetti, Messer on council's after-school detention list.

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With an election right around the corner, let's hope the local combined newspapers take an interest in explicating a lawsuit that names ...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Messer redeals.

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Jack Messer's campaign slogan was conjectured long before reading that his plans have changed. By offering, “That’s not what I meant,” ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Some potpourri, and then I turn this thing off for the day.

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Our city council gifted One Southern Indiana with cash to lobby in favor of bridge tolls that will wreck New Albany businesses. Kudos to Jo...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Tribune: "Messer to retire from New Albany Police Department in May."

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For the record, as reported in the Tribune . Messer to retire from New Albany Police Department in May; Councilman filed for retirement in 2...
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Sunday, July 04, 2010

Tribune editorial: "Messer situation is mess for all."

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Well, what do you think? TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: Messer situation is mess for all; Public safety is no place for politics We interrupt today’s ce...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

The New Albanist: "Zero Tolerance, But What's Real and What's Not?"

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(Late note: The Tribune's coverage can be found here ) Randy Smith offers a dispassionate and thoughtful analysis of the increasingly s...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

A cherished and hallowed way of life.

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Two weeks have elapsed since the C-J’s Harold J. Adams broke the "racist remarks" story and NAC smirked here that "them p...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Doesn't Jack know that "them people" is Coffey's trademark line?

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The single most ironic thing about this development is that as soon as the first registered New Albany Democrat in living memory concedes th...
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