Showing posts with label Mike Ladd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Ladd. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Letter to the editor: "I read your column on the Taco Walk, and the young lady's accompanying essay in full. I have sympathy for her."

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Following is a letter to the editor of NA Confidential authored by Mike Ladd, onetime director of the Urban Enterprise Association. La...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Jeff Gahan has fired Bob Lane, and if you're wondering how Gahan treats his vanquished enemies ... remember Mike Ladd?

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Earlier this evening, Bob Lane was fired as director of the New Albany Housing Authority. It is likely other long-term NAHA employees als...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

BID/EID: " Maybe the merchants of New Albany should consider helping themselves through this device."

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Way back in 2010 , before the Disneyesque edifice of New Gahania began to emerge, fully TIFFed, from the smoldering ruins of England III,...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Letter to NAC: "You need to support your existing businesses with facts, not wants."

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This excerpt from the minutes of last month's merchant meeting caught the attention of regular reader Mike Ladd. The next merchan...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Mike Ladd speaks: "Small minds seek small solutions and fight for even smaller purposes."

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(On the settlement of Mike Ladd's lawsuit ) Mike Ladd will be leaving town soon to get on with his life, and in a great many ways, it ...
Monday, July 14, 2014

The settlement of Mike Ladd's lawsuit does little to dissipate the ugliness of his treatment.

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First, the breaking news. Former UEZ director claims New Albany administration tainted his reputation; Mike Ladd harbors discontent ov...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

More on the Ladd lawsuit, in which I tell you exactly what I think.

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The newspaper's Daniel Suddeath provides further background on former Urban Enterprise Association director Mike Ladd's lawsuit, ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Ladd files suit.

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2:30 pm update: Here's the court case, on line . The Green Mouse reports that former Urban Enterprise Association director Mike Ladd h...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Human Rights Commission somehow gnaws through the leash and will hold an open house this Friday.

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(Full disclosure: The missus is a member of the Human Rights Commission) After a daring escape from a dusty shelf in the rear of the cit...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

Mike Ladd: 17 months to receive 2 weeks pay, and other shovel-ready Ethics Commission topics.

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Where to begin? Michael C. Ladd, former  executive director of the New Albany Urban Enterprise Association, has written a letter to the Ne...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Perhaps it's just me, but "Reactive By Design" isn't really the civic slogan I had in mind.

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Full disclosure: Diana is a member of the Human Rights Commission. I'm fairly confident that I agree with my neighbor and 3rd distri...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Rare sighting of the city's Ethics Commission returns focus to Ladd's UEA 2012 "norwooding."

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The Gahan administration has a mint condition Ethics Commission, and according to the newspaper's Suddeath, perhaps they're willi...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Ethics Commission receives shovel-ready complaint.

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This story isn't about me, but there is a tangential connection. I didn't have any prior knowledge of the ethics complaint. The repo...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

DNA releases statement on Ladd firing, UEA absorption into city.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Deposed UEA chief Mike Ladd: "I also kept the officers informed of the financial situation monthly."

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The plot continues to thicken. I can only speak to my personal experience while serving on the UEA board from 2008-2010, and attending all b...

Nick Cortolillo on "politically motivated interference" with the UEA.

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In a letter to the newspaper, former UEA director Nick Cortolillo opts for straight, no chaser: "The city of New Albany wanted unlimi...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

A final thought for the deposed.

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“That was nothing more than a kangaroo court going in there,” Coffey said.

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The ironic thing about yesterday's carefully choreographed Urban Enterprise Association "reordering" was that apart from the p...
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Tweeting the Urban Enterprise beheading, as it happened.

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Following are my tweets during yesterday's Urban Enterprise Association board meeting. They're in reverse chronological order. The ...
Friday, March 16, 2012

UEA decapitation: Different tactics, same desired outcome, and still just as wrong as before.

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Following is the unedited text of the remarks I'll be making at today's hastily convened Urban Enterprise Association meeting (9:...
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