Showing posts with label New Albany City Parks Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Albany City Parks Department. Show all posts
Friday, May 01, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: A week that was wooden like Pinocchio and dry as an unused water park or an unfilled glass.

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This is what happens when you realize (a) the draft of your weekly column isn't writing itself, and (b) the Green Mouse already has 9...
Monday, April 08, 2019

In which Deaf Gahan encourages public housing residents to be "thrilled" about the indoor grass at the sportsplex he built with their money.

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On April 2 a "handful" of Mark Elrod Tower residents (the mayor's words, not ours) witnessed a full-throttle City Hall team i...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Watery light beer wars are our new favorite spectator sport.

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I've got dibs on the Porta Potty concession. Not really a caption contest as Gahan and Duggins bond over light beers.
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

In which Deaf Gahan sets us straight about the naming rights.

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Desperately we seek solace through satire. As always, satire begins with the unreality of real life. Throwing Reisz: The Jeff M. Gahan Lu...
Monday, February 26, 2018

City Hall Wants You ... to "collaborate with cross-functional teams" and "maintain City information in a confidential manner."

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Never Forget: Inflatable Date Night. Dude -- I saw where it talks about maintaining city information in a ( NA Confidential ) manner, s...
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Sunday, February 04, 2018

Last one, I promise: For his next amazing trick, an inflatable TIF area?

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When life gives you absurdity, make satire -- not Kool-Aid. Here's a view from last evening, as borrowed from social media. Inf...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Look, guys -- it's Inflatable Date Night! Ultimately, and unfortunately, this is how Deaf Gahan is spending your tax dollars.

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It's been advertised on social media with promoted posts for weeks, and occupies space on the City Hall website navigation bar alongs...
Monday, November 13, 2017

City Hall goes glib on proposed handicapped-friendly park: "..............."

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#InstitutionalizedNonTransparentParanoia is more like it, wouldn't you say? When Team Gahan's most recent handicapped-user ini...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Q. What do Donald Trump's taxes and River Run Family Water Park's financials have in common?

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A. Neither will viewed by taxpayers any time soon.  Just don't mention it to the mayor. Open records make him mean. We feel fo...
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 ...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

How many of these signs are illegally placed?

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Photo credit: MC. A: All of them ... unless, of course, the Bored of Works has exempted the parks department from the city's ...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Hydrocephalus maladroits: Doggie water park in NA -- for only a quarter million $ more.

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Photo credit: The water slide vendor . On a morning when local media reports Jeffersonville businesses and their patrons expressing opt...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Video: Lazy River Redux at Binford Park.

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"Binford Park, New Albany, where the folks in charge recently spent $1,000,000 largely on grading and grass. It's not as if they...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Mailer Wars '15: Gahan's card stock grows in inverse proportion to the shrinkage of his ideas.

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Because the ultimate in "family-friendly" is when your grandchildren continue to pay for their childhood delights, even when...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

McLaughlin: It's far too early to do the math on the water park. Come back in 2034, will ya?

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Blair: Parks spending up, but so is revenue from fees For someone fancying himself an independent, Scott Blair runs a great deal of interf...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Jeff Gahan explains pop-up TIFs and trickle-down parks.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

10 reasons why Jeff Gahan's quarter-million dollar farmers market fluff job is wrong for New Albany.

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It squanders irreplaceable infill residential potential on what might be a signature downtown corner – at a time when City Hall insists th...
Monday, September 08, 2014

Little League snorer: Gahan's tiny tot baseball analogies argue against his own swimming pool fixation.

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Mayor Jeff Gahan's argument that underprivileged inner city children stand to be disenfranchised by a county-dominated Little League par...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Doom and gloom beneath the rotted kitchen formica as city, county agree to demolish the North Annex.

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Actually, they didn't agree -- yet, but it's looking like a done deal. I'd much rather save the Annex and demolish Wal-Mart;...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Parks Agitprank: What do you mean it wasn't "political"? Irv Stumler was there, for chrissakes.

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Here's the plan : "The current Parks Department model entered into beginning in 1994 has contributed to a blatant and ongoing in...