Showing posts with label bureaucracies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bureaucracies. Show all posts
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Monbiot on neoliberalism: "The freedom we were promised turns out to be freedom for capital, gained at the expense of human liberty."

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I'm happy that Monbiot made it through his illness. His frequent contributions toward the excoriation of neoliberalism are much appr...
Friday, October 06, 2017

REWIND: A look back to 2015, when all I wanted to do was walk like a human being in the Harvest Homecoming parade.

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A year later, and very little of what follows has changed. I'm told that some light "no blockage" concessions have been made t...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

A look back to 2015, when all I wanted to do was walk like a human being in the Harvest Homecoming parade.

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Because after five decades, what's the use of perpetuating a bureaucracy unless it is utterly inflexible? The shopkeepers at Undergro...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

ASK THE BORED: One year ago, the New Albany Street Piano was utterly perplexing Team Gahan's artistic sensibility.

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An omen is an event regarded as a portent of good or evil, and sometimes both. This morning it dawned on me that I have failed to receiv...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Selling New Albany by the pound? Hey, I'm a bureaucrat, and "I'm only doing my job!"

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Something to think about from Steve Turgoose, and as the 1960s rock group once advised, "we have all been here before." Fro...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

What new line of defense will be contrived by the Bored of Works to contain the street piano contagion?

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Here's the view from the Bored Room: New Albany: Wonderfully and delightfully us ... so visit Free the New Albany Street Piano ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Life is like a street piano. What the Bored of Works gets out of it depends on how they "nay" it.

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Previously at NAC : New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 95: It's the return of 18-wheeler pinu...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

David Karem tells big greasy whoppers about the Big Four Bridge.

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David Karem must think we aren't very bright. Pedestrian bridge will close rather than salt or shovel snow and ice , by Gordon Boyd (...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

Not only that, but I even washed my hands before pressing "send."

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For the first time ever, the Floyd County Health Department has required Trash Force to obtain a letter of permission from NABC to store i...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

John Rosenbarger: Yes, it's a design flaw, and yes, we know who designed it. Why can't we do anything about that?

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Today's drive to Indianapolis shouldn't be much different than a daily jaunt down Spring Street, so let's pop the tabs on a s...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Yo, Floyd County Health Department, your invoice is ready. Cash only, please. I'm not sure I trust your checks.

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In some ways, it's too bad the health department opted out last night at the Carnegie Center. We'd taken the time to prepare an inv...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Let's see if a formal complaint will do the trick.

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In the time elapsed (less than two hours) since my posting earlier this morning , here is what has happened: The Indiana Public Access co...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Where bureaucrats are bureaucrats ... and yeast are scared.

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When I heard the news that brewers yeast had been chosen by the state of Oregon as its official state microbe, my initial impulse was to che...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Concert tonight, but the PourGate saga continues as we prepare to vend Progressive Pints under protest.

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Tonight will be the fourth installment of the city's summer concert series at Bicentennial Park in downtown New Albany. The band is...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Updating the Floyd County Health Department's "Beer Pour War" of 2013.

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As for frequently asked questions, no, I've received no official communication from the health junta as to the hearing date of our ap...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Bureaucrats, potato chips and the need for a city health department.

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Last evening, with food being served throughout Floyd County, we were inspected prior to the musical performance. Public health was heroi...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Jeeebus, what a week. Here's a review.

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It's dress down day at the health department, and Dr. Harris is dining at Chick fil-A. (Sat., June 22 update: Kevin Gibson has a s...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Preview: NABC's appeal to the Floyd County Health Department.

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We are required to transmit such an appeal via certified mail or hand delivery. Oddly, carrier pigeon is excluded as an option. I'll ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

No Tricentennial for DNA in wartime, unfortunately.

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Okay. So much for that idea. Develop New Albany’s off the hook. I thought things were arranged so that there could be beer vending at t...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Food handling, panhandling and regulatory free-basing.

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If beer is exempt in terms of food handling guidelines, then how can beer suddenly become non-exempt when poured from a keg into a plasti...