Showing posts with label elitism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elitism. Show all posts
Sunday, July 05, 2020

GREEN MOUSE follows up: "How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing."

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Picking up where we left off on February 13, when I asked, "What sort of upper crust prohibitionist’s rationale is being advanced he...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Neo-prohibitionism, foppery and hypocrisy at Indiana Landmarks as Family Dollar on Vincennes gets a perfectly legal alcohol sales permit.

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Heavens, these people make it hard to take a sabbatical, but someone has to provide the "free press" counterweight by offering ...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

The cool kids can go fu ... well, you know what I mean.

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The pirate looks at sixty, and the evidence is incontrovertible. Each time in my life, when for some arcane reason it seemed a good idea ...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Follow the change order money, 'cuz Deaf Gahan needs the Reisz Mahal finished before the anticipated re-enthronement.

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No follow-ups from the News and Tribune . No digging. Just boilerplate, ma'am -- and if we record the lies exactly as they were to...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Two side of precisely the same economic elitism, so let's choose our own path of internet radicalization.

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As the right wing pageantry grinds to its oafish conclusion in Cleveland, with the duopoly's brethren preparing for its own spectac...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Marohn: "Our words and actions are making it impossible for us to listen to each other. Not only does this hurt our communities, it is making us ripe for exploitation."

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At times, the best course of action is cutting to the chase. However, you'll want to click through and read Marohn's views on the...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

"The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened."

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A writer for the New York Times visits Sunderland .  ... when the decision to pull out of the European Union sent markets into a tailspi...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

"The French are right: tear up public debt – most of it is illegitimate anyway."

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I love social elites ... as long as they're properly cooked. The French are right: tear up public debt – most of it is illegitimate a...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

These being the community principles we ignore in New Albany.

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In New Albany, starting about a year and a half ago, a process was initiated to spend more than a million bucks toward creating a place -- i...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Road diets: Abhorred from Indian Hills to Karolus Magnus.

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In New Albany's case, resistance to a "road diet" for Spring Street must be coming from the "greater" public residin...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Why doesn't the council's Pro-Bloc face the public with its smoking ban reasoning?

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It occurs to me that New Albany’s Greatly Unnecessary Smoking Debate of ’08 hasn’t been much of a debate at all, at least where the public i...
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Logically speaking, all businesses should buy state tobacco licenses and become retailers, right?

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Yesterday’s post about New Albany’s ongoing Greatly Unnecessary Smoking Debate of ’08 generated a plethora of comments, and I’d say that mor...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Indirect subsidies to rental property owners: The ultimate in "elitism"?

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And I've turned inside out and 'round about and back and then, Found myself right back where I started again. --Jim Croce, “Age” Can...
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