Human rights commission? It's just a "vehicle" to stop criticism, says worst-mayor-ever Warren Nash.

"I felt like the city was being maligned back then and I thought this would be a vehicle to stop that criticism. The complaints against the city were all unfounded."
-- Warren Nash

Chris Morris has done us a great service by capturing this breathtaking quote, which reveals the politically-motivated, self-serving conniving that has characterized Warren Nash's whole career as a self-appointed mover/shaker in New Albany.

Plainly, the human rights commission means nothing to Nash in any sense of furthering the cause of human rights.

Rather, it's just a vehicle -- a purely cynical propaganda jalopy -- to thwart criticism, which at the time of Nash's single term as mayor almost 50 years ago (he was mercilessly crushed seeking a second term and never won another race) was criticism directed against Nash's own incompetence as the worst mayor this city has ever endured ... until Jeff Gahan, Nash's eager pupil, who subverted the current human rights commission and now has doubled down on the damage by appointing his unspeakably dull Svengali to serve on it, so as to perpetuate the do-nothing fix for a new generation, one that deserves far better than either Nash or Gahan allowed anywhere close to a decision-making post.

But it's plenty good for Gahan's campaign war chest, isn't it? In New Gahania, money has more rights than humans. Maybe we need a Campaign Finance Rights Commission.

Thanks, Chris.

The city needed to see exactly what Warren Nash is, and how he operates. In 2019, we can retire Nash by firing Gahan, and in the process, free ourselves from the reign of vendor cash and the stifling yoke of the C-Minus Clique.

New Albany's Human Rights Commission looking for fifth member (Tom May Escalator Duplex)

NEW ALBANY — For a commission that hasn't met in two years, there are going to be a few bumps along the way once that group reconvenes.

The rust was evident during the first 15 minutes of New Albany's Human Rights Commission meeting Tuesday night, the group's first meeting of 2018 ...

Neglect of Fairview Cemetery merely reflects generational neglect of entire downtown neighborhoods, but hey -- we'll have a pool.

I went for a long walk yesterday and found myself in Fairview Cemetery, a place I haven't been for a very long time.

Obviously, cemeteries tell us much -- at times, far too much -- about priorities, local culture and our place in history, and perhaps inadvertently, Fairview itself illustrates in mind-numbing detail New Albany's myriad deficiencies.

The photo above hints at the depth of the cemetery's message. See those houses along 8th Street? The cemetery is abutted on one side by some of the city's most degraded housing stock, ramshackle and filth-encrusted, as well as adjoining the seemingly endless expanse of industrial Padgett's "800-lb downtown gorilla" property on the other.

By contrast, think of Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery's park-like setting or any number of places you've been where a cemetery's metaphorical peacefulness is a base for better surroundings, not slums.

With these memories still fresh, the following article came over the wire. Art, design, creativity ... not foo foo and effete, but in "once-grungy inner-city areas," precisely like those surrounding Fairview now.

And you still can't grasp how and why a $9 million aquatics center is so very annoying .. and sadly indicative of New Albany's generational missed opportunities?

A tour of Cape Town, World Design Capital 2014; Forget fancy galleries – in Cape Town, 2014 World Design Capital, the most exciting work is in the townships and once-grungy inner-city areas, by Lisa Grainger (Guardian)

... "This country is not a place for ninnies," the passionate South African says, pointing at the thousands of shacks that one in four Capetonians call home. "Our crime statistics are horrific. Our economy is in a frightening position and inflation is rocketing. Many of these people don't have food, education or healthcare.

"So why have I brought you here? Because it is in these townships that some of the most inspiring people live: people who are incredible, positive, engaging, brave. And I want visitors to see the good there is here, the real heart of South Africa" ...