Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2020

Strong Towns: Redlining in Kansas City: What local reparations might look like.

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The actual title of the article is "The Local Case for Reparations," which Lauren Fisher explains. It's about reparations for ...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Balder and Dash, or H.L. Mencken describes Warren Harding's command of written English.

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In Ohio, James Blaesing, the grandson of long-forgotten U.S. President Warren G. Harding (Blaesing's mother was presumed as the "lo...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

I Know I'm Not Wrong.

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Aaron "Urbanophile" Renn moved back to Indiana (Indianapolis) from New York City earlier this year . This column was published ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Texas Rangers? "The team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen."

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Something else I've learned today. The argument is convincing. Just call the team the Texas Horny Toads from now on, and be done with...
Friday, June 19, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Anything except common, that Kentucky Common.

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I'm cross-posting this weekend. The article offered here about Kentucky Common beer is something I'd planned on sharpening for us...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A wee rant: Why must we have statues of "famous" people? Can't we just have art instead?

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Rather than argue about which statues to remove and which to keep, I'd rather have a discussion about why humans deploy statuary as p...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

The Calumet Club celebrates a century, so hats off to the Bliss family for their stewardship of an institution.

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Under renovation, 2006. We begin with the newspaper's account on Friday (June 12), then turn to our legal bagel Shane for a new/old...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020 (4 of 4): History matters, especially on Memorial Day.

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There are long, long trails a-winding ... ... through places like France. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery With headstones lying i...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Old-school economic development: "At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity."

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The jokes write themselves. Wonder if this one might make the NAHA newsletter? After all, $137,918.02 buys a piss-load of Miller Lite. Pe...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Follow the Auschwitz Memorial page at Twitter and root yourself in reality.

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A disturbing number of my fellow Amerikaners have decided the Holocaust didn't occur. Stupidity or ignorance? Either way, dipshittedn...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Today was Rudolf Maister Day in Slovenia, because he was a Slavic Badass.

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Another historical footnote of which I was unaware. It's only 119 miles (as the crow flies) from Vienna to Maribor , which lies in Sl...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Under threat: "Why Venice Is Disappearing."

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Ten million tree trunks, or in short, what's underneath most of the buildings in the city of Venice. First a short and very informa...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Pay attention, students, because voter turnout went UP in New Albany.

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This time out, the weekly column is to be kept (relatively) short and sweet. I’ve no grand pronouncements to make, and quite a lot of cat...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

GIVE GAHAN THE BOOT: (Wednesday) The shopping cart mayor's cartoonish veneer of a personality cult. Where do we tithe, Leader Dearest?

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Last week was Harvest Homecoming, and my city's favorite amok time kept me pinned to the tarmac, but now we're back to what  passes...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Posterity will affirm it: "Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?"

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“When it came my turn to present, the solution I proposed for trips of less than a mile -- and more than half of urban trips are this sho...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019 (4 of 4): History matters, especially on Memorial Day.

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There are long, long trails a-winding ... ... through places like France. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery With headstones lying i...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Ten years ago, Bank Street Brewhouse's brewing equipment arrived at the former "day-old bread store."

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Ten years ago (May 11, 2009) I was so excited that a rare exclamation mark was merited: "NABC's brewery arrives on site!...
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Friday, April 26, 2019

"Reaganomics killed America's middle class," and "the old deal that held US society together started to unwind."

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Photo credit. Following are two topics raised during the Tuesday "Chew On This" discussion about what divides Americans. T...