Showing posts with label localism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label localism. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

REWIND: Good points aplenty ... "The big urban mistake: Building for tourism vs. livability."

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Social media at Strong Towns reposted this link today. It appeared previously in this space in May 26, 2017. It has long been my viewpoint ...
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 ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

New Albany too? How will #MeToo play out here at the grassroots?

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“Sexual assault is the most under-reported crime in the United States. It’s a crime that people usually tell nobody about.” Just the ot...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Better to support Tailspin Ale Fest, your LOCAL beer festival, than fluff those carpetbaggers from afar.

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Okay, listen up. Personal point of view, and nothing to do with the people who pay me. The last time I wrote anything in this space about...
Sunday, November 03, 2019

Canon on independent local voting: "You vote not for the party but for the candidate you know; your friend, your neighbor, your friend’s neighbor, someone you went to elementary school with."

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Some fine points by Dan Canon, who lives among us right here in Nawbany. National Politics Taint Local Races And Lay Waste To Societal No...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: There's no business like no business, and it's none of your business (2016).

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The notion to repeat these thoughts from the Pre-Trump Pleistocene (okay, 2016) came when yet another News and Tribune staffer recently de...
Saturday, June 01, 2019

Paging Bill Hanson: It's called Report for America ... in part, addressing that pesky bit about holding elected officials accountable.

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Not trying to bug you or anything, Bill. Maybe you can leave the cheerleaders be, check out  Report for America  and imagine the possibil...
Monday, May 06, 2019

ON THE AVENUES REWOUND: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones (2018).

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Originally published on May 17, 2018. What's the turnout going to be for Tuesday's primary election? I've already made my cho...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

These seven important things about the government shutdown -- and look, not one of them has to do with Covington Catholic High School.

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The federal government shutdown has brought the dysfunction of American civilization right to our doorsteps, and yet we've spent the ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

"Death to Chain Restaurants!!" -- in which Lew Bryson's pioneering essay is joyfully reprised.

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Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. --Arnold Toynbee, historia...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones.

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ON THE AVENUES: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. "Might the accused gen...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

"I know a place where your voice really matters and where your opinions and actions can make a definite impact: your own neighborhood."

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It was a bizarre dream. I was having breakfast at Daisy's with 15 Republicans, a lone European-style Social Democrat (read: independ...