Showing posts with label neighborhoods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neighborhoods. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2019

We can't quote Gahan on neighborhood crime because he won't address it publicly.

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Yesterday we had a look-see at the progress regress of this year's campaign to date, during which Slick Jeffie and the DemoDisneyDix...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Ain't talkin 'bout guns: "Understanding Safety at Neighborhood Schools."

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Did any of the school board candidates discuss this? Don Sakel, maybe? I trust Strong Towns will forgive me for reprinting this...
Friday, October 05, 2018

Fast fact about vehicular speeds that kill: "18 mph is the human tolerance of crash impacts."

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I'll keep posting about speed because speed kills. If you wish to ignore all available evidence and retain a sense of automotive e...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

At Strong Towns, Marohn says "I’m one person with one vote and, sadly, despite my strong desire to invest in our schools, I’m compelled to vote NO."

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A reminder of rants past, this one from November 4, 2016. ON THE AVENUES: It’s our big fat Hibbardendum, and Jeff Gahan is carrying th...
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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...
Saturday, November 04, 2017

Strong Towns Week: "In an urban neighbourhood it is important ... that everyone has a park within a few minutes walk."

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In New Albany, we've opted for the "grand park" approach. Millions in TIF borrowing have produced several mini-Disneys, b...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

ON THE AVENUES SATURDAY SPECIAL: One-ways on the way out, because with downtown at a crossroads, they simply had to be exterminated.

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ON THE AVENUES SATURDAY SPECIAL:  One-ways on the way out, because with downtown at a crossroads, they simply had to be exterminated. A we...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

The blog's junior editor nails it, but you were busy speeding through obliviously.

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In the specific context of New Albany, it's noteworthy that so many of the outraged opponents of street calming live elsewhere. Blu...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Charles Marohn on the "incremental approach to development."

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How NOT to incremental it. This week, Charles Marohn is discussing incrementalism. I'm not expecting this to be a focus for the inc...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Piss off, LEO. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries -- and your governor's worse than ours, on top of it all.

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Thanks to J for pointing me to this. I've decided to point something more fitting at it. Back in the mid-1990s I helped run a bee...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Since 2013 (and before), the Mt. Tabor Road beak-wetting boondoggle is a large millstone hung around Jeff Gahan's neck. Mayor overboard?

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It's important to remember that Jeff Gahan did not become mayor until January 1, 2012. Before this, he served two terms as councilman fo...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Dr. John Gilderbloom's video about pollution in Louisville, Kentucky: "Think Locally, Act Globally: Neighbourhood pollution and the future of the earth."

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Earlier today I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. John Gilderbloom. Regular readers will know him as the two-way streets researcher f...