Showing posts with label progress vs regress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress vs regress. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2019

Particularly in Nawbany: "Why We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes."

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"We can’t let car companies again shape the vision for our future; if we don’t dream big now, we may never get the chance again. Let’...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

"We can’t eradicate dangerous human errors, but we can design our road systems to protect us."

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No matter your station in in life, here's a reminder that if you fancy yourself "progressive," but believe city streets are...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Dan Canon: "If you're ready for change, I'm ready to fight for it." Meanwhile, Gahan's public housing putsch proceeds apace.

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New Albany's public housing residents are among the city most vulnerable. To borrow candidate Canon's words, they're getting ...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

An essay the Adamites won't read: "Our movement must base itself on a politics capable of confronting both Trump and the rotten elite liberalism that enabled his rise."

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Here in Floyd County, the only mantra local Democrats have been able to muster is Make Monetization Great Again . They'll wail and ...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Joseph Stiglitz 1: "Creating a Learning Society" even in New Albany?

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The economist and educator Joseph Stiglitz is a Hoosier, born in Gary in 1943. Not unexpectedly, he's lived elsewhere ever since. Econ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Democratic city council candidates, this one's for you.

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For those of you competing in the May primary in New Albany, seeking a city council seat as Democrats (as words go it's a non sequitu...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Drinking Progressively returns tonight to Bank Street Brewhouse at 6:00 p.m.

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We're keeping it local, and surveying a non-partisan program to improve New Albany progressively. In November , I first mentioned t...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Drinking Progressively: Tonight at BSB, 6:00 p.m., but no tacos until Friday.

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In November , I first mentioned the idea of brief weekly meetings to discuss local issues in an informal atmosphere -- with beer. In sh...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

One Fine Day in the Park with Adam ... and a Football.

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Inspired by FDR, the Floyd County Democratic Party squelches free expression on social media. Local Democrats courageously prepare fo...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Drinking Progressively: Tuesday evenings, beginning on November 25.

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I've been trying to get the word out to those expecting Drinking (and Thinking) Progressively to begin tonight ... I made a change until...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Drinking Progressively: Let's make it Tuesday evenings, beginning on November 25.

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Last week  I mentioned the idea of brief weekly meetings to discuss local issues in an informal atmosphere -- with beer. In short: How ...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: Why not a progressive movement in New Albany? It sure beats a two-party debacle.

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ON THE AVENUES: Why not a progressive movement in New Albany? It sure beats a two-party debacle. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor....
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Pardon the interruption: "Today I am announcing my Exploratory Committee for the office of Mayor of New Albany."

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Hello, I'm Roger Baylor. Today I am announcing my Exploratory Committee for the office of Mayor of New Albany. To refresh readers...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Indiana House GOP omits agenda item as Rhonda Rhoads rushes forward with a muddy shovel.

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Their own press release . Their own pictograms . At NAC :  "This is bad law-making," but still, Rhonda Rhoads lends her name ...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Bicentennial gal-lops (where the streets run one way), Indiana Sesquicentennial edition.

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In 1966, progress was being measured by our advancement from privies to flush toilets. In 2013, it's the other way around, and Mike...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Inauguration 3: "Obama's Inauguration Speech: A Primer."

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When even a conservative commentator like David Brooks is compelled to concede that Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech "surely has ...

Inauguration 1: "We are made for this moment."

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It was a day for celebration and mirth, because there's nothing quite like angry disgruntled "look at me" white guys to double...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

Four more years, because Bain-think is Budweiser-think with fewer letters.

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In many varied ways, 2008 was the worst year of my life in purely personal terms, and just prior to the presidential election that autumn, p...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

"Something Wicked This Way Comes," from the New Yorker.

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This excellent essay (thanks, R) offers a view of the difference between wicked and tame problems, and more strikingly to me, reference to t...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

"Prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn."

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Been to a city council meeting lately, George? The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left; Conservativism may be the ...