Showing posts with label referendum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referendum. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

UK election 2019: Is the scene set for a return to Scottish independence?

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Thursday's UK election brought a huge majority to the Tories amid Labour's cataclysmic defeat, which makes Brexit a prospective f...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Since when is Brad Snyder the superintendent of schools? We thought Jeff Gahan claimed credit for education, too.

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It's all about the foundation of a strategic plan for the school corporation ... oh, and by the way, in the small print, there'...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Breathtaking school building bunk goes to show lies are lies, whether they're Trump's or Gahan's.

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Note the use of the word "we" in this shameless whopper from Slick Jeffie. SUPPORTING EDUCATION: With the help of school adm...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Property tax bills: Keep your eyes on the ball, and forget the mound of peanut shell games.

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Chris Morris is on medical leave, there hasn't yet been a replacement for Elizabeth Beilman -- and hell, Tom May can be 15 or 20 plac...
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, April 01, 2017

Transparency in schools is a relative term, redevelopmentally non-binding in the sense of ... "Is Hibbard gone yet?"

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By the way, New Albany's Redevelopment Commission spent money to support the school corporation's property tax referendum last Nove...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Our big fat Hibbardendum emerges fully erect: If all them Democrats got beat, how did they manage this tax increase?

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Surprised? Shocked? Me, too. With numerous themes of societal disaffection combining to produce an overwhelming local landslide for Don...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Endorse THIS: Metro United Way completes seven whole days of pre-referendum stonewalling.

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Team Gahan must have tipped them off. "Not a partisan matter." Rote verbiage. If I hadn't already determined to vote...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

Our big fat Hibbardendum (1): Follow the PAC-besotted usual suspects' beak wetting in the $87 million schools referendum.

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As a preface to this daily ritualistic banging of heads against award-winning splash park water slides, has anyone noticed that D.J. Hine...

Our big fat Hibbardendum (2): The more things stay the same, or our school bond referendum, 2016.

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I was asked to "clarify" my stance on the school bond referendum in the wake of Friday's day-late column. ON THE AVENUES: I...

Our big fat Hibbardendum (3): City voters, take note, because just as in 2015, the NA-FC bond referendum is a "driving oriented, suburban school model."

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Originally published on April 6, 2015.  The "yes" arguments favoring the 2016 variant of the school corporation's bond refer...
Friday, November 04, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: It’s our big fat Hibbardendum, and Jeff Gahan is carrying the superintendent across the threshold as Metro United Way tosses rice and One Southern Indiana steals all the liquor.

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ON THE AVENUES: It’s our big fat Hibbardendum, and Jeff Gahan is carrying the superintendent across the threshold as Metro United Way tosses...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Same referendum, same arguments. Same outcome?

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Returning to a point we made last spring: Given the advent of early voting, the News and Tribune must move up the release of articles li...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

The annual question: Why does the "rule" of Harvest Homecoming outweigh the interests of free speech on city-owned streets?

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It's an annual question that hasn't ever been properly answered. Let's get David Duggins right on it, shall we? After all, Sh...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Democratic Party still silent about two-way streets, but heartily endorses NA-FC referendum.

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But of course. Meanwhile, there has been no two-way streets endorsement from any of these entities, from City Hall through Party, and i...
Friday, September 16, 2016

"How to Get the Most out of Urban Public Schools."

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Odd, but I can't find the section detailing the importance of demolishing numerous urban neighborhood homes to create fresh new parking ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Your ASK THE BORED follow-up: The disappearing school recruitment banner atop the levee.

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I go away for ten days, and upon returning, see that almost nothing has changed, except this. Stay tuned for more. I'm seeing ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

ASK THE BORED: Can we all have a banner atop the levee, or just the school corporation?

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I've had several reader questions about the NAFC schools banner currently hanging on degraded remains of the structure atop the leve...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Letter to the editor: "I've spent a lot of time thinking about the school referendum."

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Submitted. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the school referendum - years, now -- and I could never come up with any reasona...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Council frivolity, slice number one: The council makes mad passionate love to a "referendumn."

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Pretty soon the Jeffersonville paper will be reduced to hiring temps to cover New Albany news. Does Bill "Publisher of the Year for Pr...