Showing posts with label smoking ordinance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking ordinance. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Anti-smoking council math, and how it may (or may not) have changed.

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In summer of 2008, after refusing to act in the waning months of the 2003-2007 term, New Albany's city council voted in favor of an ordi...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/Nor hell a disingenuousness like Jeff Gahan scorned."

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It wasn’t the substance of what happened at last evening’s council meeting that was strange or unexpected. Rather, in the aftermath of Tuesd...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Smoking law - go away!/Come back another day/We have so much work to do/Not that we ever knew …

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Dick Kaukas’s C-J coverage of yesterday’s veto of the city council's smoking ban ordinance paints by the numbers, but he contributes a ...
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Moral of the smoking ordinance story? The sordid collection of corpses from a political wasteland.

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Following is the opinion of the senior editor. You’re perfectly free to disagree. On Labor Day, comfortably ahead of the mayor’s press confe...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Coffey to world: We're confused, and so should you. Be. Too.

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After Mayor England concluded his comments this morning, council persons Dan Coffey and Diane Benedetti assumed positions behind the microph...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

From the horse's mouth? Erika says so.

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Professor Erika is reporting that Mayor Doug England will "veto" the smoking ordinance. COMMON SENSE APPROACH ON LABOR DAY News fl...
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Tribune: “'No! Bad council!' But in this case, the ban should stand."

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For the record, the Tribune's editorial board has cast a vote in favor of the smoking ordinance, but with no plaudits (and many rebukes)...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Anger management? No, thanks. I’ve had all the placid acceptance I can stomach.

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I’ll begin this essay with a promise. This is my final posting on the topic. And, an observation. Thanks to New Albany’s Greatly Unnecessary...
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At The NewAlbanist.

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There's a new blog portal: The NewAlbanist . The most recent posting is What’s really going on , and here's an excerpt. For the comp...

The Creamer Theorem: Is there any reason for this being part of the smoking debate?

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That is, apart from shameless (read: irrelevant) propaganda value? This one really baffles me. Like a can of light beer, it’s an example of ...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

If it's good enough for zoning ...

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On the topic of polling data, today I decided to conduct a sampling in my workplace. The error rate for this informal questionnaire was plus...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Veto the smoking ordinance, yer Honor. You’ll survive squawking that primarily comes from afar.

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Here it is: The resident contrarian’s case in favor of mayoral intervention in the Greatly Unnecessary Smoking Debate of ’08. (After all, I ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Open thread: To veto, or not to veto?

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Should Mayor England veto the smoking ordinance? What are the reasons for and against a veto? What do you think? (Note to potential posters:...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

After the loving: Long live the once and future King, and pity those bar owners who know so very little.

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To fully and accurately document the reason why Jeff Gahan officiously ordained the removal of my considerable bulk from last evening’s sham...
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Wife looks on appalled as senior editor ejaculated from meeting by President Gahan.

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Yes, it's true. I was tossed, and the smoking ordinance passed by identical 5-4 votes. Had I been permitted to speak, and managd to rest...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

All this smoking hullabaloo, and Pat Harrison's tow-in lot, too.

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Yesterday I noted in a comment that by pressing ahead with a smoking ordinance in spite of voluminous evidence that the community in general...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A random thought: After an evening's pints.

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After reading today's comments, especially Jon's ( at long last, recognition), I've come to an epiphany. I realize that it isn...
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Either CM Price or Yankees great Yogi Berra said, “A smoking ban is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.”

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As previously threatened, the Tribune recently conducted a phone survey about the proposed smoking ban. Reporter Daniel Suddeath’s on-line ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Local government as carpet burn remover?

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I’m always suspicious of Internet testimonials from anonymous quarters. Nonetheless, here’s one from at-large councilman John Gonder’s blog ...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

Quid pro quo: Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean its there.

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It's a new week, and there are waters in need of muddying. Fortunately, I'm just the right man for the job. To begin, and speaking p...
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