"News and Tribune" changes its name to "Tom May Compendium."

Now Karl May ... there was a writer.

First the newspaper doubled down on its weekly Sunday coverage of religious superstition with two columnists, one local (Tom May) and the other not (Nancy Kennedy).

Now May gets a second column slot (albeit it one not published weekly) at a time when the newspaper surely would be better served by a newfound commitment to diversity.

Let's see: May, Cummins, Dodd, Stawar, Moss (all male, all white, average age probably 60 if not greater) ... versus Anderson and Beam (white and female; Kennedy is, too, but she doesn't count because religion is bunk and she's syndicated).

WTF, management?

Is this May character a former employee of state government in Alabama, entitled to some sort of weird pensioner columnist's kickback?

This being the News and Tribune, it gets even worse.

May's first offering in his second column slot was about sports, and someone in Indy liked it, so now the newspaper must inevitably devote column inches to praising itself for its own columnist.

Hand me an air sickness bag, and allow me to repeat: Has diversity ever occurred to anyone in Hanson Ad Sales Land?

Spoiler alert: The first sentence of Morris' paean to May is not offered in an ironic sense.

Indians offer May season pass after reading column, by Chris Morris

NEW ALBANY — Tom May figures he was at the right place at the right time — twice.

Rep. Ed Clere on Gahan's public housing deceptions: "Paper promises are not enough. The residents deserve meaningful assurances and action to ensure they're future access to housing."

Kaboom.

The News and Tribune is AWOL (N & T coverage here) as Justin Sayers at the C-J breaks this important story detailing Rep. Ed Clere's public stance on the public housing putsch and his attendance at tonight's Hauss Square vigil.

Hilariously, all David "Brownie, You're Doing a Heckuva Job" Duggins can do is spout bilge about "politically motivated" protests and outside conspiracies.

As we noted yesterday, paranoia is on the rise within the ranks of Team Gahan -- and where are all the Democrats?

You've stepped into it, Jeffrey. That's why the smell keeps getting worse and worse. Expect to see a few of the mayor's operatives tonight, hovering around the periphery, taking notes. When the reprisals begin, and they will, just remember that for the City Hall sycophants wetting beaks and running envelopes, the end justifies the means.

'Paper promises are not enough': Lawmaker joins public housing fight in New Albany, by Justin Sayers (Louisville Courier Journal)

Housing advocates in New Albany said they remain unswayed by a city promise that no residents will go homeless because of a plan to overhaul public housing.

And a group of them, including state Rep. Ed Clere, plan to deliver a petition on Monday from more than 3,000 New Albany residents – including a quarter of the city's roughly's 2,000 public housing residents – that asks Mayor Jeff Gahan to not "tear down public housing without a plan to replace it."

The "Candlelight and Prayer Vigil," sponsored by newly created outreach group We Are New Albany, is to begin at 6 p.m. Monday outside the city-county building at 311 Hauss Square.

"Paper promises are not enough," said Clere, R-New Albany. "The residents deserve meaningful assurances and action to ensure they're future access to housing."

David Duggins, interim director of the New Albany Housing Authority, called the rally and petition "politically motivated" and the actions of people who "do not have the best interests of the residents in mind."

Gahan's reeking public housing putsch, his chosen procurators, their escalating foul tempers -- and snow, wonderful snow.

A previous conversation about snowblindness, joined in progress.

Wait -- did I forget to answer your question?

Sorry about that!

Here's a solid primer on the topic at hand; hope it helps.

Short-term health effects of cocaine:

• extreme happiness and energy
• mental alertness
• hypersensitivity to sight, sound, and touch
• irritability
• paranoia—extreme and unreasonable distrust of others

Some people find that cocaine helps them perform simple physical and mental tasks more quickly, although others experience the opposite effect. Large amounts of cocaine can lead to bizarre, unpredictable, and violent behavior.

What was that?

No, I hadn't heard about the random drug testing program being terminated without explanation, and I didn't know this meant he could have avoided the standard drug screen prior to taking the job.

It's probably just a coincidence, anyway. How long does it remain in the bloodstream, anyway? Looks like more research is merited.

Now, where were we?

Ah, yes -- it all comes back to me now.

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Robo-NAHA board waves sheets of meaningless paper while Duggins foams at the mouth. No worries, because Gahan's finest functionaries are on it.

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Below are photos of this inexplicably bizarre *'false' rumors* resolution (what about all those true rumors, anyway?) and the accompanying letter to New Albany Housing Authority residents, but first ... paranoia, big destroyer?

Have you noticed how irritable and sensitive Jeff Gahan's fawning flatterers at NAHA Occupation Force Supreme Command have gotten lately -- especially the Imperial Grand Poobah, who suddenly was shifted away from the redevelopment mess and appointed to wet the beaks of future developers as the luxury land grab approaches?

When Gahan's punch-drunk putsch was launched almost a year ago, there was euphoria and celebrations in the Stretch Humvee Limo (complete with paid eye candy) in route to the glories of Keeneland; now it's like Baghdad after Saddam Hussein was toppled, with rapidly spreading chaos, stunning incompetence, hyperactive attention to perceived slights, and lately these big, angry, roundhouse punches being thrown at phantom "enemies" no one else in the room can even see.

Seriously, who can keep a straight face while reading a borrowed-from-Hallmark line this lame: "At this festive time of year, we need to focus on our families."

Heavens. Lindsey Buckingham managed far better than this while assembling Tusk: "Why don’t you tell me what’s going on? Why don’t you tell me who’s on the phone?"

Now that's an old-school snowstorm -- and Buckingham was a consummate pro, not a servile minion.

Meanwhile, in 2017 Gahan scratched his 50-something New Albanian white boy's itch and gleefully snatched the housing authority, but now the stench just won't go away -- and the sycophants and lickspittles assigned to monetize and colonize New Albany's most vulnerable population will be getting ever more testy.

Dude, why not take a break for the holidays? I mean, things like this aren't good for the nervous system, are they?