Tuesday, July 12, 2005

UPDATED: Board of Public Works reaches decision on Locust Street, and here are the details.

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This just in from Steve LaDuke, member of the Board of Public Works and Safety. NA Confidential previously had asked Steve to keep us poste...

Cerveza in the Afternoon: Pamplona's Festival of San Fermin.

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You may have read that several participants were gored over the weekend while “running” with the bulls at the annual Festival of San Fermin ...
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Monday, July 11, 2005

NA Confidential to the County Council: Larry Kochert? Must be a wrong number. Now, carry on, thank you ...

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As many of you already know, I grew up in Georgetown, attended Floyd Central High School and Indiana University Southeast, lived in Floyds K...
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Sunday, July 10, 2005

From fireworks to politics, an unusually bountiful Sunday Tribune yields much for consideration.

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Today’s Sunday Tribune is filled with noteworthy material – so here are a few notes. Congratulations are due the newspaper’s staff for its ...
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Saturday, July 09, 2005

Today is the Indiana State Fair's Brewers' Cup Competition 2005.

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Saturday we'll be in Indianapolis for the judging of the Indiana State Fair's Brewers' Cup Competition 2005 . Last year, the Ne...
Friday, July 08, 2005

UPDATED: More on last night's historic City Council approval of Scribner Place.

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4:00 p.m. - Friday coverage of last evening's City Council meeting: Council moves forward on Scribner Place , by Amany Ali, Tribune Cit...
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

In historic vote, New Albany's City Council approves Scribner Place project, option #1.

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In a long, tense and occasionally strained session, the council approved Scribner Place bonding according to the first option, with the so-c...
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Volunteer Hoosier's "Scribner Place Talking Points," or the perfect antidote to troglodyte rumor-mongering.

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Randy "Volunteer Hoosier" Smith offers the following succinct summary of the case for Scribner Place and the "Option 1" ...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

July 6 Tribune editorial: Future of downtown in Council’s hands.

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Here is the complete text of today's firm editorial endorsement of the Scribner Place project, as offered by the New Albany Tribune, w...

UPDATED: Memo to City Council: Sweep aside the mistakes of the past and approve Option #1 of Scribner Place (Phase I) financing.

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The New Albany Tribune , our only local newspaper of record, does not publish on Monday. On Tuesday, two days before the most important Ci...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

New Albany's "little people" find their savior, at least for the next five minutes.

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Things that make you go “hmmmm” … from the new Diggin’ in the Dirt blog: —Lt. Governor Becky Skillman got to see Mansion Row Friday afterno...
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$4 haircuts return to downtown New Albany.

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Yes! Man working to revive a dying profession with NA-based barber college , by Chris Morris, Tribune Managing Editor. Randy Smith and I me...
Monday, July 04, 2005

Here's a cause that "Concern Taxpayer" and "NA Resident" can really get behind.

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Poor Writing Costs Taxpayers Millions , by Justin Pope, AP Education Writer. "States spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars a year...

The Declaration: No rhetoric -- just read it!

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The Declaration of Independence ... from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
Sunday, July 03, 2005

Corn on the 3rd of July?

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Mrs. Confidential and I made a belated appearance this evening at the official New Albany 4th of July celebration at the venerable Trinkle D...
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Saturday, July 02, 2005

"You Can't Go Home Again": Progress and good beer in New Albany.

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I've tried to write for as long as I can remember, and for just as long, the written word has alternately soothed and mocked me. During ...
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Tour de France, or Tour de Trappiste?

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Last year at this time, five friends and I were bicycling into Liege, Belgium to watch the start of the Tour de France . Throughout last yea...
Friday, July 01, 2005

Mass exodus to Birdseye; little people evacuate New Albany in search of cleanliness, lower educational standards.

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Councilman Cappuccino’s provisional city government totters on the brink of dissolution today as dozens of New Albany’s littlest “little peo...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005

The case for re-opening Locust Street.

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Frequent reader and New Albany resident Jerry Steuerwald contributed the following comment, which argues in favor of the city of New Albany ...
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3rd District's Price AWOL as Board of Public Works & Safety and ESSNA come together at the Calumet Club.

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In testimony before the Board of Public Works and Safety , which gathered Wednesday in a special evening session at the Calumet Club , numer...
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