Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Conjoined Councilmen wear boogie shoes, seek help in VCR programming.

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Councilman Dan Coffey (heatedly, finger wagging): “Jack, I’ll put my business knowledge up against yours any day.” Councilman Jack Messer (s...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Let the tailgating vigil begin: Council meeting tonight.

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Steel band in the distance And their music floats across the bay While American women in muumuus Talk about all the things they did today An...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

An angel steps forward: First Harrison to restore the Yenowine-Nichols-Collins House.

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There is encouraging news for a victimized historic property in Georgetown. Embattled Floyd County historic home to get new owner; Disputed ...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Leadership Southern Indiana welcomes ... huh?

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Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-the flagship school of the Southern Ba...
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Friday, December 01, 2006

It might get you fired, unless of course the job wasn't yours from the start.

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Seeing as the professorial poseur over at Freedom to Screech seldom sees any need to attribute the scattershot snippets from the hard work ...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

12-letter words & flag burnin': Unless, of course, the whole thing is a joke.

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After many apathetic years, the letters section of the Tribune is again showing signs of becoming the entertaining, edifying spectacle it u...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

World AIDS Day is Friday, December 1.

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World AIDS Day is Friday, December 1. By coincidence, the recent weeks leading to this year’s World AIDS Day have witnessed much household ...
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Another Barbie for Prof. Erika ...

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... looks like she forgot one (see AGING BARBIE at her FOS anonymous rant blog).
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Jump ball: A platform for 2007.

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In a comment yesterday, SBAvanti63 wrote: The platform for 2007 is an easy one. Bluegill mentions clean up, revitalization, preservation and...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

Emperor Kochert’s newly progressive anti-smoking clothes -- and their utterly striking invisibility.

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The C-J’s random New Albany and Floyd County news coverage generator gyrates furiously again today, with reporter Dick Kaukas emerging from...
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CM Kochert's council legacy? One clue: It won't be a smoking ordinance.

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Regular NAC readers know that New Albany’s approaching “to ban or not to ban” smoking debate has inspired deep ambivalence on the part of t...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

No better day than Sunday to be a gadfly.

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The following is modified from a letter originally published in the Tribune on November 19, and as yet not archived on line. ---- A few week...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Looks like a worthy cause.

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Friday, November 24, 2006

REWIND: Sometimes it's embarrassing to be an American.

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America's frenzied pop culture vultures have dubbed today Black Friday, and analysts will be poring over sales figures and tea leaves in...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Thanksgiving tradition?

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Curmudgeons like to remind people unaccustomed to recalling ancient history that ultimately, someone had to pay for the inspiring story of t...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Templates, tags, levels and extreme impatience.

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My overt hostility toward reactionaries and Luddites of various stripes is fueled in large measure by the knowledge that there by the grace ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Is the Great New Albany Smoke-Out coming down the pike?

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NAC touched briefly on this item Sunday : Smoking ban approaches in New Albany , by Eric Scott Campbell ( News and Tribune ). New Albany c...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

The at-large city council rumorama wheel ...

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... is spinning, and today it says that Kevin Zurschmiede may be interested in the at-large seat to be vacated by Mark Seabrook at the end o...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006

UPDATED: Open thread: What qualities should we expect from our city council representatives?

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Sunday morning update: It's now official: We have a Democratic primary race in the 3rd council district. Former 3rd district councilman ...
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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Anyone for a viewing of "Iraq for Sale?"

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It's been a year since our memorably frigid "Wal-Mart bites" movie screening at the Farmers Market in downtown New Albany. The...