Thursday, May 31, 2007

C'mon, who could turn down an afternoon at Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center?

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Given a choice on Memorial Day between attending the Abbey Road festival honoring the Beatles and visiting the adjacent Muhammad Ali Center ...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Repair Affair 2007

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Repair Affair mobilizes community-wide resources and volunteers to support the housing repair needs of elderly and disabled homeowners of lo...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Divided we fall (again?): Time to discuss the "Price" of unity in the 3rd district.

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It strikes me as odd that the Floyd County GOP chose the prelude to a holiday weekend to break the news that Brenda Scharlow is the party’s ...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

REWIND: "My shoes are filled with Volga mud ... "

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(Originally written in 1999, and published here on Dec. 4, 2005. It came to mind as I've been reading articles about the remaking of Mo...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

REWIND: Councilman Cappuccino declares city administration null and void, invites YMCA to form provisional government with himself as regent.

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(Originally published on June 23, 2005. The "Coffey plan" was unceremoniously rejected, and in spite of persistent Luddite opposit...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

3rd district in the spotlight; Price to raid grandma's cookie jar for fall campaign.

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It's a holiday weekend, and perhaps half our normal readership will be clocking in, so we'll refrain from substantive comment about ...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Tribune reports: Brenda Scharlow to be Republican nominee in 3rd.

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From the Tribune's web site: (Brenda) Scharlow plans to run against New Albany's Price for (3rd district) Council spot

Photos: New Albany's Greenway project first phase very much under construction.

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Good news? Here's some.
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Elections come and go, but failed candidates seemingly never die.

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Over at Freedom to Screech , the trognonymous Vickster -- Erik; Erika; whatever -- continues her week-long exercise in self-VallaggrAnndi...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Downtown furniture corners still windowless.

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What can be done about it?
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Opening tip: "Do all City Council races need a Third Party Candidate?"

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Former 3rd district councilman Maury Goldberg, who was narrowly defeated by the incumbent (and fellow Democrat) Steve Price in the recent pr...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Devil's advocate: There's a big reason why a springtime festival for New Albany won't float.

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In yesterday’s posting about the past weekend’s folk festival in Madison, I appended “civic cooperation” to the list of search terms. This w...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

Madison's successful Ohio River Valley Folk Festival is a model, but ya gotta want to emulate it.

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The second annual Ohio River Valley Folk Festival is history, and the city of Madison could not have asked for a better weekend in terms of ...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Jerry Falwell died a few days ago. Don’t look here for tears.

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Reader advisory: The litigious screed that follows boldly disqualifies the author from politics as usual in New Albany. The squeamish might...
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Sunday Blue Light Backfill Special: Three good Tribune reads.

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You can be sure that the New Albany Tribune is on the right track when the city’s most shameless of trognonymous bloggers begins attacking...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Worth a read, worth a ride

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A couple of weeks ago, I bumped into David Coyte of the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation while working on a local h...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Afternoon Reminder: downtown loft tour on Saturday

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From the New Albany Historic Preservation Commission's web site : Lofty Ideas Downtown Walking Tour May 19, 2007 Meet at the loft reside...

A sewer runs through it.

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Yesterday afternoon, NAC’s Bluegill previewed the evening’s city council meeting, and while doing so asked a few pertinent hypotheticals. ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lame ducks ponder sewer refuge, the Council meets tonight

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Actually, it's non-lame duck 6th district Council Member Jeff Gahan, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, who's taking a lea...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

2nd Annual Ohio River Valley Folk Festival in Madison, IN, this weekend.

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Man, I'm just having one of those days, but good times are around the corner: 2nd Annual Ohio River Valley Folk Festival in Madison, IN,...