Monday, August 06, 2007

Must reads, strange bedfellows and the continuing saga of city council Monday.

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Required reading of a non-political nature, all of which surfaced during a sultry high summer’s weekend: Downtown Saturday: Everything’s wa...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007

REWIND: Imagination Atrophy Syndrome, downtown churches, the "right facilities," and the "wrong" developer.

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Last week I was part of a conversation between two fellow “improve downtown New Albany” community activists, and one mentioned the numerous ...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Get thee to the Hofbrauhaus Newport. Seriously.

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(Originally published a few days ago at Potable Curmudgeon , my beer blog) ---- Few institutions in the world of beer and brewing are as rev...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

The first monthly Downtown Saturday is tomorrow.

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The first monthly Downtown Saturday takes place tomorrow, August 4, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The flyer below provides the gist of the pl...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Holy Mahatma, Batman!

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It's nowhere near Halloween, but now our adorable Erika thinks she's Mohandas Gandhi . Hmm. I guess they both wear glasses. Just s...

Tribune reports on recent redistricting lawsuit developments.

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New Albany redistricting deal in the works , by Eric Scott Campbell ( News & Tribune ). A group of New Albany residents claimed headline...

REWIND (2006): Tribune reports: Redistricting lawsuit filed today - with thrilling Erika update.

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Here's what we had to say about the council redistricting lawsuit when it was filed in 2006. The post below was published on Tuesday, Ma...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Here are the redistricting lawsuit facts as best can be gleaned at the current time.

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In the case of Vogt vs. Civil City of New Albany, of which the author is one of as many as 18 plaintiffs (one original plaintiff has since w...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Council redistricting lawsuit: Battling disinformation is like swatting gnats.

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It should be obvious by now that not all local bloggers have, shall we tactfully say, the same honorable standards for differentiation when ...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Night of the living plastic bottled swill Hell … but a good time for the discerning.

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Imagine that you’ve paid the very reasonable price of $80 for a chartered bus seat, a ticket in the right field stands to watch the Chicago...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Council vs. stormwater board: Media coverage.

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Sunday edition elaboration from the Courier-Journal following yesterday's rare Saturday morning city council meeting : New Albany ponde...

Council spanner lands, according to New Albany Today.

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NAC had no intention of letting the dysfunctional drama manufacturing firm otherwise known as the New Albany city council interfere with a ...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

CM Coffey calls special meeting to revoke city charter, squelch dissent and declare barbecued bologna the official municipal delectable.

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Well, not exactly. Councilman Cappuccino wasn't alone in moving for a meeting, and he merely seeks to disband that nasty stormwater drai...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

One Southern Indiana chairman flicks his Bic as ROCK proposes to burn the sinners.

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Coincidentally, I noticed the “XXX – Garbage In, Garbage Out” billboard while traveling on I-65 yesterday, and having taken an interest in t...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

LEO's Stephen George on the death of a bicyclist; NAC's junior editor on the Bridges Project and oil addiction.

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A tip of the hat goes to Stephen George. The LEO writer has made metro transportation his personal issue, and he’s a tenacious bulldog abou...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

8664 event today on the Great Lawn of Louisville's Waterfront Park.

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(8:25 a.m. update: Want to see what a "true greenway should look like?" Go to John Gonder's blog and see: A Utopian Greenway? ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The vision thing ... and just doing it.

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Just draw up a proposal of what you envision for New Albany and present it to the City Fathers and fight for the adoption of the proposal. S...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

New Albany could use a "positive spirit" enlargement pill when it comes to attitudes toward bicycling, but don't hold your breath.

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Yesterday I took issue with the Luddite tendencies of the Tribune’s soccer-bashing sports editor , so it’s only fair (and balanced) that ku...
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“Dork and Mindy” advocate openness – behind their bleeding skull voodoo masks, of course.

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Professor Erika’s latest blogomanic screed is a particularly intemperate boilerplate directed against the mayor of New Albany, the city’s s...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Attack of the killer elitist soccer snobs -- quick, find us a journalist ... now!

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(See also a fine letter to the editor on the same topic: Hutsell should kick it . It was published on July 21, as the finishing touches were...
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