Thursday, May 21, 2015

"Protected bike lanes are now official federal policy."

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Photo credit: People for Bikes Recognize these "star-spangled" ideas? They're integral to Jeff Speck's Downtown Str...

This bicyclist seems mistrustful of the Main Street sharrows.

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Walking to the merchant meeting at the Culbertson Mansion on Tuesday morning, I'd just crossed Main Street when I saw a person on a bicy...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

PourGate 2013: It took two years, but this new law silences Dr. Tom Harris and the Floyd County Health Department.

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As it began. On June 14, 2013, the New Albanian Brewing Company was peaceably vending beer at Bicentennial Park, by means of a suppleme...

Nash, Bored of Works to downtown merchants: Shut up, stop complaining, consider selling nice carrots.

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Got tomatoes? Let's see if I have this straight. Business owners who have invested in downtown New Albany with the reasonable exp...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Transparency Part Two: Boomtown is coming, and so City Hall skips today's merchant mixer meeting.

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"Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there...

Transparency Part One: NAFC schools now "striving" for it.

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This is a positive development. Only a month ago, the school corporation had wagons circled. Now some glasnost is sneaking through. Sunsh...

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 89: Let US help you with the issues WE caused by closing the street.

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Worthy of a touristic postcard, isn't it?  My single favorite plot device, one sprinkled "liberally" through local board ...
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Wrist slap: Run a red light, kill three kids -- hey, I thought it was green.

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In which we learn that "Kentuckiana" isn't the only place in the country where drivers are not held accountable when they m...
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"'Gay, dyslexic ex-alcoholic' Ivan Massow launches London mayor campaign."

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It may appear to be just another crazy story from the big city, and one absent relevance to li'l ol' Nawbany, but there's a cru...
Monday, May 18, 2015

"Meet Houndmouth, the Best Little Indy Rock Band in Americana."

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Me and the ale. But seriously -- did this guy really use the word "Indianans"? It's "Hoosier," national journa...

Your sulking inner sphincter.

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It is impossible to consider toilet training for adults (see link below) without first thinking about Ignatius J. Reilly and his reactive...

Hungarian banks, comedians and food.

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Conceding a persistent Eurocentrism, I find this utterly fascinating, but first, on another Magyar note, do you know the origin of the comed...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Human rights in New Albany?

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Thus far in 2015, it has been a year in which the United States Supreme Court took up same-sex marriage, and the streets of Baltimore ech...

Downtown housing? "People increasingly want to live by such amenities" as Specked-out complete streets.

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Roger, when are you going to write about something other than transportation infrastructure? I do, and I will, but what should be eviden...

The "solution is density," in which small parks play a design role.

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There is no room for creative design downtown?  Red = blank urban fabric . Once New Albany had a grand post office at the corner of Spr...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

An idea from Bloomington, Indiana: The Farmers' Market Advisory Council.

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It's a farmers market Saturday in downtown New Albany, and as we've seen recently ... once again ... persistently poor communication...
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Sheet rock is easy. Utopianism is hard.

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What makes this such an effective piece of writing is the author's ability to peel back the layers of a story far more nuanced than it a...

On Joseph Mitchell and the "grammar of hard facts."

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The book is Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker , by Thomas Kunkel, and in honesty, my attention was snagged by the very phras...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Mulberry House Antiques and "an encroaching Farmers Market."

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Downtown from the top, down. Rinse ... repeat. City Hall non-transparency yet again: Independent downtown businesses negatively impacte...
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Jeffie bar the door: Redevelopment don't need no stinking TIF input from schools.

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The piranhas are circling TIF even as we receive another lesson in City Hall's innate non-transparency. A fair share? NA-FC School...
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