NA Confidential

New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?

Scarlet letter? As New Albany hemorrhages jobs, we reveal Team Gahan's economic development argument.

The South does it again -- wait, Indiana did it first. No matter: "﻿The NBA Needs to Move the 2017 All-Star Game From Charlotte."

10 Days In ... cooking school?

Dog daze: With Gahan back in the safe house, civilian architect Timperman now is the city's official spokesman.

ON THE AVENUES: Introducing New Albany Craft Beer Week, May 27 – June 4, 2016.

Independent business peeps take note: The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is far more relevant than One Southern Indiana.

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Autodidact -- and how David Duggins denigrates one of them amid Team Gahan's zeal for a dog park.

The answer to persistent stormwater runoff issues? Clear-cutting, of course.

One week later, the newspaper reluctantly diverts its attention from cooking school and learns that "park site in New Albany draws concerns."

"Night soil," or when America's cities were full of crap (and crap-removal campaign finance enhancement).

Twelve days later, that mattress is still right there, justified and ancient, on the Elm Street curb.

In case you were wondering how much it costs for the city to hire quality bands ...

In unprecedented act of territorial pissing, outraged dogs gather to protest Native Americans.

Belatedly addressing the Cannon Acres dog park fiasco, Mayor Gahan insists he watched "Dances with Wolves" on the VCR over the weekend.

Two very different ways of inducing a Padgett erection.

"How will it affect handicapped access?"

Tony Nava on WDRB: "Would we want to use a church grounds as a dog park?"

There's a stealth street piano placement underway. Let's hope Warren and the Boredettes approved it, or things might get wacky.

4:00 p.m. today: Citizens trying to save a Native American church from being used as an inappropriate and unnecessary dog park.

Do something fast, or else he'll start drawing up plays.

The South does it again -- wait, Indiana did it first. No matter: "The NBA Needs to Move the 2017 All-Star Game From Charlotte."