The Mysterious Case of the Departing Policemen

There was an opinion piece in the Jeffersonville News and Tribune. OUR VIEW: New Albany Police Department, city must be transparent about resignations Over the span...

Sunday Summary for 26 September 2021, or, links to what I’ve been writing lately

I seem to have settled on biweekly writing updates, which serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: an every-other-Sunday compendium of links here...

Sunday Summary for 12 September 2021, or, links to what I’ve been writing lately

I seem to have settled on biweekly writing updates, which serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: an every-other-Sunday compendium of links here...

NAHA evicted my friend from his longtime home. What can be done to help...

Riverview Tower is a 16-story New Albany Housing Authority (NAHA) building dating to the early 1970s. Depopulation has been underway for a while, and...

Let’s just round off at $15 million for the Reisz Mahal, and call it...

There'll be an open house next week to "celebrate" one of the most wasteful expenditures in recent civic memory, New Albany's shiny new city...

Fire in the hole: Labor Day in America should be May 1, anyway

Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts at the NA...

Secular humanism would be a good antidote to religion — right, News and Tribune?

Apart from Friday afternoons each week, when the Jeffersonville News and Tribune treats us to not one but two evangelical Christian guest columnists, one...

Texas is the new Taliban, which of course is so very Christian theocratic America,...

I support safe, legal abortion access. Women should retain control over their own bodies and be trusted to make the right choice for themselves. Allow...

Sunday Summary for 29 August 2021, or, links to what I’ve been writing lately

Yes, I know, these updates haven’t been weekly, but every other week seems to serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: a Sunday...

Sara Havens: ‘Changing last-call hours is a knee-jerk reaction that’ll stifle Louisville bars”

It’s not right that an industry built into the fabric of our city must suffer because of several recent incidents. Unfortunately crime will continue...

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Beers with a Stoic: Wouldn’t it be less expensive NOT to brew house beer?

Let's say that you're a small brewery with a relentless social media presence of three, four or more Fb posts per day, probably 90%...

Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and generation gaps

Long ago and faraway, it was explained to me — again and again — that responsible (read: profit-seeking) restaurants and bars simply could not...

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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I've kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...