HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MAY ALL HAVE A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!!

NEW ALBANY GETS "FORKED" IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!

Yes, you read it correctly.  The title says "forked", as in forks, knives and spoons.

Have you noticed?  We have forks painted in both lanes of Market in various locations. 

Who got forked, you ask?  There are forks painted on Market street in both lanes between the Mexican restaurant and Little Chef; there is a fork in front of Hugh E. Bir's; there is a fork on down from there in front of nothing; and there is a fork in front of Vic's.

We say, hm mm.  We can see some logic so far as maybe those forks are designating places to eat, but the logic fails when it gets to Hugh's.  Logic fails when you drive down two or three more blocks and see one.  Logic fails when it comes to Vic's because you would actually have to want to go to Vic's and know about Vic's in order to find this fork.

Also, be aware, you may drive over the forks before you realize they are there.

There has been no news about our "forks" except maybe a word or two on Twitter.  Is this DNA's work? 

What is the purpose?  Which group authorized and paid for this?  Or, heaven forbid, did someone simply run out of things to do?

We guess there is nothing like getting "forked" in the middle of the night and no one being aware.  At least it made for a good laugh among some.

So, if someone asks if you know about the "forks" - now you do.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

WE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

DNA, OR NEW ALBANY FIRST, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE? EXTRA PAY OR NO?

There are some pretty strong feelings out there about DNA and whether we even need another group such as New Albany First helping businesses downtown grow, advertise, etc. 

Some, SOME, downtown businesses feel DNA hasn't done their job,- whether DNA agrees or not.  DNA wanting to automatically state businesses would, WOULD, give 20% discount tickets for their food, etc., without asking the business owners' permission was wrong, simply wrong.  Some businesses would tell you the 20% is their profit margin.  Why take their profit margin?  How is that promoting downtown business?  Legally, how can that be proposed?

Philosophy is flawed and business owners feel they need the City's hands out of this particular business.  It took too long for the City to even come up with a slogan, much less the pitiful one they presented to the business owners (we're not talking about the Board). 

There is good fodder for arguments to be made on both sides, but we don't think all of our attention is deserved.


If the rumor mill is true, congratulations to Keith Whitlow and Matt Juliott.  (If we misspelled Matt's name we apologize.)

The payments this City wishes to make to the round of outgoing employees located on the third floor is ridiculous. 

To us, one of the most infuriating attitudes this Administration has always shown, is the illusion the money downtown is THEIRS and there is PLENTY OF IT.  Balderdash!  Downright stupidity being displayed during our current economic barometers.  This bill shows the lack of  certain COUNCIL members awareness for their constituents' needs.  Maybe it shows their lack of caring.  Ignorance?

We are here to state if any person feels/thinks they are not making enough money and deserve this extra pay to step aside.  There are probably 600 more people ready, willing and able to take the positions and perform the duties required by law.

We can't talk about these subjects at the dining room table because of the indigestion which forms. 

Our feelings are hurt, also, from some Council members showing their true colors in thinking we, the taxpayers, are ignorant.

**!-*&*

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

WE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

NEXT?

GAHAN IS ELECTED - YEEAAA.   NOW, WE WILL ALL WONDER WHAT'S NEXT.  IF WE AREN'T MISTAKEN, WE'RE PRETTY SURE GAHAN SAID HE WOULD NOT APPOINT A DEPUTY MAYOR.  WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE TRIBUNE WAS TALKING ABOUT!

WHAT ARE YOUR VISIONS FOR OUR ILLUSTRIOUS CITY?  WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE CHANGED UP UNDER GAHAN?

WE HOPE HE RENEGOTIATES THE POLICE CONTRACT TO STOP THE TAKE HOME CARS FOR OUR FINE OFFICERS WHO DWELL OUTSIDE FLOYD COUNTY.  AND, WE ARE ACTUALLY DREAMING THE CONTRACT WILL BE CHANGED SO MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, WE CAN GET A CHIEF FROM OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT.  PROBABLY WISHFUL THINKING, BUT IT MAY HELP GET THE COSTS IN LINE. 

ONLY THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX HERE AND NO OFFENSE TO OUR FINE LAW ENFORCEMENT.

WHAT IS NEXT?

SIGNS DON'T VOTE

The proliferation of political signs which abound right now in this City are all over the place; i.e., public right-of-ways, vacant lots, etc.

When friends would state there sure were a lot of BACK JACK signs out compared to Gahan, we laughed and said "signs don't vote".   We were right.  (Personally, Jack, how does it feel to have so much smoke blown up your backside?)

We will be interested in eyeballing the financial reports all candidates filed located in the County Clerk's Office.  How much money for each vote was spent what with only a 20% some voter turnout?  We remember an election where the candidate only spent $7,000.00 and received 21% of the vote.

Personally, this family favors no police officers in a government position where they vote on our tax dollars for their use.

Great job, Jeff. 

2011 ELECTION DAY NOVEMBER 8TH

VOTE!  VOTE!  VOTE!  VOTE!

BUT, WE INSIST!!

BEING PART OF A DEMOCRAT FAMILY HAS LED ME TO QUESTION WHAT THE HEY JOHN WILCOX, FLOYD COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRPERSON, IS THINKING. 

JOHN, MESSER LEFT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND TRIED TO RUN ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET AND SETTLED FOR AN INDEPENDENT SLOT.  WHY ARE THE DEMOCRAT CENTRAL COMMITTEE STILL SUPPORTING HIM?  WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THE PURPOSE IS TO KEEP SHANE GIBSON AND CARL MALYSZ EMPLOYED.

WE DARE TO MAKE THIS POINT, OBSERVATION, OR WHATEVER YOU WISH TO CALL IT - WE DO NOT WANT OR WISH TO SEE MESSER AND HIS CREW AT THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NOVEMBER 8TH FOR THE DEMOCRAT ELECTION RESULTS.  LET HIS GROUP ATTEND THE RESULTS WHEREVER INDEPENDENTS ELECTION HEADQUARTERS ARE.  WE DON'T WANT HIM AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T WISH TO SEE HIM ELECTION NIGHT.

JOHN WILCOX, REMEMBER THE TRIAL ENGLAND AND FAITH INITIATED WITHIN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, WHERE THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE WERE TAKEN TO TASK BUT FOUND INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES?  YOU, SIR, WILL NOT BE SO LUCKY.  WE DO HAVE WITNESSES WHO SAW YOU AT MESSER'S COMING OUT GET TOGETHER AND YOU PUT ON A MESSER BUTTON, BUT WOULD NOT DO SAME FOR GAHAN.  SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.

SEE YOU NOVEMBER 8TH AT K OF C.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

WHAT'S UP WITH THE FEDS BEING IN TOWN?  THE HOT SPOT IS ON 111.  DO YOU KNOW OF A PROPERTY WHERE FIRST THE BARN BURNED (DECLARED ARSON) AND THEN THE HOUSE BURNED (DECLARED ARSON)?  TOXIC WASTE/MATERIALS? 

ENGLAND AND QUACKENBUSH.  CAN'T SEE IT, BUT WE SURE ARE HEARING ABOUT IT.  BUSH AND SEABROOK KNEW ABOUT THE GOINGS ON?  ARE THEY GOING TO HUSH IT UP UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION? 

WE ARE WAITING FOR THE REBUTTAL LETTER TO THE BUTT'S LETTER (R SMITH) - WHAT A JOKE.  MESSER NEEDS TO GET BACK JACK AND SMITH - WELL, WE WON'T GO THERE.

CARRY ON.

CANDIDATES WE SUPPORT (OF COURSE WE ALL CAN'T AGREE ALL THE TIME)

• JEFF GAHAN - MAYOR  1122 Eastridge Dr  812 987 3262
• VICKI GLOTZBACH - CITY CLERK - No competition 1504 Slate Run Rd 812-207-5123
• STEVE BURKS - CITY OF NEW ALBANY COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE 1111 Lafayette Dr 502-931-8280
• SHIRLEY BAIRD - CITY OF NEW ALBANY COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE 45 High Park 812-949-1449
• JOHN GONDER - CITY OF NEW ALBANY COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE 602 Captain Frank Rd 812-944-3121
• EDDIE HODGES - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 1 121 Olive Ave 812-944-1335
• JESSICA KNABLE - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 2 1301 Riddle Road 812-949-4964
• GREG PHIPPS - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 3 2001 E Elm St 812-949-8317
• UNDECIDED - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 4 between HIATT and McLAUGHLIN (We waffle on McLaughlin but don't know Hiatt)
• TONY RUTHERFORD - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 5 1680 Woodlawn Dr 812-945-6722
• UNDECIDED - COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT 6 between OAKLEY, WILKINSON (NO WAY) and BLAIR
• UNDECIDED - GREENVILLE TOWN CLERK-TREASURER between TRAVILLIAN and MOORE
• DARRYL KEPLEY - GREENVILLE TOWN BOARD DISTRICT 1 - 7204 Voyles Rd 812-923-7537
• TALBOTTE RICHARDSON - GREENVILLE TOWN BOARD DISTRICT 2 - 9559 Clark St 812-923-9269
• JIM PEARCE - GREENVILLE TOWN BOARD DISTRICT 3 8517 N Valley View Dr 812-923-3153

WHAT'S UP?

We watched the news the other night and the follow up about New Albany's Parking tickets and Mr. Beardsley.  The news flash we heard concerned how the third biggest accumulator of parking tickets was in a "trust" name and the Police couldn't track the owner of the vehicle.  Hmmmm.  What is wrong with this picture?  May we have a license plate the Police can't trace or identify?

We heard through our Council rep Council approved tax abatements for CHODO.  Are you kidding us?  My family will be signing up Tuesday morning.

WHAT'S THIS? YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?

Is it true?  We are giving Shane Gibson $50,000 to fight Pasttimes?  Is this another "DVD" debacle?  Sure it is.  Wait and see.

Who do you think will win your Council race?  Are we going to have an all Republican Council?  Does it even matter?  Nah, I don't think so - what do you think?

SHORTFALL?

Shortfall?  How about overspending, malfeasance of office, etc.?   Why can't the City of New Albany live within their Budget?

$30,000.00 needed Monday night for Police overtime?  What, did Harvest Homecoming happen and we missed it?

Why would you hire firefighters when you weren't budgeted to do so and Council did not give their approval?  Or, did Council give their approval when they voted for the annexation?  Is England still maintaining he doesn't have to pay the money to the County for the new fire station on Charlestown Road?

Okay.  We are aware the Horseshoe Foundation paid for backpacks for kids for school last year.  Since when, though, does it become the City's responsibility to shell out $30,000.00 for the Churches to buy backpacks this year?  My kid didn't get a backpack last year - what's up with this?  Isn't there a separation between Church and State? 

Is Mayor England afraid if Gahan wins there will be an audit?  Does he think he can stop an Audit if he  gets on the Council?  We are afraid so.

Shortfall?  Yeah, right.  It seems to us we just keep digging that hole deeper. 

WHEN IS THE TIME RIGHT?

The grief our family is feeling and talking about around our kitchen table is overwhelming.


As parents, our first worry is about our 401Ks and the possibility of the federal government defaulting on debt payments.  All analysts are predicting this stand off within the federal government will wipe people's 401Ks out.  Period.   How and where and when can we, the people, practice civil disobedience and have massive protests?  Is it warranted?


We all are still talking about the Audit and RiverView.  We know both issues are a giant pile of crap we need to remedy and stop talking about.   How and where and when can we, the people, practice civil disobedience and have a protest?  Is it warranted?


All family members are talking about the mess with the bridges and how much the cost is going to be to our family and friends.  One daughter works in Louisville for minimum wage and lives in the Knobs.  One son is attending Sullivan University and runs back and forth between there and here 3 or 4 times a day.  My husband works for Ford.  Downtown New Albany's restaurants are pulling Louisville customers.  We don't see them coming to my friend's new place with a toll.  I probably won't go over there and eat unless it's something we really enjoy, i.e., Winston's and Jack Fry's (New Albany hasn't moved that far up the ladder yet).  The powers to be will not perform or release the study which will show the harm and disproportionate monies this will cost all of southern Indiana.  How and where and when can we, the people, practice civil disobedience and have a protest?  Is it warranted?


P.S.  How do the elderly and disabled and the disadvantaged get help for this heat?  We know some who could use fans and water.

4TH OF JULY

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE AND HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

WALK AWAY, JUST WALK AWAY.

No.  There is nothing you can do.  We're not kidding.  Walk away.  Just walk away.

The County Prosecutor won't do anything.  No.  It's too political.  Add to this the fact the County knows what's going on within the City.  The County is the one letting England and the boys make property tax payment installments.  Everyone else gets foreclosed on, but not them.

Just walk away.  The only thing the citizens of New Albany have as a plus in their column is the City would not be able to raise the tax levy because we could file a remonstrance against the levy and their books would not justify the increase.  Only thing.

Well, we could sue them for dereliction of duties and mismanagement, but who's got the money? 
And, if that happened, we would simply be suing ourselves.  Ugly, huh? 

Walk away, just walk away.

ENFORCEMENT

We all have issues with non-enforcement of the laws, or selective enforcement of New Albany laws.  This is your opportunity to sound off about which laws in this town that are not being enforced and your guesstimate as to how much money this is costing our City.

What can we do about these issues?

Latest News?

So, is it true the Tribune will no longer be printing a Sunday newspaper and are merging operations down where ever they are (Alabama?)?  The City of New Albany will take a huge hit over Legals being published in the newspaper.  Some taxpayers have always maintained the Tribune didn't have enough readers in order for the City's Legals to be published (see laws and how many readers newspaper has to have), but I would think for sure now they won't.  The Council better schedule some big bucks in for the Courier Journal's Legal section!  Is this true about no Sunday edition anymore?

Is it true Larry Scharlow wants to run as an Independent for Mayor?  Are you kidding?  A perennial candidate and brings nothing to the table except to KEEP THE STATUS QUO as is - in other words, Gahan won't make a deal so desperate measures are needed.  Go Gahan!

Did it come as a surprise to anyone this big new development downtown (Mainland) can't be built without OUR money?  Anyone?  Maybe if Carl keeps talking enough, as he always does, someone will believe him.  Me?  I think Carl has run out of nickels.

But, these are just my thoughts.  Thanks for letting me share what I think (though it isn't worth much).

NEW POST

TIRED OF LOOKING AT THE SEWER ARTICLE?  FINE, LET'S GIVE SOME OF YOU MALCONTENTS SOMETHING NEW TO LOOK AND TALK AND KNOCK ABOUT.  HOW'S THAT?

LET'S SEE.  WHAT SHALL WE FRIGGIN' TALK ABOUT?   LET'S START WITH THINGS GOING ON NATIONALLY RIGHT NOW.  THE CASEY ANTHONY/CAYLEE ANTHONY TRIAL GETTING UNDERWAY IS GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE.  THE TROUBLE SEATING A JURY IS UNDERSTANDABLE WITH THE NATIONAL ATTENTION THIS CASE HAS RECEIVED.  BUT, HEY, WE COULD SEAT A TRIAL A FEW COUNTIES AWAY FOR THE DAVID CAMM CASE (WHICH SHOULD BE REARING ITS UGLY HEAD SOON).

LOCALLY, AND ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL, A LOT OF THINGS HEADED TOWARDS A SHOWDOWN.  WE HAVE ELECTIONS, MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WE THE TAXPAYERS ARE TO PAY FOR, AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING ASKED FOR BY DNA FOR THE FARMER'S MARKET, WE HAVE OVER A $3 MILLION (THREE MILLION) DOLLAR SHORTFALL TO CUT FROM THE BUDGET, CANDIDATES WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW FIRE CHIEF AND POLICE CHIEF, BENEDETTI'S TRIAL, ETC.  HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE GO ON?

WE'LL SAY WHAT WE WANT TO SAY AND WHEN WE WANT TO SAY IT.  WE WILL SAY WE BELIEVE SOMEONE DIDN'T WANT AND TOLD MAYOR ENGLAND HE COULD NOT RUN FOR MAYOR.  WE BELIEVE THIS THE REASON WHY HE CHOKED UP WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HE WOULD NOT. 

WE BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.  WHY DID SIPES NOT SUPPORT ENGLAND'S CANDIDATE IN STUMLER AND INSTEAD ENDORSE JEFF GAHAN?  WE ARE SIMPLY WONDERING.  WE ARE HAPPY, BUT WE ALL KNOW SIPES AND ENGLAND WERE THE BEST OF BUDDIES AT ONE TIME.  GO SIPES.

WE DO KNOW THE SEWERS FAILED THE CITY DESIGNED 100 YEAR STORM PLAN AND WITH OUR MONEY WHEN THE CITY WAS TOLD THE PLAN WOULDN'T WORK.  THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS HERE, ALSO.  THERE IS A SERIOUS QUESTION AS TO WHY THAT PARTICULAR PLAN WAS CHOSEN, AFTER THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC HAD SEEN THE VOTE GO THE OTHER WAY AND THE EPA SAYING THEY COULD DO NOTHING UNTIL THE PLAN FAILED.  TELL US.

THE SEWER PLAN (2001) FAILED

THE ISSUE IS THE SEWER PLAN SELECTED IN 2001 FAILED.  WE DID NOT MEET THE REQUIRED CRITERIA OF A 100 YEAR STORM. 

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE TWO ENGINEERS WHO RESIGNED FROM THE SEWER BOARD FOR THEIR HARD WORK IN TRYING TO SELECT THE CORRECT PLAN, AND LISTENING TO THE PUBLIC.

ONE OF THREE PLANS WAS SELECTED BY THE SEWER BOARD AND PUBLIC.

THERE WAS A CLOSED DOOR MEETING LATER AND THE PLAN SELECTED WAS CHANGED, BY ONE VOTE.  THE PERSON ON THE SEWER BOARD WHO CHANGED THEIR VOTE WAS CHAS HUNTER.  THIS IS THE POINT IN TIME WHEN OUR TWO ENGINEERS RESIGNED.  FORMER MAYOR HUNTER WAS ASKED IN THE HALLWAY WHY HE CHANGED HIS VOTE.  HE REPORTED HE NEEDED THE JOB.

WE WILL NOW WAIT AND SEE THE INFORMATION THE CITY (EMC) REPORTS TO IDEM AND THE EPA ABOUT OUR LAST STORM.

THIS BLOG HAS NO IDEA AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAST ARTICLE WROTE, ALONG WITH THE DETAILS OR COMMENTS.  BLOGGER CRASHED AND THE ARTICLE AND COMMENTS WERE LOST.

THANK YOU AGAIN BILL UTZ AND BOB LEDFORD!

THE LATEST (2001) SEWER PLAN FAILED, THAT'S ALL FOLKS

THE ISSUE IS THE LAST SEWER PLAN FAILED.  OVER 40 MILLION DOLLARS SPENT AND THE PLAN DIDN'T WORK.

PLEASE REMEMBER THE HARD WORK PERFORMED BY THE TWO ENGINEERS WHO RESIGNED FROM THE SEWER BOARD BECAUSE OF THE VOTE DONE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS PICKING THIS PLAN.

THAT'S ALL.

NO MORE EMC?!?

BREAKING NEWS, HOT OFF THE PRESSES.  ENGLAND HAS FIRED, LET GO, TERMINATED, GOTTEN RID OF EMC (THE COMPANY WHO WAS MANAGING OUR SEWER SYSTEMS).


THE CITIZENS SPENT A TON OF MONEY MAKING SURE THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY COULD HANDLE A 100 YEAR STORM.  AFTER THE RAIN WE HAD, CITIZENS WONDERED IF THE SEWAGE PLANT WAS DOING WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSE TO DO AND I UNDERSTAND IT DIDN'T.  RAW SEWAGE WAS RUNNING ACROSS ROADS IN NEW ALBANY, I.E., BY MAINLAND BANK ON CHARLESTOWN ROAD (AND VARIOUS OTHER PLACES).  DID WE FAIL THE 100 YEAR STORM TEST?


WE ALSO ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE TWO EMERGENCY BACK UP GENERATORS IN CASE OF POWER FAILURES.  WE HAVE BEEN  WONDERING IF THOSE FAILED WITH THE PUBLISHED REPORTS OF GENERATORS FAILING IN THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENTS.


WASN'T THERE RECENTLY PUBLISHED REPORTS OF A NEW CONTRACT NEGOTIATED WITH EMC SAVINGS CITIZENS 1.7 MILLION? 


WE ARE NOT HESITANT TO SAY WE DO NOT FEEL ENGLAND IS CAPABLE OF RUNNING OUR SEWERS (PAST EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY).  WE ALSO DO NOT FEEL WILKERSON NOR BRINKWORTH, NOT WILKERSON'S SON IS CAPABLE OF RUNNING OUR SEWER PLANT AND OR PROJECTS.


DID EMC TAKE THE EQUIPMENT?  ARE WE CAPABLE OF PREPARING THE MONTHLY REQUIRED SEWER REPORTS TO THE EPA WITH THE MINUSCULE DETAILS REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW?


ARE WE GOING TO BE SUED FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT?


THERE ARE ALWAYS MORE THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES THAN MEET THE EYES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO SEWERS AND ENGLAND. 


IF ANYONE COMES UP WITH MORE INFORMATION, WILL YOU PLEASE LET US KNOW?


THE AUDIT SHOULD HAVE COME OUT BEFORE THE ELECTION BUT CONVENIENTLY DID NOT, CONCERNING SEWER FINANCIALS. 


NO ENGLAND, THERE ARE MORE THAN A FEW OF US WHO DO NOT BELIEVE YOU NOR WILKERSON NOR BRINKWORTH ARE CAPABLE OF MANAGING/RUNNING OUR SEWERS.  WONDER WHY?

CONGRATULATIONS!

A GREAT BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO JEFF GAHAN.  JOB WELL DONE!

2011 PRIMARY ELECTION

PLEASE, EVERYONE, VOTE.  HELP GET OUT THE VOTE. 

MY THANKS TO THE COUNTY CLERK, ALL PRECINCT COMMITTEE PERSONS AND ALL POLL WORKERS.  WITHOUT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, WE COULD NOT PARTICIPATE IN OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

PLEASE, VOTE!!!

NEW POSTING

THIS IS A NEW POSTING SIMPLY TO SEE IF BLOGGER WILL ACCEPT COMMENTS NOW.

I GUESS YOU COULD TESTING, 1, 2, 3, 4...

HAPPY EASTER!

WE PRAY EVERYONE HAS A SAFE AND BLESSED EASTER!

TIME TO TELL THE CANDIDATES WHAT THE VOTERS WANT!!

QUICK RECAP OF LAST NIGHT'S SPAGHETTI DINNER (WHAT I SAW OR HEARD - OR AS BAYLOR SAID - MY OPINION).

THE NO SHOWS WERE COFFEY, BENEDETTI, GOLDBERG, TIMBERLAKE, AND ETHERIDGE, BLEVINS, RANDY SMITH, AND CAESAR.  (IF I MISSED ANYONE, HELP  ME OUT.)

GOLDBERG HAD HIS WIFE SPEAK FOR HIM.  BENEDETTI HAD DARRYL MILLS EXPLAIN SHE HAD A SICK AUNT.

WILCOX STILL HAS HIS STUMLER BUTTON ON WHICH IS AGAINST PARTY RULES.  WILCOX IS NOT ALLOWED TO ENDORSE ANYONE - HE IS SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT ALL THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES AND HELP ALL, NOT ONE.

NOT EVERYONE SERVED LAST NIGHT.  ENGLAND AND BAYLOR DID NOT SERVE FOOD.  THOSE TWO PEOPLE WERE TOO BUSY UP EACH OTHER'S YOU KNOW WHAT THUS RENDERING THEM UNABLE TO SERVE.

GLOTZBACH GAVE A GOOD SPEECH.  DENHART GAVE A GOOD SPEECH.  HARRIET SPOKE FOR MAURY STATING HIS FIVE TERMS ON COUNCIL WOULD MAKE HIM A GOOD CLERK.  BAYLOR SIMPLY BASHED ED CLERE, BRIDGE TOLLS AND CARRIED ON ABOUT HOW HIGH HIS PROPERTY TAXES ARE.  THIS AFTER HIM BASHING CITIZENS WHO GOT THE PROPERTY TAX CAP PASSED AT THE STATE LEVEL.  HE SAID NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HE COULD/WOULD DO FOR THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY, NOT EVEN BRINGING UP TWO WAY STREETS. 

GAHAN GAVE A GOOD SPEECH.  MCLAUGHLIN SIMPLY TALKED ABOUT HE HAS A FREE RIDE UNTIL THE FALL.  STUMLER SUPPORTS THE BIG DEVELOPMENT DOWNTOWN BY MAINLAND ALONG WITH THE PARKING GARAGE.  ENGLAND SAID THE PARKING GARAGE WILL BE BUILT.  PRICE SPOKE WELL.  PATTI WALKER SAID SHE HAS EXPERIENCE WITH BUDGETS AND FINANCE.  WILKINSON THINKS THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE WOMEN ON THE COUNCIL.  HATFIELD/ROSENBARGER WAS MAD.  GONDER SPOKE WELL.  BAIRD SPOKE WELL. 

PHIPPS WANTS TAX ABATEMENTS FOR ANY NEW RESIDENTS WHO MOVE DOWNTOWN AND SUPPORTS THE POLICE AND FIRE.  WE COULD GO ON, BUT YOU GET THE DRIFT.

SHELLEY ENGLAND ANNOUNCED THE MERGER OF THE FLOYD COUNTY DEMOCRAT WOMEN'S CLUB TOGETHER WITH THE FLOYD COUNTY MEN'S CLUB TOGETHER WITH THE FLOYD COUNTY YOUNG DEMOCRATS. 

OKAY, NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO TELL THESE CANDIDATES WHAT YOU WANT FROM THEM AS A VOTER AND AS A TAXPAYER.  GOOD LUCK.

GET ON YOUR MARKS. . .

WELL, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE EVERYTHING ALL DUSTED OFF AND GLUED BACK TOGETHER.  WE HAVE OUR PICTURES AND ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS READY FOR THE INSIDE OF THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER (PROBABLY THE ONLY FREE NEWS HE WILL GET).

WE GOT AHOLD OF THE LATEST PRECINCT AND DISTRICT MAPS AND THE LISTS OF THE COMMITTEE PERSONS AND THE VICE COMMITTEE PERSONS.  CALLED THEM ALL UP, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE PRETTY SET IN THEIR WAYS.  GO FIGURE.  WONDER WHO APPOINTED THEM?  WE'LL HAVE TO WORK AROUND THIS ISSUE AND STUMP IT TO THE PEOPLE, ON THE GROUND.

HE HAS ALREADY HAD A BUNCH OF PUBLIC MEETINGS BUT I'M NOT THAT SURE HOW MANY VOTES IT'S GOING TO GET HIM.  THOSE PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY SLATED TO THOSE SEATS BY THE POWERS THAT BE SO I GUESS IT ONLY MAKES SENSE.  THEIR MINDS ARE ALREADY MADE UP.  MOVE ON, WORK THROUGH IT.  REMINDER:  PUT THAT ON HIS LIST.

WHO ARE HIS VOTERS?  LET'S SEE.  OKAY.  WE GOT OUR LIST OF VOTERS IN EACH PRECINCT.  HE'S ALREADY TOLD ME WHO'S RELATED TO WHO AND WHO IS WHO AND, WELL, LET'S JUST SAY CHECK MARK.

ALL OF THESE FISHFRYS AT KNIGHTS AND THE MEET THE CANDIDATES AT THE HIGH RISES AND THE DEBATES AND WALKING DOOR TO DOOR IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS; WELL, LET'S JUST SAY IT'S GOING TO BE BUSY.  HE'S CALLED EVERYONE AND THEIR BROTHER ABOUT PUTTING SIGNS IN THEIR YARD.  I THINK HE'S BUSHED FROM IT.

OKAY.  WE GOT THE T-SHIRTS IN TO WEAR AND THE BROCHURES ARE MOVING.  WE'VE STARTED OUR GROUND ASSAULT.

WE ARE READY....(AFTER THAT ISN'T IT... SET... AND THEN... GO)?

P.S.  WE JUST GOT NOTICE WE GET TO HIT THE PRACTICE TRACK TOMORROW.  WISH US LUCK.

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?

WHAT ARE THE ISSUES WITH EACH CANDIDATE?  OUR FAMILY, FOR ONE, WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.


WE HAVE ONLY HEARD RUMBLINGS FROM CERTAIN CANDIDATES AND NOTHING FROM OTHER CANDIDATES.  WHEN WILL THE HULLABALOO START?  WE'RE READY TO LISTEN AND THEN MAKE OUR MINDS UP AS TO WHETHER WE WILL VOTE FOR YOU OR NOT.


WE HAVE HEARD RUMORS STUMLER IS USING ENGLAND'S TAG LINES AS FAR AS BUILDING THE NEW PARKING GARAGE AND CONDOS WITH BOBO.  HE SEEMS TO BE CONCENTRATING ON BUSINESSES, NOT THE PEOPLE.  IS THAT TRUE?


WE STILL AREN'T SURE AS TO ETHERIDGE'S PLANS.  WE HAVE ONLY HEARD RUMORS.  IS IT TRUE HE WANTS TO BUILD A NEW SEWER PLANT?  WE HOPE NOT.  THIS IDEA WAS FLOATED A FEW YEARS BACK IN ORDER TO KEEP FROM REPAIRING THE INNER CITY SEWER LINES.   AND, IF FINANCIAL ADVISERS ARE TO BE BELIEVED, CITIES, COUNTIES AND STATES ARE GOING TO TAKE A BATH REGARDING MUNICIPAL BONDS (WHICH WILL IN TURN BITE EACH OF US IN THE BUTT).


IS IT TRUE ETHERIDGE PLANS TO HIRE DAVID WHITE AS HIS CONTROLLER?  WE HOPE NOT.  HE DIDN'T WORK OUT WELL UNDER OVERTON AND SOME OF US HAVE SERIOUS QUESTIONS AS TO HIS, WELL, LET'S JUST SAY HIS MINDSET.

WE ARE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING JEFF GAHAN'S PLATFORM.  IF THERE IS ANY OF THE THREE WHO UNDERSTAND THE CONDITION OF OUR CITY, IT SHOULD BE GAHAN.



HOW DO VOTERS FEEL ABOUT CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT OWN THEIR OWN HOMES, NOR ANY BUSINESSES, AND THEIR ABILITY TO ASSESS IMPACT OF THEIR VOTES ON VARIOUS ISSUES?  WHAT WOULD THEIR PLATFORMS BE?


OUR FAMILY IS NOT READY TO ENDORSE ANY CANDIDATE AT THIS POINT IN TIME.  TOO MANY VARIABLES.  TOO MANY QUESTIONS STILL TO BE ANSWERED.


WE ARE WAITING.

HISTORY LESSONS. HISTORY LESSONS. HISTORY LESSONS.

OUR PARK SYSTEM.  THE NEW ALBANY-FLOYD COUNTY

PARKS SYSTEM.


WHOEVER POSTED THE LINK TO LETTY'S LETTER IN THE

TRIBUNE WE APPRECIATE.  WE MISSED THE TRIBUNE'S

LETTER SECTION THIS PARTICULAR DAY AND IT WAS

INTERESTING TO READ LETTY'S AND LOHMEYER'S LETTERS.


THE LETTERS SEEM TO BE HISTORICAL FODDER BETWEEN TWO

OF OUR ELDER STATES PEOPLE (STATESMEN) IN OUR

COMMUNITY,  AND  SPEAKS VOLUMES (SUBTLY) ABOUT THE

FUTURE OF OUR PARKS.


ONE LETTER HAS GREAT IDEAS AND EXAMPLES OF HOW TO MAKE

SOMETHING WONDERFUL WITH THE LITTLE BIT OF GREEN SPACE

WE HAVE LEFT.


THE OTHER LETTER INDICATES WE NEED TO SELL THE LAND IN

ORDER TO BOLSTER OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS BUDGETS.

OUR THOUGHTS ON THIS SUBJECT ARE AS FOLLOWS:  WE WANT

OUR GREEN SPACE.  WE DO  NOT WANT THIS LAND SOLD IN

ORDER TO PAY ELECTED OFFICIALS SALARIES/DEPARTMENTS.

WE WANT TO SEE SOME TYPE OF MOVEMENT TOWARDS

THE THINKING OF THE ENTIRE NATION'S WOES AND HOW 

WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE. 


EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE THEIR OWN IDEA OF HOW TO

SOLVE THE ISSUE WHERE STATES, COUNTIES, CITIES,

TEACHERS, UNIONS, ETC., DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY. 


ONE PARTICULAR BILL WE WANT REPEALED IS THE HEALTH

CARE BILL FOR THE CITY COUNCIL.  THREE COUNCIL

MEMBERS' HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS ARE NOW

BEING PAID FOR PART TIME WORK (IF THAT).  

RIDICULOUS.  


LONG AND SHORT OF IT, WE AGREE WITH LETTY.  WE AGREE WITH

THE PARK WORKERS AND WE AGREE WITH ED CLERE'S ORIGINAL

LEGISLATION. 


WE GUESS IT WILL BE UP TO US TO WOO (SIT ON) THE POWERS

THAT BE NOT TO SELL OUR GREEN SPACE IN ORDER TO PAY

THEIR SALARIES.  WE WANT CONSOLIDATION OF BOARDS

AND DEPARTMENTS.


WE WONDER, TOO,  WHETHER OR NOT OUR LOCAL CITY AND

COUNTY EMPLOYEES UNIONIZED WATCH THE  NEWS AND

REALIZE/RECOGNIZE THE TRUE STATE OF NEW ALBANY'S

FINANCIAL REALITY.  ARE THEY WONDERING WHETHER

NEW ALBANY TAXPAYERS FUTURE WILL BE ABLE TO

SUPPORT OUR UNIONS BECAUSE OF THEIR HIGH RATE

OF PAY (I.E., THE POLICE DEPARTMENT)?


EIGHT FIVE CENTS OF EVERY TAXPAYER DOLLAR COLLECTED

GOES TOWARD THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. 

IF WE CAN'T MEET THEIR DEMANDS THROUGH CONTRACTS

WITHOUT SPENDING MORE OF THAT DOLLAR, WHO OR WHAT

GIVES?  WHY TAKE THE CHANCE OF JOB INSECURITY,

ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION?


WE NEED OUR GREEN SPACE IN ORDER TO HELP ATTRACT

NEW BUSINESSES AND MAKE ALL OF US HAPPY.


YES.  WE'LL STAND WITH LETTY ON HER SIDE OF THE FENCE. 

WE THINK HER SIDE OF THE FENCE IS GREENER, BRIGHTER

AND WILL LAST LONGER.


IT IS SIMPLY BUSINESS AS USUAL IN NEW ALBANY AND REQUIRES

OUTSIDE INTERVENTION (AND ATTENTION) IN ORDER TO TRY

AND SAVE OUR PARKS.  THANK YOU LETTY.

WHO SWEATS (AND WHO DOESN'T)?!

COINING THE CHURCHILL DOWNS PHRASE - "THEY'RE OFF"!  THE RACES HAVE STARTED.  VEGAS SHOULD GET INVOLVED AND GIVE US THE LINE(S) ON HOW MUCH MONEY WILL BE SPENT.

THE MAYORAL RACE PROBABLY WILL SEEM RATHER TAME COMPARED TO THE COUNCIL RACES. 

THE 4TH DISTRICT RECEIVED A BYE UNTIL AFTER THE PRIMARY.  MONEY WILL BE SAVED AND WE'RE BETTING PAT HAS STOPPED SWEATING (AT LEAST UNTIL AFTER THE PRIMARY).

THE 1ST DISTRICT WILL BE A HORSE RACE.  DAN SHOULD BE AWARE HIS WORDS ARE REACHING OUR EARS FASTER THAN THE NEIGHS BEING BELLOWED AT THE BARN.  THE DEAL CUTTING IS AT AN END, DAN.  NO DEALS.  YOUR HORSE HAS BECOME LAME AND PROBABLY WON'T START THE RACE, MUCH LESS FINISH.

NO BLINDERS OR LASIX WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE 3RD DISTRICT.  THE HORSES ARE IN GOOD SHAPE AND GOOD ODDS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR THE AVERAGE BETTOR (VOTER, I MEAN).  SAY WHAT YOU WILL IN HANDICAPPING THIS RACE (KEEP IT CLEAN) BUT OUR VOTE LIES WITH STEVE PRICE. 

WE ALSO DO NOT FEEL THE PEDIGREE OF THE FILLY NAMED BENEDETTI WILL CARRY THE HORSE PAST THE BOYS AT THE FINISH LINE.  TOO MUCH WEIGHT (OR BAGGAGE WE SHOULD SAY).

THE OTHER RACE WE WILL WATCH CAREFULLY WILL BE THE AT-LARGE RACE.  WE FEEL THERE IS SO MUCH HORSE CRAP IN THE WAY OF THE STARTING LINE THERE WILL NEED TO BE MANY PEOPLE WITH SHOVELS EMPLOYED IN ORDER TO MOVE THE CRAP OUT OF THE WAY TO EVEN GET THIS RACE STARTED.

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS TOWN FOR TOO LONG?  WE SMELL THE SWEAT, THE FEAR, THE TEARS, AND THE RHETORIC WHICH IS GETTING READY TO RAIN DOWN ON THE TRACK.  OUR BET WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE MUDDERS.

WE AREN'T HAPPY WITH ANY OF THE CHOICES FOR CITY CLERK.  THIS RACE MAY BE A DEAD HEAT.

ARE THERE ANY BOOKIES OUT THERE?  WE WOULD RATHER PUT OUR MONEY WITH THEM RATHER THAN BEHIND SOME OF THESE CANDIDATES.

WE TRUST THE TRIBUNE AND THE COURIER-JOURNAL WILL GIVE US FAIR AND UNBIASED REPORTING REGARDING THE LINES, PEDIGREES, PLATFORMS, ISSUES, AND OWNERS THESE HORSES ARE REPRESENTING.

AS THEY SAY IN MAY AT CHURCHILL - THEY ARE OFF!


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ELECTION SIGN UPS - FINAL COUNTDOWN AND THE INFAMOUS TAPE

WE ARE WONDERING WHO ALL IS REALLY GOING TO BE RUNNING FOR OFFICE.  THE INFAMOUS TAPE RECORDING (LOCATED IN A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX) HAS SOME RUNNING FOR COVER.  ON THIS TAPE, SEVERAL PEOPLE CUT A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL.


I HAVE HEARD THE TAPE, JEFF GAHAN HAS HEARD THE TAPE AND STAN ROBINSON HAS HEARD THE TAPE.  IT LOOKS LIKE WAR IS ERUPTING WITHIN THE CURRENT SITTING COUNCIL MEMBERS.


HEY COFFEY, IS IT TRUE YOU ARE THE ONE HAVING PATTY WALKER RUN FOR OFFICE?  WHY, I BELIEVE IT IS.  AREN'T YOU A LITTLE BIT FRIGHTENED BY THIS TAPE COMING OUT?   WHY, I BELIEVE YOU MAY BE - - AND WHAT'S MAURY GOLDBERG GOT TO DO WITH IT?  HEE HEE.


A GIANT RIFT IS BECOMING LARGER AND IT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHO COMES OUT ON TOP CONCERNING THE WAR RAGING BETWEEN COUNCIL MEMBERS NOW SEATED.


BACK TO THE ELECTION SIDE OF THINGS, HOW COME A CERTAIN COUNCIL PERSON HASN'T SIGNED UP YET?  MY VOTE IS TO LET THE TAPE COME OUT SO WE CAN ALL SEE THE BACKROOM  DEAL(S) THAT WAS/WERE CUT!  THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE INVOLVED.  I GUESS THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE COFFEY WAS TAPING THE WHOLE THING.  THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, COFFEY DOESN'T HAVE THE TAPE ANY LONGER.

BY THE WAY, SHANE GIBSON HAS A NEW CONTRACT.  $50,000.00 SALARY, BILLABLE HOURS AND 2% COMMISSION ON ALL BONDS.  NOW HE'S HEADED TO INDIANAPOLIS TO TELL THE LEGISLATORS WHY ENGLAND DOES NOT WANT THIS NEW PARK DISTRICT.  ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A LOBBYIST (HEE HEE)? 

WHY DOESN'T THE MAYOR GO AND STATE HIS CASE AND NOT MAKE US PAY FOR SHANE'S TRIP?  ENGLAND SHOULD BE RESTED UP AS HE JUST GOT BACK FROM FLORIDA.  GO  FIGURE. 

SHANE, THIS LEGISLATION IS BECAUSE OF THE MONEY ENGLAND HAS ALREADY REMOVED FROM OUR PARKS TO BUILD THE "SWIMMING MONUMENT" AT COMMUNITY PARK. 

THERE SHOULD BE A LOT MORE NEWS ABOUT THIS ELECTION MESS TOMORROW!


UNTIL THEN.

THIS ARTICLE IS DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY.  WE WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE GIST OF WHAT OUR LOCAL COMMUNIST, ROGER BAYLOR, IS SAYING ABOUT ALL OF US WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH HIM AND DON'T RISE TO THE HEIGHTS OF GRANDEUR WHERE HE PLACES HIMSELF.


FIRST OFF, WHAT IS AN OPEN AIR MUSEUM:  ACCORDING TO THE DICTIONARY AN OPEN AIR MUSEUM IS A DISTINCT TYPE OF MUSEUM EXHIBITING ITS COLLECTION OUT OF DOORS.  WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THESE WORDS GRAVITATE TO HIS BRAIN WHEN HE IS ABLE TO BICYCLE AND CRUISE PAST LARRY KOCHERT'S HOUSE, STEVE PRICE'S HOUSE AND VICKI DENHART'S HOUSE.  I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU WOULD BICYCLE THESE AREAS EXCEPT TO TRY AND GET ON THEIR NERVES OR AS AN INTIMIDATION FACTOR.  (These are his words:   Let’s begin the year with another revolving and evolving list of words, terms and concepts that provide a specialized vocabulary of life in the Open Air Museum. The first collection appeared Oct. 15, 2009.)


WHILE WE DO NOT BELIEVE MR. BAYLOR'S INTENTIONS ARE MEANT TO HONESTLY EDUCATE THE PEOPLE OF NEW ALBANY BUT RATHER TO CRITICIZE, MAKE FUN OF (AND I DO THINK HE THINKS HE IS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY), THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT  HELPS DEFINE THE STUNNING DEPTHS OF THE NEW ALBANIAN ZEITGEIST (ZEIGEIST SIMPLY MEANS THE GENERAL INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND CULTURAL CLIMATE OF A GENERATION).  I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT HE IN NO WAY DEFINES MY INTELLECTUAL CAPACITIES, NOR MY MORALS, NOR DOES HE HAVE RIGHT TO PASS JUDGEMENT ON ANY ONE'S CULTURAL APTITUDES.  THE BAD THING IS HE THINKS HE HAS EVERY RIGHT.  (These are Baylor's words:  It is my earnest goal to periodically refresh and expand this list, and your assistance is requested in doing so. Please send corrections, additions and comments to istanbul85@yahoo.com, and help define the forever stunning depths of the New Albanian zeitgeist.)


A MAJORITY OF CITIZENS TRULY FEEL NEW ALBANY DOES NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR BUDGET MONIES AND THE ENGLAND ADMINISTRATION IS CONSTANTLY THREATENING THE CITIZENS BY THE FOLLOWING SOUND BITES:  "Turn your cable off so you can pay your new increased sewer bills."  "I'm going to cut back on cleaning snow and ice from the street rather than renegotiate the police and fire contracts who are taking 83% of our budget."  IF WE CAN NOT TAKE CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE NOW WHY IN THE HEY WOULD WE WANT TO ANNEX ANYMORE PROPERTIES OR LAND UNLESS THE PLAN IS TO TRY AND RAISE OUR TAX LEVY AS JEFFERSONVILLE TRIED.  UNFORTUNATELY, ANNEXATION DID PASS BUT NO ONE CRIED.  (Here are Baylor's words:   Annexation  A wonderful thing to do, so long as you neither complete nor use it until long after the current council’s sell-by date.)  ARE WE USING IT YET MR. BAYLOR?


THE NEXT WORD BAYLOR USES IS THE AXIS OF BANAL.  ANY DEFINITION I FOUND REFERS TO THE AXIS OF BANAL BEING THE SAME AS THE AXIS OF EVIL.  REGULARLY HE TORE THE FORMER COUNCIL MEMBERS UP, I.E., KOCHERT, SCHMIDT ETC., (EVEN BURNING EFFIGIES OF THEM BEFORE A MEETING ONE NIGHT), BUT THESE ARE HIS WORDS (THOUGH I CAN'T DECIDE IF HE MEANS CAESAR, ZURSCHMEIDE, MCGLAUGHLIN, MESSER, OR BENEDETTI, OR JUST WHO CONJOINS WITH PRICE AND COFFEE).  (Here are Baylor's words:  Axis of Banal  The Steve Price/Dan Coffey conjoined city council obstruction club, usually with anywhere from one to seven other members quite eager to make it into a threesome.)


OF COURSE, BAYLOR'S LIST WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A PAT ON HIS BACK ABOUT HE BEING ABLE TO BICYCLE AND I GUESS HE FEELS THIS MAY BE THE NAME ATTRIBUTED BY US NEW ALBANIANS BECAUSE OF HIS EXERCISE.  THE TROGLODYTES HE LABELS  ALL NEW ALBANIANS BY DEFINITION MEANS CAVEMAN, MEMBERS OF A PRIMITIVE RACE OR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN CAVES.  I MOST CERTAINLY AM NOT ONE OF THOSE AND EVERYONE IN NEW ALBANY WOULD AGREE WITH ME ON THIS ISSUE, BUT...  (Here are Baylor's words:  Bike boy  Term of affection used by anonymous troglodytes to describe anyone who rides more miles on a bicycle in a given day than they’re capable of doing in a year). HE DOTH THINK SO HIGHLY OF HIMSELF AND SO LITTLE OF THE REST OF THE CITIZENS IN OUR FAIR TOWN.


BLUE LAWS WERE PUT INTO LEGISLATION BY THE STATE OF INDIANA.  I, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, CAN NOT FIGURE OUT (WHETHER I LIKE COFFEY OR NOT, HOW HE CAN LAY HIS WANTING TO SELL CARRY OUT BEER ON SUNDAY AT COFFEY'S FEET), BUT HERE ARE HIS WORDS:  (Here are Baylor's words:  Blue Laws  Sunday retail sales restrictions lovingly fetishized (no such word) by Councilman Cappuccino, implying the restoration of rotary dial telephones, one-piece bathing suits, asbestos insulation and mail delivered by Pony Express.)  I WOULD GUESS HE REALLY HATES BOSTON WHERE BLUE LAWS ARE STILL IN EFFECT AND YOU CAN NOT EVEN SHOP ON SUNDAY.  BUT THEN AGAIN, HE DOES HAVE A HANGUP WITH RELIGION.


RATHER THAN USING HIS WIDE BRUSH STROKE TO PAINT ALL CITIZENS NOT DOING RIGHT BY NOT BUYING LOCAL (WHICH A LOT OF US DO) HE HAS TO TAKE A SWIPE EVEN WHERE PEOPLE GAS UP THEIR CARS.  WHAT HE FAILS TO DO IN HIS ARTICLE IS TO  LIST THE GAS STATIONS WHO ARE LOCAL.  TO ME, THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED TOO MUCH WORK ON HIS PART.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Buy Local  Saving gas by shopping at the mega-chain retailer nearest one’s house.)  CAN WE GET SOME ONE TO TELL US WHERE HE GASES UP?


THE DEFINITION OF A CAUCUS MEANS A GROUP OF POLITICIANS WHO GET TOGETHER AND SELECT THEIR CANDIDATES.  THERE WAS ONE ILLEGAL MEETING WHERE A MAJORITY OF COUNCIL GOT TOGETHER IN A BAR BUT NOTHING EVER CAME FROM IT.  WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THIS SITUATION IS WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WERE ALL HIS BUDDIES:  (Here are Baylor's words:  Caucus  A city council meeting that isn’t, as attended only by those council members who won’t admit aloud to being Republican, as opposed to the single one who will. Quorum due to expire in November, 2011.)  DO YOU KNOW, AS I DO, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT ON THE CURRENT COUNCIL, WHO IS A REPUBLICAN AND WHO WAFFLES BETWEEN?  I DO BUT I GUESS HE DOES NOT.


THERE HAS BEEN A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FORMED IN NEW ALBANY, JOINED BY HUNDREDS, BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN.  LEGAL PAPERS AND MONIES AND REPORTING RECORDS ARE FILED IN THE FLOYD COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.  THE PAC IS CALLED CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.  A VOTE WAS HELD BY MEMBERS (I WAS THERE) AND MS. VICKI DENHART WAS ELECTED THE PRESIDENT.  IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH SETS MR. BAYLOR'S BLOOD BOILING BECAUSE HE CANNOT FIND OUT WHO BELONGS TO THIS PAC, JUST MENTION CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.  I HAVE A FEELING; NO, I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE; WHEN HE DOES FIND OUT IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR HIM AND HE AND THE POWERS TO BE WHO DON'T WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND THEY WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT HIT THEM COME ELECTION TIME!  (Here are Baylor's words:  Citizens Faux Accountability  Hillary Clinton fan club, run by a chain smoker from a post office box near a Gucci outlet somewhere in Italy.)  I BET HE WISHES THAT WAS/IS THE CASE.


THEN, HE TAKES A SWIPE AT TEACHERS TRYING TO BRING STUDENTS IN TO COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR A LESSON IN CIVICS.  AS A TEACHER WHO HAVE BROUGHT MY OWN STUDENTS IN FOR COUNCIL MEETINGS I NEVER EXPECTED THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECTS AT HAND, SIMPLY TO GRASP A FEELING OF HOW, IN GENERAL, PEOPLE GATHER AND VOTE.  (Here are Baylor's words:  City Council  Place where the high school civics class kids are obliged to go ... for detention. (DS))  HE LEFT OUT THE BOY SCOUTS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WHO ATTEND.  MUST HAVE BEEN SHORT ON COLUMN SPACE THAT DAY.


AND, A LIFE IN THE DAY OF BAYLOR WOULD NO BE COMPLETE WITHOUT WHAT I CONSIDER HIS ASININE RAVINGS ABOUT ED CLERE.  BAYLOR DOES NOT HAVE THE NERVE, THE MONEY, NOR THE WHEREWITHAL TO EVEN CONSIDER RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.   BUT BY GOSH, IF YOU ARE AND DO AND WIN, YOU HAD BEST DROP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND ANSWER TO HIS WHIM, IMMEDIATELY!  OR, YOU TOO, WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE RIDICULE THE ENTIRE TOWN CAN NOT ESCAPE.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Clere Channel Network  Where communication is a one-way street, and the street has no name.)


BEING A CONSERVATIVE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN IN MY EYES.  I KNOW LIBERAL PUBS AND LIBERAL DEMS AND CONSERVATIVE PUBS AND CONSERVATIVE DEMS.  THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN DIRE NEED OF THE CONSERVATION OF OUR MONIES AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS AND ENTIRE GOVERNMENTS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS.  MR. BAYLOR DOES NOT BELIEVE IN BEING CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR MONEY.  NO ONE CAN FIGURE OUT HIS RHYME OR REASON FOR WANTING TO SPEND, SPEND, SPEND.  IN HIS WORDS WHICH FOLLOW, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN WHAT HE MEANS BY ATTILA THE HUN.  HE WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BARBARIAN INVADER AND ALSO CONSIDERED UNGODLY.  (NO SURPRISE THERE.)  THE WEIMAR PART IS WHERE GERMANY ESTABLISHED AN IMPERIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE RISE OF ADOLPH HITLER (NO SURPRISE THERE, EITHER).  THE BIRDSEYE BLUES MEANS TO THINK FROM AN ELEVATED STATE HIGH ABOVE THE REST OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY.  (Here are Baylor's words:  Conservatism   Political trait that Floyd County Democrats typically claim to possess to a greater degree than their Republican rivals, who themselves are somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, leaving the remainder of us stuck inside of Weimar with the Birdseye blues again.)


THE NEXT PARAGRAPH HE WRITES WRAPS A BLANKET AROUND ANY DISCUSSIONS, ANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW, AND OR OPPOSITION OCCURRING DURING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS AND ARE SELF-EXPLANATORY (BELIEVE IT OR NOT).  (These are Baylor's words:  Controversy  The insertion of rationality, usually unintentional, into a given political discussion during city council meetings.)  OBVIOUSLY NONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIONS ARE ALLOWED UNDER HIS COMMUNISTIC OUTLOOK.


HIS NEXT STATEMENT IS ALSO HIS ATTEMPT TO BE CUTE AND TO CONTINUE HIS RIDICULE OF ANYTHING OR ANYONE WHO STRIKES HIS FANCY.  (These are Baylor's words:  Discussion  At city council, any stray verbiage randomly issued as a means to avoid contemplation of the actual issue(s) at hand.)  I FEEL BAYLOR WANTS AND NEEDS TOTALITARIAN RULE OR NO RULE AT ALL (PART OF THAT COMMUNIST THING/IDEALS).


THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF NEW BUSINESSES LOCATING DOWNTOWN AND A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TIME, ENERGY, AND MONEY INVESTED.  THIS NEXT STATEMENT IS HOW HE FEELS THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY THINK ABOUT THESE EFFORTS.  (These are Baylor's words:  Cracker Barrel  Long-awaited Nirvana for downtown revitalization advocates who really don’t understand downtown revitalization at all.)  DOES IT INFURIATE YOU AS MUCH AS ME AND MINE HOW SHORT HE SELLS THE CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY WHO ARE TRYING THEIR DARNDEST TO SUCCEED? 


MR. BAYLOR TRIES TO MISLEAD THE PUBLIC IN HIS NEXT STATEMENT ABOUT EDIT.  THE MAYOR DECIDES WHERE HE WANTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR AND THEN COMES TO THE COUNCIL FOR THE MONIES.  UNFORTUNATELY FOR CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY, THE MAYOR AT ONE TIME WAS FOUND TO HAVE BOUGHT PERSONAL SUITS OUT OF EDIT.  THERE HAS RECENTLY BEEN LEGISLATION TRYING TO GET FUNDS, EVEN IF THEY ARE FROM EDIT, TO GET OUR CITY OUT OF THE HOLE.  NO, BAYLOR DOESN'T SEE IT THIS WAY (NOR THAT WAY) AND HAS MORE TO GRIPE ABOUT.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  EDIT  Crucial economic development monies designed to remain inert until needed by office holders as penny-wise, pound-foolish subsidies, rather than economic development monies.)  DIDN'T HIS PATIO COME OUT OF EDIT?  MAYBE I'M GENERALIZING LIKE HIM.  HEAVEN FORBID.


MR. BAYLOR ALSO TRIES TO RIDE HERD ON ALL BLOGS MAINTAINING YOU MAY BE THE WORST OF THE WORST IF YOU DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME TO OPINIONS YOU MAY HAVE.  TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IT IS SIMPLY HIS DESIRE TO CONTROL SPEECH AND TO LAMBASTE ANYONE WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH HIS THOUGHTS.  AS LEGAL BEAGLE PUTS IT, HE IS A COWARD BEHIND A KEYBOARD AND A CYBER BULLY.  I AGREE.  THERE ARE FOUR BLOGS IN NEW ALBANY.  NEW VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (WHO REVIEW COMMENTS BEFORE BEING PUBLISHED); CITY OF NEW ALBANY (WHO DEMANDS YOUR NAME); FREEDOMOFSPEECH (WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW COMMENTS OF ANY KIND); AND KITCHENTABLEISSUES (WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR NAME).  WELL, IF YOU GO ANONYMOUS ON TWO OF THE BLOGS WHO ALLOW SAME YOU ARE A NO GOOD ROTTEN SO AND SO.  JUST ASK MR. BAYLOR.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Freedom of Speech  1. Local blog that does not allow reader comments  2. Condition that applies to you but not the person with whom you disagree.)  NO ONE AGREES WITH EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME, DUH.


THIS NEXT DEFINITION, AS BAYLOR CALLS IT, IS HANDICAPPING.  THIS SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON HIS PART TO SIMPLY BE CUTE:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Handicapping  A New Albany voter’s perpetual calculation: Is an incorruptible politician who is wrong 100 percent of the time better or worse than a corruptible politician who is right half the time?)  YEAH, I THINK I WANT INCORRUPTIBLE POLITICIANS THOUGH THE GOOD LORD KNOWS THEY ARE HARD TO FIND.


WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPY HOUR IS (WHOOPPEE).  BUT, THIS SENTENCE SHOULD SERVE TO REMIND ALL READERS HOW MR. BAYLOR DOES BRING HIS FLASK  IN AND IS USUALLY SLAP HAPPY WHILE OBSERVING COUNCIL MEETINGS (ALONG WITH HIS BUDDIES).  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Happy Hour  60 affectionate minutes with your hip flask before the council meeting starts.)


THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION IS SOMETHING MOST OF US AGREE ON.  WHERE WE MAY DISAGREE IS THE FACT SOME HOUSES ARE PAST BEING PRESERVED AND A WASTE OF TIME AND GOOD MONEY.  RATHER THAN GOING AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION WHO ALLOWED THESE PROPERTIES TO FALL DOWN INTO DISREPAIR AND DID NOTHING UNTIL PRIVATE CITIZENS HELPED FORM THIS GROUP BAYLOR TENDS TO SIMPLY LAMBASTE CITIZENS WITH NO CREDIT GIVEN TO THE ONES WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT FOR OVER 20 YEARS.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Historical Preservation Commission  Power-hungry zealots who refuse to admit that the rental property you’ve chronically neglected for decades merely is a dilapidated building suitable only for tenants.)


SOME PEOPLE FEEL THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE SHOULD CONSIST OF ELECTED OFFICIALS (NOT POLITICAL APPOINTEES ON POWER TRIPS) HAS BAYLOR FEELING AND WRITING THE FOLLOWING (WHAT I ASSUME AGAIN HE CONSIDERS CUTE) WORDS:  (This is Mr. Baylor's words:  Infinite Monkey Theorem  Expression of mathematical probability suggesting that if given enough time, an ape typing at random would eventually write Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — or an ordinance outlawing the Historical Preservation Commission.)


I WOULD GUESS THE WHOLE TOWN KNOWS OF MR. BAYLOR'S AVERSION TO LARRY KOCHERT.  AND, I WOULD ASSUME THE WHOLE TOWN KNOWS OF MR. KOCHERT'S AVERSION TO MR. BAYLOR.  TO THIS DAY, AFTER FOUR YEARS, MR. BAYLOR STILL FEELS THE NEED TO RUN MR. KOCHERT DOWN ANY CHANCE HE GETS.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Leotards  Skin-tight leg wraps that threaten the fragile masculinity of a former Gang of Four council stalwart; also called “tights,” as in, “Let’s all get tights, and vote in my garage for a change.”)  WHAT MR. BAYLOR MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IS WHAT THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT HIM, HA HA HA.


SINCE MR. BAYLOR CONSIDERS HIMSELF A FLOYD COUNTY SNOB AND THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY IS BENEATH HIM (WHILE FOR THE LIFE OF ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE WANTS OUR MONEY AND THINK WE CARE WHAT HE THINKS -- HERE ARE HIS WORDS SUMMING UP THE TRUE MEANING OF A FLOYD COUNTY SNOB:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  New Albany Bicentennial  A time for remembering what it was like in 1813, and for accepting that we’re mostly still there.)  NEW ALBANY HAS COME A LONG WAY BABY, WITHOUT YOUR HELP, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.


THE NEXT SHOT IS AGAIN AIMED AT THE CITIZENS AND THEIR ELECTED COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AND HOW WE CAN NEVER EVER POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND WHY THE OLD NEW ALBANY BREAD STORE GOT A BEER MONUMENT PLACED IN FRONT OF BAYLOR'S BUSINESS.  MOST OF US FEEL THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LOAF OF BREAD PUT THERE.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project  Placements of art intended for the edification of the common man, consequently eluding the comprehension of the council members whose downtown districts house them.)


THESE NEXT WORDS, AGAIN, INSINUATE HOW ALL CITIZENS OF NEW ALBANY ARE IGNORANT, SUPERSTITIOUS AND BACKWARDS.  HOW LONG DOES HE THINK HE CAN KEEP INSULTING THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW ALBANY?  (These are Mr. Baylor's words: 
Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness   1. Citywide folkways theme park devoted to the reality of life in New Albany: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”  2. “Give us more fish. Don’t you dare teach us how to fish.”  3. Place where tolls (in squandered modernity) already are being collected.)


THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARKING PERMIT ISSUE WAS BROUGHT BY A CITIZEN IN NEW ALBANY (DOES MR. BULLEIT KNOW ABOUT THIS) AND THESE WORDS ARE SIMPLY A MOCKERY OF SAME, WHETHER ANY OF US AGREED OR DISAGREED WITH THE LEGISLATION (WHICH I DIDN'T).  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Neighborhood Parking Permit
A plan to surrender public street space for private use, to appease private property owners who are unwilling to give up their own privately held property for the exact same purpose (JG).)


ANOTHER BURR UNDER BAYLOR'S SADDLE IS ONE SOUTHERN INDIANA.  WE DON'T LIKE THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE NOR APPROVE OF THEIR METHODS AND THEIR INTENT ON GETTING TOLLS, BUT WE ARE SO TIRED OF HIM GOING ON AND ON ABOUT 1SI, CLERE, ETC.  DO YOU THINK HE WILL EVER UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH HE REPEATS AND HOW TIRESOME IT BECOMES?  I DON'T THINK SO.  ANYWAY.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  One Southern Indiana  1. Organization dedicated to preserving the wealth of its highest-standing members by erecting a wall running the length of the Ohio River.  2. Synonym for “blatant hypocrisy.”)


THE NEXT DESCRIPTION OF WORDS REFLECTS HOW MUCH HE DOES DRINK AND HOW MUCH HE HATES IT WHEN HE RUNS OUT OF LIQUOR AT COUNCIL MEETINGS:  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Post-Partum Depression  Your empty flask after the council meeting.)  SEEING IT IS STILL IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO HAVE A BABY, I GUESS HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT A SERIOUS ILLNESS POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION IS NOR HOW MANY PEOPLE HE MAY HAVE OFFENDED COMPARING THIS ILLNESS TO AN EMPTY FLASK OF LIQUOR.


THERE ARE NUMEROUS CITIZENS AND CHRISTIANS WHO DECRIED AN OPENING OF A PORN SHOP ACROSS FROM A CHURCH AND AT A SCHOOL BUS STOP.  BUT, WITH MR. BAYLOR'S SELF PROCLAIMED HEDONISTIC WAYS WE CAN UNDERSTAND HIS FEELINGS ON THE FOLLOWING.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana (ROCK)  Group suffering from a chronic allergy to 2010 calendars, and seeking the curative measure of “reclaiming” things they cannot define, because those things never existed. See also: Torquemada Twist, Wickensianism (no such word).)


AGAIN, WE ALL KNOW HOW MR. BAYLOR FEELS ABOUT GOVERNOR DANIELS.  WE MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE HIM EITHER, OR MAY NOT LIKE SOME LEGISLATION, BUT BAYLOR DOES GO ON AND ON.  THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES OR PEOPLE I HAVE VOTED FOR TO NO AVAIL BUT BY GOSH I AM ABLE TO MOVE ON.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Saint Daniels The reason why we have incense, prayer, One Southern Indiana, charter schools and bridge tolls.)


WHEN THE LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEM ROLLED OUT THE 60 MILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUES A LOT OF GOOD CITIZENS FOUGHT THIS ISSUE ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WAS PUT ON OUR BACKS WITH PROPERTY TAXES.  SOME OF US STILL MAINTAIN THIS IS WHY LOCAL SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED AND WAS NOT DUE TO MR. CLERE BUT LIES ON THE BACK OF OUR THEN UNELECTED SCHOOL BOARD.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  School closings  1. Rituals of solemn necessity preceding a pay increase for an impoverished superintendent.
2. A heaven-sent occasion for conniving school board members, often Republicans, to plot their next political campaigns.  3. An atrocity that Superman (R-72) curiously missed.)


THE ONGOING SEWER FIASCO IN NEW ALBANY WHERE HOUSES AND BUSINESSES ARE STILL NOT BEING SERVED HAD TWO PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED EVERY SEWER BOARD MEETING AND SPENT UNTOLD HOURS TRYING TO BRING NEW ALBANY INTO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT.  THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SENDING SEWAGE DOWN PAST THE MAYOR'S HOUSE AS THE SEWERS LITERALLY WERE/ARE STILL GOING INTO THE OHIO RIVER.  BUT, MR. BAYLOR'S WORDS ARE SIMPLY SELF-SERVING AND SHOWS HIS LACK OF RESPECT FOR OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE POLLUTION THIS CITY ADDS TO THE OHIO RIVER.  SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY TO GET HIS ROCKS OFF AT OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Sewergeddon  The Potty Police’s plan to employ diggers and reclaim the city’s culture by flushing raw sewage through street-side ditches past the mayor’s house, at a fraction of the cost of conventional sewage treatment.)  HE MUST NOT HAVE BEEN AROUND WHEN THE SEWAGE WAS RUNNING PAST RESIDENTS HOMES AND  ALL OF THE HOUSES ON MAIN STREET WENT DIRECTLY INTO THE OHIO RIVER AFTER RESIDENTS RECEIVED SEWER BILLS FOR TWENTY YEARS.  ISN'T THAT MAIL FRAUD - RECEIVING A BILL FOR SERVICES NOT RENDERED?  DOES HE CARE?  DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH.  HE'S THE JOKE.


AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, STEVE PRICE.  MR. BAYLOR WILL BE GLAD TO HEAR THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS WHO WANT TO RUN AGAINST MR. PRICE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION BECAUSE THEY LIKE HIM.  IF I COULD THINK OF ONE THING MR. PRICE VOTED NO ON THAT IMPEDED MR. BAYLOR'S AGENDA MAYBE I COULD GO THERE.  BUT, THE ADMINISTRATION'S AGENDA (ENGLAND'S) HAS ALWAYS TRIUMPHED AND TO HELL WITH THE BUDGETS, OVER STAFFING, WASTE OF THE MONEY, ETC.  JUST KEEP SAYING NO, STEVE.  WE STAND BEHIND YOU.  (These are Mr. Baylor's words:  Steve Price  Synonym for “no,” spoken in Dewey Heights dialect. )  BY THE WAY, A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE DEWEY HEIGHTS DISTRICT AND YOU REALLY DO ALL A DISSERVICE.

NEXT????  SORRY FOR THE LONG POST, BUT YOU KNOW HOW IT IS WHEN YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH AN EGO MANIAC (MY DESCRIPTION).

I WOULD GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO NOT BELIEVE IN OUR GOOD LORD AND RELIGION, BUT TO HAVE YOU POST IN AN ARTICLE YOU WANTED US ALL TO PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO LIFT THOSE KEGS SO YOU CAN MAKE MONEY REALLY TICKED ME OFF.  BUT, THIS SIMPLY MADE ME PRAY HARDER FOR YOU, NOT THEM.

Y A W N

EGYPT AND DICTATORS!

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE IN SO MANY WAYS IN EGYPT!

CONGRATULATIONS TO EGYPTIANS AROUND THE WORLD FOR RUNNING A 30 YEAR DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.  MY PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY.

REALLY NOW - WHO IS ON FIRST, ETC.?

GUESS THE WATER IS REALLY MUDDY.  LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

I MEAN, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?  WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?

IT WILL ALL COME OUT IN THE WASH (IF WE'RE LUCKY).

DOT.DOT.DOT.

DO WE EVEN WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S NEXT?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT EGYPT AND AL JAZEERA.  WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE PAST FEW DAYS AND ARE TAKEN ABACK BY WHAT OUR OWN JOURNALISTS ARE NOW GOING LIVING. 

BETWEEN THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, FLOODING AND SNOW IN COUNTRIES, THE PRICE OF FOODS HAS NOW REACHED AN ALL TIME HIGH.  THE HIGHEST SINCE THE RECORDS STARTED TO BE KEPT.  SUGAR, GRAIN, WHEAT.  ALL ARE ON THE TOP OF THE CHARTS WITH NO RELIEF IN SIGHT.

AS A REPORT READ, THERE ARE ONLY THREE THINGS PEOPLE CAN DO TO OBTAIN FOOD AND THAT IS EITHER TO REVOLT, MIGRATE OR DIE.  SERIOUS STUFF.  CAN YOU IMAGINE?  NOT I.

COUNTRIES ARE SLASHING IMPORT FEES AND OBTAINING MASSIVE STOCKPILES.  THE INTEREST RATES IN COUNTRIES WILL RISE BECAUSE OF MONIES GOING INTO IMPORTS OF FOOD.  LESS GROWTH.

THE REPORT STATES AUSTRALIA'S WEATHER AND OUR WEATHER HAVE SEVERELY IMPACTED ANY AND ALL CROPS.  GENERAL MILLS (I GUESS THE LARGEST CEREAL MAKER) HAS GREATLY ROSE THEIR PRICE BECAUSE OF THEIR COSTS.

AFTER READING AND STUDYING THIS ISSUE, LOOKING AT GOVERNMENT WASTE LOCALLY AND FEDERALLY MAKES ME FEEL ILL.  I HOPE WE CAN TIGHTEN OUR BELTS BEFORE THINGS ARE TOTALLY OUT OF HAND.  MAYBE, TOGETHER, WE CAN ALL TAKE CARE OF THE ISSUES WHICH REALLY MATTER.

TELL US IT'S NOT TRUE

LATEST AND GREATEST BREAKING NEWS FROM OUR LOCAL DEMOCRAT PARTY IN NEW ALBANY (NO SOURCES WILL BE NAMED):


STUMLER WILL NOT RUN FOR MAYOR. 

CARL MALYSZ WILL RUN FOR MAYOR.  THE LOCAL DEMOCRATS FOUND OUT A DEAL WAS MADE BETWEEN STUMLER AND ENGLAND AND DID NOT WANT ANY PART OF KEEPING MALYSZ, GARRY, GIBSON, THOMPSON, AND ROSENBARGER IN OFFICE. 


WELL (DEEP SUBJECT), WE FOUND THEY MAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE WAY TO GET THEIR OBJECTIVE ACCOMPLISHED.

ANOTHER QUESTION:  CARL, ISN'T IT TRUE IN ORDER TO KNOCK DOWN THE GOVERNMENT PENSION YOU ARE GETTING YOU CANNOT MAKE MORE THAN $10,000.00 PER YEAR?  WE HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THE QUICK AND TEMPORARY RESIGNATIONS BY YOU AND ROSENBARGER ONLY TO GET YOUR JOBS BACK AT SAME AMOUNT OF PAY. 

WE ALSO UNDERSTAND (FROM TWITTER) RANDY SMITH IS RUNNING AGAINST BENEDETTI (6TH). 


COMMENTS, ANYONE?

AL JAZEERA????

OUR FAMILY NEVER, EVER, THOUGHT WE WOULD LISTEN TO AL JAZEERA BRINGING OUR CURRENT NEWS.  NEVER IN A LIFETIME.  WELL, **** HAPPENS (ONE OF OUR FAVORITE BUMPER  STICKERS).


REALLY, THE ONLY NEWS YOU MAY HAVE RECEIVED CAME OUT OF AL JAZEERA.  A NEWS CHANNEL WE NEVER THOUGHT YOU AND MINE WOULD HAVE RECEIVED OUR BREAKING, LATEST NEWS.  BUT, IT HAPPENED.  MY SON TUNED IN AL JAZEERA ON THE COMPUTER AND WE ALL LISTENED TO THE LATEST AND GREATEST, ABOUT EGYPT.  A REVOLUTION BEFORE OUR VERY EYES ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT AND A LACK OF FOOD.  EVEN THOUGH WE HAD STUDIED THIS SUBJECT AND HEARD THE YOUTH WOULD BRING ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONS BECAUSE OF A LACK OF JOBS -- TRULY SOBERING NEWS.  A REAL LIFE REVOLUTION AND "PEOPLE POWER" TO THE MAX.    AL JAZEERA WAS THE ONLY TV ON THE GROUND, BRINGING YOU, AND OURS, THE LATEST, GREATEST AND CURRENT NEWS.


WAS THERE A LESSON IN IT TO ALL OF US?  MAYBE.  WE (OUR GENERATION) HAVE NEVER SEEN A REVOLUTION UP FRONT AND PERSONAL.   WE HAVE READ WHERE THE YOUTH OF OTHER COUNTRIES, AND OURS, WILL BRING THIS "UNEMPLOYMENT, LACK OF  (FOOD)  WHATEVER TO THE FRONT".  BUT, BY GOSH, IT HAPPENED BEFORE OUR EYES.  NO JOBS, LACK OF FOOD, ETC.


BACK TO NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.  WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL ISSUES BREAK CONCERNING THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, THE CANDIDATE WHO WILL RUN FOR MAYOR, WHICH CANDIDATE WILL RUN FOR COUNCIL, PARKING TICKETS (WHICH CAN NOT EQUAL SEWER BILL PAST DUES (WHERE BENEDETTI SWEARS IS NOT PUBLIC INFORMATION), AND PARKING TICKETS.  IT IS WHAT IT IS.  AND, WHAT ELSE IS NEW IN NEW ALBANY -- LACK OF ENFORCEMENT.  WHAT WITH RENTALS, SEWERS, PARKING, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT (BLAH, BLAH, BLAH).  NOTHING NEW EXCEPT A NEW DAY (UNFORTUNATELY FOR TAXPAYERS).  OH, AND DON'T LET US FORGET THE S. ELLEN AND JONES NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOW MUCH THIS REMINDS US OF THE OTHER FIASCO WITH SAME PEOPLE IN CHARGE.  ISN'T THAT A MIND BENDER?


MY ELDEST SON TAUGHT ME A LOT THIS PAST WEEK, TURNING THE COMPUTER ON AND LISTENING TO AL JAZEERA.  ANY OF YOU AS TO WHAT THE U.S.A. MAY BE FACING (OR NEW ALBANY -- JOKE, JOKE)?  CURIOUS TO SAY, AT THE LEAST!


BRING IT ON, BUT LET US KEEP IT CIVIL.  AMEN.

WHO IS ON FIRST? WHO IS ON SECOND? WHO IS ON THIRD?

YOU DO KNOW ENGLAND IS UPSET FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOUND OUT ABOUT THE GOINGS ON WITH HIM AND STUMLER, DON'T YOU?  HOW DARE CITIZENS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY KNOW THESE THINGS!  AND, WHY DID ENGLAND CRY?  FOR US OR FOR HIM?

ENGLAND'S CIRCLE IS NO LONGER "TIGHT".  THERE ARE TOO MANY LEAKS SEEPING OUT AND I SAY BRING THE REST OF IT OUT!

STUMLER HAS TO KEEP CARL IN HIS EMPLOYMENT (OUR EMPLOYMENT) BECAUSE WHO ELSE IS GOING TO RUN THIS CITY AND KEEP THEIR FINGERS ON THE COOKIE JAR?

THE QUOTE UNQUOTE SATIRE ON FOS SIMPLY SHOWS TO ME SOMEONE HAS TOOOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS.  IS BUSINESS THAT BAD?  NO GOOD WILL COME OF IT EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE TO GET THEIR ROCKS OFF.

I AM WAITING TO SEE IF JEFF GAHAN WILL TAKE THE MESS ON IN OUR ILLUSTRIOUS CITY.  I FEEL THE DEMOCRATS WILL WELCOME HIM WITH OPEN ARMS.

AND, I AM CERTAINLY AWAITING FOS TO COME FORWARD WITH THE REST OF THE INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM WITHIN THE HALLOWED WALLS OF THE CITY-COUNTY BUILDING.  BRING IT ON.  SOME SIMPLY CAN NOT STAND WE DO HAVE DECENT HARD WORKING PEOPLE WITHIN THOSE HALLS WHO DO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AND ARE REALLLYY TIRED OF THE SHENANIGANS.

GOOD JOB EVERYONE!  KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK(S).  KEEP YOUR FAITH AND HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH.

SAY WHAT? ! ?

First off, let me thank you for allowing me to use your Blog to reflect what our Family has been talking about since the New Year's.


There are so many rumors floating around about WHO IS ACTUALLY running for Mayor.  We know England is.  We know Etheridge is.  We know someone by the name of Stemler or Stumler is running (sorry).  We know Messer is not running.  But, we hear there may be a person yet unknown to us.  When is the last day for the filing?


We were talking about the "grand illusion" of the new parking garage and condos.  Blah, blah, blah.  I agree with the fact Bobo should own his parking lot for his condos.  I do not want to be in another parking lot business with our money when the other failed so miserably.  Are we still paying all the electric at the State Street Parking garage and who will show us the books and PUBLICLY state we are or have made money on this particular white elephant (except during Harvest, lol)?


I feel the articles published in the Tribune (by you know who) perpetuate the old myth about us vs. them junk.  This entails the old sayings it is the County versus the City residents.  The myth where County residents look down on the City residents; the Floyd County "snobs" versus City dumb butts.  I have good friends in the County and good friends in the City; but I really get the impression that is the attitude one columnist in the Tribune HAS.  The articles simply read this way to me (and I have excellent reading comprehension skills).  If this is the attitude they possess don't you wish they would move BACK to the County and quit running the citizens down in the City with their (what I consider) a holier than thou attitude?  I SURE DO.  But, that is our opinion, LOL.


We are anxious to see who will run for the City Council.  I know, the Tribune listed some of the ones who will run again but I think we are going to have new faces, also.  It surely can't hurt.


We also feel the shortfall in the budget is a whole lot more than what "they" are telling us.  Matter of fact, I know.  Do you feel the current government has no clue how bad the state of the economy is, or how badly jobs are needed, or how much we want them to cut back on EVERYTHING?  Where is "their" reality?  I know reality sucks, but geez Louise.


As my friend who shares ownership in Buckheads said in the paper TOLLS on the bridges will kill business...and that means in New Albany, also. 


We have also talked about Daniels getting some type of a "fiscally responsible" award.  I don't really dislike Daniels as a person but I certainly disagree with some decisions he has made.  How much outsourcing of jobs has he permitted, allowed, performed (however you wish to word it)? 

This subject, outsourcing, drives me crazy.  I watched corporate outsource for years until they fell on their knees and we fell on ours.  Employees come in under "professional services contracts" and get no benefits, no pensions, no job stability (you are there until there is no more work).  I think it has come around to bite Corporate in their behinds.  We don't like the percentage the Chinese own of the USA.  We don't like India taking massive amount of jobs from little ole Indiana.  We don't like the fact the Germans own our water (and I know some Veterans who are livid about this subject).  Let's just say use American workers and U.S. dollars to build, etc.  I've never seen so much "we need foreign investments to make this project work".  If you do, then don't build it.  Stay at home.


Thank you again for letting me say how I feel.  Some things stick in your crawl and maybe even I can do better.  I can only imagine how some are going to "act" about what was stated above but I am sure they will get over it and allow others an opinion.