In all seriousness, do we laugh or cry?
Some sweet day, there’ll be journalists who actually journalist. Until then, I suppose quarter-truths will have to do. Insinuating “paradise” amid New Albany’s stultified, poisonous, unredeemable political culture is tantamount to libel, slander and beating oneself with rusty chains, but who do we sue, Kaufman or ourselves?
All these nice things from Louisville courageously transplanting to squalid NA … oh yeah, and then maybe one or two local businesses over in Kaempfertown had a minor impact, which pales in comparison to the heroism and vision and sheer animal attraction of people in government who just finished presiding over the farmers market fiasco. By the way, when do I get paid?
Right on, Steve. How amazingly observant. Did you ever actually set foot here?
One pull from this mess is sufficient. Did we pay this guy another $108K to say these things with a straight face, or did he do it as a lark?
I’m going for a walk, and then off to work.
Where it’s at: Downtown New Albany’s quality of life, by Steve Kaufman (Insider Louisville)
In other words, New Albany is serious about creating the kind of vibrant city center that began to disappear when cars, suburbs and shopping malls overtook the cultural landscape.
And do you know many other cities that have a six-figure budget set-aside for Quality of Life?
It’s hard to know just how or why this small town of less than 40,000 people has turned itself into a trendy, happening place from what it had been a decade ago: a town, like so many American towns, that had seen some of its important manufacturing industries (like shipbuilding, plate glass and the production of plywood and veneer) close up, move or diminish.
