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Thanks for reading NA Confidential, where we annoyingly burrow beneath the headlines to offer unique local perspectives. May was yet another gratifying month in terms of blog traffic, and the posts highlighted here attest to a keen interest for local stories, perhaps because they’re not being served elsewhere.
The May Top Ten is determined by numbers of unique hits, as reported by Blogger. The list begins with fifteen “honorable mention” posts, before concluding with the Top Ten, escalating to No. 1.
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15 HONORABLE MENTION
348
Just another city worker on the clock smoothing Graceland’s banner for Vacation Bible School.
361
Watch this moving video from the late Chloe Allen’s friend: “If anything good can come of this, it’ll be that this intersection is made safer.”
367
May 14, 2016.
368
ON THE AVENUES: Requiem for the bored.
381
Here’s the latest in the Great NABC Non-Buyout Saga of 2016.
390
Someone just died trying to cross the street, and at the News and Tribune, it’s shill-a-minute for cooking school.
395
“For we are the killers. We blithely tolerate a street grid with 48-foot-wide streets that pedestrians are expected to navigate without the sanction of government protection.”
403
Bernie Sanders dines in New Albany as local Democrats join Hillary at an Applebee’s somewhere.
416
Matt Chalfant’s infill construction at 137 E. Spring — you know, where the Horseshoe Bar used to be.
419
The rise and fall and ??? of Red Dragon Pub.
424
To crush the slumlords, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their investment portfolio managers.
427
Mute balsa agony amid luxurious rabbit hutch erections as bicyclists and walkers fend for themselves.
446
Is this the same Guy Fieri who got history’s worst (and funniest) restaurant review back in 2012?
451
No need to build a fire: Trash pickup questions answered by Ecotech/SIWS.
484 (tie)
Wormholes, rabbit holes, ratholes and now this big-ass Caesar Hole on Spring Street Hill.
484 (tie)
City Hall crassly exploits the death of a walker in order to brag about its achievements.
TOP TEN
489
A modest achievement: NAC’s 10,000th post.
519
Welcome to a masterpiece of satire: “Hitler Hears Bernie Sanders Won’t Stand Down.”
607
City engineer Larry Summers and INDOT explain why there is no crosswalk at Main and W. 1st Streets (1 of 2).
619
Bernie Sanders at The Exchange pub + kitchen, Tuesday, May 3.
714
Al Knable’s thoughtful and compassionate statement about Chloe Allen’s death.
848
Listen, Liberal: “The 1 Book Every Entrepreneur Should Read in 2016.”
849
R.I.P. Chloe Allen.
1,159
You know, that building where Abe’s Rental used to be (140 E Main St).
1,331
Have some cake at Cafe 157’s grand opening on Tuesday, May 17.
1,343