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Say you had a room full of brilliant people, the sorts of people whose fertile minds helped shape the future of business and industry, of government, of medicine, of education, of humanity itself. Now, let’s say you put someone on stage in front of this group of brilliant people, whose message and wit captured their [...]
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So, I took my first walk on the Big Four Bridge today. The view was truly stunning. Right up to the point that I came to this. [...]
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Why can’t we have nice things? — Leah Farris, April 26, 2013, GAW Chat. The above question, asked in reference to a News and Tribune story regarding the lack of funding for Indiana-side aesthetics with the Ohio River Bridges Project, is a good one and is certainly worthy of an answer. In short, we are [...]
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Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber. — Justin Bieber, as written in the guest book at the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. There are, at least, a couple of reasons I’m pleased that it wasn’t a young U.S. citizen who wrote such [...]
Read More...Spring has sprung and the world seems to be awakening again, and while I won’t go so far as to claim my mind is fertile, there have been a few things on it … DEATH PENALTY I’m glad Clark County Prosecutor Steve Stewart is seeking the death penalty against Richard Hooten, who has admitted to [...]
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I’m tired of bickering with him. Those words — in reference to Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore — could have been spoken by one of any number of people. Ed Meyer. Connie Sellers. Ralph Guthrie. Lisa Gill. Les Young. Ed Zastawny. Tom Galligan. Mike Smith. Dennis Julius. Dr. Austin Allen. Rod Pate. Mike Hutt. The Clark [...]
Read More...DARVO seems to be all the rage in Jeffersonville, these days. For those unfamiliar with the term, DARVO stands for Deny, Attack and Reverse Victim and Offender. If one believes in the concept of leading by example, then it’s what we’re supposed to do here in our happy little burg. Yesterday, I was listening to [...]
Read More...Given Friday’s events in Newtown, Connecticut, I believe any attempt at humor would be inappropriate, right now, so I won’t post an episode of The Oracle’s Lounge Live tonight. Instead, I offer this reminder of who we are as a people.
Read More...We’ll never make sense of what happened Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., because there’s no sense to be made of it. Twenty kids, just … gone, them deprived of their lives and their families deprived of seeing them grow up. Principal Dawn Hocksprung, a mother of five, taken from her children. I’ll [...]
Read More...By Brian A. Coffman, Guest Columnist Goliath stated the other day on GAW News that “Goliath has done hit the ‘Overload’ level. Cannot take another Mike Moore story. Cannot take another Jeff Council Story. Cannot take another round of who is zooming who.” The truth is Goliath is right. This whole discussion has become boring. It seems that [...]
Read More...A pair of meetings last week — and Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore’s response to his session — may be a signal that the News and Tribune is finally seeing through Moore and its years of preferential treatment of him are coming to a screeching halt. Publisher Bill Hanson, Managing Editor Shea Van Hoy and reporter [...]
Read More...The incomparable Jeff All My Life joins Freddy and The Oracle on tonight’s The Oracle’s Lounge Live. Join us at 9 p.m., Sunday, December 16 when Rush Limbaugh is our guest.
Read More...As Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore has again reiterated his desire to pay for improvements to 10th Street entirely with local funds, rather than wait for an 80 percent match from the Indiana Department of Transportation so as to guarantee that the project is well underway by the time he gets beat in 2015 and returns [...]
Read More...Now that the digital age is upon us, it’s time for Indiana to repeal one of its dinosaur-era laws. Indiana Code mandates that local governments and school corporations spend your tax dollars to publish certain information in a newspaper, and goes so far as to establish the rate-per-inch the newspapers can charge to publish government [...]
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Let us begin by reciting the News and Tribune’s core values, with emphasis added: Value the customer — Treat everyone we deal with as if they are our most important customer; Integrity — We will be fair, consistent and professional; Honesty — There is nothing more important than the truth; Quality — Our goal is [...]
Read More...Following last Wednesday’s debacle of a sweep of an area around I-65 that is inhabited by the homeless, the City of Jeffersonville has announced plans to adopt a formal policy regarding the way it conducts such sweeps, moving forward. Ok, fine. In the News and Tribune’s story, City Attorney Les Merkley said Jeffersonville and other [...]
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