Battered Town Syndrome

City Offers $600,000 to Shredder, says "Scram"!

After years and years and years of public frustration with the glacial pace of state and local government intervention on their behalf against egregious polluter Jeff Eastridge, AKA CCE. inc., AKA CBE.inc, and a host of other cheap disguises, residents reacted with glee when told there would be another chance to demand state and local government intervention on their behalf against infamous Eastridge on Oct 14 @ 7pm at Fairmount Elementary.

2045 Silver Street New Albany

"A staunch opponent of the move, Maurice King, who admitted to filing most of the complaints against Eastridge on behalf of the Fairmont Neighborhood Association, said the city allowed the problems to exist at the Silver Street location by not standing up in the past." (natribune)

According to public documents “Eastridge and selves” have a 100% defiance rating when it comes to community concerns.

2045 Silver Street New Albany

When asked to comment on public concerns about the background and price of the CCE deal, local resident Chris D. who called the CCE site "potentially VERY hazardous situation". We must pay for it."..."When attention was drawn to the plight of the property on Silver Street, certain factions pulled that attention away to other more pressing issues, such as a house with crap stacked in the yards. As such, it comes to us to pay for the mistakes of OUR government. Like it or not, thats just the way it has to be." (naconfidential)

2045 Silver Street New Albany

Mr. Eastridge, through his hired guns, "contended the contamination tests were skewed, and that they are close to having the property cleared of any metal pollutants by IDEM." Speaking for the record, NA city Councilman Jack Messer said of Eastridge: “He has done nothing but give to this community”. (natribune)

2045 Silver Street New Albany

The Poisoned Valley Batterers Society commented just before press time - “G.Coyle is standing in the way of every single thing we try to do here that smacks of progress.” The last thing we need is people asking a lot of questions around here, know what I mean?”

2045 Silver Street New Albany

2045 Silver Street New Albany

Interior of Historic(?) train repair shop.

MartiOktoberGrasFest!

Marianne Strengell

TEXTILES

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

Buy the old New Albany Country Club property to use as a land-fill, toss in all the brown fields, black top it, and redevelop it as a shelter for retired city government employees.

quiz: What historic NA building is this? Hint: One whole wall is curved.

marching with fish on School Street on the way back to school.

Diminished Democracy

Kleptocracy

"The effects of a kleptocratic regime or government on a nation are typically adverse in regards to the faring of the state's economy, political affairs and civil rights. Kleptocracy in government often vitiates prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade. As the kleptocracy normally embezzles money from its citizens by misusing funds derived from tax payments, or money laundering schemes, a kleptocratically structured political system tends to degrade most people's quality of life. In addition, the money that kleptocrats steal is often taken from funds that were earmarked for public amenities, such as the building of hospitals, schools, roads, parks and the like - which has further adverse effects on the quality of life of the citizens living under a kleptocracy. The quasi-oligarchy that results from a kleptocratic elite also subverts democracy (or any other political format the state is ostensibly under)." source Wikipedia