We are going to start revealing the location name of the previous day’s sidewalk photo in the news roundup. Soon, there will also be a semi-regular article dedicated to sidewalk commentary and reviews. I have wanted to get that going for a long time now, but let’s shoot for the next week or two? We’ll see. Anyway, to get things started, yesterday’s sidewalk photo was taken along Pope Street in Clifton.
- Portland looks at rezoning effort to fight boarded up buildings (Fox 41)
- Old Louisville fighting a tattoo business, wants it to move (C-J)
- Community gardening initiative expands into school system (LEO)
- The future of Iroquois Park’s amphitheater being studied (C-J)
- A ‘special announcement’ is planned at Valhalla Golf Club (Ville Voice)
- More on zoning for homeless shelters and Wayside’s relocation (WFPL)
- Louisville’s veterans hospital could be named for Robley Rex (C-J)
- Driving & using a cell phone is dangerous, Feds withheld data (NY Times)
- We must consider how ‘equitable transportation policy’ can improve our lives (Convergence)
- Portland (OR) to install artsy bike signs on new bike boulevard (Bike Portland)
- Can ‘temporal infill’ create a more dense and vibrant city? (World Changing)
- More on how Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) can make buses ‘cool’ again (World Changing)
- Taking Kurt Vonnegut’s village seriously in our own lives (Crosscut via P-zen)
- It’s time we rethink ‘water infrastructure’ in the 21st century (Roll Call via Infrastructurist)
- Slow Money movement hopes to make finance ethical (TreeHugger)
- Can a European solar-thermal plan spur U.S. energy innovation? (Miller-McCune)
Yes! Please have more sidewalk commentary and reviews. I would enjoy this!
regarding iroquois amphitheater: it’s a problem and a tough one.
contrary to some of the comments to the c-j article, it’s not lack of will or effort. criticism of ‘mismanagement’ misses something important: metro parks isn’t really set up to run a large venue like this. that’s why the desire for an outside management company.
music theater louisville ran the venue for their own events but for overall management of the place, responsibility always fell back to parks. this is really not sustainable within the context of the other things parks does and its declining budgets.
the amphitheater is an oddball function and needs someone with expertise to watch over it. if metro parks could make a deal with a management/promotion company that thinks they could make it profitable and self-sufficient – both to make the venue sustainable but also so that its management wasn’t something for which parks had to pay – then the place might really realize its potential.