The right tools for the job
I'm delighted that The Banks project is finally underway, and I applaud the people who worked so hard to make it happen despite the odds. But still ...
About 40 minutes into Tuesday’s groundbreaking ceremony for The Banks, with speaker after speaker after speaker offering up Oscar acceptance speech-style thank-yous to each other, with Todd Portune’s recitation of the project’s “begats,” with Bob Castellini praising cooperation, with Andrew Young praising capitalism, with Mark Mallory praising Phil Heimlich, with Harold Dawson Jr. praising “beautiful people,” with Lee Fisher praising Portune’s first pitch at the Reds opener, with Ted Strickland praising the Lord, with all the warm rhetorical flourishes piling up all around …
I just couldn’t help thinking to myself: Good thing they brought all those shovels.
posted by Ray Cooklis at 12:03 PM
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at 8:06 AM, April 04, 2008 
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Kevin LeMaster said...
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Post a Comment*I am sure all of these important folks just couldn't wait to see themselves on the television news and read about themselves in the paper.
People need to remember that the so-called "smart people" of this county and city have been mucking up this project for years. I will believe it when I see it. A few suits with shovels does not impress me.
And yet here I sit in my loft in OTR watching white suburban men negotiate prices and services with prostitutes. This type of activity was happening so much less when the sheriffs rolled through OTR, but now funding is no longer available for the successful sheriff's patrol. Instead, our elected officials concentrate on a project that will mostly benefit the upper classes.
I don't get it. The city and county are showing just how elitist they are.
Kentucky is looking better each day.
Bill Stone
OTR
Voters get the government that they deserve (and voted for).
Since when has the county been responsible for attempting to build a yuppie paradise on the city's riverfront?
If this stupid project made any sense as a commercial enterprise, it would not need the government to underwrite it. It will join the long list of wasteful boondoggles along with the latest "streetcar" plan.
The stadium sales tax was sold as something to "jump start" development on the riverfront. The only thing it has "jump started" is demands for more taxpayer's money.
"Since when has the county been responsible for attempting to build a yuppie paradise on the city's riverfront?"
Uh, I dunno. Since they owned most of the land?
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