If You Were Mark Mallory

This is what you would be doing this week:

1. Monday, you would have announced the return of a summer breakfast and lunch program that feeds low-income kids, the premise being that kids who aren't hungry can focus better, do better in school and get in trouble less.


2. Today, if you were Mark Mallory you would have said that the new Edge condos to be built on Culvert Street to green standards "puts us on the cutting edge. We're out there, folks...This is another illustration of just how innovative we are in this city." You would have thanked Council members Chris Bortz and Laketa Cole for their leadership in putting together the ordinance passed last month that offers a 15-year tax abatement for people who buy green-certified buildings.



3. Thursday, you would help break ground for Brodbeck Place II, off Westwood Northern Boulevard, where CiTiRAMA will be held in the fall. Eight to 10 houses by various builders will be finished for people to walk through. They'll cost between $180,000 and $220,000. "This is a formula that works," you would have said today about the project. "Let's be clear about that." A total of 26 houses will be built there.

4. Thursday, if you were Mark Mallory, you would be on Fountain Square at noon getting the green flag you would wave Saturday at the Kentucky Speedway to start the Meijer 300 Busch series race. You would say that you're related to Blake Mallory, who races trucks, and the people who make Mallory Ignition Systems. But you would be joking.

5. Friday, you would cut a ribbon for the AFL-CIO annual show and give a proclamation to St. Anthony Village in Over-the-Rhine.

That's all if you were Mark Mallory, which you probably aren't.