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Freezing Cold March For Dr. King
Plus the politicized Census, police hiring shortfalls, ornamental apple trees and the mayor’s image cloaking device Yes, it’s a bit different every year, sunny and really cold this year, but not quite cold enough to cancel the event. For some reason I came outside about 45 minutes early and stood there on Martin Luther King…
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The Apartment Shortage Controversy
October 13, 2019 Citizen’s groups form for and against the construction of large apartment buildings I was hoping for some shouting and threats, maybe even some thrown chairs and a fistfight. But no, I was severely disappointed, everybody eased into the subject that evening at the main library and found out they had more common…
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The Wife Under The Dunn Memorial Bridge, Paddling Toward The USS Slater.
September 28, 2019 The Wife Under The Dunn Memorial Bridge, Paddling Toward The USS Slater.
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Fungus On A Dead Tree, Great Lake Sacandaga
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The New Boat Launch In Troy
July 19, 2019 Checking out the latest Hudson River amenity before everyone else does On a surprisingly pleasant Sunday morning in July, not too hot, we hauled the boats north of Albany to the other side of the Hudson River to check out the shiny new boat launch that the City of Troy had built…
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On Her Walk Home
June 30, 2019 Some photos taken by The Wife with her phone coming back from visiting her downtown clients The Wife has a little business, self employed, writing databases and maintaining computers for small businesses. She occupies a good niche which for some strange reason has few competitors, it seems the big outfits want big…
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Drones Peering Through Your Window
May 25, 2019 The Albany Police take to the air with their first pair of UAVs The City of Albany Police Department (APD) will soon be purchasing two drones, state of the art miniature flying machines piloted by a remote operator. Of course this scares the crap out of me, as it would any reasonable…
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The Tulips Are Too Early
May 5, 2019 But if you miss the Tulip Festival then we got your flowers right here, plus some history Every year the City of Albany plants a whole lot of tulips all over the City, over 100,000 this year according to the the City website. They are timed to open up and bloom the…
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The Mysterious Cavernous Pothole
April 20, 2019 Let’s talk about the best way to get rid of used cat litter It is Spring right now, when the grass turns green and the potholes carved out by the snowplows of Winter make the road in front of my house a bone-jarring axle integrity test for passing cars. Sure, everyone who…
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Maple Sugaring Time In The South End
March 26, 2019 And a visit to the farm to find out how it’s done The white buckets had been sitting under the maple trees that line Morton Avenue for weeks before they actually registered on my conscious mind. That sudden awakening of my awareness happened on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March…