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The Poop Pipe To Third Avenue
February 21, 2019 A change of plan to the proposed Lincoln Park sewage treatment facility improves the project but angers a South End neighborhood I’m starting to realize why past mayors of Albany have gone out of their way to avoid dealing with the problems with the City’s disintegrating drainage system, irresponsibly allowing those problems…
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I Am Getting Ready To Knock Heads
January 5, 2019 I’m reprinting this article from the Spring of 2016. Why am I doing this? Because I feel like congratulating myself. Pretty much everything I said in the article and everything I predicted in this one turned out to be dead on accurate. I don’t bat a thousand very often. And more importantly,…
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A Rambling Retail Tale
November 30, 2018 And learning why Amazon is not always the best online alternative So the other day I needed to buy some finished wall cabinets. Nothing fancy or expensive, just some nice looking serviceable ones that do the job and aren’t all messed up from water damage like the old ones that they were…
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Modern Fine Living In The South End Perhaps
September 30, 2018 A local developer proposes a large residential project where no proposal has gone before Well, it may finally have happened, what we’ve all, or most of us, have wanted to have happen. A private contractor wants to build a major residential project in the heart of the South End, something other than a…
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Clouds And Fog Over The Lake
August 30, 2018 And an admiring consideration of the amazing unique littoral zones around the lake One calm evening earlier this month just before the day ended I set out in my kayak on Great Lake Sacandaga to watch the sunset. As it turned out the sunset itself was not very spectacular, maybe the upper…
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The Floating Island At Island Creek Park
July 29, 2018 The installation of an innovative living phytoremediation river cleaning machine On a steamy wet Thursday morning at the end of July I threw my kayak into the back of my pickup and brought it down to Island Creek Park, which is on the Hudson River waterfront next to the Port of Albany. Not something…
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Caroga Lake In Decline
July 14, 2018 A lovely place to paddle, a dying economy and a suggestion on how to revive the village The Wife and I are always looking for new bodies of water into which we can throw our boats. So with extraordinary effort we got up early on a Sunday morning to drive the boats…
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That Property Down In Coeymans
June 28, 2018 The City of Albany is still trying to get rid of the proposed site of Jerry’s Dump Of all the ridiculous messy stinking problems that former mayor Jerry Jennings left current City of Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan to clean up when she took over City Hall, disposing of the three adjacent parcels…
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A Blatant Racial Incident
June 5, 2018 A visit to a nearby restaurant turns ugly Few things bring out the stupid in people than trying to discuss race in America. Not only do stupid things get said, but people react to discussions about race with all kinds of stupid. A few people here and there have a good understanding…
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Magnolias In The Park
May 7, 2018 Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, head’s all empty and I don’t care Along Martin Luther King Boulevard in Lincoln Park, opposite the statue of the great man, is a row of unusual looking short trees, more like large neatly trimmed bushes. Most of the time they are not very interesting to look at,…