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The Raptors Of Schodack Island
May 30, 2017 Looking at some killer birds and learning about how they were saved from extinction Way back in the last century when the old folks were young and useful, hawks and eagles were almost extinct in the State of New York and were rarely seen anywhere in the United States outside of Alaska.…
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The Scientists March
April 28, 2017 The Earth Day March for Science rattled the elites and could not be silenced Of all the unanticipated and unpredictable political upheavals of the past six months, the national March For Science ranks among the most surprising. Americans came out by the hundreds of thousands across the nation to put forth the…
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Spring Water
April 14, 2017 In like a lion out like a shark, March turned into April after some serious rain and snow The first day of April was a Saturday, the first decent sunny day this year and so we went on a drive to go visit some used bookstores on the other side of the…
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Counting The Particles In The Air
March 28, 2017 The State of New York takes responsibility for the quality of the air in the South End Something amazing has been happening in the South End of Albany, down at the Ezra Prentice Homes neighborhood along South Pearl Street. The residents of the complex of apartments stretched along the train tracks have…
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The War Of The Lies
February 28, 2017 Whoever controls information controls our minds It used to very simple to explain. Until very recently, information was distributed by the Corporate Media, which was controlled by the Power Elites. The Power Elites were a small, tight group of selfish billionaires who wanted to preserve their control over the rest of us.…
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The Attack On Islamberg
February 6, 2017 How some patriotic Americans turned aside a pogrom against a Muslim community [Last May The Wife participated in an action to defend an isolated community of American Muslims located in the rural hills of Delaware County in New York State. The report that I’d written was buried inside of a post on…
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They Marched In Silence
January 30, 2017 Celebrating Dr. King In A Time Of Growing Fear One more time the authorities led a couple of hundred marchers from the State Plaza to the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King statue and monument in my neighborhood, practically to my own doorstep. The mood was subdued, we all know why. What was…
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Triumph Of The Corporate Media
January 14, 2017 The Electoral Coup of 2016 means we are all screwed The so-called Republican Party is a cancer upon the body of our American society. For decades this social disease has been kept more or less in check by institutions and prevailing attitudes that have allowed our country to live well and thrive.…
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The Demand For Public Education
December 21, 2016 Albany schools expand with the rising population as privatization schemes falter The Albany Public Schools have a problem that they need to solve, a rather good problem. It seems that their projected enrollment for next school year is going to be 23 percent higher than this year. That’s right, our public schools…
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The Leaves In My Neighborhood
November 22, 2016 Some photos I took during this Autumn, the Fall of America, trying to sidestep despair Several weeks ago, as the leaves turned around my house and in nearby Lincoln Park, I roamed about catching some of the color with my little camera. Downtown Albany is always the last part of the region…