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The Theme Of White Privilege
January 31, 2016 The mayor’s speech disrupted over the Dontay Ivy incident, a rant about the wannabe terrorists in Oregon, and once again the marchers arrive in my neighborhood on ML King Day It was cold and a frozen wind that blew across Lincoln Park in the South End of Albany on Martin Luther King…
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Four Items For The New Year
January 7, 2016 Salaries, food and taxes, have yourself a nice hot cup of coffee while you still can Corruption In Cohoes For a while it looked like things were getting better for the small City of Cohoes, located on the northern end of Albany County. During the first decade of this century, when John…
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Losing My Imaginary Friend
November 30, 2015 A lament, the blogger complains about a personal relationship gone sour [The following is a lot of whining and moaning, isn’t that what blogs are for? I don’t expect anybody to read it much. Some or maybe most readers may have made similar mistakes as I describe but perhaps no one wants…
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A Shrine To Peace, Southern Roots And The Moon
October 23, 2015 Some celebrations at the beginning of Autumn *UPDATE* Mr. Leo Levy graciously provided the text of his two addresses he gave at the Peace Pagoda offering a Jewish perspective on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the start of Shabbot, and some of his interesting photographs of the Pagoda The…
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Albany Will Not Be Vaporized
September 30, 2015 The deadly gasses have been quietly removed from the Bakken oil trains but the the threat of environmental damage is ever present *UPDATE* On October 24 there will be a Statewide community meeting sponsored by Citizen Action here in the South End to plan strategies for dealing with the Oil Trains If…
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And That Was August
August 30, 2015 Doing the old summer vacation thing again, and my search for Socky the Lakemonster of Sacandaga Once again we spent two weeks at the cabin on Great Lake Sacandaga because I’m a boring person who keeps doing the same thing over and over. But really, the lake isn’t boring at all, it’s…
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Her Eighth Triathlon
July 28, 2015 The Wife competes in what might be the last Pine Bush Triathlon, but she did not compete barefooted like some *UPDATE* The Wife gets her medal! Every year starting in the year 2000 the Capital District YMCA has put on the Pine Bush Triathlon, an event where participants swim, bicycle and run…
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The Tallest Tree In New York State
July 19, 2015 Due to privacy requests I have removed this article. I apologize to the readers, and I apologize to everyone who feels their privacy was violated by the article, that was unintended.
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Two Dans For County Executive
June 25, 2015 Plus a third Dan in the race, and a discussion of some well known political words I’m the first to admit that I don’t keep a close watch on the government of Albany County. But despite not paying attention, my gaze keeps getting drawn in that direction so that I often surprise…
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The Reversal Of Decline
May 24, 2015 What a new Family Dollar building, revised zoning and a mayor who bicycles means for the City of Albany The world is going to hell in a honey pot, ask almost anybody why and they’ll probably talk about the government. Our federal officials are horribly out of touch, and the general consensus…