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The Armory Migos Riot
March 15, 2015 You’ve heard all the excuses from the management, here’s why the in-house security failed It was another riot at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, this time during a hip hop performance by an up and coming gansta rap group called Migos. That night You Tube was almost immediately loaded with phone…
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Dr. King Frozen In Time
January 31, 2015 All human beings are equal, there are no exceptions… I know that Martin would heartily agree no matter when he lived It’s a cold dismal January here in the South End, dry with a lot less snow than last year. This Martin Luther King Day morning it was relatively warm, the temperature…
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Destroying The County Government
January 9, 2015 The Legislature of Albany County takes a big step toward ineffectiveness and illegitimacy by reducing representation just a little bit The Albany County Legislature, the ruling body of what arguably may be the most effective and fiscally sound County government in New York State, is getting all ready to reduce the number…
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The So-Called Heroin Crisis
December 13, 2014 Suddenly the politicians and the corporate media notice that suburbanites use opiates One year ago in December 2013 the local corporate media was aghast and screaming about an incident that happened in Clifton Park, the highest income suburb outside of Albany. Like all too many high income suburbs across the country, the…
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A Thanksgiving Mishmash
November 30, 2014 Sometimes you get what you get when you get the internet Well, it happens to the best and the worst of us. The mechanical hard drive on my trusty reliable ten year old Macbook Pro started making horrible noises, and now The Wife is talking about taking it to a specialist for…
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The Incident At Howe Library
October 31, 2014 Fear, nastiness and dirty tricks sideline public discussion of the Albany City budget When I was a kid, growing up in a semi-rural town in New York State, I was told by the adults that if you wanted the local volunteer fire department to show up in a timely fashion when your…
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Andrew Cuomo Can Kiss My Butt
September 30, 2014 The Blogger rants: the hardline corporatist governor of New York State is not getting my vote this year and it’s time for us to fight and defeat ersatz Democrats like him along with their corporate sponsors The children repeat the crimes of their fathers precisely because they feel morally superior to them.…
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Paper Boats In Troy
September 9, 2014 Paddling the Hudson, resurrecting local history and forgotten technology, an electric boat named Sol and a big march in NY City to bring attention to Climate Change policy We didn’t know what to expect so we had to go see it for ourselves. I’d heard that some folks were planning to launch…
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The Tuesday Evening Flood
August 24, 2014 Either we find the money and spend the political capital to fix the Beaverkill storm drain line, or the river will rise up out of the ground and drown us again and again Tuesday, August 5, the City of Albany learned in a most spectacular and disastrous manner what happens when our…
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Hydrogen Sulfide Train Car Bombs
July 22, 2014 An expose: The oil trains are even more dangerous than we thought but they don’t have to be dangerous at all, Global is planning to try to hide the trains, and a vigil for the victims of Lac Magantic The oil trains passing through Albany don’t have to be explosive, they don’t…