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What Light In Lincoln Park Breaks
June 22, 2014 A classic tale of teenage delinquency performed outdoors, a visit to Art On Lark and more Shakespeare In The Park to come starting July 18 The first Saturday in June was sunny and warm, a day for the kind of light, genteel outdoor activities that urban communities like the City of Albany…
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The Casino And All The Promises
May 26, 2014 Will the owners of the proposed South End casino keep their promises to hire City residents, and will they promise to not sue the City to have their taxes lowered? No and no. *UPDATE* David Flaum withdraws the Exit 23 casino proposal, an analysis of the withdrawal and what it means to…
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Cohoes Falls Is Running
April 30, 2014 Visiting the second largest waterfall in New York State during a rare moment when the falls are actually falling The last Sunday in April The Wife and I went to see Cohoes Falls, which I’d heard was running at full blast. Most of the time the falls are not there, just some…
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Cuomo’s Corporate Casino
April 8, 2014 Our radical corporatist governor attacks the South End to please a big campaign donor Consider this the first big test of the political skills of the new mayor of Albany and the integrity of the new Common Council. A Rochester developer named Flaum, who contributed some $100,000 to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s election…
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Another Phony Obamacare Horror Story
February 28, 2014 The Wife allows the Hearst Times Union to attack affordable healthcare and make a fool out of her I’ll start with the facts. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, The Wife and I are enjoying more health insurance coverage this year than we did last year. And this…
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A Burning House At Midnight
February 9, 2014 The new City government marches to my neighborhood, discovering Pete Seeger’s important connection to Dr. King, the remaking of Nelson Mandela as a cartoon and a moral sermon from Dr. King If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live…
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Sunrise In Albany, A New Day
January 13, 2014 The City of Albany inaugurates a new government and things will never again be the same, thankfully On New Year’s Day The Wife and I made a very special point of attending the inauguration of our new mayor, Kathy Sheehan, of the Treasurer, Auditor and Common Council president and of the fifteen…
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The Vacant Building Crisis Up Close
December 8, 2013 Looking around his own neighborhood the blogger sees the crisis for himself all too clearly A couple of months ago I was giving a short presentation at a Council of Albany Neighborhoods (CANA) meeting. At the end of it I commented to the crowd that the last vacant house in my immediate…
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Straight Talk About Guns
November 17, 2013 The blogger rejects everybody else’s opinions and calls for a simple, sensible solution to the gun crisis An astonishingly large number of Americans currently believe that the biggest defect of the Bill of Rights is the Second Amendment, the one about guns. Some people don’t like the amendment and are embarrassed by…
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Teabag Dittohead Re-pub Scum
October 12, 2013 The blogger is out of patience with America’s internal enemies, and suggests that the entire federal government be hauled before a grand jury After being all too reasonable for most of my adult life I’m through with coddling these nasty freaks. Like they say, I’m done. These so-called “Republicans” are nothing but…