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May 8 , 2008

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March 22 , 2008

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October 29 , 2007

October 23 , 2007

*EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS* Dominick Calsolaro (who else?) has a serious plan. Read Dom’s letter to Governor Eliot Spitzer on how the City can use the Convention Center money to renovate vacant buildings and create housing.

The paucity of pedestrian safety data may be also explained by documented intersections being located where little pedestrian activity occurs. Furthermore, unconventional intersections like roundabouts do not have easily identifiable categories in accident reports. Hence, what data that may exist cannot be identified in US accident databases.

A Plague Upon The Hearst Rag

Frankly, for many of the last 9 months it’s felt more like an ordeal I had to get through. There was a point where I actually felt sick every time I passed [by] the transmitter, even when I wasn’t going to the station… Many of the community members, I’d venture to say most of them,…

* * * UPDATE * * * The lake continues to be kept overfilled, and the Batchellerville Bridge Action Committee tells the Daily Gazette what is the real problem here.

Jayne is living proof that you don’t have to be young, lean, super-fit or otherwise exceptionally talented to have fun in triathlon and other endurance sports.

There are 135,000 American service personnel within the range of Saddam’s missiles right now. And what is most disturbing of all, Mr. Speaker, is Saddam’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. Most of the experts up until recently have been saying that he is 2 to 5 years away from a nuclear capability. Now several are…

I think that there is a national significance to what is going on, and it’s a theory of mine that I’ve been developing now as I report on it and analyze the situation in urban America — is that increasingly, especially now that we’ve reached a peak oil crisis, there is a concerted move to…

We have been told that a meeting is taking place this evening, Tuesday, March 28, involving the town leaders and city ward leaders of the Albany County Democratic Committee. This meeting is reportedly to discuss creating a separate city committee from the county committee. Stay tuned for more information. We will be updating this on…

‘Earlier this year, Environmental Advocates (EA), along with several other groups, issued a well documented "report card" on Governor Pataki’s environmental record. As in most areas of his failed administration, his environmental conduct was poor, rating bad in 59 of 78 areas surveyed, and good in only nine. Although the report was relegated to the…

A Great Day For Terrorism

September 28 , 2007

September 14 , 2007

September 2 , 2007

Daniel, First and foremost, thank you for your blog. Diva de Loayza I’ve been wanting to write a Times Union Letter to the Editor addressing the media surrounding Diva’s death and negligence of the police, but as one of Diva’s close friends, I am filled to the brim with grief and haven’t managed to put…

Section 1146. Drivers to exercise due care. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any bicyclist, pedestrian or domestic animal upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary.

I wanted to get someone with a blog on the panel, I was looking more for a "public opinion" blog – and I came across yours.

I see that your new blog post includes a photo of one of my favorite traffic signs — at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk. Attached is a closer-up view that I took on 7/13/02. It appears from the color of the sign in your photo that the sign has been replaced or refurbished…

A Patriotic Pendant (circa 1570) From The Dutch Revolution. The left side says "Better Turk than Pope" and on the right side "Despite The Mass," in other words, better to miss the Christian sacraments and burn in Hell than submit to the Spanish.

**Update** Mark Mishler of the Albany PTA is circulating this petition in support of our public schools to be presented to the Governor. He needs them soon, so download it as a pdf using your download manager or print from the web page and contact him at msmishler@yahoo.com.

To be sure, we need some outside money and some big developers, but in my view it’s the little guys who will be here a decade from now, weaving things together. So I view Recapitalize Albany as a positive thing for two reasons. One, obviously we need the capital, human and otherwise. And two, I…

The Division of Planning is responsible for the administration and procedural requirements of the development approval process.

David Soares And The Old Boys

Are you planning to run for mayor in 2013? Or are you planning to run for re-election for President? Inquiring minds want to know.

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UPDATE: Welcome to visitors from Counterpunch, which chose this article as the Website of the Day for Oct. 26! Earlier articles on the persecution of Yassin Aref here and here. UPDATE: 4/17/09 Welcome listeners from Democracy Now! Two more articles on Yassin Aref here and here. October 14 , 2007

Febrary 28, 2015 Or, how to get rid of all those stupid bags without sending them to the dump Within the last few years the supermarkets within the City of Albany have been undergoing a great deal of turbulence, what with the arrival of a new grocery chain not too long ago and the current,…

A: Workplace Equality: I will use my leadership to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, emphasizing a non-discrimination policy. All City employees will receive written materials and in-house training to increase awareness of SONDA. I support the GENDA act. Human Resources Functions: Albany’s HR dept. will be fully aware of the impact of the above…

*UPDATE* Tom Carroll replies to this article, and boy is he miffed! He says I make racist statements! He refuses to take responsibility for his own comments! He claims that his mother never disowned him! And, most important of all, he forgets to mention the most damning statements in this article! Read about it here!

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May 17 , 2008

*UPDATE*: According to today’s (March 21) New York Times, US Justice Department officials admit that such an investigation into prostitution is "unusual," "rare," and unheard of since 2001. March 16 , 2008

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Now With Comments! As promised for way too long! Check the bottom of the page and try them out.

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August 4 , 2007

It is just your great misfortune that you were who you were at this time and in this place, that you were brown-skinned, bearded Muslim men speaking in foreign accents, in Albany, after the attacks of 9/11. The local FBI offce needed to prove itself in the new War on Terror, and you were it.…

June 9 , 2008

Our landfill supply is not merely sufficient, we have a nationwide glut. While the number of landfills has declined, the measure that counts — landfill capacity — has increased enormously. Not only do we have a growing volume of landfill capacity, landfill use has also declined because we are increasingly better at recycling and recovery.…

Section 71-4001. General criminal penalty. Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in the environmental conservation law, (a) a person who violates any provision of the environmental conservation law, or any rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto, or the terms or conditions of any permit issued thereunder, shall be guilty of a violation; (b) each…

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Dan, is a community wide meeting a good idea? Who would call this meeting? Would there be competing and even conflicting claims as to whom has jurisdiction to call the meeting, or are WE THE PEOPLE in the end the ones with the jurisdiction to call the meeting? And where oh where are reverend clergy…

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See the **UPDATE** at the end of the article.

I would suggest you call me immediately or take the slanderous information you have written about the onrust and myself out of your article. We have given this to our legal firm and will initiate a legal action against your slanderous and completely erroneous statements. Don Rittner, president the Onrust Project