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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.

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…

March 22 , 2008

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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,…

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…

April 6 , 2008

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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…

May 8 , 2008

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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.

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  

*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

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

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…

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

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

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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,…

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A Plague Upon The Hearst Rag

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…

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.

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.

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David Soares And The Old Boys

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.

*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.

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…

May 17 , 2008

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

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.

October 23 , 2007

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.…

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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…

October 29 , 2007

I continue to remain steadfast that I continue to offer an important public service by my media sourced database which is the ONLY publicly available listing of incident by incident of such gun crime in our City. I will review your paper but I can only wish that you would have acknowledged the importance of…

June 9 , 2008

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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…

September 2 , 2007