We
Had Some Issues
The
city of Albany played host to one of five EPA hearings for
public comment on the Bush administration’s proposed
changes to the Clean Air Act; Aaron Mair and the local chapter
of the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the Albany County Legislature,
forcing it to redraw gerrymandered voting district maps
to provide adequate representation for the county’s
growing minority population; the Albany Housing Coalition,
which runs Tyler Arms Veterans home at 688 Madison Ave.,
found itself battling the mayor and the commissioner of
public safety after allowing recovering drug abusers to
stay in the building while seeking a permanent home; Albany
Council members Dominick Calsolaro, James Sano and Richard
Conti and Common Council President Helen Desfosses received
a plaque from the NYCLU commemorating their efforts toward
passing a resolution opposing the Patriot Act; Patches,
a local homeless man, expressed his support for the “bottle
bill,” a state legislative proposal to expand required
nickel deposits to water and juice bottles, a measure that
would bring some $300 million into the state’s coffers.
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