Spring Fashion 2004

Cover photo by Dan Doyle

Redistricted, Reprimaried, Retried
By Ashley Hahn

Democratic infighting in Albany County’s 3rd District takes to the streets and courts

Brown Goes Down
By Rick Marshall

Coup removes contentious Ward 3 councilman from his leadership position in the Albany Common Council

An Army of Debt
By Anne-Marie Cusac

While reservists and National Guard members risk their lives in Iraq, their families are risking bankruptcy at home

Savage Love
By Dan Savage

If Dan Savage won't answer your weird, disgusting, perverted, embarrassing questions about sex, perhaps you'd best keep them to yourself.

Fables of the Reconstruction
By Jason Vest

According to a closely held Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) memo written in early March, Iraq’s chances of seeing democracy succeed have been severely imperiled by a year’s worth of serious errors on the part of the Pentagon and the CPA, the U.S.-led multinational agency administering Iraq. Far from facilitating democracy and security, the memo’s author fears, U.S. efforts have created an environment rife with corruption and sectarianism likely to result in civil war.

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