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Rolling Backwards

by Erin Pihlaja May 24, 2012

May is National Bike month, and cyclists all over the country are agitated. After the Senate passed a federal transportation bill this past March, House Republicans answered back with a proposal that significantly slashed the ...

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Anti-Frack Attack

by Amy Halloran May 17, 2012

By 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, people filled the million-dollar staircase at the Capitol. They were holding signs and listening to speakers. Mark Ruffalo’s voice moved over the carved stone like the space was a church, ...

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Silent Drilling

by Mike Ludwig May 17, 2012

Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. The "Rogers" family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close their 300-acre dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania. That's not the end of the Rogers' story, but ...

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Whew!

by Darryl McGrath May 16, 2012

In an era when even affluent school districts in New York no longer consider it a given that their budgets will pass, the Albany School Board had good reason this week to give a heartfelt ...

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Run This School System

by Darryl McGrath May 10, 2012

The selection of a superintendent is the most arduous task any school board faces, and so it is with optimism and also some trepidation that the Albany School Board gets ready to meet the candidates. Twenty-six ...

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An Earlier Last Call?

by Thomas Dimopoulos May 3, 2012

A dozen bars and late-night eateries crowd the sidewalk of Caroline Street in Saratoga Springs. It is here, where live late-night music and the neon glow of taverns spill onto the narrow streets, where Christian ...

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Day of Solidarity

by Linda Paul May 3, 2012

Demonstrators worldwide took to the streets for May Day, aka International Workers Day, a celebration of the labor movement and workers’ rights. Here in Albany, a coalition of Occupy Albany, the Solidarity Committee of the ...

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Spaces Available, Soon

by Darryl McGrath April 18, 2012

Although no one would have said it at the time, getting Albany’s residential permit-parking bill through the state Legislature two years ago is looking like the easy part. With unanimous Common Council approval Monday of an ...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

by Darryl McGrath April 11, 2012

If experience has taught that you can often double-park your car on a downtown Albany street, run a quick errand and get back before you get a ticket, you might want to continue circling the ...

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School’s Out . . . Of Money

by Darryl McGrath March 29, 2012

When the Albany School Board members gather for tonight’s meeting (Thursday, March 29), they will face a task that board President Dan Egan calls painful and even sickening: deciding how many people will lose their ...

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School of Priorities

by Erin Pihlaja March 15, 2012

“It was a very emotional day. Students were crying. There were no answers given," said Mark Emanation, a community organizer with Citizen Action of New York and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in the ...

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Readers Poll: Etc.

by The Staff March 8, 2012

The following is a selection of write-in entries for categories too broad to tabulate official winners: Best Use of Public Funds @NYSenate Twitter feed, Albany Public Library, Alive at Five, APD response to Occupy Albany, arts, community ...

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Bobcats! They’re Everywhere!

by Alexis Abb March 1, 2012

“It seems they [the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation] are trying to manage something that isn’t a problem,” said John Sheehan, director of communications for the Adirondack Council. Sheehan is referring to the ...

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Pay To Play?

by Darryl McGrath February 23, 2012

For years in Albany, restaurant and tavern owners have known that securing the city's permission to play live music in their establishments was a Byzantine process that resembled the legal code of a medieval Italian ...

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The Poetry of Missed Connections

by Stephen Leon February 10, 2012

Surely this world will never again know the likes of the love letters between John and Abigail Adams. Prose, playfulness, wit, affection . . . and just getting warmed up in the first 140 characters. My ...

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TV Dinner Dates

by Shawn Stone February 9, 2012

Millions of Americans tune in every week to see 28-year-old California winemaker Ben Flajnik go on dates with beautiful women on ABC’s The Bachelor. He goes on single dates; he goes on double dates; they ...

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Gentleman Seeketh Matrimony

by Alexis Abb February 9, 2012

A worthy plump, fresh, free and willing Widdow . . . is in great distresse for want of a Lancktaradiddledino, and would accept of any man that is Able to labour in her Corporation. . ...

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BFF + DTF = WTF

by Lauren Servideo February 9, 2012

Growing up on sitcoms deceived me into believing that a simple dichotomy exists in sex: You enjoy it with someone you love, or else you prefer “I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, ...

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For The Farmers

by Amy Halloran February 1, 2012

Two upcoming actions at the Capitol highlight the growing concern over farm issues in New York state and in the nation. Wednesday (Feb. 8) will be a statewide day of action organized by Food & Water ...

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Frack No

by Amy Halloran January 26, 2012

On Monday, more than 600 New Yorkers came to Albany to address their legislators and call for a ban on hydrofracking. More than that number gathered in the Legislative Office Building for a rally before ...

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Time to Upgrade?

by Stephen Leon January 26, 2012

The logo on the website, which went live on Monday, says, merely, “Kathy Sheehan for Albany.” And although there is considerable speculation among insiders that she is planning to run for mayor in 2013, Sheehan, ...

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DOA at the DEC

by Amy Halloran January 19, 2012

OccupyAlbany, Capital District Against Fracking, and Water Equality staged a die-in at the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) building last Thursday (Jan. 12). People wore yellow hazardous waste suits, held signs and chanted slogans, pausing ...

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The Year in Pictures: Community

by The Staff December 30, 2011

In February, Hudson’s community-run station, WGXC: Hands-On-Radio began broadcasting on a full-power FM signal at 90.7 . The Albany Parks and Rec boxing program—the only municipal program of its kind in the country—received national recognition for teaching ...

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The Year in Pictures: Occupy Albany

by The Staff December 30, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street movement spread quickly to other cities around the country and the world, and there was plenty of action right here in the Capital Region. Local GOP Committee Chairman held a press conference ...

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A New Contender

by Cecelia Martinez December 8, 2011

Albany defense attorney Lee Kindlon officially announced his candidacy for Albany County district attorney last week, kicking off a campaign that sets its sights squarely on current D.A. David Soares and an office that Kindlon ...

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