Is it UAlbany or Sunny Albany?
I grabbed a copy of this month’s The Capitol, a free monthly newspaper covering state government. John R.D. Celock wrote a story entitled “Young Assemblymen Hit the Road to Keep Young Professionals...
View ArticleThe 2009 Underground Railroad Conference
The Planning Committee of the Eighth Underground Railroad (UGR) History Conference is soliciting brief proposals for presentations, panels, and workshops that address the theme “The Underground...
View ArticleMedia retrenchment shouldn’t start at home
I’m sorry Jay Bobbin’s leaving WNYT-TV, Channel 13. It’s not that I had a lot personally invested in Mr. Bobbin, who on the rare times I saw him seemed to do a decent job. It’s that in a period of...
View ArticleKnights of the Skenectada Roundtable
Last Sunday, I had the privilege of introducing Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at the adult education session at my church. I noted that when they first started investigated whether there were sites in...
View ArticleWhen Hate Comes to Town
I was recently reading the musings of a Buffalo, NY blogger about the recent appearance of “representatives of the Westboro Baptist Church when they showed up to protest the services for the victims of...
View ArticleKids of Survival at the Tang Museum
I was going to label this an “art review”, but thought the better of it. Talking about other things – television, baseball, movies, music – I might be able to fake it. But not in this genre, even...
View ArticleChristianity and the U.S. Crisis
I usually watch Bill Moyers Journal, ever since he returned to public television a couple years ago. But I’ll be certain to watch this evening (Friday, July 3) as President Serene Jones, Professor Gary...
View ArticleDear Lunkheads: you’ve become the 1%
Trying to impress the Albany community with your maturity? That would be a FAIL.
View ArticleAround the neighborhood
I don't know if this was a function of the tragedy in Norway, pre-9/11 jitters, or a new policy that just happened to have started.
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