Month: April 2012

No one likes to be wrong; but in this case being wrong is totally right (see last Friday's Take). The Albany County Democratic Committee met over the weekend to interview candidates for the assembly seat of the retiring...

As long as I live, I will never figure out human nature. Did you see the outpouring of support for the new supermarket on Central Ave. Shoprite opened its doors to the public yesterday, and if you happened...

For a brief moment, I thought we were talking about Democrats. When voting in Albany, the norm is for democratic candidates to run unopposed. That didn't happen Tuesday. What happened was Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential primary...

The process of choosing a leader can sometimes be as simple as picking the tallest kid to be Captain of the basketball team, or as difficult as choosing between four equally qualified candidates for class President. To be...

When a company seeks to build a new commercial building and is a little cash strapped, they sometimes enter into a deal with the builder on a rent to purchase option. That means, the builder would initially own the...

I am sure that everybody who lives in the city of Albany has traveled to Crossgates Mall at one time or another. Been there recently? With the ongoing expansion of the UAlbany Nano Tech Park around the Fuller Road and...

This is the "Bottom Line on Hydraulic Fracturing". On his last days in office Governor David Patterson signed Executive Order No. 41 which virtually stopped any drilling or issuing of new permits for drilling for natural gas within the...

I have to weigh in on the arrest in Florida of George Zimmerman. What on God's green earth took so long. I was reading a timeline of the events surrounding the shooting in a Florida newspaper, which revealed some...

Here are folks I haven't heard from in a while. My friends at Occupy Albany. It seems the group has been dormant for a while (at least thankfully from the daily papers). I first got interested in the...

It has been quite a while since we've heard from Albany Common Council member Anton Konev. It seems Anton is calling on Paul Tonko's campaign for using UAlbany students to get the necessary signatures required to appear on the...