It's hard to write this post without sounding like a total pessimistic hardass. In part 1 written a few days ago, I expressed my opinion on what I thought was a major stumbling block in the process of...
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The Daily Take – Why a Land Bank Won’t Work in Albany Part 1
It is to nobody's surprise that the city of Albany has an overabundance of vacant and dilapidated buildings. The solution as to what to do with them has been a long standing issue. Now the powers that be are trying...
The Daily Take For Monday, September 24th, 2012
You think that the primary elections are over? Well I don't know if anybody cares, but the senate seat race between Roy McDonald and Kathy Marchione is bordering on the ridiculous. Last Thursday an amount of people equal...
A Weekend Take for Sunday, September 16th, 2012
Now that the primary elections are over, we take a look at what happened last Thursday. The fact that there were any primaries in the first place are uncharted waters for these parts. Who were the winners and...
The Daily Take For Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Like every good son of a Democratic father -- a Committeeman as well -- one of the first things I did on the day of my eighteenth birthday was register to vote. That was before breakfast; before I...
The Daily Take For Friday, September 7th, 2012
The last time I was in the Dean Moot courtroom at Albany Law School, was 29 years ago, as I watched my sister-in-law, then a third year law student, go one on one with three professors acting as...
The Daily Take For Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
It's now just a little more than a week until we good Democrats go to the polls to see who becomes the next assemblyperson in the 109th Assembly District. There is absolutely nothing better than to see a...
A Weekend Take for Saturday, September 1st, 2012
With the job market being what it is today, I find it appalling that the former deputy county executive in Michael Breslin's administration, Michael Perrin, has been named director of construction administration for the state Dormitory Authority. This is...