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...

Yes folks, it's here. The unseasonably 80 degree weather we experienced last week only heightened our expectation of the upcoming summer. The mild winter we were blessed with, hopefully will translate into a smooth segue into summer. What is...