Once again the prospect of a land bank becoming a reality in Albany County is in the news again. The Audit and Finance Committee of the legislature approved it earlier this week, but approved it only after withdrawing the $250K...
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The Daily Take – Let’s Spend The Money On Something Else
Two hundred and twenty million dollars. I had to spell that out, because it seems to have a better ring than putting it into numbers. That's the amount of money the Albany Convention Center Authority (ACCA) wants to spend to...
The Daily Take – Only in Albany Politics
Although I've lived in Albany most of my life, I have taken an interest in the politics of the other places that I called short term home. Only here in Albany have I ever witnessed the wheels of government turn...
The Daily Take – It’s The Weekend
We have witnessed our first presidential debate this week, and I guess the general consensus is that Mitt Romney came out the winner. I did watch as did some 60 million Americans, and I thought the same thing. ...
The Daily Take – Why a Land Bank Won’t Work in Albany Part 2
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...
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...