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Updated
May 27, 2007
A weblog about the politics and affairs of the old and glorious City of Albany, New York, USA. Articles written and disseminated from Albany's beautiful and historic South End by Daniel Van Riper. If you wish to make a response, have anything to add or would like to make an empty threat, please contact me.
Article Archive - 2006
12/31/06 - Wasting Gas For Christmas, Celebrating that nominally Christian pagan holiday by driving in the suburbs
12/17/06 - Losing The Only Radio Station, WRPI is being destroyed by bad management with a misguided agenda
12/7/06 - Return Of The Burn Monster, For some ridiculous reason involving money, garbage incinerators are making a comeback
11/29/06 - Neighborhoods Work, Part Two
11/22/06 - Neighborhoods Work, Part One
11/17/06 - Buying Books at The Armory, Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit
11/8/06 - So I Was Wrong, But the problems with fraudulent electronic voting machines remain
11/2/06 - Election Prediction: Expect Disappointment, Electronic voting machines will make a mockery of our electoral system
10/28/06 - Good And Bad Citizens, The establishment of two-tiered security at Albany International Airport is a prelude to bad times ahead
10/22/06 - Please Bring Us Your Garbage, A corporate trash hauler dictates City policy to Mayor Jennings
10/19/06 - The Terrorists Are Coming for You, The bogus convictions of a Muslim cleric and a businessman are a serious defeat for all patriotic Americans
10/8/06 - News Updates: Sorta Like A Real Blog, Art on a moonlit night, subsidizing corporate schools with roadwork and internecine party politics
9/30/06 - Party Chairman Commisso, A powerful backroom politician comes out of the shadows
9/22/06 - A Walk In The Rain, Inspecting the South End with the out of town consultants
9/16/06 - Albany Should Generate Power, We have the means, let’s create power while we still can
8/26/06 - Great Sacandaga And Albany, How energy “privatization” caused flooding on the waterfront this past July8/11/06 - The Thruway Is The Problem, A guest editorial from the esteemed Mr. John Wolcott8/5/06 - Suburbia Commits Suicide, Luther Forest will destroy Saratoga County
7/17/06 - Triathletes In The Pine Bush, Slow, fat and sickly, The Wife takes the willpower prize
7/8/06 - Suburbanizing Albany, Mayor Jennings invites some the worst possible people to plan Albany’s future, and pointedly excludes the best
6/18/06 - The New Michael McNulty, The Congressman appears to have finally caught on about Iraq, and he earns approval from a key constituent
6/8/06 - Upscale In The South End, As urban property values rise and suburban economies collapse, the poor will have to leave town
5/26/06 - Those Fraudulent Voting Machines
5/21/06 - Albany’s Corrupt Planning Board, 41 Holland Avenue site plan is secretly approved and the citizens are screwed. Again.
5/14/06 - The Human Dumping Issue, An offhand comment starts a firestorm of indignation
5/6/06 - Bulldozers Attack The Pine Bush Preserve, Jennings goes too far in pursuit of his dump
4/23/06 - Lincoln Park In Bloom, A photo tour of the South End’s treasure in April
4/10/06 - Showing The Kids Which Way To Go, A homegrown Poetic Dream and a new kind of dance
4/7/06 - The Fortress Of The Secret Police, What does the FBI have to hide from the taxpayers?
4/3/06 - Three Short Items, A terrible tragedy, a political dismemberment, and a terrorist at large
3/26/06 - Where The Dump Grows: The Common Council votes to condemn part of the Pine Bush
3/12/06 - Throwing Our Kids In The Dump, “Charter” schools, corporate government and efficient robbery
3/5/06 - An Unprovoked Attack By The Corporate Media
How television “news” is manufactured from thin air2/26/06 - Revitalization Out Of Spilled Blood, The City changes South End policy for the better
2/12/06 - Cavaleri's Is No Longer There, We're running out of good Italian restaurants
2/6/06 - More Than Zoning, Walgreens, the corporate enemy we don’t need
1/30/06 - A Long Rumination On The City Of Albany “Landfill”, Wherein The Mayor gets desperate, the wife cavorts in her underwear, and the garbage hits the fan
1/22/06 - The Mystery Of Holland Avenue, So, why’d they do it?
1/17/06 - Shivering For Dr. King, Where politicians meet The People, briefly
1/15/06 - Where’s The Art?, No Trains, No Galleries, No Firlefanz
1/12/06 - Trying To Cow The Next Governor
1/7/06 - Michael McNulty And Impeachment
1/1/06 - A Great Day For Terrorism (A description of the swearing-in ceremony for the Common Council members.)
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