albanyweblog.com
Updated
January 20, 2012
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 - 2010
It Came From The Sky, Right outside our window, a heartwarming tale of sudden death and evisceration for the holiday season, 12/25/10
The Assault On Bath House #2,The City of Albany refuses to access funds to renovate and save one of the last community centers in the South End, 11/14/10
Hilltown Hutus And The Lawyer From Buffalo, The corporate media fails to promote the Tea Party candidate for governor, 10/11/10
The End Of Summer Picnic, The Labor Day Picnic in Menands is one of the few ways to observe the holiday locally, 9/16/10
Jerry’s Judge And The Stupid Trial, Albany City Court judge Helena Heath-Roland convincingly demonstrates that she is not emotionally qualified to sit in judgment of others, 8/19/10
The South End Brought Back To Life, Construction begins in earnest on and near the bottom of Morton Avenue in the South End 7/31/10
The Creek At The Mouth Of The Normanskill, Navigating part of the waterway that separates the South End from the suburbs, 7/5/10
The Four Chiefs Beat The Old Boys, Congratulations to Albany’s new Chief of Police Steven Krokoff, let’s see if he can keep the promises that got him the job, 6/22/10
The Jerry Jennings Memorial Dump Fee Bond, A routine backroom tax hike becomes controversial and reveals some of the forces at work inside the new Common Council, 6/2/10
Charter Schools And Obscene Profits, Why Brighter Choice is so hot to impose even more unwanted charter school buildings on the City of Albany and soak the taxpayer, 5/12/10
Crossing The Hudson In Style, Checking out the very new and very old Walkway Over The Hudson State Historic Park, 5/3/10
A Resolution Asking For Justice, Albany’s new Common Council leads the nation by once again asking that the US Constitution be respected, 4/17/10
The Crown Jewel Reopens, Howe Library becomes the new cultural and community center of the South End, inside is near perfect but outside problems remain, 04/04/10
David Brown Hates Swimming Pools, In the name of profit the CEO of the Capital District YMCA is waging war against the City of Albany, 3/25/10
One Very Tough Governor -David Paterson stands firm against the corporate media and the public approves
Corrupt Water Over The Dam - The flood control system for the Hudson River is being badly mismanaged, bringing threats of damage, disease and higher taxes to Albany, 2/28/10
A Letter To Governor Paterson - The blogger begs for money for the South End and partially solves the State budget crisis, 2/9/10
Inauguration Day In Albany - Our elected officials get sworn into office, and the next day the blogger meets the Governor, 1/10/10
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