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"Ben Butler" in Albany
Posted Jan 28, 2020 at PlanetAlbany
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WCSS, 1490 AM, 106.9 FM, Amsterdam, NY, at 9:08 Tuesday morning (updated)
While I usually discuss local issues by phone on Jason Subik's radio show, this time he's having me come to the studio to talk Trump and impeachment*. Can I make the defense case, even though I preferred Obama's policy of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Good stuff at Albany Institute
Posted Nov 24, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Debating Physician Assisted Suicide (location corrected)
Posted Nov 21, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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An Exchange with Casey Seiler (updated)
Below is printed an unedited exchange from this morning's Facebook thread of Casey Seiler, with his permission. Seiler is managing editor, and former state editor, of the Albany Times Union, for which he also writes a weekly column in the... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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The other Corning tower
Posted Sep 14, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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The Dumbing Down of Public Education
Posted Aug 29, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Skip Parsons' Riverboat Jazz Band
Posted Aug 13, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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23 Minutes to Showtime
Posted Jul 24, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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The Cassandra Syndrome
Posted Jun 5, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Go for the Greek
Posted May 17, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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An Anti-War Connection
Bill Buell retires today after many years at the Daily Gazette, and will become Schenectady County historian. Here's a recent story of his about Steve Trimm of Albany, pictured above, a longtime key volunteer at Grant Cottage. I'm quoted in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, left, and Donald S. Lopez Jr. discuss Saunders' novel Lincoln in the Bardo on Tuesday evening at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. It was the first of three evening events linked to an exhibit of Tibetan... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Chairs, Swings and Roundabouts
Posted Mar 5, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Lincoln and the Albany railroad bridge
[View of Albany from east side of the Hudson River in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York] Lincoln's long pre-inaugural railroad tour took him all through New York state, with the first stop in... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Seward (cont.) and Harriet Tubman
A new sculpture by Dexter Benedict of William Henry Seward and Harriet Tubman is scheduled to be installed on May 17 outside the main branch of the Schenectady Public Library. It looks good to me. Seward was a graduate of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2019 at PlanetAlbany
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Seward's Progress
This portrait of William Henry Seward by Chester Harding can be found in the Hall of Governors at the New York State Capitol in Albany. It was painted more than two decades before today's date in 1862, when US Secretary... Continue reading
Posted Dec 18, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Ten Broeck
Posted Dec 8, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Faso, Hyde-Smith and Peak Trump
Posted Nov 28, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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The Republicans and Race
Posted Nov 7, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Smearing Tedisco Is TU's Fall-Back
I've never joined Twitter because its format funnels debate into nasty exchanges of shallow ideas, but sometimes it crops up on a Google search, as this did this morning with something from Paul Grondahl, former longtime Times Union reporter, current... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Got Some 'Splainin' to Do (back on WCSS)
So if you're still trying to figure out the bizarre story of the Albany Times Union's retraction this morning (or last night) of their prior endorsement of state Sen. Jim Tedisco, tune in to WCSS (1490 AM, 106.9 FM) after... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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TU Tedisco Turnaround: We Don't Need No Other Issues (updated)
Posted Nov 5, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Tedisco Says He Remains Pro-Life, the TU Got It Wrong
Posted Nov 4, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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Back on the Radio
Posted Nov 1, 2018 at PlanetAlbany
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