Since I’m going away this weekend, a few quick words on news that Tim Green has switched parties (from GOP to Dem) and might challenge John DeFrancisco in the 50th, which is my district… I’m not real sure where that huge swing-voter area of the 50th lies (see map), that would enthusiastically vote for a […]

You might remember, some time ago, I posted about a friend of mine who was having some problems with her marriage and wondering what to do about her situation. I was surprised to learn recently that she had decided to start dating again on the side.
I didn’t realize she had actually started […]

Change CNY worries his blog isn’t being taken seriously enough. He got only one response to a survey he sent to county legislature and county exec candidates. (Who sent the one set of answers, doesn’t seem surprising to me.) Considering how Change CNY appears to be the only full-time political blog in […]

This story in the NYT caught my eye the other day for various reasons, but an easy reason is that it took place in upstate New York (Cohoes and Wayne County, to be exact). Reading this story, I am struck by the yawning gap between the higher ground we like to think all women […]

Could it be? A positive Upstate-related business story that doesn’t seem just like empty branding? JetBlue is offering special $30 fares between NYC and Upstate cities, as part of an “I Love New York” tourism push designed to get people to come Upstate for some R&R.
The Post-Standard this morning pointed out that the […]

We have had no absence of ambitious visions over the past few years in this town. Not only that, but vision is very “in.” It’s become a cottage industry. People who are not ordinarily terribly visionary have been scrambling just to keep up with what’s expected of them, for fear of being […]

Kudos to the Post-Standard for including a story about the suspiciously sudden closure of Byrne Dairy on South Geddes in today’s “Neighbors West.” Residents of Solvay, Westvale, Taunton, Fairmount, Camillus, Jordan etc. should realize that what happens on the west side of the city is stuff that they ought to know about.
I […]

Wow, I had no idea that the birth of the ubiquitous “smiley” emoticon had an actual date (and time): 11:44 a.m. (I presume, Eastern time) on September 9, 1982.
You can talk all you want about how Internet communications make for obscurity, but I don’t think a more trustworthy and helpful invention has come along […]

Sometimes it’s the strangest things that set me back toward one of the usual themes on this blog. (Please bear with me, as this has a bit of a long preamble.) Today it’s a somewhat huffy editorial in the NYT about generational bad behavior. The author of this editorial is outraged that […]