Trucking companies are, understandably, quite angry about this week’s announced crackdown on garbage haulers using back roads in the Finger Lakes to get to upstate landfills. Will the downstate municipal garbage authorities ever figure out that it might be cheaper (if slower) to haul trash to Seneca Falls via the Erie Canal system? […]

Here’s a NYT story (and photo essay) on canal living in Amsterdam. (The one in Europe.) Yes, who needs an overactive developer to buy land for upscale homes along a canal when you can just live on your boat and escape crushing property taxes? (Not to mention not have to pay New […]