P-S Breaking NewsNo, not that other history. (You can read about that anywhere…go and read about it now, then come back here.) So the Dems — with a no doubt huge assist from Obama-related turnout — have taken the state senate. (That’s what it takes to dislodge two ancient senators — the biggest freaking turnout in recent [...]
It’s the big day. Get out there and say goodbye to those lever machines!
Last night’s Channel 9 newscast and this morning’s Post-Standard both had stories on the big doin’s up at the Port of Oswego. The TV report focused on the increased current traffic at the Port, and the PS story was about how Oswego has been selected for one of the first container-shipping terminals in the Great [...]
Just when I think I haven’t got the energy (pardon the expression) to blog about NYRI, they makes another silly statement… NYRI president Chris Thompson says he expects this type of “limited” opposition with any major project. “Limited”? Just about the only thing the residents along the proposed line route haven’t done is to threaten [...]
Word to the wise: When running a blog, thoroughly back up your data. My web provider had a server failure yesterday, which had the unsettling effect of wiping my account with them clean. Fortunately they do keep backups, and I do too… just not in one easily accessible piece. (While briefly contemplating the apparent loss [...]
The federal government has ruled that the remains of 180 Native Americans dug up in the Southern Tier during the construction of Route 17 should be returned to the custody of the Onondaga Nation by the New York State Museum. Naturally, New York is protesting, along the lines that nobody can agree when the Onondagas [...]
I recently came across this website after I saw it flash by in an online ad: Retire at 21. It’s a site that celebrates kids (some of them younger than 21) who have gotten super-rich by selling their websites and other online creations, in a perhaps soon-to-be-bygone ’00s style. The goal appears to be to [...]
A new study sheds some light on why people who type stuff on the Internet can behave so awfully.
Gov. Paterson, quoting Warren Buffett on Friday: “It has become clear over the last 24 hours, according to Warren Buffett, that the United States economy can be compared to a great athlete who suffered a stroke.” Usually I think Paterson’s analogies are on the mark, but not this time: isn’t the U.S. economy better compared [...]