The Batavian is a blog that has taken over an online news reporting niche that apparently has not been filled by the Batavia Daily News. Josh Shear (a man of many blogs) has a post about Twitter and the many ways it can be repackaged as news. CNY Snakepit blames Billy Fuccillo for local TV [...]

When the blue chicory is in bloom, one doesn’t care so much that weedy medians are not a political issue in western Onondaga County. They are a hot issue in Cobleskill, however, according to Slums Along the Mohawk. Phil at Still Racing in the Street has written extensively about GOP mockery of community organizing (here, [...]

Yesterday was something called Blog Day, a day where you’re supposed to highlight other people’s blogs on your own blog, instead of just talking about your fabulous self. I do this from time to time under the heading “Other People’s Blogs,” but mainly stick to blogs on New York subjects. So here, a day late, [...]

The Onondaga Citizens League is continuing its series of blog posts on what to do about Route 81 in downtown Syracuse. The latest: “Creating an Urban Mobility Plan.” Josh has some thoughts on passenger rail as part of the answer. Upstream argues that any bigger-better-bottle-bill in New York ought to up the deposit amount to [...]

The Invisible Flood Blog commemorates two years since the Upstate floods of ’06, observes the demolition of a flood-damaged house, and offers support to Midwestern flood victims. What with tornadoes and hail, the Golden Snowball has found plenty to keep discussing well away from the winter season. WinterCampers also keep the posts coming for all [...]

Frugal Upstate on a core concept of frugality: playing the hand you were dealt. Everyone’s favorite punching bag, Richard Florida, gets a closer listen at CNY Ecoblog. (I wonder what Florida thinks about playing the hand you were dealt…) Quote: Florida’s contributions to urban planning and economic geography are undeniable, but some of his ideas [...]

This photo was taken a few months ago at Shove Park. It’s an info kiosk installed a few years ago by Cornell Cooperative Extension about Geddes Brook — and it managed to escape vandalism, until this spring. Why do kids do this? What excitement do they get out of this kind of thing? There is [...]

Upstream looks at a 1917 diary by a Mohawk Valley farmer and wonders why the diarist wrote nothing about World War I, which was raging at the time. (Much in the same way as someone from the future might come across the remnants of this blog and wonder why I never wrote anything about the [...]

Up the Creek!, the blog project about Onondaga Creek, has made some self-guided walks available. You can download an MP3 file, put it into your player, and take a tour of the creek. Sharon Wager, a Camillus real estate agent, has a blog. I’ve linked to it because she has some occasional personal observations on [...]

Burgh Diaspora, a Rust Belt blogger, scoffs at Gov. Paterson’s recent comments on upstate New York’s “brain drain.” He links to a study that indicates the problem is not that too many college grads are leaving, but too few of them are arriving. (However, I think that speaks to a problem we are already aware [...]