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		<title>NYT visits Erie Canal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this thing on? Testing, 1, 2, 3&#8230; Just a quick note that the New York Times has a nice article in its Sunday magazine about canoeing through the ruins of the Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley. I don&#8217;t consider the Beech-Nut factory in Canajoharie a &#8220;ruin&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s still too recently the workplace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2011/06/12/nyt-visits-erie-canal/</link>
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		<title>What does &#8220;indigenous&#8221; mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged a lot here in the past about our local indigenous people, the Haudenosaunee. But I&#8217;ve also been interested in considering &#8220;indigenousness&#8221; as it relates to other peoples living in the same space &#8211; Central New York, or upstate New York as a whole &#8211; and how people see or don&#8217;t see that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/09/12/what-does-indigenous-mean/</link>
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		<title>A Fair day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Fair has been taking its share of lumps in recent weeks &#8212; from investigations of both how Peter Cappuccilli and Dan O&#8217;Hara have been running things, to an infestation of Justin Bieber fans. My Fairgoing has become spotty over the last few years, mainly because there always seems to be something crazy happening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/09/05/a-fair-day/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Because we can&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paging Barbara Kopple (director of Harlan County USA and American Dream)&#8230; why not come to Wayne County and make it an even trilogy? In Mott’s Strike, More Than Paychecks at Stake The story in a nutshell: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, the company that owns the Mott&#8217;s apple juice plant in Williamson, says that their unionized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/08/17/because-we-can/</link>
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		<title>FailFaire CNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for some bitter truth?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/08/16/failfaire-cny/</link>
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		<title>Even a stopped clock&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is right twice a day. The state Senate passes a bill supporting an 11-month hydrofracking moratorium. The Assembly will have a crack at it next month. Such are the benefits of Upstate New York being last in line for all the latest innovations. Sometimes, you get to smell the crap coming.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/08/04/even-a-stopped-clock/</link>
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		<title>Dejobbing society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[99 Weeks Later, Jobless Have Only Desperation Facing eviction from her Tennessee apartment after several months of unpaid rent, Alexandra Jarrin packed up whatever she could fit into her two-door coupe recently and drove out of town. Ms. Jarrin is part of a hard-luck group of jobless Americans whose members have taken to calling themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/08/03/dejobbing-society/</link>
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		<title>Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was expecting a little more from these Red Norlands. Oh well. Updated: So I ate those potatoes, and now their picture has mysteriously disappeared off the server. (Shrug)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/07/20/food/</link>
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		<title>The nations of CNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on sovereignty for all.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/07/18/the-nations-of-cny/</link>
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		<title>Lake stinks less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The changing stench of Onondaga Lake.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/07/07/lake-stinks-less/</link>
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		<title>Forever wild in the Finger Lakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York has a new state forest: Sale of lands around picturesque Hemlock and Canadice lakes by the city of Rochester to New York state, a goal of conservationists for decades, is now complete, officials announced Thursday&#8230; &#8220;This is without a doubt the most important land acquisition project the state has undertaken outside of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/07/02/forever-wild-in-the-finger-lakes/</link>
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		<title>History as voodoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation has started a potentially interesting new project examining some of the historical markers in Central New York. They have a Google map of markers started, and a list of good questions to ask about any markers you might encounter. The study of history is supposed to enlarge one&#8217;s consciousness of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/06/14/history-as-voodoo/</link>
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		<title>How the world gets smaller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, we&#8217;re now hearing (the truth) that BP&#8217;s latest effort to stop the Gulf oil spill has been mostly a failure. President Obama has been down to visit and to claim that the Gulf Coast &#8220;is not alone,&#8221; but since our captains of industry and elected officials seem to be powerless to actually stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/29/how-the-world-gets-smaller/</link>
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		<title>State park update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is happening at the closed state parks? It seems to depend on where you are and who you know&#8230; A group of about a half dozen volunteers were asked to leave Wilson-Tuscarora State Park (east of Niagara Falls) by park police as they brought in mowers under the direction of Wilson town officials. (The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/23/state-park-update/</link>
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		<title>Birth of a burb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A look at Fairmount in 1938.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/23/birth-of-a-burb/</link>
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		<title>More fantastical Upstate landscapes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I commented on the ABC special Earth 2100 and how, like other dystopian sci-fi visions, it at the end embraced Upstate New York as some sort of idyllic promised land for people to escape to in the event of asteroids, global warming, nuclear war, etc. Nobody else will be living up here, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/19/more-fantastical-upstate-landscapes/</link>
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		<title>Into the wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the original list of 55 state parks and historic sites slated for closure were officially shut. For a while it looked like the legislature was going to get its act together and &#8220;save&#8221; them for another year, but everyone in Albany is so busy trying to make each other look bad that the parks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/17/into-the-wild/</link>
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		<title>Caught on tape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something about a surveillance camera that makes everyone look like a criminal. Take a look at this cam shot of Times Square, would-be victim of last weekend&#8217;s failed terrorist attack: It makes me wonder if turning any city into a seething mass of amusement-seeking humanity is ever really a good idea.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/05/caught-on-tape/</link>
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		<title>Three ways of looking at the new tax agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Onondaga County is not a two-sided battlefield.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/04/three-ways-of-looking-at-the-new-tax-agreement/</link>
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		<title>Source and sink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my usual roundabout way, while I was researching Chernobyl, I came across this Wikipedia article on the ecological theory of source and sink. A &#8220;source&#8221; is a habitat where a species does well, grows in population, and excess population disperses to a &#8220;sink,&#8221; often a less ideal habitat which paradoxically may become more populated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/05/03/source-and-sink/</link>
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		<title>Too easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is too tempting to write a long blog post about something, even when you don&#8217;t have the time. Yesterday I was wondering if it would be worth the time and effort to write out a transcript of the entire relevant portion of the dustup between my state senator, John DeFrancisco, and the Brooklyn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/29/too-easy/</link>
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		<title>Arizona, you&#8217;ve changed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent quite a bit of time in Arizona as a kid, mostly around Flagstaff and Sedona. My grandparents moved out there in the early &#8217;70s, followed by many other relatives on their side of the family, so it was always an extended summer vacation stop. Although Arizona has seen huge growth since then, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/27/arizona-youve-changed/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is Upstate Outpost, a new blog by an administrative law judge who has just returned to Syracuse from St. Louis. I think this one promises to be a very good read, so check it out.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/25/other-peoples-blogs-27/</link>
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		<title>History for sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I noticed that the &#8220;Brockway Tavern house&#8221; (aka the funeral home at Fairmount Corners, aka the former Walter White&#8217;s) has been put up for sale. Hopefully, even in this bad economic climate, it will find a buyer willing to keep up the property and maybe even turn it back into, uh, a livelier business. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/23/history-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Dirt Day 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, Fairmount, what's in your dirt?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/22/dirt-day-2010/</link>
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		<title>Will the real CNY please stand up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might not have heard, but a couple of tinhorn Utica-area politicians with nothing better to do have, with their mighty and authoritative voices, changed the fate of a region. State officials agreed Sunday to officially rename the Greater Utica area to &#8220;Central New York&#8221; after retiring the name &#8220;Central Leatherstocking Region.&#8221; Senator Joseph Griffo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/18/will-the-real-cny-please-stand-up/</link>
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		<title>New York&#8217;s Deadliest Ex-State Parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the shores of Long Island to the mighty Niagara Falls, New York&#8217;s plethora of ex-state parks offer countless opportunities to escape from the bounds of gravity (briefly), experience exciting new adventures in agony, and become one with your natural environment (forever)! Wondrous new worlds of pain await you at&#8230; Clark Reservation. If you&#8217;ve always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/16/new-yorks-deadliest-ex-state-parks/</link>
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		<title>State park admission hikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest news on the parks situation is that car entrance fees will be raised at 28 of the most popular parks (including our own Green Lakes), and golf course fees will also be raised. The most interesting news is that, like many other states have done for a long time, New York will now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/04/02/state-park-admission-hikes/</link>
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		<title>Games?  Must we?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make: I haven&#8217;t played a video game since I was a teenager. Really. I&#8217;m old enough to have been impressed by Pong, and I came of age during the Atari era. Nevertheless, my parents decided it would be forward-thinking and responsible of them to buy me and my sister&#8230; an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/31/games-must-we/</link>
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		<title>State parks: so, now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As wrangling over Paterson&#8217;s budget continues, it&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that the great collective scream of bloody murder from the voters of New York has produced results: all of the threatened state parks and historic sites may stay open this year. With the closings already opposed by the state Senate, the Assembly wants to retain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/24/state-parks-so-now-what/</link>
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		<title>New York, you&#8217;ve changed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Razing New York, mercilessly and without tears.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/19/new-york-youve-changed/</link>
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		<title>This is how the world ends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have received my “the Census is coming” letter. Hopefully you did too, because this is The Most Important Census of Our Lifetimes. Stand up and be counted, or else much-needed funding or representation will go elsewhere &#8212; maybe to a county or state that&#8217;s more heavily populated with people who don&#8217;t think like you. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/15/this-is-how-the-world-ends/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the CCC?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And why are NY State Parks staff grumpy?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/05/wheres-the-ccc/</link>
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		<title>The Return of Other People&#8217;s Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back&#8230; Solid Shale is a blog that people concerned about hydrofracking might want to check out. Norbrook&#8217;s Blog is for &#8220;Opinions from the Central Adirondacks&#8221; (with much to say about the state parks) Occasional commenter here, Mrs. M has been awfully busy with her own blog stable, including New York Renovator (&#8220;the challenges of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/04/the-return-of-other-peoples-blogs/</link>
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		<title>State Park Minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Binghamton&#8217;s WSKG-TV created a series of spots to highlight the state parks of the Southern Tier. There are nine &#8220;State Park Minutes&#8221; in all. You can watch them here. At least three of these parks face immediate closure or service reductions under the current budget proposal. At least two more of them are in danger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/04/state-park-minutes/</link>
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		<title>You have the power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest in the Paterson business&#8230; A key figure in the domestic abuse scandal bedeviling Gov. David A. Paterson told investigators that the governor phoned to enlist her help in quieting the accuser, according to a person with knowledge of her account. “Tell her the governor wants her to make this go away,” Deneane Brown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/03/03/you-have-the-power-2/</link>
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		<title>Centro, we hardly knew ye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to memorialize the passing of Centro&#8217;s 178 Fairmount Hills route, formerly known as the 4G. Since the time of Christ, it served the far-flung upper reaches of the southeast of the Town of Camillus, but fell victim to Centro service cuts effective Monday. I forgot this was going to happen so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/27/centro-we-hardly-knew-ye/</link>
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		<title>Rod Serling speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stepping away from the Twilight Zone of the NYS state parks for a moment, I just had to post these ancient videos of Rod Serling talking about the craft of writing for television. Also: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5&#8230; and I think there are 10 parts in all, which you can find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/21/rod-serling-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Reforming New York&#8217;s parks system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the reality of threatened park closures has had a day to sink in, maybe it&#8217;s time to take the public conversation beyond the understandable cries of protest and think about the future. The Post-Standard, like many papers around the state this morning, is looking into the costs of keeping the parks open, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/20/reforming-new-yorks-parks-system/</link>
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		<title>Official state park hit list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple crazy suggestions here for closures on the official list&#8230; Bayswater Point State Park Beechwood State Park Bonavista State Park Brookhaven State Park Caleb Smith State Park Preserve Canoe Island State Park Cedar Island State Park Chimney Bluffs State Park Chittenango Falls Clark Reservation Cold Spring Harbor State Park Joseph Davis State Park Donald [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/19/official-state-park-hit-list/</link>
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		<title>Bracing for the state park hit list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of state park closures is a strange one to contemplate. After all, it&#8217;s not as if the places and their natural attractions go away. It&#8217;s just that the public is barred from using them, and the amenities fall into disrepair. But it&#8217;s the &#8220;out of sight, out of mind&#8221; aspect that&#8217;s troubling, especially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/18/bracing-for-the-state-park-hit-list/</link>
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		<title>All about salt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Golden Snowball reports, Syracuse has actually lost its first-place position in the national Golden Snowglobe contest to&#8230; Baltimore?! (I blame myself for this.) You would think, with all this snow falling on them, that New York City and other southern metro areas would be looking to the salt mines of our region to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/13/all-about-salt/</link>
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		<title>Interview with SyracuseB4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean Kirst interviews the enigmatic and exceedingly well-informed SyracuseB4, aka Theresa Rusho. Great stuff, check it out. One quote jumped out at me, however: There is a tendency to view the destruction of James Street as inevitable civic change. Rusho breaks that idea on the rocks. She’s found clips from the 1950s that establish how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/02/05/interview-with-syracuseb4/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What we see in the United States and some other economies is a statistical recovery and a human recession.&#8221; &#8211;Larry Summers, Davos, January 30, 2009 &#8220;Of course; that was the intention. The stimulus money, QE, low rates, etc., etc, were geared toward goosing the stats. They were never directed toward middle or lower income individuals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/30/quote-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<title>The ecological unconscious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A further word on &#8220;what&#8217;s happening to our place&#8221; is in next Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine. Worth a read. You decide that you want to get rid of the byproducts of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the ecomental system called Lake Erie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/29/the-ecological-unconscious/</link>
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		<title>From Copake to Camillus, we&#8217;re all indigenous now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week there was a particularly disturbing news story out of the hamlet of Copake, in Columbia County east of the Hudson. A despondent dairy farmer committed suicide, shooting dead 51 of his cows before killing himself. Although the scope of this private tragedy caught the collective breath of nationwide news consumers (for an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/27/from-copake-to-camillus-were-all-indigenous-now/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Erie State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This unconventional Senate reapportionment map, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, would divide the U.S. into regions with more or less equal representation by population. As usual, upstate NY gets cut into pieces, but that&#8217;s not surprising. CNY is handcuffed to WNY in this scenario, but I suppose worse things could happen. The name seems well chosen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/26/welcome-to-erie-state/</link>
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		<title>A quote on organizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticed this at Dmitry Orlov&#8217;s website- In all of my experience, communities — of people and animals — form instantaneously and rather effortlessly, based on a commonality of interests and needs. What takes a lot of work is not organizing communities, but preventing them from organizing — through the use of truncheons and tear gas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/19/a-quote-on-organizing/</link>
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		<title>Why Michael Nozzolio&#8217;s Upstate manifesto is a failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And what it would say if it wasn't.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/18/why-michael-nozzolios-upstate-manifesto-is-a-failure/</link>
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		<title>Longing for summer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know where it&#8217;s hiding. View Larger Map Keep driving north. Run the red light. You&#8217;ll find it. (Note: This is only for those who have exhausted the entertainment possibilities of the Zombie Outbreak Simulator.)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/14/longing-for-summer/</link>
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		<title>S.O.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The State of the State makes one want to cry for help.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/07/sos/</link>
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		<title>Catching up with Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rather good guest editorial from a Syracuse expat in Sunday&#8217;s Post-Standard hints that people are starting to come around to my way of thinking on Richard Florida. I&#8217;m quite sure it&#8217;s not because anyone has read my stuff, but possibly because a prolonged economic slump for everyone tends to relieve one&#8217;s thirst for snake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2010/01/04/catching-up-with-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>Top New York stories of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most important No. 1 story of our lifetimes.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/31/top-new-york-stories-of-the-year-3/</link>
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		<title>Blowed up real good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Champlain Bridge left this earthly life at 10:04 a.m. Eastern time in a driving snowstorm. Watch its final moments here. This gentleman sums it up better than I ever could:]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/28/blowed-up-real-good/</link>
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		<title>Saab story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[G.M. Plans to Close Saab After Talks Collapse Just pausing for a quick farewell to the family car of my childhood. Back in the &#8217;70s, Saab didn&#8217;t have such a yuppified reputation, and was just a weird European brand that few people drove. My dad thought they were very cool, however, and from the mid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/18/saab-story/</link>
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		<title>Urban Blight Simulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, that was a dishonest post title. I don&#8217;t have an urban blight simulator nor do I know where you can get one. But, having spent up to 15 slack-jawed minutes at a time watching this Zombie Outbreak Simulator, I really think someone ought to build one. (Turn your sound down before you click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/16/urban-blight-simulator/</link>
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		<title>What comes after BrunoGate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to solve three of our state's pressing problems in one easy step.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/13/what-comes-after-brunogate/</link>
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		<title>Say it ain&#8217;t so, Joe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Bruno, convicted on two of eight felony counts today. Another nail in the coffin of the Big Man era of Albany politics, or just a prelude to a successful appeal? The jury entered the courtroom at 4:16 p.m. and as they retunred a not guilty verdict on the first two counts and no verdict [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/12/07/say-it-aint-so-joe/</link>
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		<title>Food stamp nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has an article on increased food stamp use in America that delivers the staggering statistic that up to one-fourth of America&#8217;s children are currently being helped by the program. Food stamps mean different things to different people &#8211; for some, it&#8217;s something they chronically need to rely on, and for others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/29/food-stamp-nation/</link>
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		<title>Be thankful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be thankful for your blessings this Thanksgiving, and reflect on the less fortunate.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/26/be-thankful/</link>
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		<title>Guns don&#8217;t kill people&#8230; oh yeah, guess they do.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Standard ran a story this past Sunday about the odyssey of a local Glock pistol, known to local police as &#8220;9 mm No. 1&#8243; which was involved in 13 shootings and one armed robbery in the Syracuse area alone until its confiscation recently from its latest user, a 23-year-old man. (As one joker put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/25/guns-dont-kill-people-oh-yeah-guess-they-do/</link>
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		<title>Better late than never</title>
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		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/13/better-late-than-never/</link>
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		<title>License plate rebellion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Standard has a roundup of the intense outcry over the new New York license plates. Most of the rancor seems to be about the mandatory $25 fee that is supposed to raise up to $130 million for the state&#8217;s coffers, but I&#8217;ve talked to a lot of people who just absolutely hate the &#8220;new&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/13/license-plate-rebellion/</link>
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		<title>Old skool!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the &#8220;new&#8221; New York State license plates we&#8217;ll all be forced to buy starting in April 2010! How appropriate&#8230; since we&#8217;re already headed back to the economy of the mid-1970s. (I gotta confess: I&#8217;ve missed the blue and gold.) Updated: BuffaloPundit is right&#8230; Feel the excitement!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/10/old-skool/</link>
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		<title>Declining cities, intuition and the scientific method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our newly elected mayor has inherited a sick city.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/05/declining-cities-intuition-and-the-scientific-method/</link>
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		<title>Odds and ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Miner, Turner to Cezanne, Facebook.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/11/04/odds-and-ends-2/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Fairmount Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serving the cause of suburbia since October 28, 1959.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/28/happy-birthday-fairmount-fair/</link>
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		<title>An observation on bread and circuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever activities a hierarchy undertakes initially to bond a population to itself&#8230; often thereafter becomes de rigueur, so that further bonding activities are at higher cost, with little or no additional benefit to the hierarchy. The appeasement of urban mobs presents the classic illustration of this principle. Any level of activities undertaken to appease such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/24/an-observation-on-bread-and-circuses/</link>
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		<title>Wave effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Must Hiram Monserrate resign? Must he be fired? It would be another sign of the apocalypse if running Monserrate out of town would result in a domino effect of girlfriend-hitting, paparazzi-punching and intern-interfering elected public officials also being toppled. That might be, like, giving people like Liz Krueger, Dave Valesky and ordinary New Yorkers dangerous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/19/wave-effect/</link>
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		<title>In memory of a perfect day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I talked about the September wildflowers being a prelude to the &#8220;big October show&#8221; of the leaves. Last year around this time, I took my mom to Green Lakes State Park for a Saturday walk around the lakes on a really splendid sunny day when the leaves were at peak. Took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/15/in-memory-of-a-perfect-day/</link>
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		<title>To boldly go&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Cubbison of the Post-Standard has a new blog called Future News, which is going to look at ways that newspapers will be able to use things like RSS and Twitter and Facebook and other tools that will show great communications promise to generations of journalists yet unborn. He points out that the world of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/11/to-boldly-go/</link>
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		<title>The bakery that time forgot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harrison&#8217;s on West Genesee (across from Sacred Heart) is 60 years old this year. There is simply not much to the place, and there never has been. It&#8217;s basically a small lobby with three glass cases filled with goodies. Nothing else seems to have changed since (what I imagine it was in) 1949. Except now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/07/the-bakery-that-time-forgot/</link>
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		<title>Taters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the result of the Eva M. Walsh Memorial Experimental Potato Station, 2009. I&#8217;m astounded at Mother Nature&#8217;s capacity to take my abuse. I honestly thought someone was screwing with my head when I dug these up, and had bought potatoes at the store and secretly buried them when I wasn&#8217;t paying attention (which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/10/04/taters/</link>
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		<title>Who killed Name Brand Deals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They closed down Pep Boys for this?!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/09/30/who-killed-name-brand-deals/</link>
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		<title>Stayers, goers, seekers, returners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A story on empty small towns in the Midwest sounds awfully familiar.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/09/24/stayers-goers-seekers-returners/</link>
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		<title>The elephant in the room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this was going to be a post about Obama, Paterson and racism. Thanks to recently reported political events, it&#8217;s going to be about more than that. We live in a marvelous Internet age where we don&#8217;t even have to let on what color or gender we are if we don&#8217;t want to. I truthfully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/09/20/the-elephant-in-the-room/</link>
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		<title>September: The pre-game show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no better time to check out the flowers than this time of year. One last explosion of color amid all the serious business of going to seed and dying. I like to think of it as the pre-game special before the big October show.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/09/13/september-the-pre-game-show/</link>
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		<title>Unwikified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything worth reading about is on Wikipedia by now, right? Well, no. You still can&#8217;t find anything on Wikipedia about Stanislaw Kaszynski, the municipal official who was executed by the Nazis for trying to tell the world about what was going on at the Chelmno death camp in his jurisdiction. Nor can you find much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/09/06/unwikified/</link>
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		<title>District 9 and the homegrown arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually talk about movies here on the blog. My usual shtick is to link everything back to a Syracuse-centric POV here, and with most movies that&#8217;s kind of hard to do. But this isn&#8217;t difficult to do with a discussion of the new sci-fi movie DISTRICT 9, a South African-made film that helps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/28/district-9-and-the-homegrown-arts/</link>
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		<title>Rip van Winkle moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story in the NY Times this weekend about the rise and fall of a California cul-de-sac, a victim of the economy. It&#8217;s an interesting read but what jumped out at me was the following: But as always in California, boom times came again. During the 1990s, Moreno Valley became one of the fastest-growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/23/rip-van-winkle-moment/</link>
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		<title>Dying to be seen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe the news today: yet another CNY motorcyclist is the victim of a driver who turned into his path. This comes on the heels of two fatalities last week. If you know someone who rides a motorcycle, you might have had the experiencing of reading the breaking news about one of these accidents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/11/watch-for-motorcycles/</link>
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		<title>Middle of everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I took a camping trip down to Bowman Lake, a remote state park in the middle of Chenango County. There really isn&#8217;t much to see at Bowman Lake, which makes it the perfect place to relax and do nothing. Nowhere is usually a challenge to get to, however, and Bowman is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/11/middle-of-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>Here there be dragons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article worth reading, although it&#8217;s not a new complaint: Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood. Though the wilderness available to me had shrunk to a mere green scrap of its former enormousness, though so much about childhood had changed in the years between the days of young George Washington&#8217;s adventuring on his side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/03/here-there-be-dragons/</link>
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		<title>Genesee Theater again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting an old topic &#8212; the late, lamented Genesee Theater: Cinema Sightlines has recently updated its page about the theater with even more amazing old photos of the film-promotional efforts of George Read. One of these photos has the theater&#8217;s big glowing clock pictured in it (alas, only from the side). I wonder whatever happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/08/01/genesee-theater-again/</link>
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		<title>Election 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where to find news and views about Syracuse city elections.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/30/election-2009/</link>
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		<title>The garden of good and evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry to report that one of my tater tots has died. I don&#8217;t know what caused the problem, but it doesn&#8217;t look like the dreaded late blight (especially since the one right next to it is doing fine). It all started after a heavy rain which flattened the plant. Some of the stalks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/29/the-garden-of-good-and-evil/</link>
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		<title>Fairmount Glen Mini Golf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick link: Fairmount Glen Miniature Golf has a website (&#8220;I did not know that!&#8221;), with a history page that has some pictures of its old course at the current location of West Genesee High School, and some old pictures of its current location circa 1960. (Sorry for the light posting lately. Hoping to be back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/25/fairmount-glen-mini-golf/</link>
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		<title>The Great East Coast Tomato Famine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has more information on a story I first saw in the Plattsburgh newspaper a couple weeks ago: A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine whether the outbreak abates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/17/the-great-east-coast-tomato-famine/</link>
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		<title>Why??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cities rediscover waterways they paved over.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/16/why/</link>
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		<title>This very evening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening, my black raspberries &#8212; running more than a week late this year, as you might expect &#8212; yielded the peak harvest of their (all too brief) season. Starting tomorrow, the daily take will grow steadily smaller. This means that summer is now exactly half over.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/15/this-very-evening/</link>
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		<title>The sporting news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea whether systemic sexual harrassment is going on in the athletics fundraising department at Binghamton University&#8230; but I have even less of a clue as to why anyone would get excited about Binghamton University athletics. (I guess it doesn&#8217;t excite too many people, so they seek excitement in other ways?) It seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/10/the-sporting-news/</link>
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		<title>Trouble in the wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This news story about the scaling back of a massive Texas wind farm project is only the latest whiff of how the recession/decession/depression is affecting the potential for lengthy transmission lines. However, those who have been following the NYRI issue are probably already aware of being &#8220;saved by the bell&#8221; of the crappy economy. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/08/trouble-in-the-wind/</link>
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		<title>Prison bus crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Arthur writes about an accident on the Northway and the larger issues it reminds us of. The system is broken. Many of those people now in prison should not be there. They should be getting treatment. Instead of spending so much on incarceration, we should be spending more mental health and drug treatment. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/06/prison-crash/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday, America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The front page of the Syracuse Herald-American, from Sunday, July 4, 1976. Click for full page. (Discovered last week during cleanout of cellar)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/04/happy-birthday-america/</link>
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		<title>An emerging emergency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 40 years since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer. Why haven&#8217;t we won yet? Below the flip are a few thoughts on technology, apple picking, space travel, the State Senate crisis, DestiNY USA, the Connective Corridor, backyard gardens, physics, and youth and old age. Proceed at your own risk! It&#8217;s been 40 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/07/02/an-emerging-emergency/</link>
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		<title>November 22, 1963</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The passing of two high-profile figures on the same day (Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson) reminds me of another such day: November 22, 1963. Everyone can tell you immediately who the most famous person was who died on that day, but while many people know who C.S. Lewis was, few people realize he also passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/26/november-22-1963/</link>
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		<title>Above the mist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have sometimes considered where in New York (or the Northeast) I might like to live if I weren&#8217;t living in Syracuse. It might seem crazy, but in addition to the usual factors (jobs, politics, weather etc), I find myself considering the history of a place. To me, it&#8217;s like the character of the landscape, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/24/above-the-mist/</link>
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		<title>A moment of Zen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Jacks Reef. I almost grew up right here (just outside the frame) &#8211; on the banks of the Erie Canal. During this time of turmoil, let&#8217;s close our eyes and imagine New York as it once was, and could someday be again&#8230; a murky, stagnant breeding ground for mosquitoes, that no longer leads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/18/a-moment-of-zen/</link>
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		<title>Errol Morris blogs on photography and history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is apropos of nothing, but I have been meaning to link to these for some time and want to do it before I forget again&#8230; Filmmaker Errol Morris has been writing at the NY Times in a fascinating occasional series where he takes a single photograph or image and spends a few consecutive days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/17/errol-morris-blogs-on-photography-and-history/</link>
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		<title>Senator Johnny Explains It All For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids! Have you heard about the trouble at the State Senate? Is it making your mom and dad confused? Would you like to learn more about how your state government and democracy works? Don&#8217;t worry&#8230; Johnny the Friendly Senator is here to explain it all for you. Gather round, children, and come sit on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/13/senator-johnny-explains-it-all-for-you/</link>
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		<title>No more Upstate Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wilmers quits ESDC (HT Buffalopundit)&#8230; Just one year after becoming the state&#8217;s economic development czar, Robert Wilmers is stepping down from the post, the latest in a growing line-up of officials departing the Paterson administration. Wilmers, who is also chairman of the Buffalo-based M&#038;T Bank, made his resignation known in a letter to Paterson, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/11/no-more-upstate-guy/</link>
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		<title>COUP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WTF? ALBANY – Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months. A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/10/coup/</link>
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		<title>Grownups&#8217; State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John DeFrancisco can spin the coup as &#8220;necessary for reform&#8221; all he wants, but in the end it was all about personal power and perks. If anyone with money can set up their own government in New York, people without money should be able to do it as well. I mean, anything goes now, right? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/10/grownups-state/</link>
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		<title>New marketing concept for Upstate NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched part of ABC&#8217;s Earth 2100 last night. It struck me as this generation&#8217;s version of The Day After&#8230; soon to be distributed on DVD with study guides to cowering junior high school classes nationwide, although with wind farms and skyscraper-top gardens filling in for &#8220;duck and cover.&#8221; In the end of the story, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/03/new-marketing-concept-for-upstate-ny/</link>
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		<title>Syracuse: built by engineers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dick Case&#8217;s Post-Standard column today is about Route 81: Syracuse&#8217;s historical response was different from many cities&#8217; responses. Goals of &#8220;slum clearance&#8221; and redevelopment in town converged with national planning that included money for transportation to eliminate congestion and improve mobility. Urban freeways were seen as vehicles to achieve those goals, according to [Joe] DiMento. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/06/02/syracuse-built-by-engineers/</link>
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		<title>Between the lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last spring, residents of the near western burbs of Onondaga County had a little problem with something they called &#8220;The Noise.&#8221; After many months of forum-based fretting, angry phone calls, e-mails, and media coverage, the annoying sound finally disappeared (for the most part). Syracuse Energy Corp. (Suez), the co-generation plant in Solvay, traced the sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/30/between-the-lines/</link>
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		<title>Camillus aqueduct restoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long-anticipated $2 million restoration of the Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct at Camillus Erie Canal Park is a &#8220;go.&#8221; This was what it looked like on Saturday. They are now just starting to place the watertight layer of boards on the floor. When it&#8217;s finished in October, it will be the only fully navigable canal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/24/camillus-aqueduct-restoration/</link>
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		<title>Odds and ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYRI won&#8217;t stay dead. Phil posts on gay marriage. He thinks some Democrats are batting for the other team. Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation is trying to get the Syracuse Common Council to adopt a Resolution of Respect for and Reconciliation with the Onondaga Nation. The location of Mordor having already been discovered, here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/21/odds-and-ends/</link>
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		<title>The New Yorks that ate New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wolfram Alpha is a new site that advertises itself as a new way to search for data in a computational manner. You can input natural-language queries in a variety of subjects, including Census data. Since secession is all the rage these days, I thought I&#8217;d plug some questions into the system and see what resulted. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/17/the-new-yorks-that-ate-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Starting over, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On New Year&#8217;s Day 2008 I posted about what sort of young people might be coming back to the Syracuse area in the future. In yesterday&#8217;s New York Times was a revealing look at what is happening to real families during a real economic fading, and what it&#8217;s like when economically broken young adults return [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/14/starting-over-again/</link>
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		<title>The Secession Chronicles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First it was the Upstate Republicans making their noises. Now the grunts are being heard from Long Island, as you might expect. There are three New Yorks, after all. (Or perhaps 19 million New Yorks&#8230;?) The MTA bailout has proven to be gasoline on this flickering little flame. Article IV of the Constitution requires any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/12/the-secession-chronicles/</link>
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		<title>New Senate website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state Senate has a snazzy new website (same old address). It&#8217;s a big deal for the new Senate Democratic majority, with some new features &#8211; but what about the minority senators? Are they getting the same bells and whistles on the site? Judging from John DeFrancisco&#8217;s section on the new site, it looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/09/new-senate-website/</link>
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		<title>Lead and arsenic in Syracuse community gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Standard has an important and very welcome front-page story today about elevated levels of lead and arsenic found in some community gardens in the city of Syracuse. (One of the beneficial side effects of the paper&#8217;s shrinkage: a front-page story really stands out and focuses the attention.) Although some of the contamination can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/08/lead-and-arsenic-in-syracuse-community-gardens/</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s lookin&#8217; at you, kid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Syracuse International Film Festival finished its latest run this past weekend and there is good news! The whole goal of the Syracuse Film Office is to get more films made in central New York &#8212; and it&#8217;s already making progress. &#8220;We had a Hollywood group, they were looking for a series of highways with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/05/heres-lookin-at-you-kid/</link>
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		<title>Lingering concerns about Syracuse&#8217;s future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a bedrock institution like the newspaper business falls onto unprecedented hard times, how can anyone suppose that higher education, or even the Colossus of our health care system, are immune? ]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/05/01/lingering-concerns-about-syracuses-future/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;What should I do?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People have written me to ask a question or two. &#8216;When is collapse going to happen?&#8217; Well, I do not want the economy to collapse before everyone gets a chance to purchase this book, so let us hope for the best. &#8216;What do I plan to do?&#8217; Well, I am not sure. But I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/30/what-should-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Some light reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it make me a complete nerd if news of a possible global pandemic makes me want to link to this? The Decameron Not that I&#8217;ve ever read it &#8212; but if by some chance we all get confined and quarantined, I should have plenty of time to do so&#8230; But let&#8217;s remain calm.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/29/some-light-reading/</link>
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		<title>Niagara Falls: not American enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nasty Feds won&#8217;t let New York put Niagara Falls on its next state quarter: The selection process requires that images chosen for the quarters must be national sites “under the supervision, management or conservancy of the National Parks Service, the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or any similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/29/niagara-falls-not-american-enough/</link>
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		<title>April 27, 2005:  AG endorsement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, NYCO&#8217;s Blog has gone through a couple of databases, some of which are now offline. This is a former post which is being restored to the database via public reposting. An update is below. * * * Richard Brodsky gets a big endorsement for his attorney general campaign: In another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/27/april-27-2005-ag-endorsement/</link>
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		<title>The end of NYRI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the New York Regional Interconnect finally threw in the towel on their plans for a monstrous power line running from Oneida to Orange counties. This marks the end of a three-year battle by a consortium of citizens to turn back the project. EveAnn Schwartz and Chris Rossi of Stop NYRI, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/26/the-end-of-nyri/</link>
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		<title>Wisdom of the commentariat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few good comments I&#8217;ve read lately, hidden deep in other people&#8217;s blogs: Our friend Robinia writes at TAP on local higher ed as entrenched interests, and also wonders who died and left Robert Wilmers boss. Celebrating the recent tea parties on Fault Lines, a funny and telling exchange about a &#8220;lack of turnout&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/23/wisdom-of-the-commentariat/</link>
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		<title>April 22, 2005: Missing the point on Earth Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, NYCO&#8217;s Blog has gone through a couple of databases, some of which are now offline. This is a former post which is being restored to the database via public reposting. An update is below. Today is Earth Day. I was surprised to read recently that Onondaga County apparently has one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/22/april-22-2005-missing-the-point-on-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>Same old story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNY Speaks has an article today inviting the community to critique an action plan that touches on crime, economic development, the arts and (of course) parking. Also highlighted recently in the Post-Standard was the Sibylline TXT SYRACUSE project. This is a deal where you take your cell phone, go to various locations around the city, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/19/same-old-story/</link>
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		<title>Memorable encounters with wildlife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started a little side project, a Twitter stream called @OutdoorsNewYork. It&#8217;s an outgrowth of my camping hobby (it includes news about the state park system and the DEC). But I&#8217;m also interested in reporting items about our increasing awareness of and contact with wild animals in New York&#8217;s more urbanized and suburbanized realms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/17/memorable-encounters-with-wildlife/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And probably next year, too. Wobbly future for NY Dems? A few years ago, a friend explained to me that there really wasn&#8217;t a State Democratic Party. There were several: one for the Assembly, one for the Senate, another for the Governor, and then others focused on Senate races. Any time those often conflicting pieces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/12/quote-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Twitter, Tolkien and talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do they call people who use Twitter &#8211; twits?&#8221; That&#8217;s my sister, the social media Luddite, talking. The video below is probably something she would enjoy (I found a link to it via, um, Twitter): Funny &#8211; though it does repeat the misconception people who use social media somehow &#8220;don&#8217;t have friends,&#8221; when the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/05/twitter-tolkien-and-talk/</link>
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		<title>Binghamton: Hitting us where we live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched and read the news yesterday about the rampage shooting, and along with the horror of watching the death toll go up, there was the sorrow that this was such a terrible way for the world to hear about Binghamton. It should not have happened this way. I also watched the afternoon press conference, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/04/binghamton-hitting-us-where-we-live/</link>
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		<title>On any other day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On any other day, this might have been big news for Upstate New York: NYRI is probably dead. I&#8217;ll write more about it later, but today I just don&#8217;t have the heart to.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/03/on-any-other-day/</link>
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		<title>All along the watchtower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surveillance towers planned for Detroit, Buffalo The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called &#8220;virtual fence&#8221; along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. The government awarded the $20 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/04/01/all-along-the-watchtower/</link>
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		<title>The 7 Horrors of&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never a good time for a post about horrors. Especially not springtime. However, I had wanted to do an inversion of this past popular post, The 7 Wonders of&#8230;, for some time but had never gotten around to it. Halloween would have been maybe too facetious a date for it &#8212; any responses might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/30/the-7-horrors-of/</link>
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		<title>Keeping it in the family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick note on the AIG/New York State pension fund affair&#8230; in case you hadn&#8217;t heard: A two-year investigation by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Albany County District Attorney David Soares and the federal Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded that Hevesi’s top political adviser and the pension fund’s chief investment officer raked in tens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/25/keeping-it-in-the-family/</link>
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		<title>The disadvantages of an elite education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article from last summer which I only recently read: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, by a retired Yale prof. He speaks eloquently about the process I have always merely referred to as &#8220;higher edumacation.&#8221; (Toward the end of the article, he also touches on some of the social media-related issues we have recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/23/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/</link>
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		<title>Twittermania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Twitter since last summer. I mainly use it as a pleasant time-waster (as if I don&#8217;t waste enough time!), but over the last couple months &#8211; weeks even &#8211; it has ramped up into a national mania. You might have noticed that I&#8217;ve already incorporated two different Twitter streams into this blog, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/20/twittermania/</link>
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		<title>The secret world of Westcott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Syracuse has put up a large photo log of the renovations to Westcott Reservoir. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered about its mysterious interior, check out these pictures. Hard to believe this desolate landscape is located in the middle of a dense suburb.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/18/the-secret-world-of-westcott/</link>
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		<title>A year with David Paterson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today, David Paterson was sworn in as New York&#8217;s so-called &#8220;unelected&#8221; governor (though last time I checked, he was elected lieutenant governor). After a wearing year and a shocking week, it was a happy day. His sense of humor was a relief, his success through his handicaps was inspiring and amazing, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/17/a-year-with-david-paterson/</link>
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		<title>Another kind of madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire, the Oscar-winning little-film-that-could, might have been well received here in the U.S., but in India it produced a huge uproar. It has reignited the debate in India over whether that country is doing enough for its desperately poor, or is ashamed enough, or should be ashamed. The New York Times presents this very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/13/another-kind-of-madness/</link>
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		<title>Maple madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about the only thing that&#8217;s not tapped out in New York State is its maple syrup potential. Despite the state being filled with saps, we import four times as much maple product as we produce. Our own peripatetic Chuck Schumer wants to change all that with the Maple Tapping Access Program (Maple TAP, get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/11/maple-madness/</link>
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		<title>A very bad sign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And you thought the Westvale Plaza sign was bad&#8230; A few weeks ago, Benderson decided to whisk us all back to the rockin&#8217; &#8217;80s and replace the old Fairmount Fair sign with this orange beauty. (Yes, that appears to be plaid or some kind of waffle weave behind the barely legible lettering &#8212; which appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/07/a-very-bad-sign/</link>
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		<title>Splitter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Secesh talk has made it as far as Rochester&#8217;s WHAM-TV this week. In a daring break for freedom, conservative talk show host Bill Nojay makes a proposal: Most people in New York City don&#8217;t pay property taxes because they&#8217;re renters. Therefore, the crushing burden of property taxes that we feel in upstate is not felt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/06/splitter/</link>
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		<title>Notes from a village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an element to American culture that never ceases to amuse me. Even when grappling with the idea of economic disintegration, Americans attempt to cast it in terms of technological or economic progress: eco-villages, sustainable development, energy efficiency and so on. Under the circumstances, such compulsive techno-optimism seems maladaptive. I love the new advances [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/03/notes-from-a-village/</link>
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		<title>The curious case of Rhode Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you thought about Rhode Island lately? Me neither. The New York Times tries to figure out why Rhode Island, of all places, has the second-highest unemployment rate in the U.S. In several dozen recent interviews, Rhode Islanders agreed on this much: Their state’s smallness has contributed to its problems, but could be its best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/03/01/the-curious-case-of-rhode-island/</link>
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		<title>Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s NYT story about a once-gentrifying LA neighborhood now stagnating under the weight of the poor economy: When Emily Cook, a screenwriter, bought a house four years ago in Eagle Rock, a neighborhood on the Northeast side of Los Angeles, she fantasized what the area might look like in a year or two, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/26/priorities/</link>
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		<title>Winter: is it just me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, when I would talk to people who weren&#8217;t from around here and who expressed shock or disgust at how much it tends to snow in Syracuse, I would reassure them that Central New York had the best snow removal infrastructure in the world. Heck, I would brag about it, even. World&#8217;s biggest airport [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/23/winter-is-it-just-me/</link>
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		<title>Do you believe in miracles?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[29 years ago today&#8230; This is footage from ABC&#8217;s broadcast, but the audio was taken from live radio coverage (the game was not broadcast on TV live), so it&#8217;s a different ending than the famous &#8220;Do you believe in miracles!&#8221; but no less exciting. Check it out.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/22/do-you-believe-in-miracles/</link>
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		<title>Power down for NYRI?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe, but it&#8217;s getting on to three years since the New York Regional Interconnect project, the notorious NYRI, began to face resistance across a wide swath of Upstate New York, from Utica to Orange County. There was every reason to think that a divide-and-conquer strategy would work for the company, since the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/20/power-down-for-nyri/</link>
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		<title>Cheerful advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, I linked to an article by Dmitry Orlov called Closing the Collapse Gap: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US. For those who&#8217;d like to read a sequel to that article, here&#8217;s an extreeeeeeemely long but interesting followup from Orlov, entitled Social Collapse Best Practices. (Again, we here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/18/cheerful-advice/</link>
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		<title>Joe Cicero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post requires some background reading. Go read some recent posts on Sean Kirst&#8217;s blog about downtown (here and here), and all the comments. Then, when you are done with those, go to Syracuse B-4 and read her latest, and all the comments there. (Make a cup of coffee or pot of tea, because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/16/joe-cicero/</link>
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		<title>Upstate NY: Gitmo North?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can hide the fire, but what you gonna do with the smoke? You can close Guantanamo Bay, but what are you going to do with the prisoners? Someone&#8217;s afraid that Attica is the new Gitmo: Chautauqua County Legislator James Caflisch, R-French Creek, sponsored a motion in recent days that would signal the legislature&#8217;s opposition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/15/upstate-ny-gitmo-north/</link>
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		<title>Weirdest job title ever?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed the following confusing job title in a business roundup in the Post-Standard today: Director of Self-Directed Personal Services. Just think about that for a second. They&#8217;re &#8220;personal services,&#8221; but they&#8217;re also &#8220;self-directed,&#8221; so you&#8217;re apparently expected to handle them yourself, which implies you&#8217;re not exactly getting &#8220;personal service&#8221; (or indeed, &#8220;service&#8221; at all&#8230;) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/14/weirdest-job-title-ever/</link>
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		<title>Thinking of WNY&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning at around 3 a.m. I woke up for no reason to see that my little Peek was flashing with a new message alert. Normally I would ignore it and go back to sleep, but decided to check. It was an ABC News Alert, which ordinarily isn&#8217;t really important news, but I wondered what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/13/thinking-of-wny/</link>
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		<title>Ew.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All those years that the Three Men held sway, didja ever want to imagine what sort of crap was caked-on in those Augean stables of Albany? The NYT takes a look at some of the &#8220;recently discovered&#8221; perks that Senate Republicans enjoyed during their long decades of power: a TV studio, a Senate-owned printing house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/12/ew/</link>
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		<title>UPDATE: On being over&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last June, I made note of a statement by Rem Koolhaas&#8230; Famous Architect Rem Koolhaas is disappointed with American cities: “Don’t tell anyone&#8230; but the 20th-century city is over. It has nothing new to teach us anymore. Our job is simply to maintain it.” Today: Unfinished 40-story Beijing hotel designed by Koolhaas goes up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/09/on-being-over/</link>
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		<title>Some dark humor</title>
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		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/05/some-morbid-humor/</link>
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		<title>New Process Gear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The apparent demise of New Process Gear, on the heels of the closing of Syracuse China, means that every company my parents or grandparents ever worked at has now closed or left the area. While I was sad/outraged about what happened with Syracuse China, my feelings about NPG are rather different. There was never a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/02/04/new-process-gear-2/</link>
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		<title>How low can you go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, a lot lower than Syracuse&#8230; Hunched on the eastern edge of the Monongahela River only a few miles from bustling Pittsburgh, Braddock is a mix of boarded-up storefronts, houses in advanced stages of collapse and vacant lots. The state has classified it a “distressed municipality” — bankrupt, more or less — since the Reagan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/31/how-low-can-you-go/</link>
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		<title>We got eagles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those outside of the Syracuse media market probably haven&#8217;t heard the talk of the town around here: a large group of bald eagles has returned to the area, and is overwintering at Onondaga Lake. You can read a column by the Post-Standard&#8217;s Sean Kirst, a blog post with many comments, another blog post with more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/30/we-got-eagles/</link>
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		<title>Town Destroyer speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama Signals New Tone in Relations With Islamic World In a transcript published on Al Arabiya’s English language Web site, Mr. Obama said it is his job “to communicate to the Muslim world that the Americans are not your enemy.” He added that “we sometimes make mistakes,” but said that America was not born as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/27/town-destroyer-speaks/</link>
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		<title>The Emperor Chuck and his Yorker Hordes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the dust finally begins to settle from the senatorial pick, the truth becomes plain: Chuck Schumer is the lord and master of the Empire State. It took a while. He&#8217;s churned through the equivalent of the entire Adirondack Preserve in press release pulp&#8230; stepped in every cow patty in the North Country&#8230; and visited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/26/the-emperor-chuck-and-his-yorker-hordes/</link>
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		<title>Time to grow up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new president&#8230; Caroline Kennedy drops out&#8230; Kirsten Gillibrand drops in&#8230; Joe Bruno indicted&#8230; what a week! Where to begin? Herkimer County Progressive is happy at the choice of Gillibrand, although many would say she&#8217;s hardly &#8220;progressive.&#8221; Rochester Turning has a more nuanced view (with bullet points), which pretty much agree with my own. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/24/what-a-week/</link>
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		<title>At the Purple Gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Obama&#8217;s inauguration is over, criticism has inevitably begun &#8212; starting with the inaugural festivities on Tuesday. As has been reported locally, thousands of &#8220;lucky&#8221; attendees were inexplicably kept from their promised places &#8212; &#8220;silver&#8221; and &#8220;purple&#8221; ticketholders. This has produced an outcry &#8212; on the Internet, at least; the Facebook groups are a-flyin&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/22/at-the-purple-gate/</link>
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		<title>A request for President Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama would like to stimulate the economy by investing serious amounts of money into infrastructure projects. If he&#8217;s looking for a top-priority public works project that needs a lot of attention (and cash)&#8230; here&#8217;s one he can&#8217;t fail to consider: New York City&#8217;s aging water system. Please. It needs help. Badly. There are aging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/22/a-request-for-president-obama/</link>
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		<title>The turning point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York State&#8217;s population loss rate has officially slowed. In what may prove a silver lining in the latest economic black cloud, New York lost fewer residents to other states in 2007-8 than during any year in at least a generation&#8230; Between July 1, 2007, and July 1, 2008, New York recorded a net loss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/19/the-turning-point/</link>
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		<title>Crossroads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I came up with a list of what I thought were the top 10 New York State stories in the very eventful year of 2008. Item No. 7 concerned the State&#8217;s moves to collect taxes from Indian-owned businesses. It could have surprised no one that the Senecas were going to communicate their alarm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/17/crossroads/</link>
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		<title>A trash quote worth recycling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quote is just one small excerpt from another blogger&#8217;s much wider-ranging reflection on human civilization and achievement. But since Syracuse&#8217;s litter problems seem to come up time and time again, I thought it worth highlighting. Almost every driver has carefully checked to see who&#8217;s around before thinking about innocently chucking an empty gas station [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/16/a-quote-on-trash-worth-recycling/</link>
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		<title>A basket of issues for the next senator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upstate newspapers are running simultaneous editorials today about what a new senator needs to know about regional issues. Truth be told, anyone contemplating running for governor (or currently governor) should read these as well. Here are all the editorials compiled on one page. Areas chiming in include the Adirondacks, Batavia, Binghamton, Buffalo, Albany, Elmira, Ithaca, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/04/a-basket-of-issues-for-the-next-senator/</link>
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		<title>Joanie for Lt. Gov?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article about the calculations that go into the choice of the senator that Paterson will inflict on us. It&#8217;s the first article I&#8217;ve seen which mentions Joanie Mahoney as a potential candidate for statewide office. Some of Mr. Paterson’s advisers envision a Republican ticket headed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2009/01/03/joanie-for-lt-gov/</link>
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		<title>Six degrees of Madoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good for a chuckle, but of course not for the unfortunate people who invested with Bernard Madoff: Bernard Madoff&#8217;s Bacon number is 1 Yes, even Kevin Bacon and his wife got taken in. There is another angle to this story that is not at all funny. It has to do with the way that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/31/six-degrees-of-madoff/</link>
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		<title>Technical odds and ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s must be the most unloved and unappreciated days of the year. They are especially weird for me this year because my employer, for the first time, is closed for the week. This is the longest vacation I have ever had in my working life (previous record was 11 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/29/technical-odds-and-ends/</link>
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		<title>Slumdog Millionaire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw the much-acclaimed film Slumdog Millionaire today &#8212; at a surprisingly well-attended matinee (Carousel really needs to move this film out of their basement suite of shoeboxes). For those who haven&#8217;t heard the buzz on the film, it&#8217;s about a desperately poor Muslim boy who has become a contestant on India&#8217;s version of Who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/27/slumdog-millionaire/</link>
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		<title>Top New York stories of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last December, I made a list of what I thought were the top 10 statewide stories of the year. Last year&#8217;s list appears so undramatic compared to 2008, truly a tumultuous year in New York&#8217;s politics and economy. And most of the stories spawned other important stories, a chain of events that is far from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/20/top-new-york-stories-of-the-year-2/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs:  Budget edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon at Living in Dryden notes the budget-mandated closure of New York&#8217;s last pheasant-breeding game farm. 8,000 pheasants will be slaughtered and distributed as food for the needy in the Southern Tier. Josh Shear has wide-ranging commentary on some of the many &#8220;small&#8221; taxes and fees in the proposed budget. BuffaloPundit passes on this site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/18/other-peoples-blogs-budget-edition/</link>
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		<title>That didn&#8217;t take long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paterson folds like a cheap suit on Native cigarette taxes. Gov. Paterson to sign law today in Utica to collect taxes on all cigarettes (but see also this report) Along with a host of other sin/luxury taxes and fee-raisings on everyone but the very wealthy. Then again, after the Madoff Ponzi revelation, the very wealthy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/15/that-didnt-take-long/</link>
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		<title>Ideas for your next Christmas party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ridiculous Food Society of Upstate New York is not your average foodie blog. It&#8217;s &#8220;a humorous look at the food and culture of Upstate New York&#8221; but even though the cuisine of our region revolves around meat, I&#8217;m pretty sure most of these recipes are not authentic. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s deadlier, the cholesterol count [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/14/ideas-for-your-next-christmas-party/</link>
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		<title>Real snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The memory of those days swept over him like a nightmare&#8211;the people they had met travelling; the people who couldn&#8217;t add a row of figures or speak a coherent sentence. The little man Helen had consented to dance with at the ship&#8217;s party, who had insulted her ten feet from the table; the women and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/13/real-snow/</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Holtzman wants to be NY&#8217;s next senator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via a tip from Robinia at TAP, from Capitol Confidential: NY political ceiling-breaker drops name in Senate hat Former congresswoman, Brooklyn District Attorney, and New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman has put her name in the list of contenders to replace Sen. Hillary Clinton. Holtzman had a conversation this afternoon with Gov. David Paterson, during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/11/elizabeth-holtzman-wants-to-be-nys-next-senator/</link>
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		<title>Syracuse China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really only have one thought about Syracuse China closing (my grandfather worked there until the late &#8217;60s): We&#8217;re running out of things to be taken away from us. Pretty soon we&#8217;re going to reach a point where there is nothing else they can close and no more jobs to take away. There&#8217;s a certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/09/syracuse-china/</link>
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		<title>Power is perishable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This item in today&#8217;s New York Times has NYC&#8217;s power brokers wondering why there are more &#8220;leaders&#8221; who have less ability to get things done. Power broker, a title attributed to Theodore H. White, chronicler of presidential campaigns, had been replaced by what he dubbed “constellations of satrapies” — shifting coalitions dependent on process brokers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/08/power-is-perishable/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs:  Canadian crackup edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know us ugly Americans &#8212; we&#8217;re so centered on our own problems that few of us have noticed that there is weird stuff going down in Ottawa. In Java, Literally asks: What&#8217;s going on, eh? See also Phil&#8217;s take at Still Racing in the Street. Alan Gen X at 40 is providing daily coverage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/05/other-peoples-blogs-canadian-crackup-edition/</link>
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		<title>Signs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The economy. Plant closings and job losses are some of the bigger signs that all is not well, but what about the little signs? Saturday post-Black Friday shopping: A normal, slightly busy day. Hardly anyone was in Target, but you couldn&#8217;t get near the registers at Michael&#8217;s. (Are people making Christmas gifts instead of buying?) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/04/signs/</link>
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		<title>The Syracuse Misery Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You hear a lot about the Dow these days. It&#8217;s the only barometer of economic health that most people know. But it&#8217;s really not a terribly great economic indicator &#8212; not only is it gamed by all sorts of interests, but it isn&#8217;t really a leading indicator. As a public service, I&#8217;m telling you about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/04/the-syracuse-misery-index/</link>
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		<title>What economic collapse may look like in Soviet CNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This lengthy but very readable article presents a comparison of two empires collapsing: the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Soviet Union achieved a higher level of collapse-preparedness through sheer negligence and poor economic performance. So can we, if we (don&#8217;t) try. Which of these two reminds you most of CNY and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/02/what-economic-collapse-may-look-like-in-soviet-cny/</link>
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		<title>Uniquely positioned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Burgh Diaspora, Pittsburgh&#8217;s future is considered: The ability to keep foreign born skilled labor is tough to do. Immigration law often stands in the way of graduates remaining in Pittsburgh. A recent amendment provides the foreign born with another way to stay: Create more jobs in the entertainment industry. Other Pennsylvanian communities might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/01/uniquely-positioned/</link>
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		<title>Noted blogger passes away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite my reputation as one of those &#8220;blogger&#8221; people, I admit I don&#8217;t have much time to read too many other blogs regularly (as in, on a daily basis). One of the exceptions has been Calculated Risk, a widely respected blog that started off focusing on the mortgage crisis, but has become a gathering spot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/12/01/noted-blogger-passes-away/</link>
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		<title>Feast your eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reminder: Sean Cunningham&#8217;s award-winning Upstate-themed &#8220;I Love New York&#8221; commercial (shot right here in CNY) will be featured during the broadcast of the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Parade tomorrow. The Oneida Nation also will be having a float in the parade. Have a wonderful and safe holiday! Thank you all for reading.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/26/feast-your-eyes/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You might live in Upstate New York if&#8230;&#8221; (Clearly a North Country/Adirondack edition.) You might live in Upstate New York also, if you are in a rap group named after a man frozen into a block of ice. Seven Valley Scoop is a news blog about Cortland &#8212; an underrepresented area in the local blogosphere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/25/other-peoples-blogs-26/</link>
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		<title>We need our space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now it finally comes out &#8212; suburbia&#8217;s terrible secret: Forget hot tubs beckoning sybaritic adults, garages brimming with impressive cars and families frolicking on verdant lawns. From their clutter-strewn garages to their mostly lovely but abandoned yards, busy Southern California parents who own their homes rarely use residential outdoor spaces for the purposes for which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/21/we-need-our-space/</link>
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		<title>Help me out here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can someone please explain to me what this is supposed to do? Because I&#8217;ve read this story several times and can&#8217;t figure it out. An example of the types of collaboration COLA B hopes to work on just happened over the weekend, when it brought together students from 10 different majors to work with local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/21/help-me-out-here/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, an editorial on the financial markets by Eliot Spitzer appeared in the Washington Post. It&#8217;s worth a read. I&#8217;m glad to see that Spitzer is still offering his thoughts on Wall Street. His voice has been missed, and I&#8217;m sure in coming years we will hear more of Spitzer at his best.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/18/spitzer-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Support Buffalo first?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burgh Diaspora suggests that Upstate urban boosters should focus their energies on Buffalo&#8217;s cause (or at least devote some time to it). What do you think? Is there any evidence that Buffalo is going to experience meaningful economic growth soon, and what can Syracusans do to help? (Personally, I am still evaluating the Atlantica concept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/16/support-buffalo-first/</link>
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		<title>Blodgett School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Standard writes on the fate of the run-down Blodgett School on the West Side. My mom tells me that her aunt (who was only just a few years older than her) went to Blodgett School in the early &#8217;50s or so, when it was even back then deemed a &#8220;scary old&#8221; school &#8220;full of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/13/blodgett-school/</link>
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		<title>Dreaming in three dimensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t intend for this to become a transportation blog, but seriously, even such a modest uptick in commercial shipping on the Erie Canal becomes vastly more interesting when you throw Oswego&#8217;s future container port into the mix, and then Fault Lines adds Griffiss Park to the vision: Griffiss IS a port, with the potential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/11/dreaming-in-three-dimensions/</link>
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		<title>Upstate Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A powerful collection of photos of working-class women of Troy, N.Y., by photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally is very much worth viewing. I&#8217;ve posted a link to it on my newly relaunched photoblog, Illustrated. (This is a personal photo blog which I&#8217;ve now souped up with some slideshow capability via Flickr, and there are some other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/08/upstate-girls/</link>
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		<title>Erie Canal revival?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This relatively brief story in the NYT about the uptick in commercial shipping on ye olde Erie has aroused a good deal of interest around the blogosphere. You can see some blogger reactions listed here, with a particularly informative post here. It&#8217;s part of a realization that you don&#8217;t necessarily need to build up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/06/erie-canal-business/</link>
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		<title>A historic night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, not that other history. (You can read about that anywhere&#8230;go and read about it now, then come back here.) So the Dems &#8212; with a no doubt huge assist from Obama-related turnout &#8212; have taken the state senate. (That&#8217;s what it takes to dislodge two ancient senators &#8212; the biggest freaking turnout in recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/05/a-historic-night/</link>
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		<title>Lie back, and think of eagles&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the big day. Get out there and say goodbye to those lever machines!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/04/lie-back-and-think-of-eagles/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. M at New York Traveler passes on a funny and painfully true New York historical marker. Supposedly it is a real one and not Photoshopped. (It is true that anyone can arrange to have one made by a private company &#8211; the state&#8217;s official historical marker program was discontinued in 1966). WinterCampers shares some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/03/other-peoples-blogs-25/</link>
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		<title>Homeless in Fairmount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the same day that I posted about my grandmother&#8217;s purchase of a home in Fairmount, two girls discovered the body of a homeless man who apparently died of exposure sometime last week, &#8220;in the woods&#8221; behind the Fairmount strip. (&#8220;The woods&#8221; is misleading, it&#8217;s more like an empty lot with trees on it&#8230; this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/11/02/homeless-in-fairmount/</link>
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		<title>Working it out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, there was a nice column by Sean Kirst in the Post-Standard about the lessons learned (and apparently forgotten) from the Great Depression. My grandmother (on my mother&#8217;s side) was in her early 20&#8242;s then. Recently, I just happened to notice an old tablecloth that she made that&#8217;s been in the family ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/31/working-it-out/</link>
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		<title>Sorry, wrong number</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe having a visually impaired governor is not such a bad thing after all when it means that occasionally he will dial a wrong number and wind up chatting with an ordinary citizen. However, the wrong number that Albany keeps dialing would seem to be the budget. Or rather, the deficit, which has somehow ballooned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/29/sorry-wrong-number/</link>
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		<title>Paterson 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot can happen in two years; just ask Eliot Spitzer. It is a little premature to be talking about David Paterson&#8217;s re-election, but then again maybe not. Eager to prove he&#8217;s not an accidental governor, Paterson is may be the only person in the world who wants to be responsible for New York State [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/27/paterson-2010/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs: Politics edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the year I pretend that there is no politicking going on at other people&#8217;s blogs, that it is just Upstate Uber Alles and that political parties and candidates are irrelevant. Now with just a little more than a week to go before the Big Night, it&#8217;s time to rip away this veneer of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/24/other-peoples-blogs-politics-edition/</link>
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		<title>Atlantica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s Channel 9 newscast and this morning&#8217;s Post-Standard both had stories on the big doin&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/22/atlantica/</link>
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		<title>NYRI roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I think I haven&#8217;t got the energy (pardon the expression) to blog about NYRI, they makes another silly statement&#8230; NYRI president Chris Thompson says he expects this type of &#8220;limited&#8221; opposition with any major project. &#8220;Limited&#8221;? Just about the only thing the residents along the proposed line route haven&#8217;t done is to threaten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/22/nyri-roundup/</link>
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		<title>When it rains, it snows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230; just not in one easily accessible piece. (While briefly contemplating the apparent loss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/21/when-it-rains-it-snows/</link>
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		<title>State park roulette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shuffling through my photos for the past summer, I realize how spoiled rotten New Yorkers are when it comes to the great outdoors. This year I finally got to Letchworth (wish I&#8217;d gone in the fall, though) and spent a fabulous if rainy week in the Adirondacks. Letchworth is so fabulously outfitted with roads and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/18/state-park-roulette/</link>
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		<title>Dying to know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/16/dying-to-know/</link>
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		<title>Disconnective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Syracuse performance art: the sound of people talking past each other.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/15/disconnective/</link>
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		<title>Naples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT on Naples and its problems. Worth a read for Syracusans. Compare, contrast, discuss.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/14/naples/</link>
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		<title>In case you missed it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at Green Lakes&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/12/in-case-you-missed-it/</link>
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		<title>Would you buy New York bonds?  (Please?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at this website, Buy California Bonds, makes me wonder if New York would ever try the same strategy &#8212; openly begging individual New Yorkers to bet on the Empire State&#8217;s future profitability. (The step-by-step instructions are clearly aimed at people who have never bought state bonds before.) As Treasurer, I am responsible for managing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/09/would-you-buy-new-york-bonds-please/</link>
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		<title>Flight to quality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guilty confession some years in coming: During the August 2003 Northeast blackout, I felt pretty good. It was not too long after 9/11, so when the unexplained occurred, people still got a little nervous. The blackout hit just before I left work for the afternoon, and you could feel a slight tang of unease [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/09/flight-to-quality/</link>
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		<title>Paterson on the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Gov. Paterson will be doing an online Q&#038;A at TAP (rescheduled from Monday) at 4 p.m. Alas, I&#8217;ll be in an all-day training session and won&#8217;t be able to &#8220;attend&#8221; &#8212; so what will you ask him? Maybe something about his views on Native American relations, or public-private partnerships, or perhaps his recent veto [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/08/paterson-on-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Retire at 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this website after I saw it flash by in an online ad: Retire at 21. It&#8217;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 &#8217;00s style. The goal appears to be to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/07/retire-at-21/</link>
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		<title>The truth about e-mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study sheds some light on why people who type stuff on the Internet can behave so awfully.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/06/the-truth-about-e-mail/</link>
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		<title>Health and wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s analogies are on the mark, but not this time: isn&#8217;t the U.S. economy better compared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/06/health-and-wealth/</link>
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		<title>Paterson on Indian taxation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow this very interesting interview with Gov. Paterson on the ever-simmering issue of Native American taxation escaped my attention when it was published in the Buffalo News six weeks ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/03/paterson-on-indian-taxation/</link>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t fake curiosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while there&#8217;s a story in the paper that just makes me feel good. Here&#8217;s one about a local student who got a perfect score on the SAT: &#8220;He&#8217;s very bright, but he&#8217;s always been one to read everything he can get his hands on,&#8221; [his mother] said. &#8220;As a kid, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/03/you-cant-fake-curiosity/</link>
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		<title>New York&#8217;s foolish pleasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know much about the exotic financing that is now causing even NYC&#8217;s real estate market to turn&#8230; but with investments, New York State has consistently failed to diversify its portfolio. For the past decade Wall Street grew fatter while Upstate grew thinner &#8212; industries, businesses, human resources lost. To what end? Wall Street gorged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/02/new-yorks-foolish-pleasure/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick roundup&#8230; CNY Speaks, the community listening project of the Post-Standard and the Maxwell School, is beginning a series of public forums about Syracuse&#8217;s downtown, starting tomorrow. We don&#8217;t have a lot of music-and-nightlife blogs in Syracuse (or at least, I am not very good at discovering them), but here is one: Kick Start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/10/01/foreclosure-alley/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to bust out the only thing in my arsenal that can adequately respond to New York Times columnist David Brooks&#8217; contention that anyone who opposed the Paulson bailout bill (yeah, that would include me) is a nihilist. Yes, it&#8217;s Mr. Walter Brueggemann, again. In a hospital room we want it to be cheery, and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/30/its-time/</link>
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		<title>Sign of the times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought you couldn&#8217;t cope with any more upheavals, Wegmans unveils its new logo. It looks surprisingly, but pleasingly, 1930s retro (as opposed to the stale &#8217;70s retro they&#8217;ve had forever)&#8230; and not only that, but it reminds me a little bit of the cursive of Stewart&#8217;s Shops. We don&#8217;t have any Stewart&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/29/sign-of-the-times/</link>
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		<title>What we blog about when we blog about Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a word cloud, generated from the text of many posts made on this blog about Syracuse and its issues over the past year (with reader comments included). It was made with Wordle, a free online service that creates word pictures out of any text you can plug into it.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/27/what-we-blog-about-when-we-blog-about-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>A streetcar named DestiNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader proposal for a Syracuse streetcar line; plus interesting news about the state's plans for the Tappan Zee Bridge.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/26/a-streetcar-named-destiny/</link>
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		<title>We have a winner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the PS reported on this 60-second video submitted to the &#8220;I Love New York&#8221; video contest by a Syracuse-area filmmaker, Sean Cunningham. It&#8217;s the tale of a college grad bound for the bright lights of Manhattan who curiously never quite finds his way there. I thought it perfectly captured the magic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/26/we-have-a-winner/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you always wondered what it would be like to serve in a war? To dutifully face an uncertain future moment by moment as shells fall around you, not knowing if you&#8217;d come out alive or would walk away maimed? If drafted, would you go without flinching? Some people think we&#8217;re on the verge of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/25/todays-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Tonight&#8217;s the night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So: President Bush is supposed to go on TV tonight at 9:00 to reassure the nation about Wall Street and the state of the American empire. I&#8217;m definitely going to tune in. Mainly because I&#8217;m curious if tonight is the night when he finally sizzle-pops a circuit and starts smoking and repeating himself in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/24/tonights-the-night/</link>
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		<title>Star chamber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noted: The New York Assembly ethics committee is holding a private meeting to consider a disciplinary case against a fellow lawmaker. The meeting for Assembly members to consider sanctions against one of their own wasn&#8217;t announced on the chamber&#8217;s Web site as Chairman William Magnarelli of Onondaga County had promised. The committee refused to identify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/24/star-chamber/</link>
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		<title>You and your newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve lived in a community for any amount of time, you will turn up in the newspaper occasionally. My personal relationship with the Syracuse Newspapers began as an error. I was listed in the &#8220;Sons To&#8221; column (instead of the &#8220;Daughters To.&#8221;) This is in my baby scrapbook &#8212; ha ha, hee hee &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/23/you-and-your-newspaper/</link>
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		<title>Festivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s the first day of fall. Listening to the pagan hooting of a flock of Canada geese on their way south &#8212; I hope they&#8217;re travelers, and not just the lazy ones who hang around town all winter long &#8212; I wonder if it&#8217;s time to get a jump on the annual local obsession with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/21/festivals/</link>
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		<title>Life during wartime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress is upset over suddenly learning our financial system is in grave jeopardy! How does it make them feel? Dazed Capital Feels Its Way, Eyes on Election News reports are unrelentingly talking of “crisis.” After decades of deregulation and free-market fealty, antiregulation, small-government Republicans are putting the government in control of a big chunk of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/20/life-during-wartime/</link>
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		<title>Exposure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last year, the buzzword on Wall Street has been exposure. As in, &#8220;Big Investment Bank is exposed to subprime&#8221; or whatever financial instrument is failing at the moment. When companies realize how exposed they are to this or that, they make huge write-downs &#8212; reassessments of their profits and net worth, often tallying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/18/exposure/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/17/other-peoples-blogs-24/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well! Now that we&#8217;re all wearing barrels on suspenders (not just the poor Upstate country cousins)&#8230; State Legislature May Convene As city and state officials assessed the potential fallout from the collapse of Lehman Brothers on Monday, the speaker of the State Assembly said he expected the State Legislature to reconvene in an emergency session [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/15/welcome-to-the-club/</link>
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		<title>Umuganda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Rwanda, every last Saturday of the month, from 7 to 11 a.m., the entire nation rolls up its sleeves and (by law and custom) cleans up stuff. This is called umuganda (&#8220;contribution&#8221;), and has been a tradition in the country since before the Europeans arrived. Officially, if you don&#8217;t come out of your house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/14/umuganda/</link>
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		<title>Is Howie Hawkins a loser?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the provocative title. &#8220;Loser&#8221; is a derogatory term that implies bad things about a human being, none of which I would ever think to apply to someone I don&#8217;t know personally, especially not someone like Hawkins who is dedicated to providing alternative ideas and points of view at election time. However, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/13/is-howie-hawkins-a-loser/</link>
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		<title>Memorials and meaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing the photo in today&#8217;s paper of the new Pentagon 9/11 memorial, I am wondering about the trend in “funerary architecture” of creating memorials with individual identical pieces for individual dead. It didn’t start with 9/11 (Oklahoma City comes to mind) but it does seem like a relatively new emphasis. There is a recently completed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/11/memorials-and-meaning/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the blue chicory is in bloom, one doesn&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/10/other-peoples-blogs-23/</link>
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		<title>Blood sucking freaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what counts in Albany as a &#8220;gaffe,&#8221; Gov. Paterson introduces what may become the most-quoted word in New York politics since &#8220;dysfunctional&#8221;: Bloodsuckers! As in, &#8220;I used to sit in my legislative office and think about how difficult it is to travel 150 miles to Albany on a bus &#8230; and how there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/09/blood-sucking-freaks/</link>
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		<title>A historic choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Bumped up, cause yeah, we&#8217;re still talking about her!) No, I&#8217;m not talking about Obama, but rather McCain&#8217;s VP selection, Sarah Palin. Not someone who particularly appeals to me politically; as a woman, I don&#8217;t see her selection causing my finger to hesitate in the voting booth. However, I notice that even the Washington punditry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/08/a-historic-choice/</link>
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		<title>More thoughts on Oldistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some further thoughts on Oldistan, continuing from a previous post&#8230; One spot-on quote from the Artvoice story: Where there’s decline, and a low birth rate, there’s ugly politics. The short-term politics becomes all about blame, and not about hope&#8230; Students of policy and economics know that we should be talking about regional planning across the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/07/more-thoughts-on-oldistan/</link>
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		<title>Spin City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This surely has to be the most hopefully-spun headline of the year: Orange battle back from 14-point deficit, but trail by 14 late in 4th]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/06/spin-city/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts from the heart of Oldistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story in Buffalo&#8217;s Artvoice about &#8220;the Republic of Oldistan&#8221; (the Rust Belt) makes a lot of good points. But I also wonder: Doesn&#8217;t a rising birth rate make it more, not less, difficult to enact policies that support long-term solutions for sustainable living? Are old folks really the most indiscriminate consumers of resources? Do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/06/thoughts-from-the-heart-of-oldistan/</link>
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		<title>How much have we really asked for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the glare of so many non-issues in these presidential convention weeks has been a student strike in Chicago city schools. Hundreds of inner-city students have been skipping class in their own schools and attempting to enroll in wealthier suburban schools (such as New Trier High, the filming location of Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/04/how-much-have-we-really-asked-for/</link>
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		<title>Blog Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was something called Blog Day, a day where you&#8217;re supposed to highlight other people&#8217;s blogs on your own blog, instead of just talking about your fabulous self. I do this from time to time under the heading &#8220;Other People&#8217;s Blogs,&#8221; but mainly stick to blogs on New York subjects. So here, a day late, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/09/01/blog-day/</link>
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		<title>New York in Denver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a hoot to watch Shelly and the rest of Our Gang in the spotlight as Hillary Clinton called for an acclamation for Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination on Wednesday afternoon. I forgot what a bloviating display of blowhardism the roll call of states is at any political convention. The ritualistic bragging about each state and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/29/new-york-in-denver/</link>
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		<title>You have the power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick note: New York Times, lamenting the nation&#8217;s inadequate power grid, talks about NYRI without mentioning NYRI. Oh! All those wind farms in the North Country and those pesky state public utility boards that won&#8217;t do the right thing for The Nation! Wind advocates say that just two of the windiest states, North Dakota and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/27/you-have-the-power/</link>
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		<title>Yum.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNY/Finger Lakes food gets a very tasty article in today&#8217;s New York Times. Salt potatoes, Doug&#8217;s Fish Fry, spiedies, Baker&#8217;s Chicken Coop and more. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll get to the Fair at all this year to enjoy any of this fab food, but I have to say the opening fireworks (I have a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/22/yum/</link>
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		<title>If I were Queen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assemblyman Sam Hoyt of Buffalo is in a peck of trouble over infidelities committed with an Albany female, which has resulted in all kinds of tawdry e-mail-posting nastiness which I won&#8217;t bore you with (except to raise an eyebrow at how easily some Albany females can be bought with the promise of a parking spot), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/21/if-i-were-queen/</link>
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		<title>The things we tell ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Howard Kunstler (yeah! I got his name right!) has a feature on his website called &#8220;Eyesores.&#8221; He&#8217;s a little too harsh on the vintage kitsch, but this particular entry took me aback. Here&#8217;s the official description of the Paragon Prairie Tower: &#8220;Located in the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Paragon Prairie Tower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/18/the-things-we-tell-ourselves/</link>
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		<title>No laughing matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT has a story today featuring Gov. Paterson&#8217;s renowned sense of humor and the political uses thereof. I&#8217;d have to say that my favorite Paterson quip (not recounted in this particular story) was the one where he asked Harlem&#8217;s newly-opened DMV office to give him a driver&#8217;s license, promising he would have all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/16/567/</link>
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		<title>A tax on both their houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to highlight two recent posts elsewhere about the predictable squabbling about Paterson&#8217;s proposed tax cap. The cap might very well harm education in this state, but I am inclined to agree with many who say that it&#8217;s time for the usual heeldraggers to start getting proactive instead of reactive. See this post at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/14/a-tax-on-both-their-houses/</link>
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		<title>Known unknowns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bored? Feeling a little too proud of yourself? Want to feel stupid? Take this series of hardcore geography quizzes. I think in America we assume that a lot of people around the world have an inkling of where our 50 states are located. I&#8217;ll bet more foreigners know where U.S. states are located, than any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/13/known-unknowns/</link>
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		<title>Not a Fair deal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Standard has an excellent story today on the continuing adventures of New York State Fair director Dan O&#8217;Hara, probably Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s most unpopular appointee in Central New York. This one looks at how Live Nation came to be involved in bringing &#8220;big acts&#8221; (Boston! Styx! WOW!) to the State Fair Grandstand this year. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/10/not-a-fair-deal/</link>
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		<title>Irony: still not dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post on China and Tibet: The first major red flag that this was going to be a propaganda exercise of massive portions was when the government paraded a group of Han Chinese children through the Bird&#8217;s Nest dressed in the garb of the nation&#8217;s 54 minority groups &#8212; as a effort to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/10/irony-still-not-dead/</link>
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		<title>Filth and filth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to call this post &#8220;Giant Tit Spotted on Offramp to Herald Place.&#8221; But this is a family blog, and &#8220;tit&#8221; is one of the Seven Words You Can&#8217;t Say on Family Blogs, so I didn&#8217;t. Instead, I&#8217;m going to try, in the spirit of the late George Carlin, to analyze filth at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/08/filth-and-filth/</link>
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		<title>In the shadow of Olympus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coverage of the Beijing Olympics has a strangely ambivalent feel. On one hand, the media is busy drawing attention to China&#8217;s massive pollution problems, human rights violations, and architectural coverups of Beijing&#8217;s endearing everyday shabbiness. But the corporations that bring us all these messages, via the corporate-owned news media, are also furiously serving up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/07/in-the-shadow-of-olympus/</link>
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		<title>Sunflowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/06/camillus-sunflowers/</link>
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		<title>The fall of the House of Eeeeee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted July 30: I always found ABC&#8217;s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hard to sit through. In hindsight, the show is the epitome of &#8217;00&#8242;s excess, albeit clothed in altruistic robes. Pick a deserving family, struck by terrible health misfortune or just simply down on their luck, and &#8220;gift&#8221; them back into relevance with a spanking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/05/eeeeeee/</link>
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		<title>Recycling on other planets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recycling is a fact of life in Onondaga County. Not only does it take energy (mental and physical) to recycle, but it probably takes constant PR pushes to make it work or, at least, deliver the illusion of success. OCRRA, a state authority, has kept up the steady drumbeat for almost 20 years and now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/02/recycling-on-other-planets/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onondaga Citizens League is continuing its series of blog posts on what to do about Route 81 in downtown Syracuse. The latest: &#8220;Creating an Urban Mobility Plan.&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/08/02/other-peoples-blogs-22/</link>
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		<title>Governor&#8217;s speech today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Paterson will deliver a speech at 5:10 p.m. today, focusing on the (dire?) state of New York&#8217;s finances. Obviously meant to be covered live on your local newscast, but probably meant to send a message to Albany. Well, you can&#8217;t say that Paterson graduated from the Spitzer school of (non-)communications. Updated: Paterson&#8217;s speech was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/29/governors-speech-today/</link>
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		<title>News news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Media Guide is your one-stop shop for links to New York newspaper websites (both daily and weekly). A highly useful resource, even if it does bear somewhat of a visual (not political) resemblance to the Drudge Report. Take a look. Syracuse B-4 is a blog that digs up old Syracuse news stories and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/18/news-news/</link>
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		<title>Giant hogweed: still a menace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we sleep at night, giant hogweed continues its silent and sinister march across the countryside. The DEC has this set of pointers on how to deal with giant hogweed. Strangely, they still are not mentioning flamethrowers &#8212; or the best defense, which would be running away and screaming.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/18/giant-hogweed-still-a-menace/</link>
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		<title>Crying all the way to the bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Joe Bruno era ends today in anti-climactic fashion as the old man exits stage right stage left through the trap door with all of the hefty retirement benefits that New York State employees have come to know and love. Blogging about Albany just won&#8217;t be the same without him. His righteous indignation. His stupid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/18/crying-all-the-way-to-the-bank/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s public toilet problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This in-depth, well-researched New York Times story about problems with public toilets in Seattle and other cities states everything but the obvious: You can have safe, clean, convenient public toilets in big cities if you have attendants working at them who are decently paid. Apparently nobody in Seattle is willing to work as a public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/17/americas-public-toilet-problem/</link>
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		<title>5 gadgets I&#8217;ve never regretted buying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the economy is really looking peaked, and we&#8217;re all supposed to have spent our stimulus checks on cool stuff already, I thought I&#8217;d take a quick look back at the select handful of electronic appliances/gadgets/doohickies that I once lovingly unwrapped, yet still find useful or cool. I am not a huge purchaser of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/16/5-gadgets-ive-never-regretted-buying/</link>
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		<title>Reasons for leaving New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this story doesn&#8217;t give the reasons (I think we know them well enough) but it does confirm the obvious, which is that Upstaters are feeling very grim. The Siena Research Institute Poll released Monday finds just 15 percent of upstaters say they will never move out of the state. Twenty-two percent of New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/15/reasons-for-leaving-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Highway robbery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to read a small item in the PS Local section about Holy Family Church being robbed yesterday in broad daylight, right after a service. It appears some punk with a BB gun stole the collection plate. Between this, the Burger King robbery and the rogue bear, maybe they&#8217;ll be rethinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/14/highway-robbery/</link>
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		<title>Geography bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York State Fair has a lot of competitions for kids, from dance to animal husbandry to even a spelling bee, but I wonder why they don&#8217;t hold a New York geography bee for kids at the fair. (Couldn&#8217;t be any more boring than some of the other stuff going on!) I was looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/13/geography-bee/</link>
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		<title>Reasons for leaving Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest census enumerations show that the city of Syracuse&#8217;s population has fallen to a new low of 139,000. This, as Phil points out, leaves Syracuse dangerously close to &#8220;small city&#8221; status in New York. As a suburbanite, I think of &#8220;Syracuse&#8221; as the entire metro area, however. No doubt the metro area is shrinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/12/reasons-for-leaving-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>In defense of curiosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Defense of Curiosity, by Eleanor Roosevelt, blogger.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/11/in-defense-of-curiosity/</link>
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		<title>Turnabout is fair play?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This issue doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with NYRI in and of itself, but it&#8217;s something different: The Delaware County Electric Cooperative, which has 5,000 members in some of the counties that happen to affected by the proposed NYRI line, has filed an application with FERC to build new hydroelectric turbines at four Catskills reservoirs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/09/turnabout-is-fair-play/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s made out of people!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing stuff, $4 gas is. People are just busting out all over. They&#8217;re on the sidewalks, walking. They&#8217;re on their bikes, riding. They&#8217;re at the bus stops, waiting. They&#8217;re playing in their front yards. I have seen this with my own eyes &#8212; the stories are true. When I go for my evening walk, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/09/its-made-out-of-people/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Golisania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all the recent news about Tom Golisano trying to spend his way into political relevance (again), it occurs to me that he could be the answer to two of Upstate&#8217;s most pressing problems. Upstate needs (a) lots of money and (b) something distinctive to call itself that doesn&#8217;t remind people of New York City&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/08/welcome-to-golisania/</link>
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		<title>American villages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July &#8212; Tour de France time. My mother enjoys watching it on TV because it&#8217;s the closest she&#8217;s going to get to visiting France. The cyclists pass through tiny settlement after settlement. Each has a unique name, but all look alike: villages without industry, mere clusters of homes and farms, where no one is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/07/american-villages/</link>
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		<title>This land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The subhead of an article on rich folks and tourist towns by Barbara Ehrenreich, is &#8220;In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can&#8217;t afford to be there.&#8221; Possibly that&#8217;s the chicken-and-egg question &#8212; maybe Ehrenreich believes these places are &#8220;truly beautiful&#8221; because that&#8217;s where the rich people hang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/05/this-land/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Invisible Flood Blog commemorates two years since the Upstate floods of &#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/03/other-peoples-blogs-21/</link>
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		<title>Everybody out of the pool!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you think you've got it made with that gas-efficient Smart Car?  Think again!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/02/everybody-out-of-the-pool/</link>
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		<title>Extreme makeover, Route 81 edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onondaga Citizens League has a new blog, and they are posing the question: What is to be done about Route 81? (hey, that rhymes&#8230;) With car sales plummeting and gas prices rising, and bus ridership increasing, maybe that question is more relevant than ever. OCL is starting a study committee called Rethinking 81, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/01/extreme-makeover-route-81-edition/</link>
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		<title>Slowing down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming holiday weekend (or rather, the rest of this non-holiday week) will be another chance to observe if the trend I think I&#8217;ve been noticing is really happening: the American beehive is slowing down. Since last year, I haven&#8217;t been the only one who&#8217;s had the impression that activity (in the workplace, anyway) has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/07/01/slowing-down/</link>
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		<title>A wasted life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a career in public service, I regretfully say, I would not do it again. Philosophy and point of view led me to doing good instead of doing well, so I never expected to become rich. But now that I’m in my 10th year of a frozen judicial salary — less than summer students are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/29/a-wasted-life/</link>
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		<title>Women and population decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This lengthy New York Times article, looking at why many European nations (Italy, Germany to name a couple) have alarmingly low birthrates, might shed a little more light on population loss in Upstate New York. The factor that is most examined is why young people are leaving the area (and presumably having babies elsewhere, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/29/women-and-population-decline/</link>
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		<title>They found the bees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild Bee Swarms Spur Hope of Rebound What did I tell you? That&#8217;s where they all went &#8212; they&#8217;re in basic swarming at Fort Killer Bee in Merchantville, New Jersey. Wow, I totally called this. As the late George Carlin predicted, &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s dead, and the trees are humming.&#8221; Updated: Strike Force Alpha has already been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/27/they-found-the-bees/</link>
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		<title>An open letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear IT Staff: Why do you come around every summer and pull the rug out from under me? Suddenly, without warning, you appear and tell me my perfectly good computer has to be replaced, or that everyone&#8217;s got to &#8220;migrate&#8221; somewhere else. Last year, you took away the e-mail program I liked, and replaced it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/27/an-open-letter/</link>
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		<title>Waterfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York City is all abuzz with the latest giant public art installation, &#8220;The New York City Waterfalls.&#8221; These cost a whopping $15 million to create. From what I can tell in the comments at the NYT, the local peanut gallery is not very impressed. Having just spent a few weekends exploring some of New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/26/waterfalls/</link>
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		<title>Bad Day at Black Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dow went down 350 points today. They&#8217;re callin&#8217; it the worst June since the Depression! Wal&#8230; shoot!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/26/bad-day-at-black-rock/</link>
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		<title>Bruno&#8217;s retirement: Dream on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone get the feeling that the props are being knocked out from under the decaying old manse? I&#8217;m talking about Empire &#8212; the Empire State, that is. Bruno&#8217;s retirement was surprising, but also not. The old structures are falling, with nothing to replace them. The Ithaca Journal, in its editorial on how Upstate is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/25/brunos-retirement-dream-on/</link>
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		<title>Real news from Albany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Bruno won&#8217;t be dying with his boots on: he&#8217;s not running for re-election. A post at TAP notes that it&#8217;s unclear if Bruno will even serve out his term. I wish I could work up excitement over it all, but I mainly got into this state-political-blogging business in hopes of witnessing a coup sometime. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/23/real-news-from-albany/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s forecast: Dark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some people, a signpost of time&#8217;s passage is the death of a politician or a movie star, perhaps because they grew up in a time when politicians and movie stars mattered. For my generation, the signposts may be the passing of TV and standup comedians. Recently we lost Harvey Korman, and now George Carlin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/23/todays-forecast-dark/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frugal Upstate on a core concept of frugality: playing the hand you were dealt. Everyone&#8217;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&#8230;) Quote: Florida’s contributions to urban planning and economic geography are undeniable, but some of his ideas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/22/other-peoples-blogs-20/</link>
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		<title>At the mall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The finance blog Calculated Risk picks up on a Wall Street Journal story about how a &#8220;fast-growing&#8221; new retail chain&#8217;s explosive growth was apparently bankrolled by payments from malls. The chain, Steve and Barry&#8217;s, was being paid to fill up empty space in the malls by desperate mall owners facing excessive vacancies, and apparently derived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/21/at-the-mall/</link>
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		<title>This just in&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news: American college graduates are discovering they have to work during the summer now that they&#8217;ve received their degrees and have entered the workforce. The New York Times is the first to report in-depth about this disturbing new trend. “You always knew that after summer, you go back to classes. And after classes, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/21/this-just-in/</link>
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		<title>More beef</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the comments of the previous post, Simon notes the big trucker rally in Albany today protesting Thruway tolls and gas prices (are they also protesting the Finger Lakes trash truck agreement?) Hate to say it, but I wonder if that honking sound you hear is the sound of dying dinosaurs. I was on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/19/more-beef/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your beef?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story about massive South Korean protests about a change in beef import policy makes you wonder if South Koreans are just unusually pugilistic, or if Americans really are that lazy. Why don&#8217;t Americans protest economic policy like this? Maybe the problem is not that we&#8217;re lazy, but that we&#8217;re too nice; or that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/19/whats-your-beef/</link>
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		<title>Close your eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A further thought on this discussion, before leaving town for a few days&#8230; on the question of what a greener, less war-framed and more honest future could be like: When I was a kid, some of us would sometimes amuse ourselves on the playground by shutting our eyes and trying to walk straight. As for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/15/close-your-eyes/</link>
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		<title>In mourning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the orders of Gov. Paterson, New York State has a new policy: Any time a soldier from New York, or even serving with a New York-based unit, is killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, flags on state government buildings will be lowered to half-staff. This practice began last week to honor soldiers from Fort Drum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/15/in-mourning/</link>
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		<title>Follow-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow-ups on the recently blogged: This piece in Artvoice casts a critical eye on Robert Wilmers&#8217; appointment as ESDC head, focusing on possible conflicts of interest involving M&#038;T Bank, among other things. (And here&#8217;s another, similarly critical piece from Artvoice.) Predictably, the trucking industry doesn&#8217;t like the new plan to get their trash trucks off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/13/follow-ups/</link>
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		<title>A snootful of dirt in the victory garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor William James Howard Kunstler. The way things are going, he&#8217;ll soon be out of business as America&#8217;s sole fiery Jeremiah of the peak oil apocalypse. This piece (hat tip to Sean) is a good read: Wake Up, America. We&#8217;re Driving Toward Disaster. Kunstler stresses a need for honesty. Here are other things needing honest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/11/a-snootful-of-dirt-in-the-victory-garden/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo was taken a few months ago at Shove Park. It&#8217;s an info kiosk installed a few years ago by Cornell Cooperative Extension about Geddes Brook &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/10/other-peoples-blogs-19/</link>
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		<title>5 things I miss about summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Slushie mugs. I don&#8217;t know what other people called them, but you froze them and then stirred Kool-Aid or the drink of your choice until it suddenly and magically congealed into slush. They said you couldn&#8217;t do it with carbonated drinks. I defied this. My favorite was root beer. 2. The magical last day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/08/5-things-i-miss-about-summer/</link>
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		<title>Iterations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story about the need for constant innovation in online journalism. I&#8217;ve been going to a lot of &#8220;New Media&#8221; meetings at work lately, and see that I, too, am a mere leaf in the new media whirlpool. But a few months ago I deleted my fledgling Facebook account. I don&#8217;t get much out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/07/iterations/</link>
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		<title>Gundersen gone from ESDC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Gundersen fell on his sword for Gov. Paterson yesterday, as Buffalo banker (and former NYC deputy finance commissioner) Robert Wilmers was named the new &#8220;voluntary chair&#8221; (unpaid) of the Empire State Development Corp. Gundersen, like Eliot Spitzer, was a political outsider (hailing from Pennsylvania). And because Spitzer also took the revolutionary (and correct) view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/06/gundersen-gone-from-esdc/</link>
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		<title>Election 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was at various state campsites this weekend I realized some of the tourism brochures still said &#8220;George Pataki, Governor.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t find any with Spitzer&#8217;s name still on them, though &#8212; it was either crossed out with black marker, or there was a white label with &#8220;David Paterson, Governor&#8221; stuck over them. (Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/04/election-2010/</link>
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		<title>Water!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNY ecoBlog catches up with the state of the Great Lakes Water Compact, the nondiversion agreement that&#8217;s close to being &#8220;ratified&#8221; by eight states and Canada, and points out that there could be a stumbling block in Washington for U.S. assent to this pact, since the Great Lakes states are losing political power (along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/04/water/</link>
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		<title>Rolling your own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick post to tide this blog over until I unpack from a long weekend jaunt&#8230; Recently I went looking for a copy of a classic bit of literature which, while not terribly well known, surprised me at how unavailable it was. Only a few copies on Amazon or eBay, and at much higher prices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/06/03/rolling-your-own/</link>
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		<title>Lies, damned lies, and statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNY ecoBlog takes a quick look at today&#8217;s bombshell that Syracuse is somehow the city with the worst &#8220;carbon footprint&#8221; in New York. Is Syracuse&#8217;s sprawl and highway addiction really worse than Buffalo&#8217;s or Rochester&#8217;s? C&#8217;mon. Despite sprawl without growth being a significant problem in Central New York, I can&#8217;t get my mind around why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/29/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/</link>
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		<title>A place for our stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Buffalo News story on a backlash against &#8220;walkable redevelopment&#8221; makes me wonder if we&#8217;re not all dancing around the real problem with getting Americans to stop driving so much: it&#8217;s not just the distances involved, it&#8217;s also the stuff. The “walkable community” uses a dense, villagelike mix of homes and businesses to create historic-looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/28/a-place-for-our-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Driver&#8217;s licenses: Enhance yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of H&#8212;&#8212; Security has agreed to let New York issue enhanced drivers&#8217; licenses to New Yorkers who wish to cross the Canadian border without fear of their government not letting them back in. Plus, it gets you into Mexico and Bermuda. (I don&#8217;t know what this means for occasional visitor Alan of Gen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/27/enhance-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Choose your choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cookin&#8217; in the &#8216;Cuse is celebrating a birthday. Happy bloggiversary to Syracuse&#8217;s leading food blog! Jennifer also posts about her busy schedule and quotes E.B. White: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/25/choose-your-choices/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update: Second anniversary edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has it really been two years since I first posted on this issue? Yes indeed, New York Regional Interconnect erupted as an issue in May 2006 and the fun still hasn&#8217;t stopped. So who&#8217;s up, who&#8217;s down now? NYRI has been handed a setback with a rejection of their application for federal incentives. A recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/22/nyri-update-second-anniversary-edition/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/21/other-peoples-blogs-18/</link>
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		<title>Local media blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outgoing Newhouse School dean David Rubin on local media: &#8220;In Syracuse we have one provider of information about the city, the Syracuse Post Standard newspaper. Local TV got out of the serious news business a long time ago and citizens can&#8217;t hope to get serious information about how the city is governing itself from TV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/21/local-media-blues/</link>
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		<title>Gas hits $4 in CNY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WSYR reports on gas prices finally spiking to above $4 in some places around Syracuse. This was supposed to be the magical, mythical number that would cause Americans to abandon their cars along the side of the road en masse. Well, I saw a guy proudly driving his Hummer down on Erie Boulevard this morning, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/19/gas-hits-4-in-cny/</link>
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		<title>Go east, young man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other week I read an online post from someone out in California who was traveling, Joad-like, across the country to resettle themselves in rural Otsego County. I wondered if dry, overbuilt Western exurbia would soon be producing more &#8220;lifestyle refugees&#8221; who would see the lush, green Northeast (or Appalachia) as the new promised land. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/18/go-east-young-man/</link>
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		<title>Emergency laugh generator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a couple days off from work and since the weather is not cooperating, I&#8217;m getting started on painting my bedroom. This means moving bookcases and books around. I have a lot of books I don&#8217;t ever read and really don&#8217;t need, so I&#8217;m starting a donation box, which will probably sit in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/16/emergency-laugh-generator/</link>
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		<title>Truckin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trucking companies are, understandably, quite angry about this week&#8217;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? (Not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/15/truckin/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve linked to it because she has some occasional personal observations on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/14/other-peoples-blogs-17/</link>
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		<title>Heaven and hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video from CNN about a foreclosure-plagued gated community near Las Vegas (75% of the houses are now empty) is a strange expression of the American dream. (Or maybe a disturbing suppuration of it.) Watching the homeowner featured in this report reminds me that one person&#8217;s idea of heaven can certainly be another person&#8217;s idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/13/heaven-and-hell/</link>
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		<title>Upstate&#8217;s missing man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an election year where Americans are analyzed in terms of demographics (black or white, young or old, &#8220;educated&#8221; or &#8220;uneducated&#8221;), with candidates choosing which ones &#8220;matter,&#8221; depersonalization is the spirit of the times. In Myanmar, the government is pretending that hundreds of thousands of its cyclone-hit people are not really there, even holding elections [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/12/upstates-missing-man/</link>
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		<title>The bear: Journey&#8217;s end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite childhood books was Richard Adams&#8217; Watership Down. His follow-up novel, Shardik, was very different (and less popular; I can&#8217;t remember if I finished it, to be honest). It was set in a fantasy world where the central figure of worship was a giant bear, whose mysterious appearance and journey across the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/10/journeys-end/</link>
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		<title>A New York bloggers&#8217; tool kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across the following comment by an observer commenting on how young &#8220;netroots activists&#8221; he&#8217;s met are using &#8212; or not using &#8212; the Internet: They are not specifically computer literate. They have a facile ability with games, IM, vanity websites, P2P, etc., but not much skill at digging into information, data mining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/10/a-new-york-bloggers-tool-kit/</link>
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		<title>Wanted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black Bear on the loose in Geddes And he&#8217;s really pissed off about The Noise! No idea if this is really for real, but if this dude managed to get across West Genesee Street, watch out, Westvale and Taunton. Updated: Apparently the bear did get across WG Street&#8230; Possibly a false alarm about a bear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/08/wanted/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s baaaaaack&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Noise from the Suez plant is back, but in a different form. Here are some new sound clips, recorded by a resident of Sherwood Knolls in the wee hours of Wednesday, May 7: Clip 1 and Clip 2 (ugh). It has been back for about a week. It&#8217;s no longer the super-maddening whump-whump-whump, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/08/its-baaaaaack/</link>
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		<title>New &#8220;I Love New York&#8221; campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ESDC has done a big re-launch of the famous I Love New York tourism brand. The new ads are going to be targeting Northeastern states, trying to get economically strapped vacationers to drive over the border and head Upstate instead of just down to NYC. Good timing for it, I suppose. This was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/07/new-i-love-new-york-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Miracle in Armory Square</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so maybe we&#8217;re so down that we&#8217;re seeing &#8220;miracles&#8221; everywhere, but I wasn&#8217;t the only one pleasantly surprised by Joanie Mahoney&#8217;s abruptly announced decision to flush the Armory Square sewage treatment plant, which hit the news on Saturday. A rare headline that makes you feel like it&#8217;s a beautiful day in the neighborhood and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/06/miracle-in-armory-square/</link>
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		<title>Gas prices cause more parking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, to be more precise, park-ing: New York State Park camping reservations are up 16 percent. This mirrors a trend in other states. So this summer, the fens and spinneys of New York may very well be filled with folks trying to save a buck on vacations, blowing up their propane stoves and burning their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/04/gas-prices-cause-more-parking/</link>
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		<title>Words of warning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some news about how text-messaging argot has been getting into students&#8217; term papers and other communications. Some of my daily work involves the processing and editing of information submitted by students and the public through e-mail or online forms, but I haven&#8217;t seen much text-ese. The puzzling trend that I&#8217;ve noticed recently is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/02/words-of-warning/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burgh Diaspora, a Rust Belt blogger, scoffs at Gov. Paterson&#8217;s recent comments on upstate New York&#8217;s &#8220;brain drain.&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/05/01/doppelblogger/</link>
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		<title>Peter King: Let&#8217;s terrorize Upstate New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Representative Peter King of Long Island is pushing a new meme: Native Americans in Upstate New York are in cahoots with radical Islamic terrorists and are using untaxed smuggled cigarettes to fund their plots. As reported in the Buffalo News, the evidence for this conclusion from King&#8217;s House H#^$&#038;*#land Security Committee &#8220;study&#8221; is thin. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/30/peter-king-lets-terrorize-upstate-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Maple Syrup Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A New York Times story on disappearing regional foods has an interactive map dividing North America into &#8220;food nations.&#8221; We&#8217;re part of the Maple Syrup Nation, and some of our endangered foods include the Java chicken, Seneca hominy flint corn and the beautiful Cayuga Duck.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/30/maple-syrup-nation/</link>
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		<title>Rain as an absolute good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It rained on Saturday evening, and then again all day on Monday. Was anyone upset? I wonder if mainstream American society will ever get to the point where, no matter what we have planned outdoors for the day, a rainy day is first and foremost seen as something to be grateful for. Thoughts of adding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/29/rain-as-an-absolute-good/</link>
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		<title>Giving props their props</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the best commentary I&#8217;ve read on the whole &#8220;small town America&#8221; brouhaha lately&#8230; &#8230;Struggling towns are props, not issues. One side rushes to drape themselves in flags, guns and the kind of Norman Rockwell hagiography that is far removed from the 2008 reality of meth labs and foreclosure frontiers. The other side says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/28/giving-props-their-props/</link>
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		<title>Blogkeeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick word on WordPress themes and such&#8230; I am pretty fond of the blog layout I had been using here for the last 8 or 9 months or so (called &#8220;Silhouette,&#8221; by Brian Gardner, designer of the famous &#8220;Revolution&#8221; WordPress theme). I found it amazingly functional. It does, however, have a couple of drawbacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/26/blogkeeping/</link>
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		<title>Under new management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring just hit this area with a POW! this week. Everything is strangely accelerated, almost as if summer is just around the corner. I can definitely feel a slowdown in the vibe on the University hill (in summer, everything there slows down). I wonder if this is one of those springs that will make some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/24/under-new-management/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs:  Book and photo edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Cowboy reviews Small is Beautiful, a 1973 book about how to manage growth and sprawl. Steve Balogh, writing at Groovy Green, reviews James Kunstler&#8217;s World Made by Hand, a novel about life after &#8220;peak oil.&#8221; Steve has been reading mainly schoolbooks lately and here is his report . Josh Shear reviews The Lost. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/23/other-peoples-blogs-book-and-photo-edition/</link>
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		<title>Paterson in Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Paterson was in Syracuse today for his first official visit as guv. (If you didn&#8217;t hear him on WSYR, they&#8217;re re-running it at 7 p.m.) I&#8217;m getting the sense that Paterson has a much better public relations staff than Spitzer ever did. Maybe he studied at the Schumer School of Press Releasing, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/22/paterson-in-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>On blogs and media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on blogging's prehistory, and on current local practices.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/21/on-blogs-and-media/</link>
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		<title>Latest Q-Poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very briefly: the latest Quinnipiac poll on Paterson, Spitzer, congestion pricing, the 2010 governor&#8217;s field&#8230; Paterson holding his own. Spitzer still firmly in doghouse of public opinion. NYC residents love Bloomberg, Upstaters couldn&#8217;t care less. P.S. Did you know? The only thing you need to pass your New York State blogger&#8217;s license test is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/18/latest-q-poll/</link>
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		<title>Mission creep at the library?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This LA Times story looks at how many libraries are trying to bring in more young people by offering video games, including &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221; and others which let them make as much noise as they want: That doesn&#8217;t mean libraries will turn into arcades, said Loriene Roy, the association&#8217;s president and a professor in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/17/mission-creep-at-the-library/</link>
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		<title>Good news for frogs and Upstaters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You will be amazed!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/16/good-news-for-frogs-and-upstaters/</link>
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		<title>What lies beneath: NY&#8217;s plumbing problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all this talk about saving the Earth, let’s not forget that She doesn’t give a damn about the works of man.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/15/what-lies-beneath/</link>
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		<title>Baseball logic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I consider myself neutral on the Yankees-Red Sox spectrum, I must say this attempted stunt was pretty audacious. NY Yankees Remove Buried Red Sox Jersey In fact, trying it and failing to get away with it, is probably just as effective (according to fan logic) as starting a rumor that someone did it and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/14/baseball-logic/</link>
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		<title>Is the gentlemen&#8217;s agreement ending?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be prepared for more nasty Barclay/Aubertine style ads.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/13/is-the-gentlemens-agreement-ending/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s controversial comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to speak to all Americans at all times?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/12/obamas-controversial-comments/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Noise&#8221; update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Noise from Solvay's Suez cogeneration plant... captured on tape!  Complete with audio analysis!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/11/the-noise/</link>
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		<title>Canal Corp. relents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just briefly following up on an item I posted about the other week. Faced with howls of protest over the draconian new hours for the canal system, the Canal Corporation has partially reversed their decision and summer hours for the system will once again be 7 a.m. &#8211; 10 p.m. &#8212; at least between Memorial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/11/canal-corp-relents/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Tom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suozzi '10?  (Remember, you're nobody 'till somebody loves you...)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/11/wheres-tom/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earthquakes, booze, diapers and flaming pits of fire.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/09/other-peoples-blogs-16/</link>
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		<title>The Really Big Mess: ruined NYS map from &#8217;64 World&#8217;s Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the Empire State might not be restored to its former glory after all.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/07/the-really-big-mess/</link>
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		<title>A place for Dr. King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a story today on a peaceful country retreat in South Carolina that was being prepared for Martin Luther King Jr. at the time of his death. He never got to stay there. Of course, he is there now, and everywhere in this country and all over the world as well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/04/a-place-for-dr-king/</link>
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		<title>Guilty as charged?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While this news item is pretty horrible, it does have the side effect of making me feel (for the first time) like my own fifth-grade class wasn&#8217;t so awful for misbehaving so badly that our poor teacher had to take a leave of absence. Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/02/guilty-as-charged/</link>
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		<title>To instruct the ignorant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diversity training for city employees: Yes, apparently this is a controversial subject. But I can only comment on my own experience with the process of enlightenment&#8230; It&#8217;s unfortunate, but since (1) we have no decent American history education in this country, and (2) people in parts of upstate New York still do grow up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/02/to-instruct-the-ignorant/</link>
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		<title>5 things I do not enjoy about spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love spring, but...]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/01/5-things-i-do-not-enjoy-about-spring/</link>
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		<title>Things to do with old books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is still something enchanting about the idea of wandering into a shop and stumbling upon
the book that will unlock your life.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/04/01/things-to-do-with-old-books/</link>
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		<title>The audacity of hopelessness: thoughts on regime change in Albany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new governor, and the possible uses of chaos in Albany and on Wall Street.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/31/the-audacity-of-hopelessness/</link>
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		<title>Dith Pran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT notes that Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist whose story was told in The Killing Fields, has died. Although he was most famous as perhaps the only victim of the Cambodian genocide with a name and story that Americans knew, he was a very talented photographer in times of both war and peace, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/30/dith-pran/</link>
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		<title>Of future note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very interesting story in today&#8217;s New York Times about the earliest recorded sound, which dates from 1860 and is only now made playable via computer technology. (Its creator had never intended it to be played back, only to be analyzed.) We have the technology today to measure and record the complete physical properties of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/27/of-future-note/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The former sock-making capital of the world; bad times for music; and news of note from Chevy Court.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/25/other-peoples-blogs-15/</link>
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		<title>A Polish-American Easter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coffee, cold cuts and <i>pani'</i>s.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/23/a-polish-american-easter/</link>
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		<title>Canal Corp. cuts back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the deluge of dismal news over the past couple weeks is the sudden announcement that not only is the Canal Corp. reinstating tolls on the Erie Canal system, but daily operating hours are being rather savagely curtailed. I suppose it was inevitable with the economic downturn, but I think more people are upset [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/21/canal-corp-cuts-back/</link>
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		<title>Beyond the gentlemen&#8217;s agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About Albany girls and New York women.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/21/beyond-the-gentlemens-agreement/</link>
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		<title>What the hell?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unexpected development.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/20/shocking-and-disturbing/</link>
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		<title>Upstate NY in the Paterson era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Paterson be willing or able to adopt the Spitzer administration's methodical approach to Upstate revival?  Should he?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/18/upstate-ny-in-the-paterson-era/</link>
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		<title>At last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My winter aconite has come around.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/17/at-last/</link>
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		<title>Off the cuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all of the media coverage about incoming Gov. David Paterson, this observation from a Times-Union profile caught my eye: According to lawmakers, lobbyists and others who have worked with him, Paterson can&#8217;t read small print or long passages. Perhaps to compensate, he has developed a prodigious memory. People who first meet him sometimes marvel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/14/off-the-cuff/</link>
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		<title>Great Lakes compact signed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned at TAP: New York Joins Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. Governor Designate David A. Paterson today announced that legislation has been signed authorizing New York State to join the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. The Compact is a multi-state agreement designed to protect, conserve, and improve the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/14/great-lakes-compact-signed/</link>
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		<title>Paterson transition: The little things&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me:  Joe Bruno is not the lieutenant governor.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/13/paterson-transition-the-little-things/</link>
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		<title>Eliot and I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short history of an understanding that failed.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/12/eliot-and-me/</link>
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		<title>Some observations on the New York State government crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 24 hours it has been fiendishly difficult to even find any really reliable news or even rumors about what&#8217;s happening in Albany (and Manhattan&#8230; of course). The reason why is that nobody really knows anything. Nobody can really know anything when you have a governor who has a very tight, almost hermetically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/11/some-observations-on-the-new-york-state-government-crisis/</link>
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		<title>State troopers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC News has this item on the State Police mounting an internal investigation to find out what Spitzer&#8217;s security detail was up to during all this. This another illustration of why this matter is so disturbing: the gray area involving New York state troopers, assigned to protect the governor, who could be put in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/11/state-troopers/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer, please resign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning expecting to hear something more definite on a Spitzer resignation than just Bill Magnarelli stammering on Channel 9 about getting the business of the state moving again. So, as far as this utterly insignificant blog is concerned in the great chorus of voices across the state, let me say, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/11/spitzer-please-resign/</link>
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		<title>Open thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know why.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/10/open-thread/</link>
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		<title>Pax Democratica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Men in a Room are breaking up.  Who gets the kid? ]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/08/pax-democratica/</link>
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		<title>Is anybody listening?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The presidential campaign is going out of tune.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/07/is-anybody-listening/</link>
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		<title>Call me crazy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy&#8230; call me a conservative&#8230; call me a supporter of the military-industrial complex&#8230; but&#8230; WTF? Pentagon Bans Google Teams From Bases The Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases. A message sent to all Defense Department bases and installations around the country late last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/06/call-me-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Endless war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A dystopian glimpse into the future.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/05/endless-war/</link>
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		<title>A comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a new comment on an older thread that folks might find worth reading. My Syracuse and Our Syracuse. I am one of those that have joined the mass exodus. I am 34 and now in Phoenix, AZ a city of nearly 5 million. I came here to seek a better life, and job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/05/a-comment/</link>
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		<title>Trust or consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably a natural pessimist when it comes to fortune (financial or otherwise), but many of us are not going to be better off next year than we were four years ago. All over the place you hear anecdotes about how people have stopped shopping for cars and handbags and home improvement items at Lowe&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/03/trust-or-consequences/</link>
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		<title>Think globally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just passing on a pretty cool link (and possibly the best use of social networking software anyone&#8217;s yet thought of): LiveMocha, a website where you can take language lessons for free. Currently, you can enroll in Spanish, French, German, Hindi or Mandarin Chinese lessons. The neat thing about the site is that you can connect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/02/think-globally/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Other bloggers have more 48th special election reactions; thoughts on Upstate New York and Cuba; and a challenge to the Post-Standard about a report on vacant Syracuse houses.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/01/other-peoples-blogs-14/</link>
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		<title>Winter report card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not impressed.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/03/01/winter-report-card/</link>
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		<title>Out of time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a news item today about the American Time Use Survey, and how the Bush Administration has no time &#8212; or rather, money &#8212; for it any more. This is an annual study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that breaks down how Americans spend every bit of their time, and is considered useful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/29/out-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Flip That Senator!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 48th Senate district special election and its aftermath.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/27/flip-that-senator/</link>
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		<title>All hail the Snow God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Snow God in his infinite wisdom hath lured the do-nothings and party animals of Albany up to his sovereign kingdom on this, the most important special election day of the year; and yea, he hath stranded them in the slop. For vengeance upon the iniquitous is his, and his alone. Mighty are his works!!!!!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/26/all-hail-the-snow-god/</link>
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		<title>48th special election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the day of the big special election in the 48th. Truth be told, one part of me wants Barclay to win because that means we could have someone new, maybe someone in the majority party, in my Assembly district. But not a real big part. Aubertine is the right guy for that district, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/25/48th-special-election/</link>
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		<title>Hell on wheels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a way to wean America from its car culture: How about scaring your kids to death? This NYT story looks at how American teens are not exactly rushing to get their drivers&#8217; licenses any more, and the reasons why &#8212; they&#8217;re too busy prepping for college, Mom drives them everywhere, and they&#8217;re too afraid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/25/hell-on-wheels/</link>
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		<title>Suburban slums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting (perhaps overwrought?) article in The Atlantic on how foreclosure-ridden McMansion subdivisions are slowly turning into&#8230; well, not what they were intended to be. Again, like so many on the subject of exurban vs. urban living, this article pretends that there is no middle ground between the lifestyles at all, and that old-growth suburbia does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/22/suburban-slums/</link>
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		<title>Crime of the century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burger King gets robbed - thankfully, that's all.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/21/crime-of-the-century/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lady and the tiger.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/19/thoughts-on-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rome Scene is a different sort of Mohawk Valley blog &#8211; relatively unconcerned with pessimism and politics. Here&#8217;s a thought-provoking post on local banking and savings accounts, and another post for those who are longing for the full Turning Stone &#8220;Lava&#8221; nightclub experience. Also: What if Spartacus had had a Piper Cub? What if the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/16/other-peoples-blogs-13/</link>
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		<title>Ruh-roh.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York State authorities can't sell their bonds.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/14/ruh-roh/</link>
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		<title>Great Lakes Compact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York signs on, and not a moment too soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/13/great-lakes-compact/</link>
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		<title>Top secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't look at this post.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/12/top-secret/</link>
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		<title>New York&#8217;s budget:  Hoo coodanode?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York's budget used to be a few dozen days late.  Now it's a few hundred million dollars short.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/11/new-yorks-budget-hoo-coodanode/</link>
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		<title>Show me the money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Counting the cost of this presidential election.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/09/show-me-the-money/</link>
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		<title>NYRI North?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Power line mania continues.   New York needs an energy policy for the people.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/09/nyri-north/</link>
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		<title>What just happened? Part deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking over the handy-dandy map (yum! maps!) of primary results, both Democratic and Republican, over at the New York Times. It&#8217;s unusual that we get a semi-useful breakdown (since this map is counties, not Congressional districts) of how &#8220;blue&#8221; the Democratic vote is and how &#8220;red&#8221; the GOP vote is. Instead of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/06/what-just-happened-part-deux/</link>
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		<title>What just happened?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted that I thought I would not have the energy to vote in this year&#8217;s primary. I did wind up voting. I don&#8217;t want to bore anyone too much with &#8220;my personal voting narrative,&#8221; but perhaps like some other people out there, my brain was flipping back and forth all day. I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/06/what-just-happened/</link>
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		<title>The damaged voter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Primary Day as the great unending struggle for democracy continues. This is supposed to be an exciting year, particularly for those who are tired of the country&#8217;s direction, and I&#8217;ll be watching on TV along with everyone else tonight. But I&#8217;m sorry to say that even despite months of campaign coverage, speeches and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/05/the-damaged-voter/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government hands anti-NYRI groups more silverware for their cannon.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/03/nyri-update-9/</link>
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		<title>St. Mary&#8217;s letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My neighborhood has not been negatively affected by the Syracuse Diocese&#8217;s decisions to close various churches and schools recently, so the controversy this past week over the locking of St. Mary&#8217;s Church (over the protests of some parishioners) hasn&#8217;t been on my mind. However, I always appreciate a thoughtful and well-written letter, like this one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/02/02/st-marys-letter/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer:  &#8220;Fight for your money&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who's in it to win it?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/31/spitzer-fight-for-your-money/</link>
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		<title>Giuliani</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He wasn't America's mayor after all.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/30/giuliani/</link>
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		<title>Truer words never spoken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won&#8217;t bother you for weeks.&#8221; (Author unknown)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/29/truer-words-never-spoken/</link>
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		<title>New York votes for paper ballots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state decides on paper-based voting machines to replace levers.  Diebold, begone!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/28/new-york-votes-for-paper-ballots/</link>
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		<title>Blue is the new green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water will conform to any vessel that future politicians want to put it in. ]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/27/blue-is-the-new-green/</link>
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		<title>WPA posters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back to the future...?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/25/wpa-posters/</link>
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		<title>Remitted tuition for city residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it fair?  Hell yeah.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/25/remitted-tuition-for-city-residents/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a beautiful day for a budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2008-09 New York State Executive Budget.  (Batteries and member items not included)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/22/its-a-beautiful-day-for-a-budget/</link>
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		<title>Year in photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Albany Times-Union has one of the best (and biggest) collections of &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best Photos&#8221; that I think I&#8217;ve ever seen. Every single picture is wonderful. There&#8217;s no way to link to it directly, but if you head to their website and scroll down the page to &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best Photos,&#8221; you can click on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/20/year-in-photos/</link>
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		<title>Unfinished business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What dropped local projects can be picked up?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/19/unfinished-business/</link>
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		<title>Winter driving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A gentleman from Vladivostok, Russia has invented a cool self-salting system for his truck. (I think it&#8217;s sand). He pulls a lever and lays down his own personal layer of traction on snow and ice. Needless to say, he&#8217;s very popular with the drivers on the road behind him. You can watch the video demonstration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/18/winter-driving/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;No country for young men&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting story in this month&#8217;s Atlantic with an upstate N.Y. setting (specifically, Newark in Wayne County). The author argues that, as America&#8217;s Baby Boomers age, they can look forward to a modest but happy old age much easier than their parents and grandparents faced, and that Americans should not be terrified of such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/18/no-country-for-young-men/</link>
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		<title>The reviews are in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reactions to Spitzer's "State of the Upstate" speech.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/17/the-reviews-are-in/</link>
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		<title>State of the disunion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spitzer offers a new rhetorical framing for Upstate's woes.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/16/state-of-the-disunion/</link>
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		<title>The house that love tore down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WSYR has its mind made up about the Ronald McDonald House.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/15/the-house-that-love-tore-down/</link>
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		<title>Assorted eyebrow-raisers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Includes a discussion about New York State's prison system.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/15/assorted-eyebrow-raisers/</link>
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		<title>Good news and bad news about debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question here, a question there... ]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/13/good-news-and-bad-news-about-debt/</link>
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		<title>Foreclosures and urban blight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mad as hell, and not going to take it any more!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/11/foreclosures-and-urban-blight/</link>
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		<title>New Process Gear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably a sign of my age cohort that I can&#8217;t remember that place as &#8220;New Venture Gear&#8221; or whatever it is they call it now. My dad worked there (it&#8217;s where I got my &#8220;blue-collar baby&#8221; ID card) and it&#8217;s been 25 years, this past October, since he walked out. (Technically, 24 years, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/11/new-process-gear/</link>
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		<title>Whoosh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow, how about those winds today? A bit of damage at my house, and look what happened in Rochester. This is the 10-year anniversary of one of the worst weather years in state history. The great North Country ice storm was a decade ago this month. (There, but for the grace of God and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/09/whoosh/</link>
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		<title>Why Obama?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Create your own high-powered political ad campaign!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/09/why-obama/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to argue about I-81 with maps.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/08/other-peoples-blogs-12/</link>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton and Upstate blood lust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If she can't make it here, can she make it anywhere?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/07/hillary-clinton-and-upstates-blood-lust/</link>
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		<title>Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wondering about what&#8217;s going on in Kenya lately? This helpful article in the New York Times seeks to explain. (Shorter version: Although the violence has worrisome surface parallels to what happened in Rwanda in 1994, it&#8217;s more related to &#8220;economic prosperity without democracy&#8221; than to a government-sponsored campaign of ethnic eradication. But, as the author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/05/kenya/</link>
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		<title>The Westcott experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Striking while the iron's still hot.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/04/the-westcott-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Iowa caucus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prepare for a primary vote, but bet on old age and treachery!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/04/iowa-caucus/</link>
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		<title>For your entertainment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York airplane ride.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/03/for-your-entertainment/</link>
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		<title>Meanwhile, in Buffalo&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we haven&#8217;t had quite enough tough, steely grey, bare-knuckled talk about CNY here this week, I thought I&#8217;d point y&#8217;all to a somewhat parallel conversation going on at BuffaloPundit. I only have one observation to make: &#8220;Tor BuffChester&#8221; sounds like a porn star name.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/02/meanwhile-in-buffalo/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s ride!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Spitzer charge into a budget confrontation?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/02/lets-ride/</link>
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		<title>Starting over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would someone want to come home to Syracuse?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2008/01/01/starting-over/</link>
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		<title>A WordPress bug you should know about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick PSA for my fellow WordPress users: Like me, you may not pay much attention to the announcements about upcoming WordPress versions. However, hidden in the most recent version announcement is news about a newly discovered bug that makes it possible for anyone to see your draft posts if they know a certain URL trick. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/30/a-wordpress-bug-you-should-know-about/</link>
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		<title>Top New York stories of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not just Choppergate.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/30/top-new-york-stories-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>When bad organizations attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tiger, tiger...]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/29/when-sick-organizations-attack/</link>
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		<title>Post-Christmas comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few comments that probably don&#8217;t fit in anywhere else&#8230; Fayetteville Towne Center. I know I am always beating up on Ye Olde Towne Center but it&#8217;s so easy. Big boxes, not all of them connected, surrounding a truly gigantic sea of parking (with restaurants as distant islands). Seen in the early morning, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/27/post-christmas-comments/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I-81 talk, sidewalk shoveling, state senate politics, winter photos, and more.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/26/other-peoples-blogs-11/</link>
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		<title>Look, but don&#8217;t feed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kids are back in the &#8216;hood, without Mom this time. Just finished vacuuming up the seeds and corn left for the birds. Time to put the free food away for awhile (sorry, birds) so our friends will go back up to Split Rock where they belong. (Or maybe we&#8217;re the ones who don&#8217;t belong?) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/23/look-but-dont-feed/</link>
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		<title>World&#8217;s worst Christmas wrap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just thought I&#8217;d share. Here is one of my favorite online Christmas stations, Soma FM&#8217;s Christmas Lounge. (Here is the NSFW version, Xmas in Frisko.) And local alternative Christmas music, too.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/21/worlds-worst-christmas-wrap/</link>
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		<title>New York berated by Mom; told to make bed, get job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need a Help New York Help America Vote Act.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/21/new-york-slapped-again-on-hava/</link>
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		<title>How to move a city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens if nothing happens to I-81?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/19/how-to-move-a-city/</link>
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		<title>Oh well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent local blogosphere discussions on reading and gadgets, the hope was expressed that the popularity of the Harry Potter series meant that kids were getting back into a love of reading. So what&#8217;s in store from the publisher? With the Harry Potter series now completed, Scholastic, the United States publisher of those wildly successful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/19/oh-well/</link>
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		<title>Art is Lipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gear Factory.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/18/art-is-lipe/</link>
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		<title>The Teardown People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manifest Destiny, right here in River City.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/17/the-teardown-people/</link>
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		<title>OK, everybody &#8211; panic!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Snowman must be in his glory today over at the Golden Snowball. All I can say is &#8212; after enduring WSYR&#8217;s &#8220;Severe Weather Alert&#8221; text messages since Thursday (for a storm that would arrive three days later!) and becoming one with the mob at Wegmans this morning &#8212; this had better be good. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/15/ok-everybody-panic/</link>
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		<title>We are all 315ers&#8230; for now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another factor that threatens to divide us.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/14/we-are-all-315ers-for-now/</link>
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		<title>Deer season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are the white deer at Seneca Army Depot fair game?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/14/deer-season/</link>
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		<title>Limbo revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More talk about Alfred Lubrano's <i>Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams</i>.  Also: A call to Rust Belt consciousness.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/12/limbo-part-2/</link>
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		<title>My parents, my shelf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture books.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/11/my-parents-books/</link>
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		<title>Pushback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Spitzer is a blunt instrument who has fallen into the wrong hands.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/09/pushback/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Project Sunlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Complaining about Albany just got a hundred times easier.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/06/merry-christmas-from-project-sunlight/</link>
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		<title>Winter questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five pressing winter issues.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/03/winter-questions/</link>
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		<title>3 Upstate conversation-killers, and how to get past them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting past the knee-jerk and ostrich reactions.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/01/3-upstate-conversation-killers-and-how-to-get-past-them/</link>
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		<title>Fairmount gets noticed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We're No. 27!  We're No. 27!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/12/01/fairmount-gets-noticed/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer cries uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And discovers that the Creative Class was in his own backyard all along.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/28/spitzer-cries-uncle/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ghosts, zombies, time travel and PORN.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/27/other-peoples-blogs-10/</link>
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		<title>Winter: let&#8217;s call the whole thing off!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can't we just hibernate our way to energy conservation?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/26/winter-lets-call-the-whole-thing-off/</link>
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		<title>Limbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A mini review and thoughts on <i>Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams</i>, by Alfred Lubrano.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/24/limbo/</link>
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		<title>On the dole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of perspective on the Joneses.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/23/on-the-dole/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk about the Water Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we can live for up to three weeks without food.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/21/lets-talk-about-the-water-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Summer photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to hunker down for the winter and clean out my cache of photos from the year.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/20/summer-photos/</link>
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		<title>Other People&#8217;s Blogs: Complaints Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singing about OnTrack is like dancing about architecture, but maybe we should do it anyway.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/19/other-peoples-blogs-complaints-edition/</link>
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		<title>Snowblogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the games begin...]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/17/snowblogging/</link>
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		<title>Fort Drum soldier arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iraq war soldiers watertown]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/15/fort-drum-soldier-arrested/</link>
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		<title>Notes from a bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I noticed that the bathroom in my office building was getting a little messy, and I thought it would be a mildly instructive exercise to routinely pick up the trash from the floor instead of waiting for someone else to do it. I&#8217;m happy to report that the custodial staffing changes have stabilized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/14/notes-from-a-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>The Wreck of the Eliot Spitzgerald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The skies of November have turned gloomy.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/13/the-wreck-of-the-eliot-spitzgerald/</link>
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		<title>Brueggemann and the Beanstalk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Syracuse dreams of escaping, via innovative architecture, the fate that the world has planned for it.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/11/brueggemann-and-the-beanstalk/</link>
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		<title>A day of peace and friendship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Veterans' Day and Canandaigua Treaty Day are always the same.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/11/a-day-of-peace-and-friendship/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer crime and kids, election fallout, the Upstate/Downstate divide, WSYR-TV blogs, and mechanics of online conversation.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/10/other-peoples-blogs-9/</link>
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		<title>Ding dong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A hotel of a different color.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/09/ding-dong/</link>
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		<title>Next stop, apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest sign of the apocalypse is not the plunging stock market.  It's <a href="http://www.centro.org">Centro's new website</a>.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/08/next-stop-apocalypse/</link>
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		<title>Today is the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Election '07 news and blues...]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/06/today-is-the-day/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Energy policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The powerline is dealt a setback in federal court.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/04/nyri-update-8/</link>
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		<title>What would Grandpa do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we try to follow the imperative to regain a saner lifestyle, maybe the first steps will lead back to people we  remember.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/04/what-would-grandpa-do/</link>
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		<title>Starbucks and Po&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the word "venti."]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/03/starbucks-and-pos/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs: Election Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upstate bloggers are running for office; York Staters returns!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/11/02/other-peoples-blogs-election-edition/</link>
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		<title>Boo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spitzer is giving me nightmares.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/30/boo/</link>
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		<title>Syracuse among top 20 blogging cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Huh?!]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/30/syracuse-among-top-20-blogging-cities/</link>
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		<title>Tuning in Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would Hollywood think?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/29/tuning-in-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>Why Johnny Candidate can&#8217;t read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's so much about the people running for office that we don't know.  Are they deaf?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/28/why-johnny-candidate-cant-read/</link>
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		<title>Out of the pool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another CNY blogger is leaving.  Also: racism and online discussion boards.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/25/out-of-the-pool/</link>
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		<title>Pardon the dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An apology: I usually don&#8217;t give in to the urge to change my blog theme until at least 6 months have passed, but sometimes&#8230; I realize a design just isn&#8217;t working out. And that it has to go. (When it comes to online content, it always feels like the solution to one problem is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/24/pardon-the-dust/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a czar!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day One and Counting: The Steamroller is back.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/24/its-a-czar/</link>
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		<title>Open water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Upstate New Yorkers ever became water-masters on a parched continent, what kind of stewards would we be?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/22/open-water/</link>
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		<title>That sinking feeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The exodus of local business from Fairmount continues.  This week: Marnie's.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/22/that-sinking-feeling/</link>
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		<title>Autumn&#8230; eventually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching for signs of fall.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/21/autumn-at-16-rpm/</link>
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		<title>Sojourner trash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no sugar-coating the possibility that cleaning up after people day after day is a spirit-killer.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/19/sojourner-trash/</link>
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		<title>Power trips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How did Americans become such bossy control freaks about children and pets?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/18/power-trips/</link>
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		<title>Acting out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT has a story on all of Spitzer&#8217;s &#8220;acting&#8221; appointees, including &#8220;acting&#8221; Upstate czar Daniel Gundersen&#8230; Other governors have run into problems with a handful of nominees, said Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science and a dean at the State University of New York at New Paltz. But the length and extent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/17/acting-czar/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food activism, coffee injustice, spoiled college students, immigration, and a handy guide to jargon.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/14/other-peoples-blogs-8/</link>
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		<title>Legal footwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onondaga land rights action finally goes to court.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/12/legal-footwork/</link>
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		<title>Immigration notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isn't immigration more than just a Downstate problem?  Heated discussion ensues.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/11/immigration-notes/</link>
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		<title>Candlelight vigil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 11) is an important day for the Onondaga Nation and their land rights action, which was filed on March 11, 2005. The Onondagas are the last of the original five Haudenosaunee nations to approach the courts to ask for acknowledgement of title to lands affirmed as theirs in post-Revolutionary War treaties such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/10/candlelight-vigil/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(A slight variation on &#8220;Other People&#8217;s Blogs&#8221; devoted to newspapers&#8230;) Sunday&#8217;s Post-Standard had a very good story about gangs of East Syracuse (or groups of young men who could be thought of as gangs, since some of them say they aren&#8217;t that). Maybe the only novelty about this story is that it&#8217;s about guys in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/08/other-peoples-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>FF forever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been large reminiscent thread on Syracuse.com about Fairmount Fair, perhaps inspired by the imminent opening of the new Target. (Was there one Dr. Grambow or two?) And Michael&#8217;s finally opened last week. I joked with people that I was going to cry when I set foot in there on opening day &#8212; the western [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/06/ff-forever/</link>
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		<title>Edge of the woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I &#8220;got away from it all&#8221; at Green Lakes (well, that was the plan anyway) and communed with nature a bit. It&#8217;s very weird how people seek out the wild sometimes in a bid to create order in their lives. In my case, I was thinking hard about practical steps to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/04/wild-and-tame/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Federal ruling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few quick words on the federal ruling everyone monitoring the NYRI situation had been expecting for a long time. Or rather, one key word for people (like myself) who live outside of the area affected by this proposed project: Observe. The company behind NYRI has always struck me as having two left feet when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/03/nyri-update-7/</link>
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		<title>8 out of 10 New Yorkers say&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that Gov. Spitzer should testify about Troopergate. (Okay, it&#8217;s more like 7.8 out of 10 New Yorkers.) This is from the latest Q Poll, (which also has some interesting results about what citizens think of the Comptroller&#8217;s power over pension fund investment). Hard to believe that the duelling editorials are still hammering away statewide. Exhibit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/03/8-out-of-10-new-yorkers-say/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon St. Laurent (of Living in Dryden) has come up with fascinating new blog project called Upstate 2050. He&#8217;s looking for people to contribute their own creatively written imaginations of what Upstate voices will be saying in 43 years. Simon writes: Over the past few weeks, thanks to insomnia generated by our local elections, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/02/other-peoples-blogs-7/</link>
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		<title>Wealth and water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I posted on the concept of Upstate New York as &#8220;The Water State.&#8221; Water just may be the one common denominator of all of the different regions in Upstate New York which ordinarily seem to have not a whole lot to do with each other, maybe a good starting point to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/10/01/wealth-and-water/</link>
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		<title>50th Senate District</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;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&#8230; I&#8217;m not real sure where that huge swing-voter area of the 50th lies (see map), that would enthusiastically vote for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/28/50th-senate-district/</link>
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		<title>The Dating Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t realize she had started doing this until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/27/the-dating-game/</link>
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		<title>Who is Legislator X?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" src="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/empiresp/egg.jpg">]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/25/who-is-legislator-x/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change CNY worries his blog isn&#8217;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&#8217;t seem surprising to me.) Considering how Change CNY appears to be the only full-time political blog in CNY, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/24/other-peoples-blogs-6/</link>
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		<title>A woman&#8217;s worth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/23/whats-a-womans-life-worth/</link>
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		<title>I Love/Live New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could it be? A positive Upstate-related business story that doesn&#8217;t seem just like empty branding? JetBlue is offering special $30 fares between NYC and Upstate cities, as part of an &#8220;I Love New York&#8221; tourism push designed to get people to come Upstate for some R&#038;R. The Post-Standard this morning pointed out that the &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/21/i-lovelive-new-york/</link>
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		<title>Vision is not enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have had no absence of ambitious visions over the past few years in this town. Not only that, but vision is very &#8220;in.&#8221; It&#8217;s become a cottage industry. People who are not ordinarily terribly visionary have been scrambling just to keep up with what&#8217;s expected of them, for fear of being left behind. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/20/vision-is-not-enough/</link>
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		<title>Byrned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to the Post-Standard for including a story about the suspiciously sudden closure of Byrne Dairy on South Geddes in today&#8217;s &#8220;Neighbors West.&#8221; 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 saw this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/20/byrned/</link>
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		<title>:-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I had no idea that the birth of the ubiquitous &#8220;smiley&#8221; 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&#8217;t think a more trustworthy and helpful invention has come along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/18/148/</link>
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		<title>The unintentional community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;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&#8217;s a somewhat huffy editorial in the NYT about generational bad behavior. The author of this editorial is outraged that &#8220;the teenage brain&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/17/the-unintentional-community/</link>
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		<title>Having a Binghamton moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily News&#8217; politics blog has an informative recap of examples of New York politicians losing it while in Binghamton, including a photo of Rockefeller giving some protesters the finger at Binghamton University.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/16/having-a-binghamton-moment/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Balogh, who usually posts at Groovy Green but has his own blog as well, piped up there to note the Doc&#8217;s Little Gem Diner fire &#8211; which resulted in the diner being closed for the first time in 55 years. They had to bring in a locksmith to create keys for the door, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/15/other-peoples-blogs-5/</link>
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		<title>The one true salt potato</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I give you the humble salt potato, Syracuse&#8217;s gift to the world. Unlike the rest of Upstate cuisine, there are no great secrets about the salt potato to protect. This post reveals all. Unlike some other Upstate foods, you don&#8217;t need a special sauce or marinade to make salt potatoes. Nor do you need a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/13/the-one-true-salt-potato/</link>
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		<title>Housing costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny how things change: It was just a few months ago that we were supposed to be envying all those regions of the country that had a &#8220;robust economy.&#8221; But looking at this map, I see there are some hidden drawbacks to all that prosperity: immense and possibly unaffordable housing costs. Costs which seem to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/12/economic-stagnation-the-new-black/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Legal maneuvering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here I thought I was paying attention&#8230; wow, how&#8217;d this one get by? New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against state Assemblywoman Donna A. Lupardo, D-Endwell, and others by an energy company that wants to develop a power line through upstate New York. New York Regional Interconnect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/11/nyri-update-6/</link>
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		<title>9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A demonstration of how much times have changed: what happened on September 11, 1994 (or rather, the wee hours of September 12) at the White House was treated very differently than it would be today. (Wow, does anyone even remember this incident?) In other news, it&#8217;s a sign of the times that Jim Walsh has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/11/911/</link>
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		<title>Up, up and away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not usually concerned with news from the world of gadgets, but I just had to comment on the recent news that Apple has drastically slashed its price for that holy grail of modern consumer technology, the iPhone. The phone, which debuted two months ago at a price of $600 (and which scores of &#8220;early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/09/up-up-and-away/</link>
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		<title>Deviant art at the State Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it is probably not the first time that artwork has been suppressed from the annual New York State Fair Photography Exhibition for annoying someone&#8217;s delicate sensibilities, it&#8217;s probably the first time that a piece of award-winning artwork has been yanked during the Fair for non-obscene content. Fair boss saw smoke, and put out photo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/07/deviant-art-at-the-state-fair/</link>
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		<title>Foreign visitors arrive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a little out of season, but I just discovered the following story in the Buffalo Business First from last year: the view of a foreign visitor to Niagara Falls. Patrick Doyle, who has friends in Syracuse, has visited the falls once in summer, once in winter. His summer visit matched the perceptions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/05/foreign-visitors-arrive/</link>
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		<title>Upstate NY: The Water State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read many silly things on the Internet in my life, but quite possibly one of the most memorable silly things I&#8217;ve ever read was this post at the blog Cato Unbound about a year ago, by Frank Levy, who was discussing RichardFloridian thought and what to do about the Upstate New York Problem. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/03/upstate-ny-the-water-state/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danger Democrat writes about the status of an issue we haven&#8217;t heard much about in the news &#8212; a bill to legalize medical marijuana in New York. Phil at Still Racing in the Street has some words about Mark Bitz, poster child for dysfunctional-Albany reform, selling his Plainville Farms to corporate. CNY ecoBlog posts about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/09/01/other-peoples-blogs-4/</link>
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		<title>Unseasonable thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the temperature has dropped, I can post&#8230; I find Indian summer to be deeply confusing and problematic, a jumbled disappointment for the most part. The hot weather is way too hot, the shock of going from summer&#8217;s freedom to &#8220;civilization&#8221; all too much. And having a birthday during back-to-school week is just weird [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/31/unseasonable-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>County executive race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone please remind me again why New York has such a ridiculously late primary? Overnight, the campaign signs have magically sprouted from people&#8217;s lawns like so many mushrooms. It is also amusing to cross the town line from Geddes to Camillus and see the signs instantly change from Ryan vs. Magnarelli, to Mahoney vs. Sweetland. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/28/county-executive-race/</link>
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		<title>God Grew Tired of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I got a chance to finally watch God Grew Tired of Us, the much-lauded documentary film about three young men from Sudan, known to the world as &#8220;The Lost Boys,&#8221; who were resettled in Pittsburgh and in Syracuse. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;great&#8221; film, but that&#8217;s only because there&#8217;s so much to this story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/27/god-grew-tired-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Fun fun fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s not funny, but it is: while CNY&#8217;ers ramp up to enjoy the NYS Fair, Long Islanders this month get to go to the Catastrophe Readiness Fair. (Like the House of Hazards, but maybe better?)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/24/fun-fun-fun/</link>
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		<title>What they heard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, Hart Seely (who writes for the PS) put together a collection of Donald Rumsfeld quotes re-imagined as free verse. Maybe it&#8217;s not just for fun that one can do this; maybe one can really get an insight on what so many people found inoffensive, or even attractive about the rhetoric that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/22/what-they-heard/</link>
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		<title>Miscellaneous observations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; I&#8217;m all for Upstate pride and chest-beating, but isn&#8217;t the flap over Spitzer not attending Governor&#8217;s Day at the Fair maybe a little overblown? (I&#8217;m referring to the front-page item in today&#8217;s Post-Standard.) Spitzer is going to be on vacation that day. It&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s not coming at all. Why not just move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/21/miscellaneous-observations/</link>
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		<title>The Noodler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story from the Los Angeles Times about blogging and journalism has gotten a lot of attention over the weekend. (You can even head over to Rochester Turning to see ongoing complaints about this issue.) However, I am not here to talk about that story today. I&#8217;m here to talk about a person known only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/20/the-noodler/</link>
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		<title>A matter of perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Syracuse and in other gently decaying remnants of the Rust Belt, we bemoan the slow decline of our cities and neighborhoods. However, looking at what&#8217;s happening in the Sun Belt, where wild growth in the housing market has been fueled by easy credit, gives one a different perspective. Click on for the gory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/19/a-matter-of-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Homegrown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This letter in today&#8217;s Post-Standard about the CNY Regional Market caught my eye. The writer is upset about the non-locally-grown produce at the Market and suggests that non-local items should be labeled as such. Coincidentally, the NYT today ran a story about locally-grown produce in a corner of Michigan renowned for its fruit farms, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/15/homegrown/</link>
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		<title>Canal related items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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 York Canal System [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/15/canal-related-items/</link>
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		<title>Do you know what it means&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to blog New Orleans? Just passing along a link to Rising Tide 2, the second annual conference put on by New Orleans bloggers, who have more than enough on their plates. It&#8217;s rather nice to read about a blogger convention that is organized by people who really are into getting things done, rather than into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/14/do-you-know-what-it-means/</link>
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		<title>The governor&#8217;s dog ate your resume</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know some of the folks who read this blog applied for a position in the Spitzer Administration last year. It is possible you may not have heard anything back. However, rest assured, that gooder and greater Democrats than you have also had the same problem. Patronage has ground to a screeching halt in Albany, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/13/the-governors-dog-ate-your-resume/</link>
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		<title>Fairmount, present day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since my last installment of the Compleat History of Fairmount&#8230; I believe I left off poised to look at Fairmount&#8217;s connections to the State Fair and with the founding of the city of Syracuse. That&#8217;s still being left for another day, but I suppose it&#8217;s OK to jump back and forth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/12/fairmount-present-day/</link>
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		<title>Go.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just go see them before they&#8217;re gone.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/11/go-see/</link>
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		<title>Meat Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buffalonians, dissin&#8217; the Dinosaur.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/10/meat-wars/</link>
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		<title>Sheeba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the most endearing animal picture I&#8217;ve seen in the Post-Standard since the wolf chewing on the cellphone. I don&#8217;t know if she deserves all the hype she&#8217;s getting from the Syracuse Police Department and the media, but perhaps the idea is to provide a creative way of making citizens feel involved in crimefighting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/09/sheeba/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNY Snakepit has a great evisceration of complaints about the pack of Empire Zone letters that were sent out to businesses around the state. Slums Along the Mohawk (ouch! what a name) makes some similar points about the harmful nature of the way the Empire Zone program pits Upstate cities against one another. Robinia on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/08/other-peoples-blogs-3/</link>
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		<title>Thought for the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/27583275_d5cc9cf590.jpg">]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/07/thought-for-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Blow it all to hell, let the voters sort it out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do we get Joe Bruno out of office in a meaningful way? Over the weekend, Simon of Living in Dryden posted a good expression of the basic question we need to be asking ourselves in the wake of the Bruno-Spitzer scandal (for truly, the whole sorry thing is a scandal worthy of both their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/05/good-blog-bad-blog/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Constitutionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for the non-timeliness of this NYRI update&#8230; but what the heck! Everybody&#8217;s late&#8230; NYRI is now two months late in submitting its application for the project to the PSC. &#8220;It&#8217;s not really delayed,&#8221; said NYRI spokesman David Kalson. &#8221;They&#8217;re very complex studies, with a lot of moving pieces, a lot of outside experts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/05/nyri-update-5/</link>
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		<title>Bible Communists!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NYT has a very good story on the Oneida Community by a distant relative of some of its members. There was indeed some wild stuff going on in the old days. The hippies of the 20th century had nothing on these guys. Name me another free-lovin&#8217;, Bible-thumpin,&#8217; Brave-New-Worldin&#8217; bunch of Commies who ran a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/03/bible-communists/</link>
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		<title>How safe is 81?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1357/999348895_75e8347416_o.jpg">

Deficient U.S. bridges by county (1994 data) - via <a href="http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1112">The Albany Project</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/03/how-safe-is-81/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs: Spitzer edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the problem with filing away links for a rainy day&#8230; by the time one is ready to post them, the story very well may have moved on. Or oneself may have moved on. As I&#8217;ve said elsewhere, we already knew Bruno and friends were going to behave like this. The real unknown was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/02/other-peoples-blogs-spitzer-edition/</link>
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		<title>There are days&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;when stories like this don&#8217;t exactly make me feel bad like they&#8217;re supposed to. Upstate fails to attract the educated Yes, on days like this, when my initial reaction is &#8220;Great! All the more space for me, then.&#8221; I know, I know, a place can&#8217;t possibly be desirable unless it&#8217;s packed full of people. Sedate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/01/there-are-days/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer saves the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, this quote from today&#8217;s Post-Standard story on Spitzer&#8217;s Syracuse visit yesterday speaks volumes about what we&#8217;re in for: Still, despite the recent trips and media blitz, the governor is clear about his desire to return to business as usual and put what he calls &#8220;this massive distraction&#8221; behind him. As Spitzer told 30 or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/08/01/spitzer-saves-the-world/</link>
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		<title>What would it take?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.silent-edge.org/wp/wp-content/spacer.gif">]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/30/what-would-it-take/</link>
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		<title>The Redhouse in the red</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lengthy feature in yesterday&#8217;s Post-Standard about the Redhouse, the theater/arts depot on West Street, is worth reading. I was only in the Redhouse once, and very briefly (not during a show) and it felt like a very nice venue. But although the story hints that the offerings at the Redhouse possibly went right over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/30/redhouse-in-the-red/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving on from Albany&#8217;s insanity, and on to some homegrown insanity&#8230; The Post-Standard covered an appearance by Dan Gundersen in Cortland, where he highlighted the need for upstate New York to become more involved in global trade&#8230; and pointed out a very real problem. &#8220;Almost everyone around the world knows of New York, but we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/26/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<title>Still spoiling for a fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I&#8217;d say this but not only have the newspapers (chiefly, the TU) dropped the ball on the Spitzer/Bruno story, but a lot of the newspapers&#8217; political blogs have as well. It&#8217;s impossible to find any news about the opinions of real people in these places &#8212; just a lot of &#8220;inside baseball&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/25/still-spoiling-for-a-fight/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer&#8217;s Golden Hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In trauma medicine there is an expression they have: &#8220;The Golden Hour.&#8221; It&#8217;s that period of time in which a critical trauma patient has to show certain benchmarks of stability (blood pressure, respiration, brain activity, etc) before they are certain of a chance of reasonable recovery. If the patient doesn&#8217;t make it through the Golden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/25/spitzers-golden-hour/</link>
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		<title>Hogweed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/242566638_2d8ec5b0c9.jpg">

I am off to commune with nature, and with the <strike>all-knowing</strike>, all-seeing spirit <br />of our esteemed 13th President.   He will tell us what to do in this time of crisis. <br />(Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/outdoorthespian/242566638/">outdoorthespian @ Flickr</a>)]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/24/hogweed/</link>
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		<title>The morning after Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six months into his term, Spitzer has squandered the tremendous political capital he had in November. If that was Day One, is today Day Two for Spitzer? Gov. Eliot Spitzer indefinitely suspended his communications director and reassigned another top official today after Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s office issued a scathing report accusing the governor’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/23/the-morning-after-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Medical care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NYT has a story on declining numbers of young doctors who want to come to upstate New York to practice. (The story centers on Binghamton.) This is a trend that is affecting wider swaths of rural America as well. Doctors want to go where the money is, and that is in BosWash, not here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/23/medical-care/</link>
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		<title>Newspapers run &#8220;Upstate Focus&#8221; editorials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting notice in today&#8217;s PS: Today marks the launch of &#8220;Upstate Focus,&#8221; an editorial project that links newspapers from the Hudson Valley and the Southern Tier through Northern, Central and Western New York. Our goal is to provide readers with a concerted focus on issues of concern to Upstate citizens and taxpayers. We are publishing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/22/newspapers-run-upstate-focus-editorials/</link>
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		<title>Syracuse Nationals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/151327383_9de6da252b.jpg">

This car is my sweetie and my darling.  The 1960 Nash Metropolitan <br />with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nate_kate/151327384/">the key in the back</a>.  We will meet again.<br />  And we will be together someday.  I just know it.   It's fate.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/20/syracuse-nationals/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times&#8217; state politics blog, Empire Zone, will be minimized, downsized and folded into their new blog, City Room. (Why am I not surprised.) Nevertheless, real people from NYC are seeing the real upstate NY for themselves, as posted on a real blog such as Daily Gotham. Are you looking for the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/18/other-peoples-blogs-2/</link>
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		<title>Web design in jeopardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYS GOP thinks New York is in Jeopardy.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/18/web-design-in-jeopardy/</link>
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		<title>Summer reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not exactly a voracious book reader as a rule, but lately I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of it. There was a story in the NYT recently about how the Harry Potter books may not be the turn-on to children&#8217;s reading habits that they&#8217;re cracked up to be. (I haven&#8217;t read the books. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/14/summer-reading/</link>
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		<title>Nature&#8217;s way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the grim demographics of youth flight in NYS can be offset somewhat by snowed-in people doing what comes naturally&#8230; Big surprise! Storm spurs baby boomlet The October Surprise snowstorm has begotten one more surprise: a baby boomlet. Nine months after the storm left hundreds of thousands stuck in their homes without power, [Buffalo] area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/13/natures-way/</link>
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		<title>WITH HEADLINES LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS COFFEE?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love reading America&#8217;s Most Colorful Newspaper every day. (Whether I feel like it or not.) However &#8212; and this is just an observation, not a criticism &#8212; there are some days when their favorite color is black. This morning I went out to get the paper on the front step. It was rolled in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/12/with-headlines-like-this-who-needs-coffee/</link>
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		<title>Can this state be saved? &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I watch what may be the first rumbles of collapse in that elegant and complex society known as the Albany Triumvirate (will the Steamroller ultimately prevail? Will Uncle Joe go gently into that good night?), now is a good time to read history books on collapse. Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/12/can-this-state-be-saved-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I sit, vaguely dissatisfied with the design of this blog, and wondering if I should buy a laptop too, so that I can tap out nonsense wherever I may be through the magic of Wi-Fi, and then I read this&#8230; Mitch Gartenberg knew children in other countries sometimes swarm Americans asking for candy or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/11/perspective/</link>
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		<title>Can this state be saved?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I would pass along this timely op-ed (in light of the bloodletting going on in Albany these days) from Brendan Scott of the Times Herald-Record: This state still needs saving: The state Capitol is a timeless place, steeped in etiquette and tradition. Its natural state is one of inertia. It does not easily digest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/11/can-this-state-be-saved/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer&#8217;s bloody nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hm, that Bruno-Spitzer spat is drawing some blood. What an odd story about Spitzer in the NYT. Also, the national media has started covering it &#8212; cable news and everything. Moving beyond the Manhattan/Albany media snakepit, here&#8217;s an editorial from the Times Herald Record that shows the view from the peanut gallery, and it isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/10/spitzers-bloody-nose/</link>
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		<title>Big steaming plate of&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;bad demographic news: Lost generation: Why thousands of young people are fleeing our region New Yorkers nervous about economy Half of upstate residents believed the state economy worsened over the past year, while only 9 percent thought it had improved. Downstate, 27 percent of residents thought the economy had improved, while only 39 percent said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/09/big-steaming-plate-of/</link>
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		<title>Why I like Vermont, and why I don&#8217;t want to live there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other week I went on vacation to Lake Champlain and Vermont. Not the first time I&#8217;ve been to the area, but happily I found myself back there for a visit, and I will probably in the future go back again. I&#8217;m a little infatuated with Vermont, I admit. It&#8217;s just&#8230; so not like home. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/08/why-i-like-vermont-and-why-i-dont-want-to-live-there/</link>
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		<title>The 7 Wonders of&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope everyone is having a lucky 7-7-07. A worldwide vote for the new &#8220;Seven Wonders of the World&#8221; has been in the news recently, and many local papers are getting in on the act by asking readers their opinions on &#8220;The Seven Wonders of [Your Hometown].&#8221; Let&#8217;s do this for Syracuse and maybe throw it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/07/the-7-wonders-of/</link>
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		<title>How not to revitalize downtown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t do it the way Silver Spring, Md. did it. They paid $100 million to a private developer to renovate their downtown area. The development company turned around and then claimed that part of Silver Spring&#8217;s downtown is now a private mall, and pedestrians are answerable to their security guards. Chip Py, a longtime resident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/07/how-not-to-revitalize-downtown/</link>
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		<title>Appearances matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was away when the latest Bruno-Spitzer spat erupted into the public eye, so I am still catching up on the details, but I&#8217;m not sure I really want to devote time to such immaturity when the usual suspects are covering it (and the Times-Union, of course, has become part of the story). But I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/06/appearances-matter/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Clinton and Schumer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can Washington be trusted with the NYRI issue? Last week I was traveling through the state on my way east to Lake Champlain and getting a little pleasantly lost on the way. Having to take Route 20 near the Cherry Valley is not too bad a way to waste an hour, nor is getting stuck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/05/nyri-update-4/</link>
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		<title>Vacation notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been called crazy for taking a midweek-to-midweek vacation (ie Wednesday-to-Wednesday), but it&#8217;s a good thing to do during a holiday week when the holiday falls in the middle. You see, most people are out of the office for the rest of the week when you have to return, which gives you a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/07/03/vacation-notes/</link>
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		<title>Thunder in the east</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not exactly Drums Along the Mohawk, but just a little farther down the Thruway. Lawmakers Call Governor to Task on His Plan to Rejuvenate Upstate The Republican-led Senate, which is dominated by upstate lawmakers, is holding up approval of the governor’s top economic development nominees amid a growing feud. Among other things, they are upset [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/27/thunder-in-the-east/</link>
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		<title>Brilliant idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting op-ed in Sunday&#8217;s Post-Standard by consultant John Gann about upstate New York&#8217;s need to market itself to wealthy downstaters as a &#8220;better place to visit, live and work.&#8221; Upstaters enjoy some of the nation&#8217;s most affordable housing, abundant land and uncrowded interstate highways &#8211; along with productive farmland, excellent colleges and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/26/brilliant-idea/</link>
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		<title>More on &#8220;class&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/bridgetovt.jpg">

I have returned.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/25/more-on-class/</link>
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		<title>Class warfare on the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article, linked via Boing Boing, about a study of who uses MySpace and who uses Facebook: The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other &#8220;good&#8221; kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we&#8217;d call hegemonic society. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/25/class-warfare-on-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ever-quotable Mr. Bruno was in fine form this past week&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s sad for the people of New York State that here on the closing day of the session the governor establishes a position that nothing happens unless we get agreement on campaign finance reform. Now I don&#8217;t know about you, in your lives, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/24/quote-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Campaign finance reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re going to use something as an excuse for the inevitable gridlock in Albany at the end of a legislative session, you could do worse than campaign finance reform. Spitzer hasn&#8217;t said that this is his reason for the traditional end-of-June squabble, but I suppose he&#8217;s very canny in making people think it is. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/22/campaign-finance-reform/</link>
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		<title>Flooding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A deadly flash flood in the Catskills &#8211; and we&#8217;re coming up on a year since destructive flooding trashed the region. They just can&#8217;t seem to catch a break.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/21/flooding/</link>
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		<title>The only political website I&#8217;ll ever need&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is Comedy Central&#8217;s new Indecision2008.com. We live in amazing times.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/21/the-only-political-website-ill-ever-need/</link>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s been a long time since the last installment; too long. Let&#8217;s see&#8230; what happened? York Staters sent a signal from the great beyond after an ominous two-month silence. See here for a welcome explanation. Simon at Living in Dryden got married &#8211; congratulations to him and his new bride! He&#8217;s now returned to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/19/other-peoples-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Gundersen in the dock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not in the dock &#8230; but c&#8217;mon, they&#8217;re just now getting around to confirming the guy? Daniel Gundersen is set to be confirmed this week as the state’s Commissioner of Economic Development, along with Patrick Foye, his downstate counterpart and Director of the Urban Development Corp&#8230; Republicans may have been offering up some payback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/18/gundersen-in-the-dock/</link>
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		<title>Enough talk about free-range chickens&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;How about free-range humans? This article from the U.K. confirms what many have suspected: the personal range of children has shrunk drastically over the last century. When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/17/enough-talk-about-free-range-chickens/</link>
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		<title>Unseen Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="350" vspace="10" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/415020007_7b484e60ee.jpg">

While looking through photos on Flickr recently, I found myself coming across some absolutely stunning <a href="http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/?p=28">pictures of Syracuse</a> and environs taken by various people.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/14/unseen-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>Spin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A comment on Bob Niedt&#8217;s Store Front column from Sunday&#8217;s paper&#8230; &#8220;When I brought the Wal-Mart project awhile back and was talking to town officials, I said Wal-Mart coming to Camillus will drag a lot of traffic to Camillus Commons and Fairmount Fair, and will draw a lot of tenants that had not come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/13/spin/</link>
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		<title>Dangerous intersection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick observation on the report of the fatal accident last night at the corner of North Warren and James&#8230; This is a dangerous intersection where drivers seem to routinely flout the traffic signal. People tend to roar northward on Warren and just blatantly go through the intersection even when the light is red. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/12/dangerous-intersection/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; NIETC maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, June 12, is the so-called &#8220;upstate&#8221; federal public meeting over the NYRI issue, from 1 to 7 p.m. at the RIT Inn and Conference Center in Rochester. None of the news over the past week or so has been good for NYRI opponents. (See Stop the Power Lines for the latest updates on what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/12/nyri-update-3/</link>
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		<title>Who killed the Genesee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/genesee350.jpg">

Who killed <a href="http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/?p=10">the Genesee</a>?]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/10/who-killed-the-genesee/</link>
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		<title>Democracy, or no democracy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This review of a Romanian film called A Fost sau n-a fost? (Was there or wasn&#8217;t there?) in the NYT caught my eye. It&#8217;s a comedy about a TV personality who puts on a program to investigate whether the Romanian revolution of 1989 had any on-the-ground effects in his hometown. Was there a revolution, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/07/democracy-or-no-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Street name follies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is skipping ahead a bit in the History of Fairmount, but I thought I would share this useless, though possibly briefly diverting, annotated Google map of street names in Fairmount. Many of them represent the typical suburban developer &#8220;themes&#8221; of the 1950s, &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s &#8212; but in Fairmount Hills particularly, some slightly irregular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/06/street-name-follies/</link>
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		<title>The Day the Blog Died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was I hacked? Did my database die? Or did my hosting company (the one I am going to shortly drop) just simply screw me? I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t care, since I was planning to move this blog anyway from its very inappropriate home where it was never supposed to be in the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/05/the-day-the-blog-died/</link>
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		<title>Wegmans Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here I thought my vacations were boring&#8230; 70 Wegmans in 4 days! The idea of visiting every Wegmans store began as a joke among the four, all of whom work at the chain’s Buffalo store on Amherst Street. Last fall, the crazy idea gave way to serious planning. The four friends, all in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/04/wegmans-nation/</link>
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		<title>While I was away&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.silent-edge.org/wp/wp-content/sunset.jpg"/>

Much as one would like to say that the sun never sets on the Empire State... it does.]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/06/02/while-i-was-away/</link>
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		<title>The story of Syracuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most e-mailed stories of the week at the NYT (wow, for a newspaper I often can&#8217;t stand, I&#8217;m always reading it) is called &#8220;This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It).&#8221; In analyzing the texts, the researchers found strong correlations between the content of people’s current lives and the stories they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/05/25/the-story-of-syracuse/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not talk about it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many, many subjects which cannot be discussed &#8212; not even at the highest levels of official secrecy. They&#8217;re just too dangerous, too potentially destructive to the fabric of governments, societies, civilizations. Pull even a little bit on these threads and the entire garment over our nakedness will unravel. There are the things like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/05/23/lets-not-talk-about-it/</link>
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		<title>Da, da, da</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via BuffaloPundit: Is upstate New York like Europe under the Soviets? Comparing Upstate New York to Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, the CEO of M&#038;T Bank Corp. said Wednesday that efforts to pull the region out of economic doldrums can succeed only if politicians, businesses and labor cooperate to roll back harmful policies&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/05/17/da-da-da/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update &#8211; Critique of anti-NYRI movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First up: More blatant bullshit, as the DOE announces an upstate hearing for the &#8220;economic sacrifice zone&#8221; designation&#8230; in Rochester. No, not in Utica, not even in Syracuse &#8211; in Rochester. That&#8217;s 136 miles from the north end of the proposed line, and 277 miles from the south end. They will do anything to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/05/10/nyri-update-2/</link>
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		<title>NYRI update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I kind of thought there was this twist coming, and soon. Upstate New York is now officially a blank spot on the map. It&#8217;s the news that New York Regional Interconnect has been waiting for. U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman will announce this afternoon that his department considers much of New York State a &#8220;national [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2007/05/03/nyri-update/</link>
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		<title>The Compleat History of Fairmount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part One: 1793 &#8211; early 1800&#8242;s &#8211; James Geddes Part Two: The early 19th century &#8211; Geddes farm Part Three: The mid 19th century &#8211; Frederick Law Olmsted&#8217;s stay A brief post about Fairmount Glen, pre-mini golf (I&#8217;m unable to edit this post, so I&#8217;d like to note that my identification of &#8220;Maple Lodge&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2006/12/01/the-compleat-history-of-fairmount/</link>
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		<title>Who ya gonna call?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a woman we all know. Happily married&#8230; or so she thought. The marriage used to be tumultuous, even hostile at times, but lively and comfortable. They were a popular couple. Smart, rich and beautiful movers and shakers, Mr. and Mrs. All-America. But now, years on, she realizes that, not only is her formerly okay-but-bickery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twentyfour01.com/nyco/2006/08/30/who-ya-gonna-call/</link>
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