Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rosa Clemente, the vice presidential running mate of Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, gets the “where is she now?” celebrity treatment from her college alma mater. We learn this about her days at Albany State University: Clemente, who later worked briefly in the Legislature, was arrested twice at protests here…. Prominent rappers like Chuck D [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The Bush Legacy Bus tour launched a week ago in Dayton, Ohio, and visitors drawn inside have plenty of praise for the bus, and plenty to say to bash Bush.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
ALBANY - The state's political world was abuzz yesterday with speculation that Rochester bil lionaire and three-time gubernato rial candidate Tom Golisano was about to spend millions to break the Republicans' lock on the state Senate. The...
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
ALBANY - The state commission investigating the various probes into Troopergate has interviewed at least two key players, the Daily News has learned.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Despite a handful of worthwhile bills passed this session in Albany, the state’s fundamental problems and Albany’s culture of corruption were left untouched.
ALBANYS INSANITY (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Dean Skelos was elected majority leader last night. His first statement of tackling the property taxes sets his agenda. Let’s see if the Democrats in the Assembly agree or continue to fight us. “There is no issue that is more important to the people of this state than relief from escalating property taxes. Dean Skelos chosen [...]
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Headlines across New York this morning shout about improved test scores, especially in reading and math, almost across the board. Scores are up in the “troubled” schools of New York City (and in the less-mentioned untroubled schools), scores are up in Buffalo. The news is so universally good that some are worried about statistical goofs, [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
ALBANY - The State Senate gave final passage yesterday to a bill requiring the Long Island Power Authority to submit rate increases higher than 2 1/2 percent a year for review by the state Public Service Commission before ratepayers' bills can go up.
the albany project - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Also at Democracy in Albany State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has a challenger this year -- Brian Premo. Premo is an attorney who's running on a basic "change" platform that should resonate with voters in Rensselaer and Saratoga counties. Premo would, in every way but pork, be a better, more honest representative of the Senate district. Why, below. Premo hits all the right notes for voters who...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Security Industry Veteran Leads Session on new Web Threats Facing Government Agencies and Ways to Combat Them SAN JOSE, California, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Finjan, Inc. a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced that CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak will be a presenter at the 11th Annual New York State Cyber Security Conference. Co-sponsored by the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
By Report Following an Albany judge's ruling against Dell this week, the state attorney general is urging customers affected by the computer giant's fraudulent practices to file complaints at www.NYAGDELL.com. Albany State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C.
Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
To find out how much acreage is being farmed using conservation tillage, Agricultural Research Service scientists have gone up high -- to satellites.
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
By Jay Gallagher Journal Albany Bureau ALBANY - The state Legislature's failure to renew a law allowing nonprofit groups to use low-cost tax-exempt borrowing threatens more than $2 billion in construction projects across the state, advocates said Monday. Projects affected include hospitals, nursing homes, group homes for the mentally ill, college dorms and classrooms and low-cost housing. In
HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Courtesy: WXFL.com The Albany State Lady Rams softball team earned a spot in the NCAA Division II South Regional Championship. The Lady Rams finished the season with a 33-20 mark and the SIAC Championship. Albany State will be the 8-seed...
Diabetes Mine (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The winner of this year's Bayer Dream Fund contest certainly has something new and different in mind. Wendy Coleman, a theater and speech professor at Albany State University in Georgia, will use her award to "compose and perform a play...
