WhatCha Say, Albany? ADICA, ADICA, ADICA, and some more ADICA too!
Tweet I THINK THERE SHOULD be a new Albany-Dougherty Inner City Board. How was Don Buie man able to tale so much of this money, give it away, keep some give to a wife and girlfriend and whoever else — and the board not know? Why did we need an ADICA board? What makes it [...]
Read More →Restoring Our Story; Thronateeska’s Newest Addition Reveals Our Past
Tweet Thronateeska Heritage Center has a new addition. It’s not a new display or artifact, it’s a person — Cathy Flohre — and she is embarking on a complex and detailed exploration into Albany’s past. Flohre recently joined the Thronateeska staff as archivist collections manager, and she is already busy at work, classifying and organizing [...]
Read More →Downtown’s Riddle: Albany Convention and Vistors Bureau
Tweet Who has been working in Downtown Albany now for years, is well respected, honest, hard-working, and non-controversial? If you’ve spent any time at all dealing with the issues of downtown and tourism development here, you know the answer. She is Lisa Riddle, Director of the Albany Convention and Visitors Bureau. The CVB is a [...]
Read More →Outlook: Sanford Bishop out of touch with his constituents
Tweet Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-2-Ga) held his final town hall meeting on healthcare reform Thursday at Albany State University. I attended the meeting to hear what our congressman had to say about the bills. Congressman Bishop said that he had not made up his mind yet about the various bills floating around Washington because they [...]
Read More →Labor Day: Thank you, American workers
Tweet Labor Day has become a somewhat misunderstood and underappreciated holiday. More often than not workers work on Labor Day while the bosses picnic, golf and go boating to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. In the desperate struggle to find a way out of the economic chaos the [...]
Read More →Thronateeska: A great destination
Tweet In a time when we are reporting problems associated with Albany’s downtown area, we want to tip our hat to an organization that’s producing good news. Attendance at the recently expanded Thronateeska Heritage Center is up dramatically. Thronateeska and the Wetherbee Planetarium underwent a nearly $4 million expansion and renovation from July through November [...]
Read More →Geek Speak: Google Calendar
Tweet If you ever have trouble remembering things or events, appointments; this week’s column is for you. An efficient and easy to use calendar might just be a way to keep yourself on track without all those post-it notes and scribbles on your desktop. If we can find all this for free, even better! There [...]
Read More →Albany Outlook: Health Care Meeting: Democracy in Action
Tweet I went to a town hall meeting last Thursday — and democracy broke out. I fully expected to see members of the lunatic fringe attempting to shout down our congressman or monopolize the microphones. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to note that our local law enforcement was out in force and, while being studiously [...]
Read More →Our Perspective: Albany City Commision Candidates need to commit to end public corruption
Tweet cor·rup·tion [kuh-ruhp-shuhn] – noun 1. the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt. 2. moral perversion; depravity. 3. perversion of integrity. 4. corrupt or dishonest proceedings. This fall’s Albany City Commission races aren’t any more critical than any other, really; indeed, every local election is and has been important to a community’s success [...]
Read More →Colette Roberts Jenkins: Bringing mind, body and spirit together – to conquer
Tweet When she was 29, Colette Roberts Jenkins was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Lying in bed, unable to walk or even feel her feet, she realized that she had taken some of the simple pleasures in life for granted. “Such as the feel of carpet on the bottom of my feet,” said Jenkins. “My prayer [...]
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