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Also In This Issue:
Walking On Air
It took a miracle or three,
but the Walkway over the Hudson
is truly happening.
Takin’ It To the Bridge
Move over, James Brown; Joe Bertolozzi is the hardest-working man in show business.
Stimulus Clouds
How federal dollars are directed away from the projects that need them the most.
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July '09 Issue:
On the Waterfront
Plucky Poughkeepsie, a city that nearly avoided existing at all, perseveres through thick and thin.
Show and Tell
Burlesque rises again as New Paltz-based troupe takes to the boards.
I Was Just Thinking ...
My Name is ‘I Hate You,’ and I’ll be Your Server. A cautionary memoir of what, disturbingly, could have been a typical career in food service. By Harry Seitz
Nobody's Business
Soggy farmers need your love. A solicitous, guilt-inducing rant urging people to get out to their local farmers' markets and buy real, fresh local food from real people who need the money.
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April to May '09 Issue:
Pike Plot
Uptown Kingston biz owners conspired
to derail $1.8 million
canopy restoration.
Solar Subterfuge
How SpectraWatt, a $50 million startup backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, left Oregon at the altar and eloped to tax break heaven in East Fishkill.
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Omega Institute goes for the (LEED) Platinum in reimagining its
sewage problem into America’s first Living Building project.
Nobody's Business
It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be feared. The black heart of a yellow journalist exposed.
I Was Just Thinking ...
You Say ‘Heat Wave,’ I Say ‘Runaway Greenhouse Effect’. By Harry Seitz
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MiddleMarch '09
Issue:
Ruff House
A Dutchess County animal "shelter" provides a window into the dark recesses of one troubled town's municipal mind.
Nobody’s
Business
My Kind of Town, Take 2: Why all you suffering NYC techno-geeks should pack up immediately, kiss Williamsburg goodbye and move your ass up to Kingston, where you can get all of the urban angst, faux-Manhattan coolness factor and a bigger place for a fraction of the cost. Mark Greene moved up here and before he knew it, he'd won an Emmy! You can, too.
Saving the world, one play at a time, a new student-run activist theater group searches for young acting talent.
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In the Feb. Issue:
There's far more to Kirsten Gillibrand than meets the eye, including the championing of her U.S. Senate appointment by Chuck Schumer, who's turning out to be the most powerful New York politician in years, if not ever.
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Mike Hein's historic inauguration ceremony ushers in a new and more accountable form of government for beleaguered Ulster County -- we're pulling for him anyway.
Nobody’s
Business
As their parent company goes into receivership, Taconic Press (weekly newspapers covering Dutchess and Putnam counties and The Independent (Columbia) go the way of the dinosaur, creating a gaping hole in the community journalism landscape in the Mid-Hudson region, and a golden opportunity for someone else to move in and screw up just as bad.
How Obama Reformed
At Least One
Potential Terrorist
OK, revolutionary anarchist, like there's really a difference. Our roving reporter Molly Eagan attends the Inauguration/Coronation/Anointing Ceremonies and comes home converted.
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In the
Dec./Jan. Issue:
Since WAMC has been bringing up the subject of American Indians in the aptly named Empire State of late, it seemed timely to weigh in with this old chestnut from the vault, if only to educate Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke and company that things were more complicated than they've led listeners to believe, and that the mighty Iroquois weren't the only game in town.
Nobody’s
Business
Welcome to Tax Hell, USA!
Toward a Property Taxpayer's Bill of Rights
Nora Post tells it like it is.
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In the
Oct./Nov. Issue:
Wikman's War
A modern-day Don Quixote figure tries his hand at river piracy to make an obscure point.
This Debate’s for You!
Doesn’t anybody else notice that the big Presidential-looking
eagle seal behind the debating candidates is THE ANHEUSER BUSCH LOGO!!!?
(without the big ‘A’ ). There’s a reason for that.
Celente was Right
The Hudson Valley’s resident prognosticator had it
right on the money way back in August 2007: we’re toast. Buy gold,
guns and ammo, and don’t give up that self-storage unit just yet.
You’ll probably be living in it.
Nobody’s
Business
What if Barack Obama
really is the Antichrist?
“All men are frauds. The only difference between
them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
-- H. L. Mencken
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Sullivan; Ulster)
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