Sam's Upstate Blog – Page 10 – Thoughts and Reflections from Upstate New York

Community Trees “Game”?

This is essentially a placeholder for a longer post that may be written at a later date. I’ve been kicking around an […]

A letter to the editor in the Spotlight manages to perfectly capture some of what makes Colonie such a frustrating place to […]

I’m interested in yesterday’s news that the Schenectady Daily Gazette will be sold to its current publisher. I’ve previously been a subscriber, […]

My first career was as a Naval Officer. I went through the NRTOC program in college and after graduating attended Navy flight […]

With the recent news that downtown Albany may see a new soccer stadium, with a men’s minor league team and potentially a […]

When I was a new parent, I wondered how and why our society became so heavily stacked against parents (and by extension, […]

In the Times Union today, there’s an article about a county suing the state over a law that prevents local taxing authorities […]

A quick follow-up to my post a moment ago about the FTC action to ban non-compete agreements. It seems that a week […]

The TimesUnion reported today on the recent FTC ruling banning the use of non-compete agreements. Business groups have of course sued, because […]

Here’s a great example of why citizens seem to be so poorly informed about the state of their communities, states, the country, […]