Why No Links?
A huge pet-peeve of mine when reading news online is the near complete absence of links. Legacy media doesn’t write for the […]
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9 & 155: What a Mess
The Albany Business Review published an article yesterday about the sale of the Freshmarket Commons, a crowded strip mall squeezed into a […]
Read moreI’m interested in yesterday’s news that the Schenectady Daily Gazette will be sold to its current publisher. I’ve previously been a subscriber, […]
Read moreIncomplete information
Here’s a great example of why citizens seem to be so poorly informed about the state of their communities, states, the country, […]
Read moreAnother way?
Publishing this now is particularly interesting in light of the news about Mohawk Paper and Crane Stationery. https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2024/02/20/esop-employee-ownership-small-business-sba.html It does demonstrate a […]
Read moreMore driver-coddling
In today’s TU: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/man-charged-hit-and-run-crash-killed-queensbury-18651245.php Why isn’t the perpetrator named? He’s being formally charged, and he’s not a minor, so it’s a matter […]
Read moreAffordability, but not that way…
This was in the Times Union a few weeks ago. I’m not surprised but am disappointed that this article didn’t bring up zoning at all.
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/capital-region-legislators-concerned-housing-18594529.php
It’s not like it’s a non sequitur either. Hochul tried to get a prohibition on single family zoning into the budget last year.
This seems another example of where journalism fails to inform the reader, rather than merely reporting what people say without context, background, or asking more probing questions.
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