Tag: New York

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    From Congress to the battlefield

    It wasn’t a typical congressional message to constituents.Instead of boasting about bringing home the bacon, U.S. Rep. James Bedell McKean, R-Saratoga Springs, called on his constituents to risk their own hides. “Traitors in arms seek to overthrow our Constitution and to seize our Capitol. Let us go and defend them,” McKean wrote in an Aug. read more

    From Congress to the battlefield
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    Blue wave moves north as Delgado wins

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    After defeat of Faso and others, Stefanik urges GOP changes By FRED DALEYEditor   When Antonio Delgado flipped a Hudson Valley congressional district from red to blue on Nov. 6, he set the stage for another likely battle in two years that will test how much the region’s politics really are shifting. Delgado, a Harvard-educated read more

    Blue wave moves north as Delgado wins
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    Election 2018: Results from three states

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      MASSACHUSETTS   GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR* Charles Baker and Karyn E. Polito (R) 1,781,341 (66.8%) Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey (D) ….. 885,770 (33.2%)   U.S. SENATORShiva Ayyadurai (i) …………………………………… 91,710 (3.4%)Geoff Diehl (R) ……………………………………. 979,210 (36.2%)* Elizabeth A. Warren (D)…………………. 1,633,371 (60.4%)   ATTORNEY GENERAL * Maura Healey (D) …………………………. 1,874,209 (70.0%)James R. read more

    Election 2018: Results from three states
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    Father and son reunited at war’s end

    It could almost be a New Testament parable, but for the specific reference to “Bronco Charlie” Miller, a colorful historical figure who was buried in Bay Street Cemetery in Glens Falls.A parable would identify the main character as “a certain father.” And Charles Miller, better known as “Bronco Charlie,” definitely was a character. Harold “Bud” read more

    Father and son reunited at war’s end
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    Saving a country crossroads in Craryville

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    Gas station proposal draws backlash, spurs test of a town’s newvision for development A proposal for a large new gas station and convenience store in the vacant lot across from the Craryville United Methodist Church, above, has set off a controversy in the town of Copake, N.Y. The project’s developer announced in late October that read more

    Saving a country crossroads in Craryville
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    State rewrites manure rules for large farms

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    After legal fight, many N.Y. farms opt for alternative set of regulations State environmental regulators in New York have drafted new rules aimed at preventing water pollution from large dairy farms — after a judge tossed out an earlier rewrite of the rules. Rob Barendse file photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   New York read more

    State rewrites manure rules for large farms
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    From Japan, fine art for the masses

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    Hyde exhibit explores Ukiyo-e prints and their influence in the West The printmaker Tsuchiya Koitsu’s “Snow at Zojoli” (1933) is among the works included in an exhibit of Japanese woodcuts that opens this month at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Syracuse University Art Collection/courtesy The Hyde Collection   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer GLENS FALLS, read more

    From Japan, fine art for the masses
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    Advocates push for more trains from Saratoga

    Passenger-rail advocates and local officials have begun lobbying New York state to increase the number of daily Amtrak trains between Saratoga Springs and New York City. Proponents say more frequent service is the logical next step now that the state has completed long-awaited projects to add track capacity and upgrade stations along the route north read more

    Advocates push for more trains from Saratoga
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    Lessons from the ‘professor’ of the road

    It doesn’t rise to the level of a bucket list item, but for about three decades I’ve contemplated traveling coast to coast by Greyhound bus and writing a travel narrative. You can imagine my intrigue recently when I came across the epic poem “A Gregarious Greyhound” that Walter Brown Leonard wrote in 1936 about a read more

    Lessons from the ‘professor’ of the road
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    Test for smart growth: Where do cars fit in?

    In the many conflicts over development around our region in recent years, the issue of whether a project contributes to sprawl or helps to produce “smart growth” really boils down to one question: Are the buildings and their arrangement on the landscape scaled to people who approach them on foot – or in cars? The read more

    Test for smart growth: Where do cars fit in?