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Levity.
Since the start of Occupy Albany, there’s been a rift between Albany’s municipal government and the state of New York. While Cuomo had wanted the protestors removed immediately, the Mayor’s Office, police, and the Council wanted to give them the right to stay and demonstrate in Academy Park. It even gave them exceptions, allowing them […]
In case you missed it, Rick Perry sank himself last night.
Note: what he named are Departments, not agencies, but that’s just semantics.
Well, it was inevitable. The problem with Perry from the start is that he ran on being the new George W. Bush. He had Bush’s “aw […]
Penn State students and alumni siding with Joe Paterno: you’re wrong.
There aren’t any if, ands, or buts about it. There isn’t a discussion to be had about what could have been done differently. Claiming ignorance of extent is not a valid excuse. Neither is invoking the phrase “hindsight” as a means of deflection.
Joe […]
There’s an Occupy movement that all of you, particularly those who identify as “the 99%”, should partake in:
It’s called Election Day, and it’s happening right now.
If you’ve been engaged in any of the campouts across the nation, whether it be in front of a bronze bull or under a tree in Academy Park […]
This Saturday, November 12th, the Penn State Nittany Lions football team will take on Nebraska in a home game at Beaver Stadium.
Don’t go.
If you haven’t been following the news the last several days, then you have been spared horrific and atrocious accounts of rampant sexual abuse of children as young as ten […]
“If true, the nature and amount of charges made are very shocking to me and all Penn Staters. While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved I can’t help but be deeply saddened these […]
Market Block Books will be holding a special fundraiser tomorrow to raise funds for the Troy Public Libraries.
With our economic prospects dimmer, it is more important than ever that we encourage education, literacy, and a genuine enthusiasm for reading in people of all ages. The only available resources […]
Hearing GOP candidates talk about immigration, they paint an unending scourge of disreputable characters eager to take jobs from hard-working (white) Americans. Illegal is illegal, there is black and there is white and there is nothing in-between, and we “need to secure our borders.”
American immigration being simplified into an economic issue or merely a […]
Economist and policy-shaper Jared Bernstein for The New Republic:
Once again, the GSEs are ostensibly just protecting the taxpayer, but these protections are blocking a critical exit ramp from the recession. One mechanism that’s supposed to be helping the economy right […]
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