The federal government has started killing barred owls in northern spotted owl territory, carrying out a plan that has been in the works for several years. But while it’s hard to argue against this owl campaign based on logic, it still seems like a bad idea.
On a December afternoon, when the weather is not that great for biking and nothing much else seems to be going on, how about a quick drive to the Saddle Butte range near Shedd? The range is the headquarters of the Albany Rifle and Pistol Club. To get there, you go east on Boston Mill […]
In the endless media coverage of climate change, we are bombarded with a lot of pseudofacts, so it’s nice now and then to come across just plain facts — cold facts, so to speak — and some of those became available a few days ago.
In Albany, now would be as good a time as any to wipe off or paint over the graffiti that have started to show up here and there along one of my bike routes and possibly elsewhere. Tagging is likely to get out of hand if we don’t.
In Washington, John C. Beale, 65, got 32 months in prison Wednesday for, among other things, skipping work for a total of two and a half years while drawing his lucrative salary, falsely telling colleagues and supervisors he was working for the CIA when he was gone. The case is over, but the story of […]
So, for lack of a more exciting topic at the moment, back to the traffic signals at Ninth Avenue and Lyon Street under Albany’s Pacific Boulevard overpass. As you can see here, another episode of waiting at the light on Dec. 17 yielded another snapshot of someone coming through the underpass after the signal on […]
A gratuitous plug: What a nice shop!
A little shop downtown. No hurrying crowds. A huge selection of gifts, from the practical — well, almost, if you think scented soap from France is practical — to the whimsical. Helpful advice if you want, none if you don’t. (I was in need of some and got it.) Can you imagine a more pleasant […]
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