Here’s a little example of oil or gas pollution from parking lots and city streets that might end up in our rivers unless cities find a way to treat urban runoff.
Here’s a little example of oil or gas pollution from parking lots and city streets that might end up in our rivers unless cities find a way to treat urban runoff.
So we’re still here, more or less. What did the ancient Mayans know anyway? If they had been as smart as their calendar implies, they might still be around. Then they could explain the apparent ending date of their cosmos, or at least their way of reckoning time. But alas, they didn’t endure nearly as […]
Albany faces a possible complication with a voter initiative coming up for an election in three months. The issue could be explosive, but it need not be if handled with common sense. The initiative, one of two launched by North Albany resident Tom Cordier, attempts to limit the city government’s debt to the amount that […]
Oregon could do a better job managing how it sentences criminals to prison, and if it did, it would save tons of money. In a nutshell that’s the finding of the Governor’s Commission on Public Safety, one of whose members was state Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany. The commission’s report, delivered to the governor on Dec. […]
Everywhere you turn now, on the air and in print, there is talk about new efforts at more “gun control.” Nobody so far has explained what that would mean in detail, and depending on the details, how it would prevent shootings in places where there are a lot of people, whether it’s an assembly hall […]
That’s what climate change looked like in North Albany on Tuesday morning, Dec. 18, 2012 — if that’s what it was. Actually, it looked morer like a common December morning when a cold front moves through.
And now — Merry Christmas!
For weeks now people have been wishing each other “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” or some such thing. The phrase has become as common a “Have a nice day” and sounds about as sincere. I realize that people mouthing the words mean well, or at least they don’t mean to be a nuisance. Still, you’d […]
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