You can go to the Oregon coast on a November weekend and look at the stormy weather, but you can’t escape from the world. So you keep wondering about the proper response to the murderous rampage in France.
It’s hard for me to see how our liberty is endangered by the National Security Agency’s collecting of telephone and Internet records. Much of the complaining about this, it seems to me, is overly theatrical and even hypocritical. The way the program has been explained, it does not sound like true surveillance to me. Nobody […]
Ahout this observation post, city has answers
I had some questions about the surveillance trailer set up at Broadalbin Street and Second Avenue downtown, the subject of last night’s story. The answers came today from Chuck Perino, the City of Albany emergency manager and safety officer. As I had guessed, the observation trailer was set up in advance of the downtown Albany […]
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