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The
Blog:
Unrest in Kingston
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 2-15-2007
“The constitution says we have the right,
the responsibility to protest or support government actions. To demonstrate in
front of government offices is who we are. The government is hiding behind
private property rights.”
Read the entire article.
 I'm
Just a Bill
by Rob Robinson
So why does medical
marijuana, with its overwhelming support, continue to
be "stuck in committee, where I sit here and wait",
while far less popular bills get priority?
Read the entire article. Exiled
Students Return to Campus: Judge Grants Injunction
by Rachel Lagodka Posted on
1-11-2007
I
guess as far as waiting for injunctions from federal judges goes 135 days might
not be a long time,
Read the entire article.
Climate Change: Chilling in the Tower
posted on
9-07-06
by
Erin Quinn
 Waves
of discontent are lapping at the shore of the administration building, where SUNY New Paltz President Steve Poskanzer perches
on the 9th floor, with a fabulous view of the Wallkill valley and the ridge
beyond.
Read the entire article.
 A Fine Time for the NSA
by Maurice
Hinchey
Posted on 11-28-2006
Among other things, we specifically requested that IG Fine
investigate: whether the president, the attorney general, and the director of
the NSA violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by establishing and
carrying out the program; who within the DOJ first authorized the domestic
surveillance program and what that official's justification was for doing so; if
the Bush administration had already enacted the program before getting original
DOJ approval...
Read the entire article.
Hey
Maurice: Tell me MORA!
Hinchey Demands Answers from FCC
Hinchey Statement on Iraq Report
Hinchey
Sworn in for Eighth Term in U.S. House of Representatives
Hinchey Helps House Win Wage Increase
Students Protest; Administration Stonewalls by Rachel Lagodka
 Democracy Now! Amy Goodman
Rocks the House
by
Robert Miraldi
 Viva Chavez
No News is Bad News
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 11-16-2006
On a Sunday night, when the New York Times
has been picked over, the morning talk shows are long gone
and when ?60 Minutes? is done, I turn to radio.
Radio in the Hudson Valley ? and what a vast wasteland I find.
Read the entire article.
Ticked
With... Rachel Lagodka Posted on
11-13-2006
When I
came out of the woods the other day and checked myself for ticks I found one
burrowed into my belly and yanked it out. Soon after the classic circular
pattern emerged around the bite indicative of Lyme?s disease...
Read the entire article.
 Knick
Picking: Time of Knick
by Greg Olear
Posted on 11-03-06
I love his dreads and
sleepy-eyed nonchalance. Watch him clap on the bench?he looks like he?s
stoned! Already my favorite player on the team.
Read the entire article.
The Capitalist Times
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 9-5-2006
The press is never a great forum for
debating major questions of social science,
such as whether a pure uncoerced communism would be a better
way to organize ourselves than capitalism. And that is certainly a big debate
and a big question. Read the entire article.
 Swimming
is supposed to be hard. It's not supposed to feel especially good
-- even though logic suggests that the best way to move in water is to
move like water.
Read the entire article.
The New Coach in Swimtown
Posted on
9-07-06
by
Erin Quinn
 Unlike
the brashness of a Bobby Knight or a seasoned, sweet-smiling, tobacco spitting
Yogi Bera, or a jump-in-my arms and give me a kiss-like Bela Karoli, Al-Mashat
isl...
Read the entire article.
Swimtown: New Paltz, USA
by Erin Quinn
While New Paltz is
on the map worldwide as a rock-climbing haven, it is also home to another, less
visible and less high-risk sport -- swimming.
Read the entire article.
Katie in Anchorland
by Robert Miraldi
Posted on 9-5-2006
Was Katie Couric working her way across the
streets of Darfur to see the misery there? Was she trolling around in New
Orleans to see what progress is not being made in recovery? Was she in
Afghanistan measuring a war-torn country?
Read the entire article.
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Greg Olear Gives Birth to Baby Prudence Janice
Olear 8-29-06
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Features:
 On and Off the Beaten Path:
Great Lakes I
By Carole
Bell
Ford
We found
a campground only about twenty miles from the center of the city and were able
to get into town with the camper (over the weekend when the traffic wasn’t too
heavy) and on the subway: not a very long ride on a clean, modern system.
Read the entire article.
Great Lakes II
Samuel
de Champlain, the 16th/17th century French explorer and
navigator who mapped
much of
northeastern North America called Lake Huron La Mer Douce, the sweet
sea—referring to its fresh water, not its temperament. In some places,
especially on a gray and windy day, you can easily believe that it is an ocean,
and that it can become ferocious.
Read the entire article.
On and Off the Beaten Path:
Montreal II
By Carole
Bell
Ford
To
attend any film festival you have to
have several qualifications, albeit some dubious ones. You have to be a little
film obsessed or at least, an aficionado.
Read the entire article.
 Susan
Recommends VI: A Passage to India
Review by Susan Avery
Posted on 12-06-2006
I grew up in New York City, and a number of the
stores mentioned as ?stores that live only in the mind? were places where I
passed many happy hours and still retain the imprinted memories of acquired
books.
Read the entire article.
 Viva
Mexico
posted
on 9-21-06
by
Kim Ellis
 The
hidden heart and beauty of Mexico often lies within plain walls. From the
outside, Don Quijote University in Guanajuato is nothing special... Ah, but pass
inside and the building reveals its secrets.
Read the entire article.
On and Off the Beaten Path:
Montreal
By Carole
Bell
Ford
We have been making an annual trek to
Montreal in the late summer for the World Film Festival since
we-can?t-remember-when. What we do remember is that we fell in love with the
city and have been hooked ever since.
Read the entire article.
 The
Environment and the War on Terror
by David Clark posted on 11-03-06
Most Americans are very concerned with the problem of
international terrorism. Some Americans are concerned about the problem of
global environmental collapse...both problems could be solved by a more
responsible American government.
Read the entire article.
 Dylan: Chillin' not Illin'
by Robert Polito
 Seeing
the Monster
by
Jim Gordon posted on 10-11-06
I don?t mean
individuals aren?t doing acts that matter, but collectively, it?s as if each of
us is continuing hoeing our garden as Godzilla draws ever nearer our village....
Read the entire article.
 Terrorist
by John Updike reviewed by Gerald Sorin
Posted on 10-10-06
Although John
Updike is incapable of writing anything without some literary panache or deep
philosophical and theological musing, Terrorist, his twenty-second novel,
reads in many places like a less-than-thoughtful feature story
Read the entire article.
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