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April 21, 2010

Tough guy

Hudson born and bred.

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Aphoris(a)m

Those who advocate for a “case-by-case” review really mean that in no case should they be held to any principle which might impair their power to act preferentially.

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April 20, 2010

9H

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Sampler: Saturday in Hudson

Openings last Saturday (4/17) at Terenchin, David Dew Bruner, and Carrie Haddad galleries... Pictured: David Ludwig, Vincent Mulford, Sadie and Monica Mechling, et al.

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April 19, 2010

Claverack resident Meyer (Sandy) Frucher has been in the Statewide news a lot lately. Frucher, the former head of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and a key political mentor of Andrew Cuomo, is now the head of New York State’s Off Track Betting. OTB has come into in the media's crosshairs due to the possibility of widespread layoffs or even a shutdown—as well as complaints from breeders who seem to think Frucher has it in for them. Given his close ties to Cuomo, their call for the Attorney General (and all-but-certain next Governor) to investigate Frucher seem kind of improbable; but I don’t profess to be an expert in the politics of State-sponsored gambling....

Lips Service

Brooklyn Vegan (one of the more reliable mp3 blogs out there) has a big gallery of photos of The Flaming Lips' show Saturday night in Poughkeepsie.

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April 18, 2010

Late afternoon

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April 17, 2010

Moiré

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April 16, 2010

Thataway

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April 14, 2010

Absent with leave

There's bad news out of Albany for Greg Fingar, John Ciampoli, Erik Tyree, Jim Paroli Jr., James Walsh, and other Republicans who like to try to deprive people of their right to vote.

This legislation has now passed both the Assembly and Senate--making it harder for political schnooks to manufacture trivial reasons to toss out absentee ballots.

Meanwhile, the 60-day deadline passed last Monday for Judge Jonathan Nichols to rule on a motion to sanction Columbia County GOP attorneys for their wasteful, irresponsible and fruitless efforts last winter to harass intimidate legitimate voters. There is no indication that Nichols has issued a decision.

Also unknown is whether County Dems will act to enforce the improper legal payments for that fiasco made by Fingar et al. from the GOP Housekeeping fund, which are not supposed to be used for such purposes.

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Lantern shuttered?

Word is buzzing around Hudson that Eric Galloway’s Lantern Group has taken its housing proposal for 5th and Warren Streets off the table for now. Democratic chair Victor Mendolia and others indicate that Lantern is reconsidering its options in the wake of a blistering reception at Monday’s public hearing.

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Quotable Russell

I should like, if time were longer and if I knew more than I do, to spend a whole lecture on the conception of vagueness. Vagueness is very much more important in the theory of knowledge than you would judge it to be from [most] writings. Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise, and everything precise is so remote from everything that we normally think, that you cannot for a moment suppose that is what we really mean when we say what we think. When you pass from the vague to the precise by the method of analysis and reflection that I am speaking of, you always run a certain risk of error.

– BERTRAND RUSSELL, FROM THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL ATOMISM (1918-19)

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