—Op-Ed by Timothy Egan, NY Times 11/19/08 RCM is reprinting, with appreciation, this NY Times editorial by Timothy Egan. (To read it in the Times, click here.) North Country towns, Malone School Board: There is a lesson to be learned from Vallejo, California. (Note: The cartoon, below, did not appear with the editorial; it was added by RCM.) […]
Albert Johnson has definitively won the contest for Burke town supervisor. Election commissioners counted absentee ballots a short while ago, with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Otis in attendance. Final tally: Johnson 291, Otis 249. RiverCity congratulates Albert on running a fine campaign and getting out the vote. (Remember, he ran as a registered Republican on the
—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin (Photographer unknown) To: Wayne Walbridge, Superintendent of Schools Malone Central School District From: Calvin Luther Martin, PhD Associate Professor of History (retired), Rutgers University Re: Proposed new school project I greet you as one retired teacher to another. I have a warm place in my heart for all teachers, as I
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—Calvin Luther Martin Visit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) website, where you can see all the power production figures for NYS, quarter by quarter throughout the calendar year. This includes output from coal-fired plants, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar. The works. Any electricity sold to the NYS Independent System Operator (“the grid”) shows up on
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—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin “Smells Fishy,” by Nate Owens On October 24, 2008, Noble Environmental (there being many versions or layers of Noble, it turns out) applied to the NYS Public Service Commission for permission to do the following:
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—William Tucker The following text and images are all taken from a weblog by William Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Energy Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey. Tucker is a seasoned journalist. He has done us all a great service by demythologizing nuclear power. Tucker thinks it’s time to retire
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—Op-Ed by Michael Fournier Panic has set in among wind scammers and other environmental terrorists over reports that an intrepid knight has been seen battling wind turbines throughout the wind-farm wastelands of Ellenburg, Churubusco, and Chateaugay.
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—Carol Thompson, Chateaugay Albert Johnson (Photo courtesy of Carol Thompson) Forget Barack Obama and John McCain. Next door Albert Johnson and Jim Otis are battling for Burke Town Supervisor. It’s a hot contest. Signs, newspaper ads, flyers, door-to-door, speeches–and bitterness.
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