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On the issues that matter in Malone NY (USA)

November 2008

Beggars Banquet

—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.)  […]

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Johnson wins big!

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

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Feds release Noble production figures

—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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Terrestrial Energy?

—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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