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May 2018
May 1: No-bail Impeach Prize laureate
April 2018
April 11: GOP heading home to roost
April 10: President's Council on Physical Fitness
April 4: MimeForce deployed to guard the invisible wall
March 2018
March 27: Remington Arms and the NRA's bankrupt agenda
March 26: Cynthia Nixon's campaign visits Albany
March 23: NRA's weaponry vs. students
March 19: oversharing on facebook
March 16: a shout out to Representative Louise Slaughter
March 16: fun and games in Trump's cabinet
March 14: Joe Percoco's quid pro cuomo
February 2018
February 2: Trump prefers "just ICE"
February 1: Olympic guide: Co-Lugin'and Russian medalling
January 2018
January 29: President Trump's deep State of the Union
January 26: the family von Trump fleeing justice in the Swiss alps
January 25: America first on the Davos bunny slope
January 23: Chuck Schumer, caveman
January 22: Trump's magic mirror confusion
January 19: Trump prepares to fire
January 18: King vs. Trump (iii)
January 16: King vs. Trump (ii)
January 15: King vs. Trump (i)
January 12: Donald Trump's check-up
December 2017
December 8: Harboring a little fugitive
December 7: Next year in Jerusalem
December 6: GOP's big tent revival
December 5: Putin's perfect score
December 4: deciphering Donald Trump's code talk
December 1: General Flynn's art of the plea deal
December 1: President Trump ignites the nationalist tree
November 2017
November 17: GOP's simplified tax form
November 16: Handling Alabama's Roy Moore
November 15: Trump's Asian trip souvenir
October 2017
October 20: President Trump's tomb of unknowns
August 2017
August 25: Big oil faces a windfall in Texas
July 2017
July 12: Donald Trump, Jr vs. the Trump playbook
June 2017
June 30: Trump's growth in office
May 2017
May 19: President Trump's Enemy No. 1
March 2017
March 27: Make America point fingers again
March 24: Trump-Ryan Care's unplanned parenthood
March 20: First day of Silent Spring at Scott Pruitt's EPA
March 11: mixed signals for Preet Bharara
March 10: GOP's Russian healthcare
March 8: GOP's simplified healthcare
March 7: Trump changes the conversation
March 3: Jeff Sessions, under oath and above the law
February 2017
February 24: Trump vs. George Washington
February 21: Trump vs. Lincoln
February 17: Trump's tie to Putin
February 16: Donald Trump's molehill
February 14: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
February 08: Social promotion at Education Dept.
February 07: FDR, Trump, and fear itself
February 03: Elise Stefanik's commitment ring
February 02: where the emolument buck stops
January 2017
January 31: an unAmerican way to treat a king
January 30: Statue of flibertygibbet
January 23: Leader of the fact-freeworld
January 17: The flood to follow Obama
December 2016
December 14: Putin's extreme vetting of Trump's America
December 13: Rex Tillerson and human rights for oil
December 12: Trump's counter intelligence
December 9: Welcome to Trump's private swamp
December 8: Reflecting on Trump's energy agenda
December 2: Fake news meets real fire
December 1: Santa Trump's little helpers
November 2016
November 30: America's pre-existing condition
November 23: Trump's basket of disposables
November 21: Self-deportation from Trump Nation
October 2016
October 28: Hillary's ol' ball & chain
October 24: bracing for Trump's ground game
October 21: Trump's twitter account parental controls
October 20: history singing Trump off
October 17: how the system is rigged
October 14: trump's stop-and-friskiness
October 12: the russian roulette election
October 7: pole-watching during the hillary surge
October 5: creepy veepee clowns
September 2016
September 30: trump campaign's three-ring circus
September 27: a bad case of debate sniffles
September 26: handicapping the presidential debates
September 22: for african-americans, still the same old history
September 20: the candidates' differing approaches to terrorism
September 15: a second opinion on donald trump's health
September 13: donald trumps basket of deportables
September 12: it takes a village to carry an election
September 6: how hillary spent her summer vacation
September 1: donald trump sitting on the mexican fence
August 2016
August 18: blaming the ryan lochte mess on the bossa nova
August 17: donald trump receives intelligence
August 16: america's mayor seems to have forgotten something
August 12: resetting the trump campaign
August 2: olympic blood sampling
July 2016
July 29: shattering a philadelphia floor
July 23: roger ailes leaving the fox hen house
July 22: the donald j. trump that ate the g.o.p. canary
July 21: ted cruz reminds delegates why they won't like him any better in 2020
July 19: a norovirus makes an unscheduled appearance at the convention
July 15: trump train coming into cleveland
July 14: justice gins burg's freedom of mis-speech
July 13: trump's augmented reality pokemon veep picks
July 12: police volatility hard to embrace
June 2016
June 29: benghazi committee's smoking gun
June 28: supreme court messes with texas
May 2016
May 13: three men in a prison cell
May 12: the speaker vs. the screamer
May 6: keystone pipeline ii: escape from alberta
May 5: the political circus elephant gets the axe
May 4: donald trump: gravity denier
May 3: g.o.p. convention preview
April 2016
April 20: donald trump's gargoyle
April 19: new york state primary:short version
April 15: occupy's human microphone feedback
April 1: a warm winter for hillary
March 2016
March 22: u.s. vs cuba seventh inning stretch
March 21: obama brings moneyball to cuba
March 17: mcdonnell's obligation to despise and resent
March 14: the bernie generation gap
March 11: a trump rally show of hands
March 10: narcissus of sunny isles beach
March 8: the g.o.p.'s difficult conversation with the n.r.a.
March 7: long shot wendy long launches her 2nd u.s. senate campaign
March 4: nys gop convention's fracking policy
March 3: trumposaurus rex and g.o.p extinction
March 2: six sigma meets kkk with donald trump
February 2016
February 29: donald trump's war of northern aggression
February 27: christie & trump: a marriage of enemies lists
February 26: cruz, rubio and trump prepare for time-out tuesday
February 24: the u.s. senate academy awards
February 22: the impending trumpenburg disaster
February 16: the balance of mitch mcdonnell's power
February 9: gop presidential choices 2016
January 2016
January 29: parading donald trump
January 28: bernie preoccupies hillary
November 2015
November 17: liberté, égalité, fraternité. . .sécurité??
November 6: george h. w. bush's nanny problems
November 4: prime minister justin trudeau and the canadian halfpipe
October 2015
October 30: the headless houseman and the budget deal
October 29: new speaker gives voice to the old gop show
October 27: world health organization discovers a cancer link at citi field
October 22: the benghazi committee's good witch hunt
October 9: the gop's red planet
October 6: representative stefanik's tramp stamp
September 2015
September 29: speaker boehner delivers
September 28: total eclipse of the hillary
September 25: gop seeks devine intervention
February 2014
February 27: new york's pre-k tug-o-war
February 24: nys department of huge correction
February 11: putin's winter selfi games
February 3: the need for more sand and less tar on the gulf coast
January 2014
January 29: the gop/tea party rebuttal to the state of the union
January 21: governor cuomo's unsafe treatment of upstate whackos
January 17: boehner throwing the tea party under the omnibus
January 15: mr. owens leaves washington
January 10: long range forecast
January 9: the powerpoint of damocles
January 6: medical marijuana comes to new york
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
October 23: the jobs legalized gambling will create in new york
October 15: the gop digging in
October 10: at the federal reserve bank, a tale of two ceilings
October 8: john boehner's next job
October 6: a party divided comes together finding fault
September 2013
September 30: the tnt party on the verge
August 2013
August 30: the bloomberg years, condensed
August 28: the civil rights movement's other anniversary
August 23: president obama's upstate ny listening tour
May 2013
May 29: gov. cuomo: war of 1812 reenactor
May 23: the big banana stalks the big apple
May 20: sheldon silver, alpha dog of the nys assembly
May 17: liberty and justice for vito lopez in the nye disassembly
May 9: another political comeback candidate for the gop
May 7: prison gangs of new york
May 2: fracking greek yogurt in new york's southern tier
April 2013
April 29: don't ask, font yell at the bush library
April 19: newspaper and the 24-hr. news cycle
April 18: the us senate gop's long shadow
April 16: senator malcolm smith's trust fall
April 11: the official anthony weiner nyc mayoral campaign vehicle
March 2013
March 28: nyc's long, frisky arm of the law on trial
March 20: a new environmentalist pope may further complicate gov. cuomo's tracking decision
March 13: as the vatican burns, changes in the wind at ny city hall
March 11: reform candidate, vatican city style
March 7: governor cuomo's upstate gambling initiative
February 2013
February 28: the cannibal cop's diet on trial
February 26: assemblyman dov hikind's masquerade
February 25: governor cuomo's state worker pressure briefing
February 22: john boehner and the u.s. equestrian team
February 14: a new job for hillary clinton
February 7: super sizing the keystone xl pipeline
February 2: groundhog day above the marcellus shale
February 1: almost heaven for mayor koch
January 2013
January 29: exit hillary, stage left (leaving captive audience)
January 24: the gop's benghazi boomerang
January 16: new york's gun rights and wrongs
January 11: cuomo's extremely progressive path to washington
January 9: ny senate's automatic response to assault weapons ban
January 4: gov. cuomo's fracking kool-aid
December 2012
December 20: duck season in washington
December 17: the gun lobby's self defense
December 11: overlap in the new nys senate leadership
December 7: interspecies courtship in the nys senate
December 6: nhl running out of ice time
December 4: the g.o.p. closing loopholes in the budget talks
December 3: hurricane sandy relief at the fiscal cliff
November 2012
November 20: expiration date for hostess brands
November 19: cuomo contemplates climate
November 15: return of the squeegee men
November 12: hush hush at the cia
November 9: redistribution of wealth, capitalist model
November 8: reinaugurating dysfunction in albany
November 7: the gop's white elephant time
November 4: the undecided states of America
November 2: republican party disaster relief
October 2012
October 30: dr. frankenstorm's denial
October 29: the "nature mom" vote
October 25: new york stylanders ice hockey
October 24: news media poll dancing
October 22: gender roles in new york's catholic church
October 17: mitt romney's binder gap
October 16: new york yankees and the medicare debate
October 12: spinning biden's grin
October 3: obamaromneycare's 47% leeches
October 1: governor cuomo punts on fracking
September 2012
September 10: four years later, the gop is no better off
August 2012
August 30: the official wristband of the gop convention
August 28: s-s-h-h-eldon silver's assembly hush fund
August 24: mitt romney is expecting a gop baby boom
August 21: strange biology on the house science committee
August 16: cuomo in deep yogurt
August 15: for whom the toll hikes
August 8: the 6th commandment vs. the 2nd amendment
August 6: gov cuomo loves the adirondacks. on the other hand. . .
August 3: invasive species catch and never release
August 1: governor cuomo's enlightened and illuminating archives
July 2012
July 27: romney doodle went to london for a dressage rehearsal
July 24: poor richard's adage as relates to climate science
July 20: the grim gun violence sequel
July 16: anthony wiener tests the waters again
July 10: mitt romney visits the hamptons
July 4: the legislative session in review
June 2012
June 27: senator liberty or senator justice
June 22: governor cuomo's special needs
June 20: qualifying heats for nysgop u.s. senate hopefuls
June 18: invasive and evasive species
June 13: scratch cuomo's aqueduct dream
June 12: the presidential candidates on the environment
June 8: senator skelos and the gateway to drug policy reform
June 4: governor cuomo's minimum wager
May 2012
may 29: don't make eye contact on the retransmit of venus
may 23: chicken wings over niagara falls
may 21: cory booker at the crossroads of presidential politics
may 15: ny's southern tier: the saudi arabia of gas (and water)
may 14: j.p. morgan on the chase
may 10: new york knicks can't take the heat
may 8: obama finds wedded bliss in albany
may 4: ny horse racing: the sport of crooks
may 3: ny fashion: a tale of two cities
may 1: fracking cuomo's sculpted environmental record
April 2012
april 29: space shuttle enterprise retires
april 25: the republican imbalancing act
april 24: the gop's war on one particular woman
april 20: mixed political arts in albany
april 16: governor cuomo's enemies list
april 9: the unsinkable cartoon metaphor turns 100
april 3: not your daddy's smoke-filled room
march 2012
march 26: at the free federal have a heart clinic
march 20: how we look at our warming planet
march 16: smelling a rat in the redistricting maze
march 13: the 2012 nys redistricting quilting competition
march 9: the farm bill comes to the north country
march 5: rush limbaugh and the sole of a conservative
february 2012
february 28: nysdec surrenders to invaders on the st. lawrence seaway
february 21: spitzer celebrates might-have-been-president day 2012
february 20: jeremy lin, a star in any language
february 16: daredevils over niagara falls
february 13: cuomo hearts ny budget power
february 3: no country for snowmen
january 2012
january 24: 4 things hydrofracking ruins
january 20: 22nd congressional district roadkill
january 17: governor cuomo's gamble
january 10: adirondack club and resort's advice to invasive feral hogs
january 9: frankenskelos' monster rises upstate
january 6: kodak's future comes into sharp focus
january 5: buffalo gets new bills
january 3: governor cuomo secretly delivers his 2012 state of the state address
january 2: the iowa caucasians
december 2011
december 30: lehigh cement co. and nysdec embrace burning plastic
december 21: new york state's commission on public ethics prefers the dark
december 17: nine years later, a beer with george w. bush
december 16: the soldier's beribboned welcome
december 13: canada's kyoto haiku
december 12: a rare green christmas for upstate ny
december 8: god's not so complex plan on global climate change
december 7: new category of taxpayer revealed by old category of nys pol
december 5: prisoner numbers driving nys senate majority downstate
december 2: steuben glass shuts down
november 2011
november 30: a mandatory visit with santa
november 24: republican science
november 19: what's occupying the adirondack park agency these days?
november 18: congressman chris gibson brings a concealed weapon to the 20th cd
november 12: political climate change vs. carbon fuel projects
november 7: lake champ bridge reopens
november 2: new york democratic human megaphone
october 2011
october 28: seven billion trick-or-treaters
october 24: readying the rooftop highway for the shovel
october 21: extracting governor cuomo's green legacy
october 17: stay of execution for the p.e.f.
october 14: congressman owens vs. china
october 6: steve jobs's forlorn flock
october 3: where the streets are paved with poor people
september 2011
september 29: labor contract tug-o-war
september 23: hydrocarbon huggers
september 19: ny's property tax cap after the storm
september 12: a country bathing in self-pity
september 8: new york state's frack addicts
august 2011
august 29: governor cuomo's working vacation
august 15: small signs of hard times
august 12: cuomo co-opting iroquois nations' gambling heritage
august 8: senator little's sport
august 3: gabby giffords returns to thunderous applause and legislative silence
july 2011
july 22: the marriage of liberty and justice
july 12: gop lowers the debt floor
july 6: senator gillibrand vs. the xxx chromosome
july 1: gov. cuomo serves up a fiery cocktail to the southern tier
june 2011
june 21: ash holes of new york state
june 17: nysgop's last marriage rites
june 13: ny senator little's declaration of incivility
june 8: rube goldberg in the age of tweets and weiners
june 6: nays tax cap traffic jam
june 1: climate change deniers' irrefutable defense
may 2011
may 30: the return of the seasonals
may 23: nysgop left behind (again)
may 16: cuomo's people first, environment last tour
may 6: sage commission realizes its limits
may 2: remembering where, when and who
april 2011
april 30: saranac lake's daffiasco
april 28: isle of the adirondacks
april 22: a winter with boundary issues
april 19: nothing but wild pork for local budgets
april 14: new york's new helmet law meets fiscal reality
april 12: natural gas presents: it's fracking magic!
april 8: nysgop loves prisoners
april 1: fission season opens on the hudson
march 2011
march 29: nys legislature budget spanx
march 24: congressman gibson's energy panel
march 22: adirondackers resorting to the club
march 21: the toughest job in the whole world
march 16: nys democrats behind bars
march 14: congressman gibson versus godzilla
march 9: peter king opens congressional hearings on islam
march 8: redistricting the nys senate majority
march 1: the game of 15 years to life
february 2011
february 25: capital scapegoating teachers
february 24: count fracula, the real-life vampire
february 22: fire at the filling station
february 11: more craigslist lies
february 2: gov. cuomo predicting a heavy axefall
february 1: trudeau is the cure for saranac lake (again)
january 2011
january 27: big oil gets its milkshake drunk
january 25: the return of those political ads
january 17: drones over the adirondacks
january 14: kirsten and goliath
january 13: message: chill. out.
january 12: extremism wagging the gop
january 12: 3 men at a tablescape
january 9: our lethal rhetoric
january 3: governor cuomo calls on ny's lesser angels
december 2010
december 31: paladino just won't leave
december 30: assemblywomen duprey and sayward's double dip
december 29: the ball drops in times square
december 23: elephants and memory
december 16: speaker-elect boehner cries us a river
december 14: governor paterson and drill, maybe, drill
december 10: xmas excess in the us senate
december 3: senator mccain's chain of command
november 2010
november 30: new york's fracking wishing well
november 29: andrew cuomo: sexiest man alive
november 22: gop's war on everything
november 18: the empire state games get snuffed
november 15: charlie rangel's defense
november 9: g.w. bush's mem-war
november 8: the gop death panel
november 4: politics hands off to governance
november 2: electoral trick or treat
november 1: col. gibson's interpretation of don't ask don't tell
october 2010
october 29: tea party's compatriot
october 26: the supreme court's level playing field
october 25: 3 marxes and a cuomo
october 14: bill owens campaign signs
october 11: nysgop's tiny tent
october 6: doug hoffman's cinderella moment
october 4: carl paladino's fight club
october 1: paterson to ny: only you can prevent forests
september 2010
september 23: new york's conservative party tips
september 20: paladino's tea and sympathy
september 17: the hydrofracker's albatross
september 16: the gubernatorial race goes underground
september 15: nysgop's bedbug problem
september 10: rebuilding american extremism since 2001
september 7: the tea party's aim
september 6: public employee unions at rest
september 3: new york's 2-state solution
july 2010
july 30: andrew cuomo's drive for a new new york
july 16: the mel gibson ringtone
june 2010
june 30: 5 stages of nays budget grief
june 23: obama's rolling stone
june 17: governor paterson's final budget extender
june 14: new york's political football
june 1: nysgop's divide and conquer strategy
may 2010
may 30: parks stay open, nys budget falls
may 26: cuomo's campaign slogan
may 22: measuring bp's other pollution
may 20: us oil spill clean-up priorities
may 18: lawmakers and disorder
may 11: new york state's labor unions' protection
may 7: reaction to bruno's sentencing
may 5: new york's gop horse race
april 2010
april 27: hydrofracking explained
april 26: pete grannis's hydrofracking half-and-half
april 22: protecting all creatures' habitat
march 2010
march 31: nys schools race to the bottom
march 26: gop suffers a catastrophic political loss
march 25: steve levy's pornstache gets focus grouped
march 18: the seneca fortunes go up in smoke
march 17: congressman murphy's second opinion
march 16: betty little and the wearing of the green
march 12: andrew cuomo hands off the paterson investigation to judith kaye
march 11: ravitch looks for an emergency line of credit
march 10: ny troopers searching for an honest man
march 9: tea party time again in NY-23
march 5: new york democratic party's campaign poster
march 4: charlie rangel's representation without taxation
march 3: david paterson's ticking time bombs
february 2010
february 25: vermontville ny's bill demong combines gold with silver
february 24: billy demong's silver migration
february 23: u.s. healthcare's heart attack
february 19: lake placid's andrew "warhorse" weibrecht
february 16: upstate prisons heading down the river
february 11: andrew cuomo's hibernation interrupted
february 9: governor paterson and cupid's arrow
february 1: justice flops on the great white way
january 2010
january 29: adirondack legislators propose conservation moratorium
january 27: paterson prepares to blow up the budget bridge
january 19: special interests versus human interests in albany
january 16: exit senator monserrate, unwillingly
january 13: a ford import enters the senate race
january 12: andrew cuomo's political undertaking
january 11: spitzer's sideline commentary
january 7: an ethical dilemma in a legislature of whores
january 5: hydrofracking the watersupply
december 2009
december 16: bankrolling the public
december 15: bullying the taxpayer
december 10: new york's holiday wishes
december 8: the verdict on bruno and his racehorse
december 4: rallying troops around the flag
december 3: an uncivil rights movement
november 2009
november 25: the budget turkeys survive thanksgiving
november 17: the only way to clean-up albany
november 11: cutting down the governor's budget axe
november 9: theft of honest services and other stuff
november 3: the north country character under scrutiny
november 2: pataki turns on his party
november 1: nysgop drops some moderate balast
october 2009
october 30: doug hoffman's tea party
october 28: trick or treat in the 23rd
october 27: the end time of chris collins' gubernatorial campaign
october 22: nys gop's bridge to oblivion closed for repairs
october 20: a successful senate trade mission to china
october 19: sen. monserrate cleared of felony abuse
october 15: burn barrel ban takes effect
october 14: ny's pipeline to nowhere
october 13: charlie rangel's tax troubles
october 9: nys senate leadership's deep hole
october 7: schumer offers the public option
october 5: pataki's portrait unveiled
october 2: new nys gop chairman's family ties
september 2009
september 29: club for the most conservative candidate joins the 23rd cd race
september 24: paterson tries to reduce the deficit by a whisker
september 23: rick lazio pledges to clean up albany
september 23: ny court delivers a lieutenant governor
september 22: obama jumps into the albany pit
september 16: buffalo democratic primary sketchbook
september 13: byron brown handicaps the primary race
september 10: lean times for a cash cow
june 2009
june 7: ny senate in perfect moral balance
june 15: malcolm smith regrets not buying a palm pilot
june 15: we don't need another nero
june 8: hudson and champlain finally meet
june 11: ny gop's deal with the devils
june 9: golisano takes aim at albany
june 4: albany's ethics debate goes 'round and 'round
june 1: big fences make distant neighbors
may 2009
may 26: american dream/gop nightmare
may 15: in dredging, ge finds it's moral compass
may 13: liberty and justice ununited
may 11: the ny senate democrats' violence fixation
may 9: the dalai lama visits albany
april 2009
april 27: congressman murphy late to the trough
april 23: malcolm smith sacrificing at the altar
april 16: unnatural act: a debate in the nys senate
april 15: 20th cd taxation without representation
april 14: the dueling pirates of albany
april 11: tedisco and murphy eggs
april 8: absentee vote easter bunnies
april 7: tedisco out as assembly majority leader
march 2009
march 30: tedisco's minority experience
march 25: 3 democrats in a bunker
march 20: land speculators all atwitter
march 18: aig and the new socialism
march 17: luther forest no tech chip fab plant
march 13: tedisco, steele, and the new g.o.p.
march 11: third party's role in the media circus
march 5: news vs the twittering classes
february 2009
february 26: shelly and the sugar tree
february 25: lipmann installed
february 20: tedisco is one of them
february 18: senator gillibrand's juggling act
february 17: GOP boycotts the stimulus bill
february 12: obama's number one shovel-ready project
february 11: america's passtime: winning
february 10: downsizing state government
february 9: gillibrand switches lanes
february 5: senator smith tackles imaginary numbers
february 4: wall st. gets both barrels
january 2009
january 30: the old man and the sea of corruption
january 29: the personification of ny's 20th cd
january 26: Job seekers crowd ny's 20th congressional district
january 23: Gillibrand of the north
january 21: king's dream, obama's nightmare
january 20: many happy returns
january 12: escaping the rockefeller drug laws
january 8: dysfunction's survivor
january 7: tattooing the old gray lady
january 2: checking-in to the winohouse
december 2008
december 19: adirondack divisions
december 17: the assumption of caroline
december 16: waiting for other shoes to drop
december 15: malcolm smith makes his move
december 11: in defense of cow burps
december 10: pirates of the hudson river
december 10: senate seat for sale
december 9: two and a half men, or malcolm in the middle
december 2: nys loses two more jobs
december 1: the suspense of the democratic majority
november 2008
november 26: spreading the germs of the holiday season
november 25: h.r.c., secretary of upstate
november 24: gwb, sprinting to the finish line
november 20: ny's new not-so-magic carpet
november 19: the clintons go to the vet
november 17: ny's legislative labors lost
november 14: chicken little of the ny state senate
november 13: thanksgiving '08: revenge of the turkey
november 11: deep six for the environment
november 10: obama's new puppy
november 6: gop's fortress of solitude
november 5: people get ready, there's a train coming
october 2008
october 30: another ny governor in dc
october 27: the sinking human habitat
october 24: lake placid bans hooting
october 21: the permanent republican majority
october 9: bush and son, economic gravediggers
october 8: the voters choose "that one"
october 6: the republican revolution trickles down
october 1: the mayor that ate new york
september 2008
september 29: the dutch return to nyc
september 5: palin's shotgun wedding
august 2008
july 2008
july 31: bloomberg's and Patterson's tightrope act
july 28: new york's time to pay the piper
july 11: obama's eavesdropping vote
july 7: the pastoral post-political racehorse
june 2008
june 20: offshore on the mississippi
june 12: tax cap not ready for the real world
june 1: mass transit in saratoga county
may 2008
may 30: holding up the california's train
may 16: gillibrand expands her base
may 9: hillary, lost in america
may 4: biodiesel's challenge (hill country observer cover)
april 2008
april 29: joe bruno gets his kicks
april 24: raiding the budget cookie jar
april 23: new york farmers go to cuba
april 8: albany's power vacuum
april 5: american medicine's addiction to Caesarean deliveries
april 4: visit mount troopergate
april 2: prisoners of the adirondacks
march 2008
march 31: what goes on behind closed doors
march 19: snowmobile's uphill ride
march 18: hillary stalking the hunter
march 14: ny's second blind governor
march 13: governor paterson's vision
march 10: spitzer's same old new clothes
march 6: natural causes cultural effects
march 5: the true cost of the war
march 3: president bush, out to launch
february 2008
february 29: where the doctors meet the debtors
february 27: spitzer's open door policy
february 25: gop upstate entitlement
february 21: unidentified falling object
february 20: banana republican
february 14: spitzer raids the epf stash
february 13: pitchers, catchers, and shooter-uppers report
february 8: rush limbaugh's addiction
february 7: gop's draft animal
february 4: rockefeller's bastard dependents
february 1: frederick douglass vs. elizabeth cady stanton
january 2008
january 30: america's fallen mayor
january 28: bill clinton's new campaign role
january 25: nys board of elections stalemate
january 24: the slippery slope at davos
january 22: teaming up on obama
january 21: natural selection of nys judges
january 17: the incarceration economy
january 16: the state of upstate falls
january 14: too much t.r. for w.
january 11: state of the logjam
january 3: left behind in iowa
december 2007
december 11: hillary's official campaign vehicle
december 5: santa's dysfunctional team
november 2007
november 23: picket line, broadway style
november 19: unlicensed drivers down the road
november 7: pat robertson's peculiar choice
november 6: mukasey skims through senate with shumer support
november 1: boston's biggest fan
october 2007
october 19: murkasey: future is uncertain
october 17: the rich & immigrant licenses
october 15: gore goes for the gold
october 4: laugh like a pirate week
september 2007
september 24: global warming, texas-style
september 20: the classless of 1994
september 18: murkasey steps into the breech
september 17: bush's song and dance
september 13: untainting hillary's campaign
september 11: democrats standing down
september 6: wet-nursing the hospitals
september 4: more time in the sand
august 2007
august 29: the revenge of easy credit
august 27: troopergate deflates
august 1: saratoga summer hats
july 2007
july 18: dampening giuliani's hopes
july 16: d'amato and the g.o.p. future
july 13: silver takes his toll
july 2: nys senate in the shade
june 2007
june 12: the johnny appleseed of litter
june 8: worker bee housing crisis
june 7: college lenders' commencement
june 6: inflation at the gas station
may 2007
may 23: monumental bush critics
may 22: sen. schumer tackles a slippery subject
may 15: frankenspitzer's monster
may 14: cross-dressing the gop
may 4: hillary's worker bees are missing
may 3: reflection of excessive force
april 2007
march 2007
march 9: nys healthcare triage
march 1: beavers welcomed back to nyc
february 2007
february 28: diNapoli on the slippery slope
february 26: sharpton and thurmond geneology
february 23: able to overcome his reservations on tall buildings. . .
february 22: vying for the hollywood gold
february 21: borscht belt tragedy
february 12: spitzer's thorny valentine
february 9: controlling the comptroller
february 8: rudy's campaign baggage
february 6: the silver handshake
january 2007
january 26: 10th mountain division hanging on
january 24: paula picks the comptroller
january 17: hillary tanks obama
january 12: ny's gerrymandered ol' pachyderm
january 11: mickey mouse troop surge
january 9: w's pressing question
january 7: how to caricature your new governor
december 2006
december 29: the wreck is passed to a new generation
december 22: bruno under scrutiny
december 14: bush spinning history
december 7: el grande e. coli burrito
november 2006
november 29: shelly silver claus
november 28: nys hospitals total makeover
november 17: nysgop's new boss
november 15: enter mayor of disaster
november 14: two things won't change on day one
november 8: ticonderoga's campfire
november 1: the neanderthal vote
october 2006
october 31: dancing with the political stars
october 26: hillary's enhanced image
october 25: spitzer and hevesi cleaning up
october 24: libertarians' strange bedfellows
october 23: bruno's endangered pork
october 20: congressman sweeney's spring break
october 18: buffalo's october disaster
october 17: president bush's handouts
october 4: midterm domino effect
october 2: the original cut and runner
september 2006
september 29: full speed ahead for the pirros
september 15: rock'n'regulation
september 14: congressman kisshorse
september 1: the color of not quite
august 2006
august 29: a messy split to a civil union
august 28: a herd of attorney general hopefuls
august 24: the great cuomo debate
august 11: large mammal found in hudson
august 3: john faso getting the name out
august 2: sweeney can wait to debate
july 2006
july 28: testosterone diplomacy
july 25: the new york songbird blues
july 20: generational chemical bonding
july 19: internationalizing flag desecration
july 13: john sweeney's ethical challenge
july 12: an adirondack tragedy
july 6: hillary's pest control
june 2006
june 30: k. t. mcfarland plans her strategy
june 29: the wizard of luther forest
june 23: karl rove rides again
june 20: taking liberties with dna tests
june 16: new york's legislative serenade
june 9: weaponizing ann coulter
june 4: 3 fort edward sprawl haiku
may 2006
sketchbook: nys democratic and republican conventions
may 23: spitzer's emigration reform
may 19: the road to hell, 4-wheel drive required
may 18: department of political corrections
may 12: pataki and nature out on a limb
may 11: spitzer makes a commitment
may 9: 9/11 memorial money pit
may 5: the gasoline generation
may 2: sweeney in the animal house
april 2006
april 20: pataki's slice of pizza
april 19: keeping members' items quiet
april 17: pro-rumsfeld generals
april 14: if the budget were reality tv
april 13: vetoing pork at passover
april 5: postprandial pay hike
april 4: courting the berkshire voter
march 2006
march 31: a whopper of a budget
march 29: healthcare policy on ambien
march 28: the jobs americans won't do
march 24: outsourcing ny's air quality
march 23: the albany hillbillies
march 17: sherwood boehlert retires
march 16: adirondack northway welcome
march 14: prescription accomplished
march 10: walmart heads for the hills
march 8: nyra's emergency phone call
march 3: unfinished voting machine business
march 2: dairy crisis in haiku
march 1: gop overcrowding hospitals
february 2006
february 27: suozzi joins the spitzer hunt
february 23: a gift horse in the ports
february 18: operating new york
february 17: nys grad rate drops
february 14: cheney's most dangerous game
february 10: irreconcilable differences in albany
february 9: nys judiciary races
february 1: extreme prison privatization
january 2006
january 31: the call of conspicuous wealth
january 19: pataki's abundant energy
january 17: naturally prickly spitzer
january 13: many unhappy returns
january 6: self portrait of a future president
january 3: bruno bets big on nyra
january 2: ny republican reality
december 2005
december 23: holding up the constitution
december 14: all-day kindergarten
december 13: pataki's exit strategy
december 1: no child left unrecruited
november 2005
november 17: bruno and chicken little
november 11: the battle of ticonderoga 2005
november 2: mutiny on the budget
october 2005
october 28: hillary and roadside moms
october 27: the heartless horseman
october 18: senate campaign cash
october 17: watching the neighbors
october 11: nyra's home stretch
september 2005
september 29: next up, hurricane hillary
september 28: pataki aides katrina victim
september 23: minarik's primary fear
september 20: freedom from fulani
september 16: pataki's misfortune cookie
september 12: budget buster circus
september 8: environmental gumbo
september 2: new orleans in need
august 2005
august 30: demarch of the penguins
august 29: the big sophistry of low expectations
august 23: albany puppet theater
august 19: cryptosporidium takes a holiday
august 18: barbarian at the gop gate
august 15: dec's invitation to launch
august 11: the american madrassa
august 10: senate mud rasslin'
august 4: reflections of grandeur
august 3: steroid hall of fame
july 2005
july 29: another legend steps down
july 25: candidacy contraception
july 22: john roberts' right to life-term
july 20: sucking the life out of medicaid
july 19: pataki tests the muddy waters
july 8: artificial pine authority
july 5: chuck schumer, filly-buster
june 2005
june 29: ny guard's exit strategy
june 28: rochester's ferry sails again
june 24: legeslative summer reading
june 22: new york's beer trail
june 15: regents' new standards
june 14: david vs. goliath vs. ...
june 7: bloomberg takes his eye off the ball
june 2: the bottle bill vs. the larger louder litter lobby
june 1: a pitchfork in the road for jeanine pirro
may 2005
may 31: great barrington's capeless crusader
may 24: 3-card monte in upstate ny
may 23: the not-so-great communicator
may 20: cost of killing increase
may 19: house armed services boys' club
may 18: ny jets stadium holding pattern
may 16: nys school of hard knocks for the blind
may 13: iraq may be hazardous to your health
may 11: new york's unclear option
may 10: securing the freedom tower
may 4: it takes a clinton to raise awareness
may 1: the agricultural food pyramid
april 2005
april 27: base closing shock and awe
april 26: ny's no. 1 boston fan
april 15: return of the budget vampires
april 14: death penalty looks for work
april 13: nys gop first order of business
march 2005
march 31: iroquois confederacy today
march 30: roadkill on the way to a balanced budget
march 24: safety seats for albany's children
march 22: gop mindlessness over matter
march 21: the case for sunshine laws
march 18: the medicaid gift horse
march 17: nys regents go back to the drawing board
march 14: george bush's mercury no-brainer
march 11: pataki cracks down on lobbyist anglers
march 9: ny's new voting machines
march 8: the new, improved budget process
march 4: international paper's tire burn
march 2: pataki's blue state blues
february 2005
february 24: nyc's pollution olympics
february 23: opportunity costs & meth labs
february 20: rainbow division in iraq
february 16: no miracle on ice 2005
february 11: no way to ruin a railroad
february 4: getting orda into shape
february 3: high-sodium driving
february 2: david grandeau-attack dog
january 2005
january 28: the death penalty on life support
january 27: spitzer, the enforcer
january 25: rfk jr. and the tabloids
january 21: more casinos, fewer nursing homes
january 18: department of erin crotty
january 17: junk food fundraising
january 14: regents' polynomial problem
january 12: nys clears the air
january 11: medicaid breakdown
january 6: george pataki, tree hugger
january 4: it isn't easy skiing green
january 3: the state of the deficit
december 2004
december 31: many happy returns
december 29: riddles of the pataki sphinx
december 28: a mule named canal corp
december 23: the tin death man
december 22: re-gifts of the magi
december 14: rockefeller behind bars
december 9: indian land claims
december 8: spitzer cleaning up
november 2004
november 19: high-speed rail line
november 17: albany tic tac toe
november 12: hillary the uniter
november 8: he just keeps going and going
november 5: hard work on the hudson
november 2: john and george-o-lanterns
october 2004
october 29: how to deal with albany
october 27: black bear hunt extended
october 25: the unbeatable ny incumbents
october 22: robert bruno's substance abuse
october 21: wrangling insurance brokers
october 19: imaginary flu shot
october 18: electoral battleground map
october 6: carole stone retires
october 5: government set in concrete
september 2004
september 30: the real invasive species
september 22: veto override breakdown
september 17: ny's earnhardt license plates
september 14: elvis is in da assembly
september 13: oneida flatware closes
august 2004
august 27: budget veterans for truth
august 4: minimum wage justice
august 3: school funding deadline
july 2004
june 2004
may 2004
may 28: vlts & vending machines
may 18: upstate/downstate high stakes
may 6: pataki's prayer breakfast
april 2004
april 28: independent authorities
april 20: school budget financing
march 2004
march 17: marriage of church and state
march 12: grocery store wine sales
march 10: too many cooks spoil the budget
february 2004
february 24: lobby law loopholes
february 20: us senate race begins
february 18: the leaving of the guard
february 09: immigration reform
february 05: tech valley labor
february 1: the virtue of gambling
january 2004
january 18: adirondack ice hocks
december 2003
december 29: snowmobile compromise
november 2003
november 30: five corners pile-up
november 2: unopposed incumbents
october 2003
october 12: hip-hop's wildcats
october 5: incoming and outgoing
september 2003
september 29: wallmart and rv's
september 22: little makes a call
september 16: ny senate's session
september 15: warren co. gop mutineer
september 9: committee of clones
september 3: hillary's dilemma
september 1: warren co. occupancy tax
august 2003
august 17: summer of damp and dark
august 11: moreau/reliant cogeneration
july 2003
july 6: regents test: math-dwi
june 2003
june 15: glens falls bridgework
june 5: living history & pigeons
may 2003
caricatures: democratic leadership council
may 9: wall street's punishment
april 2003
march 2003
march 17: dredging for dollars
march 9: glens falls faulty fireplugs
february 2003
february 25: liberal party extinction
february 10: gangs of new york state
february 3: dec and epf budgets
february 2: hadley-luzerne middle school crisis
january 2003
january 22: suny tuition hikes
january 20: surviving the cold snap
january 19: living with milfoil
january 14: death row politics
january 13: ge healthcare walkout
january 12: snowmobile exposure
january 10: flash pataki, futurist
january 5: snowmobile behavior
december 2002
december 15: northway phones return
december 4: gay rights bill split
december 3: bush's burn barrel
november 2002
november 27: thanksgiving cuts
november 7: the next elections begin
november 3: campaign spending record
november 1: three men in a tub
october 2002
october20: pataki's hybrid vehicle
october18: a tax by any other name
october15: hillary's poll standing
october14: pataki & the minority parties
october6: the boss for u.s. senate
september 2002
september 29: twilight empire zone
september 14: 9-11 lucky number
september 9: new york's twin defecits
august 2002
august 26: dennis mehiel's bundles
august 24: pataki's money drop
august 23: hillary and fried dough
august 10: martha stewart & the loaf
july 2002
july 28:running out of the money
july 22:campaign $ blue ribbon
july 21: sematech comes to albany
july 14: saratoga's horse art vandals
july 11: pataki's popularity bubble
july 10: nipping at the death penalty
july 8: albany's unfinished business
july 7: collections for the church
july 4: epf & superfund in trouble
july 1: no way to run a railroad
june 2002
june 25: ny regents physics exam
june 24: summer blood donation
june 13: urban mayors and the schools
june 4: car insurance inflation
june 3: board of regents at play
may 2002
may 30: cheney's musical chair
may 28: andrew cuomo, party of one
may 27: an adirondack fixture retires
may 26: sue kelly's long, strange district
may 24: h. carl mccall's resume
may 23: unconventional departures
may 20: inflated property taxes
may 10: lyme disease takes flight
may 8: death penalty supporters
may 3: hinchey's job on the line
april
april 24: earthquake explained
april 20: spitzer vs. the bull
april 17: cuomo's kickoff tour
april 16: still waiting for the budget
april 14: procrastinator's day
april 10: bloomberg's munchies
april 7: hockey fan protection
april 3: prisoner art exhibits
april 2: tribal cigarette sales
march
march 28: hope for underachieving students
march 27: rockefeller drug laws
march 26: nesbitt's new office
march 25: democratic straw poll
march 14: the catholic gargoyle
march 13: initiative and referendum denounced
mar 10: $20 billion with a twist
mar 5: mary donohue's position
february
feb 20: strategic redistricting
2001
winter 2001/02: the year in review
winter 2001/02: rep. sweeney's ny relief bill
fall 2001: rising from september's ashes
fall 2001: from glens falls with love
fall 2001: late budget bullies
summer 2001: moreau: game called on account of stupidity
summer 2001: new state campsite regulations
summer 2001: land of the black fly and jet ski
spring 2001: lake george's declaration of inconvenience
spring 2001: andrew cuomo's not listening tour
spring 2001: where the jaguar, rabbit and impala. . .park
spring 2001: education financing 101
spring 2001: disguised cell towers
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