CAPITOL ATTRACTIONS IN ALBANY
After meeting with the Gov last Monday, I had a little time to kill. I spent some time admiring the glories of The War Room, a reception area on the second floor of the Capitol Building. The War Room has that name because it is decorated with murals dedicated to the various conflicts in which …
JUNE 2016
6.16 The turtle returns 6.15 Almost 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it. 6.13 Albany 6.12 49 people are killed by a gunman at a nightclub in Orlando. It was the deadliest mass shooting …
ALI, CUOMO AND ABZUG
The incomparable Muhammad Ali died on Friday evening at the age of 74. There are about a million people far better equipped than I to eulogize his life. The only time I ever saw him in person came in September 1977–I’m thinking it was Sunday the 19th. I had been working on the mayoral campaign …
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Presenting Maria Malanowski, BS, Mercy College, Class of 2016. Huzzah!
MAY 2016
5.31 Rick MacLeish dies at 66. “In the first period of Game 6, which clinched the title, MacLeish controlled a face-off in the Bruins’ end, sliding the puck to a teammate, Andre Dupont, who let fly with a slap shot that MacLeish, skating across the goal mouth, deflected into the net with the heel of …
MAY 2016
5.7 Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, was elected Mayor of London, beating the son of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith 5.7 A passenger on a flight between Philadelphia and Syracuse reported her seat mate seemed suspicious and was writing in a foreign language. The man in question turned out to be Guido Menzio, a 40 year-old Ivy League …
APRIL 2016
4.30 Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Association dinner: “The republican establishment is incredulous that he is their most likely nominee. Incredulous. Shocking. They say Donald lacks the foreign policy experience to be president. But in fairness, he has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world: Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan. …