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WAMCYou know the kinds of restaurants and take-out places I’m talking about. The food is thoughtful, high quality and reflected in the prices. Their politics is enlightened, if by enlightened you mean liberal, eco-friendly and college-educated. -
WAMCOver the 20 years of these commentaries, I have almost never talked about American military adventures abroad but President Trump’s decision to take us to war with Iran has brought me back to that topic.
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The climate change crisis is having negative effects on people all over the world. Responsible world leaders are reacting to this crisis. -
I have many friends who love to garden. They survive winter by dreaming of the day when flowers start to bloom Those thoughts of spring are stimulated months before April. They begin when the seed and flower catalogues begin to arrive mid-winter.
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It’s mid-March. Which, by all accounts means two things. One, we all think it should be warmer than it is by now. And two, it is time to fill out your NCAA Tournament brackets.
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This week the nation celebrates the need for government openness during annual “Sunshine Week.”
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To start with a bit of personal history: I was the drum major of my high school marching band. To prepare to wear the big hat and carry the baton, I went to a summer drum major camp at a big university in the west; I was told that I had to “learn some struts.”
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My wife and I met and courted in Iran while we were both in the U.S. Peace Corps. Our first date – I think it was in the late Spring of 1966 – was a walk through the grand bazaar in Tehran. It has now been bombed as part of the hostilities among the U.S., Israel and Iran.
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This week Proctors announced its 2026-2027 Key Bank Broadway Series and the Capital Repertory Theatre season.
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It took three tries and some prompting but I finally got AI to produce the answer I was looking for. I asked it — if AI has preferred pronouns it’s up to artificial intelligence to let me know what they are — whether winter had an equivalent to Indian Summer. What provoked the query were the three days of seventy-degree weather that nature granted us this week. -
The production of “Archduke” playing at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany through March 29 is a phenomenal production of material that, though a bit dense, is incredibly stimulating.
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There was a point in not that distant NBA history where 83 points was a decent amount. Like pretty much the entire 90’s for the Knicks. That, of course, is for an entire team, for an entire game.
