By Lisa Schiff
“The War on Kids,” a recently re-promoted 2009 documentary about our educational system, ends with a horrifying scene of a young girl, no more than 7 or 8, screaming and crying as three law enforcement officers pull her up from a ch…
Archive of posts filed under the States category.
Let’s End the “War on Kids”
Two FishStick Eaters Found Not Guilty of Robbery
On Thursday, Shawn Peebles (26) and Travis Webb (22), two young black men, were found not guilty in their trial for Robbery in Albany. I must confess to being out of the courtroom for most of the evidentiary segment but I was in the room for the testim…
Honest Weight Co-op’s Site Plan Approved
On Thursday night, the Albany Planning Board approved the Site Plan for the Honest Weight Food Co-op located at 100 Watervliet Avenue in Albany. Board members sat nervously in the audience and Mr. Hershberg presented the plan for a 30,700 square f…
APD: Pull Over Lady…Now, How Much Do You Weigh?
The Citizens Police Review Board held court on Washington Avenue on Thursday and played host to a rather interesting case. While the names of the officers and complainants normally remain confidential and I don’t report them, this case was a little b…
Loss of Another Albany Legend: Nebraska, We’ll Miss You
While in the middle of the Citizens Police Review Board meeting, I got some sad news. Nebraska Brace, former third ward councilman and Albany Legend, had died. One of the few goals I had when I first moved to Albany was to meet Nebraska. Ya see, I read…
Rational Behavior
“When proper temperament joins with proper intellectual framework, then you get rational behavior.”
–Warren Buffett
A Dark Day 94 Years Ago for Free Speech — With a SIlver Lining
On May 16, 1918, Congress approved the Sedition Act. The law was an expansion of the previous year’s Espionage Act, which allowed the Postmaster General to remove seditious or treasonable material from the mail and punished anyone convicted of interfering with military recruitment with up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.
The Sedition Act added the same penalty to anyone who publicly criticized the government:
“Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces [....]
