Bias in the media, and in people in general, can be a difficult thing to confront. Call someone on his or her bias, and he or she can turn right around and accuse you of being biased, too, and to a certain degree, this is true. We are all inherently biased. It is an integral [...]
Volume II No. 3
Yellow (Lab) Journalism
Steve Hopkins • April 1st, 2009
As a publisher, one must choose one’s battles carefully, and try not to alienate the entire region you’re attempting to serve. As a reporter and writer, you strive to get at the truth, whether it be literal or something deeper and more complex. In that respect, I’ve historically erred on the side of incaution, more [...]
How Green is My Stool?
Omega Institute goes for the (LEED) Platinum in reimagining its sewage problem into America’s first Living Building project
Steve Hopkins • April 1st, 2009
Pretty green, as it turns out. Skip Backus (speaking in the above photo), the self-made director of the Omega Institute, which resides in the Town of Clinton in Dutchess County but maintains a tony Rhinebeck mailing address, hosted a contingent of visiting journalists on March 26 to take a gander at the nearly completed Omega [...]
Solar Subterfuge
How SpectraWatt, a $50 million startup backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, left Oregon at the altar and eloped to tax-break heaven in East Fishkill
Steve Hopkins • April 1st, 2009
By the time this newspaper hits the streets, The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) will have saved face somewhat, introducing Prism Solar Technologies, Inc.’s new 93,000-square-foot holographic solar manufacturing and operations facility in Highland. But that won’t quite make up for what must have been a major PR setback when, just a couple of weeks earlier, [...]
Pike Plot
Uptown Kingston biz owners conspire to derail $1.8 million canopy restoration
Steve Hopkins • April 1st, 2009
It’s a hot time in the old town of Kingston, as tempers are flaring over the apparent inevitability of a $1.8 million renovation project to bring the Uptown district’s “Pike Plan” — the deteriorating 1970s-era covered canopy that lends a seedy, anachronisticNeo-Colonial “character” to the former Dutch stockade area — into the 21st century. Tom [...]
