As fossil fuel resources within the planet dwindle from extreme over-mining, we are being presented with a frightening prospect for the near future. Like a benzene-crazed junkie wielding a poison-tipped dagger, the gas drilling industry is poised to lunge wildly at the western flank of this region, part of an ancient Appalachian fossil formation called [...]
Volume III No. 2
What the Frack?
Battalions of Halliburton clones may soon be tearing up the Catskills to get at stubborn seams of trapped ‘natural’ gas
Jane Doe • July 1st, 2010
Radio Heads
WGXC, Columbia/Greene’s new FM upstart, is really cool and needs your help!
Steve Hopkins • July 1st, 2010
The City of Hudson is brimming with new and exciting initiatives, not the least of which is WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a fledgling, soon to be full-power, 3,300-watt community-run radio station. Having obtained the rights to broadcast on 90.7-FM, the station is a potential powerhouse whose founders — in particular executive director Galen Joseph-Hunter, her program [...]
My (non-)interview with Pete Seeger on gay and lesbian rights
Jay Blotcher • July 1st, 2010
Back in 2004, I took part in a protest against the GOP Convention in NYC. As the march neared Madison Square Garden, I noticed legendary activist Pete Seeger marching nearby. Thrilled, I asked him to pose for a photo with me and my pal David Cohen. Soon afterwards, I hatched the idea of interviewing Seeger [...]
Fear from above
The true foundation of a strong home is its roof
Steve Hopkins • July 1st, 2010
Among any homeowner’s most unsettling fears is that of not having a solid roof overhead. The assumption that your home’s lid is in good shape, even after experts checked the thing inside and out and pronounced it sound for at least another 15 years, is never a foregone conclusion. A small, secret leak from a [...]
The Magnificent 11
Can anyone beat The Steamroller, Part II? A bevy of challengers from across the visible, geographic and political spectrum, including two progressives from the Mid-Hudson Valley, take a look in the mirror and say: ‘Why not me?’
Steve Hopkins • July 1st, 2010
There are three things for sure about this year’s New York State gubernatorial election season. Nobody four years ago could have predicted this. The man once known as “The Sheriff of Wall Street” and “The Steamroller,” subsequently identified as “Client #9” and now “Disgraced Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer,” is now a CNN talk show [...]
‘Your Vote Has Been Optically Scanned (Beep.) Next’
Yes, it’s finally happening this fall. A professional election inspector assesses the impact of the new electronic voting machines
Ann Hutton • July 1st, 2010
This September, just in time for our two homegrown state governor hopefuls Joel Tyner and Andi Weiss Bartczak to do primary battle with each other and Andrew Cuomo should they get enough signatures, scores of new ImageCast electronic optical-scanning voting machines will sit in 89 Ulster County polling places, awaiting the decisions of voters. They’ll [...]
