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It's a nice day out, so I am not going to waste any of your time, noting anything but this one news stories below.
The new Free Individual: An Autobiography of Andrew B. Arthur is now up and running, as is a new photo—and I plan to take more today.
What else—I don't know, it's kind of neat and exciting to have a big webpage like this now up and running. Okay, bye!
on the pros and cons of the in-planning Malta Tech Park.
Today's articles are about the pollution impacts and the demands on infrastructure—from both perspectives—small amounts of air pollution versus other local factories (roughly 18 tons of hazardous emissions per year vs. 170 tons for the Ball Metal Plant), and the issue of additional traffic and infrastructure.
Another interesting point that today's article brings up is the possibility that if the factories ever materialize (something we don't really know—as the people interested in such chip factories are secret), what will happen when they dump the factories in a couple of years, when technology changes or it becomes unprofitable to make chips there?
After all, companies off-write all kinds of business losses, even big ones, without really caring—in the business world today, the money spent today is gone, and therefore it doesn't really matter. In other words, there's no crying over spilt milk.
I know last year there was a bill kicking around the legislature that would extend lemon law protections to Motorcycles, and since farm equipment is expensive, it ought to be protected.
Whenever you buy anything expensive, government should take an activist role to ensure the product your getting is decent and usable—the lemon laws for cars make so much sense, but the opposition to expanding them makes little sense (at least for me).
Already 6 states in the US of A extend lemon law protection to tractors and similiar equipment—which makes a lot of sense, as much big ag equipment costs nearly as much as cars do (to say nothing about motorcycles).
In an industry that has become highly dependent on agricultural machinery, owning a working tractor, combine, baler or other piece of farm equipment is a matter of survival. Farmers face profit margin losses and a work backlog if a key machine broke down.
"It's like having trouble with your heart," explained Cornell, who raises cows, horses and other livestock on his Bainbridge farm in Chenango County. "If it doesn't work, you're in trouble."
See the Observer Dispatch.
Or in inaction, that would be—with the Westchester Legislature banning interest groups from it's halls?
I understand they don't like anti-abortion protestors, but they certainly aren't alone in that dislike—but I will defend their right to protest that and anything else that they want.
"The board's functions are the people's functions, its space is the public's space and to create a separateness is very dangerous," said Judy Anderson, a director of the Hudson Valley Coalition for Life, which cosponsored last year's ceremony...
In case you missed the interview the other night—see the legislative gazette.
And I say what's new, and nod my head up and down with the stupdity that Jay points out.
The Times Union had a fascinating article on Sunday about people with mental disabilities and their demand for greater tolerance:
But in a new kind of disabilities movement, many of those who deviate from the shrinking subset of neurologically "normal" want tolerance, not just of their diagnoses, but of their behavioral quirks. They say brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced, and argue for an acceptance of "neurodiversity."
It's hard to say what deviance is acceptable and what isn't—to argue one is and one isn't, solely on fake grounds such as percieved morality, limits our society to preconcieved prejudices.
Science has shown many of us are different—we think different as we have had different experience, and experience defines how we behave. I don't think it really matters how one behaves, as long as his or her actions do not cause substainal harm to others.
The other part of the article deals with over dianosis of the problems—a problem is not pathological or even something to worry about, unless it causes a serious impairment in a person.
I think psychoanalysis can hold a key to giving us greater freedom in understanding ourselves, and improve social relations, if used properly. But all too often it is used to either avoid blame ("it's the illness that makes him do it"), escape societal blame ("he's crazy, not me"), or as social control ("if you do that, your crazy").
I am working on a piece of fodder on this subject, as I think understanding psychology and it's ramifications on social control will allow us a greater freedom and greater understanding of ourselves and others.
would happen to be the rather spung Spanky and the Gang's It Ain't Neccessarily Byrd Avenue.
If you under about 55 years of age and are not from NYC, you probably have no clue what I'm talking about—but oh, well. I'm only 21 and from upstate NY, and I know the song and has such a wonderful melody, even if it sounds really old (and is really old). Silly Broadway.
Speaking of colorful spring-songs, I should note the weather is nice out again—although maybe not for long. Tommorow I'm going hiking.
Says some of the fine members of the state legislature.
Which is okay for me, as smoking is a rather dirty polluting habit—go any indoors place where smoking was once allowed—you'll see what I mean.
Think about it, your dragging on a smoldering piece of tabacco with all it's toxins—and we know how wonderful breathing the by-products of incomplete combustion are, even if the material your burning is natural or fairly-natural (as is the case with tobacco).
I'm not calling for a ban on tobacco, as that would drive prices up and make a big illegal market (and hurt tobacco planations), not to mention deprive people of the right to kill themselves (a right I've always defended).
Just raising the age from 18 to 19, will keep it out of minor's hands, by getting rid of the major High School population of 18 year olds who can easily purchase it for their younger peers. Still, parents will buy it for their kids and kids will still it from their parents—but it will at least ensure parents are aware of their kid's habits, and make it more difficult for kids to smoke.
I can see why Blair Horner opposes this bill—it would create a whole class of college student's that can't drag for a year—but I disagree with him, simply because almost everybody gets to 19, and one year of not-tobacco smoking is not such a great loss, particularly in a world where tobacco is banned in so many places.
See the Associated Press Coverage, the Times Union Coverage.
I would get you the bill numbers, but LRS is currently down.
I'm glad that I probably don't have to worry about that at the Capitol.
See the accusation against Adam Clayton Powel VI in the TU...
came to Albany—I happen to pass by their tent when walking around the plaza last night.
They hiked 200 miles from the other end of the state, to symbolicly show the hardships they face, and to ask legislators to pass legislation that would extend the same overtime rights, collective bargaining powers, workers' compensation benefits and other protections to farmworkers as enjoyed by other workers in the state.
I've met and heard the stories of several farm laborers in the past—one who talked about the smell of sweat on their body, from days and days of hard labor under the sun, picking fruit (of some kind), without taking a shower or changing. Another family whose income was centered around supply farm labor to a local dairy farm, worked there for several months, and then just packed up their bags and left, when they found a better place to work.
It's a much different experience then the most of are us are used to. Some it might be fundamental unfairness, and some might be the quarks and the idosyncracies of the agricultural industry. I can see the danger of tinkering with agriculture though, as it's wrapped so much in historicisms and local cultures.
See the Times Union story...
They are talking about the weather getting in the 80 °F range today—nice.
I'm off to Thatcher Park or another area—I have yet to decide for sure. I just don't want to stay home all day, and I want a chance to get as many neat photos as possible. I already have a bunch of batteries charging, so I should be all set with my new Camera (which takes such beautiful pictures—as witnessed by the Greenhouse Gnome posted to the right).
Not a lot of news today, but I have some interesting thoughts and some old stuff to catch up on.
hike in the blistering heat out Lobell Mill Road and back down Basic Creek Road. Details obviously will be in the Out-Blog.
After dinner, I went out swimming in the creek out back—it's as scummy as usual, although with more algea then usual (partly due to it being spring). The water is still pretty cold.
It's kind of disgusting to think the fine citizens of Albany get to drink this water, after I'm done swimming in it—to say nothing of all the untreated grey water (sink, washing machine, bathtub) dumped directly into it—giving it all those nice soap suds. At least, it avoids overwelming people's septic tanks.
That and the junk cars (and other assorted junk) struned along various parts of the Hannicroix and Basic Creeks, not to mention the cows walking in and well, doing their business in both of those creeks. Country life is wonderful!
I saw an interesting show about how the mind works on PBS last night—how it processes data, false consciousness, and how it starts to fail when people get old. After reading some pages on psychonline.com, and reading some books on the subject, I've gotten extremely interested.
to the denist, if that's all the Malta Tech Park ever becomes—just zoom there, off the high-speed Exit 11A, merge into the denist's parking lot, and drill, drill, drill, in the latest in high-tech buildings that were suppost to host chip fabs.
Kind of like most of Plattsburgh and the Air Force base, I guess you could say.
So what is going to happen when (if they are built) the plants become obsolete, and become little more then an eye sore or just boring old office space?
With lots of pros and cons—and lots of booms and busts—high tech isn't around forever:
The growth, he said, is a two-sided sword. One side has the money and jobs. On the other, traffic's a pain. While population has soared, periodic tech busts have caused higher unemployment, too. The legacies of these busts—empty buildings and for-lease signs—dot the roads...
...Changes to Oregon's tax laws that slashed what they would owe did attract Intel and other companies. And now, O'Toole argues, the legacy of the planning and the subsidies is a big mess. Oregon taxes are high. Home prices are high. Unemployment is high—the second highest in the nation during February, behind Alaska.
They may have gotten Intel to come to Hillsbro, Oregon, but at the same time the economy has staginated and had many problems—to say nothing about the traffic and other problems.
It looks like a definate possiblity, according the desires of the CDTA to get more money from the poor slobs like me who have to ride the bus.
I am sure they are feeling particularly special about this.
I guess the judical conduct committee and the Court of Appeals doesn't like people who set a $25,000 bail on bike light.
Yeap, milk prices for consumers are going up, yet another time.
That or Adam Clayton Powell IV's minions got to her first—at any rate, she has changed her story.
I just kind of wrote some of this last night, and some of it comes from notes I have had kicking around for a while—lots of interesting stuff.
It looks like the weather is going to be awsome today, and I'm going to be at the Capitol all day picking up Adgendas for committee meetings next week. That said, it will probably be another steamer of a day.
US Senator John Warner, Chair of the Armed Services Committee and Donald Rumsfield seem to think the photos will get out one way or another—either by the government or by some other brave individual.
With the Internet and diverse 24-hour news services, it would not be surpising that such a thing would happen—and both Warner and Rumsfield think the government should release the photos—but claim that the legal bureaucracy would never let them (we've heard that one before).
I personally do not want to see the photos, as we've seen enough violence in our society, and we really do not need to see anymore. Still, I think knowing the truth about the US's pratices in Iraq is important, and they should be released in an controlled fashion, with all the important parties getting first access to them first, and do extensive damage control.
That's the only way that I can see we can deal effectively with this information, and protect the rights of the people in the democratic society that we currently live in. These photos will inevitably hurt our position in the world, but admiting their existence, and effectively dealing with the problem will help us the best in the long run.
War is a horrible thing, but it's one that we must admit exists, and that attrosities are committeed during war. The truth always has a great deal of value, and I'm just totally disgusted with the photos and the war in general.
See the New York Times.
the regents, despite the state education commissioner's ban on politically correct editing of Regents exams
.
It's not really surpising—although the fact that they are excluding a passage about obesity seems silly—maybe now they will censor all critiques of modernity (which obviously produced a modern obese society).
Personally, I think the Regents should include all relevant and interesting passages for students to look at—even a passage of Nazi propaganda that advocated the extermination of people the Nazis considered inferior
—to provide a full range of materials to work with.
Again, people should know about the truth, and be able to decide what a passage really means—words people do not like should not be censored. I think this is essentially in the free society we live in.
See the Times Union article.
starting Monday in Massachussetts.
The end of the road has been reached for opponets of such marrriages, with the Court of Appeals of MA deciding it's a consitutional right—and any action to Federal Court almost assured to fail (as it's a state consitutional question). I hope the Federal District Courts stay out of this decision, as it's obviously a state question.
The important thing is that same-sex relationships will be normalized by this decision, which will reduce deviance and therefore discomfort and hate in society. I have discussed this point much in the past.
So it would seem, with Alan Hevesi's audit which shows many cost overruns and mismanagement.
It's the same old story of authorities mis-doing many of things that they do, and the political patronage games that they can get away with.
NYPA says it's getting out of power generation and distribution business, going for private suppliers, but I fear to know how much money that will all waste.
I wonder what it must be like in those foriegn universes—are they places of freedom without wars, killing, and hate? Is there a world beyond our own, where intelligent creatures have found out how to live together in perfect harmony?
Maybe if it weren't were humankind as we know it today, we would live in such a world. Maybe, that is. Maybe peace and a world without prejudice exists, somewhere deep in outer space, somewhere beyond the realms of our imagination.
There must be a promised land, somewhere, somehow. We wouldn't be able to dream of it, if there wasn't a possibility of it's existence, it would seem. There are just so many stars out there, illuminating the night sky.
To the North-East from here, I see the light pollution from the City of Albany, and other urban areas, where light is carelessly reflected into the night skiy. That light comes from the light of the sun's earth, stored in fossil fuels, currently being consumed and used up. Burned up, like a paper plate in a fire, forever gone into little more then carbon dioxide and assorted other chemicals.
I also look around and see many planes splicing the night sky, coming in and out of Albany International and other airports. I can't imagine riding a plane in the days of such limitations, but I guess some choose to limit their freedoms to embrace the benifits that technology gives us.
In the distance, the coyotes are barking and the spring peepers are peeping. There is nothing particularly strange about this, as it's part of the rural experience. But it's kind of exciting to sit here, out under the starts and hear all the nature that surrounds you.
I kind of got freaked out, when something—I do not know what, brushed up against my legs. In the backlight of my laptop, it appeared to be a porupine, but it turned out to be little more then just crab grass, grown really high, where I haven't gotten around to mowing this year.
I happened to be in Price Chopper and Slingerlands, and happened to stumble upon the natural/organic section, and came to some interesting conclusions.
If anything, that silly natural and organic food section of Price Chopper in Slingerlands demostrates the problem in society with fakery, mass society and attempting to fix mass societies' problems and failures. Some how buying organic food from a giant supermarket/sprawlmart is suppost to make you feel better, suppost to make up for the fact that the rest of the cart is filled with other crap—not to mention that 2 ton SUV in the parking lot, the farmland/forest paved over for the supermarket, and best yet, for the fact that even the organic crap is wrapped in plastic destine for Rapp Road.
I can see the argument that getting away from agrichemical-based agriculture probably is good for both the environment and for yourself (as some chemicals are likely soaked up into the fruit/vegetables). Not to mention, it makes people feel good—if they can't get a real solution, hegemony is best, I guess. Yet, you can't outrun the train of rationality: mass organic farming probably will have environmental impacts, not to mention health impacts. If anything, it's life being chased by the masses—one must always tried to be one step ahead, otherwise they lose.
It's the mass society paradox all over again—we can pretend it doesn't exist, but it's always around us in an existential form, even when we attempt to downplay it and ignore it. There is no escaping it, even when you run off to the country, buy organic foods, pretend to be free—your still in the trap of mass society.
with some notes on suburban life, that I wrote last year:
Biological necessity is pretty simplistic and easy to fulfill. Simply put—death doesn't come easy—some of us know, we've thought about it a bit. You don't need any piece of technobabble to live, much less open space. Hey, the 30% of people who live in cities know this very well—and that's totally ignoring the 50% people who live in the suburbs.
Fundamentally suburban living is not a fundamentally strange concept to any American. The suburban house certainly fulfills all the basic biological necessities, even though they do not have large backyards, and the neighbors are all nearby. Driveways are paved, houses have a couple of trees in front of them. They are disorganized and under-construction, not unlike their non-urban equivalents.
There are hard-working people, poor people, and of course the white-collar rich that live in suburbs. To argue any degree commonality, except for fairly close living conditions and green lawns would be difficult with the suburban style of living—as over 50% of Americans choose to live in the suburbs. There seems to be real priority on material items—even poor suburbanites typically have nice new TVs, and their kids have the best toys. Crass materialism seems to be a significant trend in suburbs: when other things can't satisfy, then spend your money on lavish interiors on people's houses.
sex scandals are becoming popular in Albany again.
Before the Boxley case, and now the Adam Clayton Powell VI scandal, the previous one dates back to 30 years early—the Assembly Minority (Democrats) scandal of 1973 involving some Albany Med nurses. Kind of an obscure story, although if you dig back to the records of that year, then you'll see what I mean.
Like when any scandal breaks, there always is calls for reform, although these are likely not to pass as they are rather intrusive on members, and also interfere with long standing policies of smooshing and boosing with interns.
Just don't worry, by happy—both the Senate and the Assembly have strong sexual harassment policies, and they do that silly training once a year, to ensure nobody is taking advantage of their position—as noted by the lack of sex scandals over the years—that is, except for the last two.
Somehow this is not surpising, as protecting the environment is good for your business, as if there are no clean natural areas, there won't be people wanting to buy your products.
Nike wrote to the Bush Administration that: The modifications to the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule have the potential to negatively impact our nation's natural resources, our citizens' outdoor experience and ultimately, our industry's financial health.
It makes sense to me—it's no different then Troy Shale and Gravel lobbying the state for more road projects.
See CNN: Outdoor gear makers support logging rules.
If you live in the Albany area, it's costing you roughly $2.05 a gallon, in my experience, to fill up your tank.
So if you have roughly 10 gallons a fill up (Sundance's tank is roughly 13.5 gal), then it will cost roughly $20.50. Of course, if you drive something larger, like a truck which requires premium, then you will paying closer to $2.27 a gallon, and in a 40 gallon tank, that is about $90.80 a fill up.
I can just see my Plymouth Sundance increasing in value with the rising gas prices—if your SUV or full-size truck is costing you to much, there always is Sundance.
walking along the reflect pools, although one could say it got a bit hot out there.
Got a nice hot dog with the works from one of the street vendors—for $2.50 with soda, it was good stuff. Better yet, I got paid for this internship. Life is great being an intern. ;)
I had to of noticed how scummy those reflecting pools truly are—then again, they are never filtered, so the water that was put in there in April will be there until September. Hopefully though, OGS will send some poor slob out there to filter it out using one of those pool nets.
Going into the LOB the other day, I was looking at the list of prohibited items to bring in the building—one of them was ammo. I was immediately disappointed, simply because that means I can't bring some of my chewed up pens capped with 9 MM shell casings. Darn it. I guess they are afraid we will leave shell casings on the floor, and the members will trip and break all there bones.
Then again, with my press ID and avoiding metal detectors—I don't want to push it though—I'm happy leaving those pens home—they look rather unprofessional anyways.
I guess I'm just not used to air conditioning, not being that much of an urbanite.
It was kind of nice, if not a little strange, when I got on the air conditioned bus the first thing in the morning—cool, less humid, but very air conditioning feeling. Air conditioning always has kind of a werid feeling when you first go in, or even when you stay in for a while.
Sometimes air conditioning in buildings doesn't seem that great, even when it is kept at 72 °F—they still feel warm, although with a kind of strange discomfort caused by the coolness of the indoor air. Hard to explain—but air conditioning just is not as delightful as in the winter, sitting next to a raditator, or better yet, the nice warm heat of a woodstove.
It just seemed to me that the LOB was a bit on the warm side yesterday, although far from unbearable—I guess the boys as Sheridan Avenue needed to jump up the juice a bit—or maybe I just didn't notice the cool.
First off, I want to put it on the record that the green-tinted windows in the farm bureau building are so ugly—particularly with that modernist outside to the building.
And the Walmart on the other side of the street is so ugly too. Maybe it's a perfect match, I do not know. Walmart just needs sleezy lobbyists to work Albany, at least as high of a visibility as the ones across the street. Their store has a lot of stuff—mostly cheap and tacky.
I guess this Walmart store personifies all things Walmart, suburbinization, more traffic lights and control over people, fields becoming ugly mega-marts, and so forth.
I remember as a kid my fear of racoons and ferrits, after a friend of my got bit by the later and rabies was such an epidemic around here.
I was listening to The Roundtable this morning on WAMC about a local story in Washington County. I could not locate this story, but I found a similar story in the Syracuse Post Standard about vicious rabid foxes.
The good news is that such attacks are very rare, even for people living in rural areas where they are more likely to be in contact with foxes (an animal that stays away from humans most of the time except for sick rabbid animals).
The story is similar: we live on the verge of a wooded area
, where they are likely to come in contact with animals sick or well. Still, it's pretty frightening, but it won't stop me from going out or being myself.
The state DEC in their infinate wisdom is proposing that several triple-digit huts be built on Whiteface Mountain, to give the state more revenue, and to damage the notion of forever wild.
It's nice to see that the DEC has such ideas although it looks like they are dead in the water for consitutional reasons:
"This sets a dangerous precedent for further development of the Adirondack 'forever wild' forest preserve," said Kevin Prickett of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks.
Prickett referred to the state constitution's "forever wild" clause that protects the forest preserve, which is 42 percent of the state's 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. He said the cabins would violate the constitution and a 1932 vote by New Yorkers that rejected a proposal to allow colonies of cabins for rent.
The issue is being decided by the APA, the state agency that regulates land use in the park. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has found no constitutional problem, according to APA documents. The Adirondack Council's John Sheehan said that if groups can't stop the proposal, they may fight it in court: "Quite clearly the constitution forbids leasing the forest preserve to anybody, for an hour, for a day, for a year—it doesn't matter."
I'm on the record with my opinions on these, so just take a look at the Times Union article.
Yes, kids, that's where I am going today. It's going to be a nice day out, and for sure it's going to be nice up there, going on a picnic with my parents.
The sun is coming out, and it's going to get up to 75 °F—I know it's going to be just wonderful out.
The one on C1: Business Section, showing the public service commission lady—just what every power generator stereo-typically portrays the PSC as being (grumpy old lady).
The other one was A1: Front Page Section, showing a picture of a J. Edgar Hoover poster reminding kids of what they should do to avoid being hurt by child molsters, etc.—Hoover is such a perfect person to be on such a poster, if you know what I mean.
It looks like people are getting really frisky about some students wearing confederate flags to school—I wonder what ever happened to freedom of expression? Oh, I forgot such notions are so 1960s.
Can't people show their rebelliousness anymore? Are we so sure that supporting the union was the right thing, that we can't permit competition to that idea? I always thought monopolies where a sign of weakness of a person—competition allows for the survival of the fitest.
Like usual, townspeople have less courage then most holstein cows—they are so afraid of being labeled a 'racist' or a 'redneck' (you can call me that anyday, and I've heard enough John Deere jokes in my day):
As controversies go, this one died quickly. Administrators and teachers at the 600-person school say students have stashed their paraphernalia since last Friday's protest. Almost all the parents of the recalcitrant students see things the school's way, they say. This isn't a town of rednecks or racists, they're quick to point out, embarrassed by the attention the incident has brought.
I don't think the confederate flag is one of racism any more then any other symbol. And if people want to be racist, then so be it—I've been racist before, but I am not afraid to admit it, and whatever my position will be, I will be proud of it.
Maybe I should get a confederate flag and show it in pride—stick it next to my defiled American flag with a peace sign on it—and wair a black arm band at the same time.
about the fact that large milkcows are getting too much feed—or in other words, that upstate NY is now paying for NYC's 1970s debts.
All I can say, is at least the city isn't going bankrupt and costing upstate more. And we have many programs on the books that ensure the city gets special punishment for, well, being a big city.
with interns, they are going to be punished under Legislative law and the wills of Sheldon and Joe.
If your a member, be afraid, very afraid. And I was concerned by the undermining of Albany culture by the paranoia created over intern sex scandals.
I was doing some research on psychology, deviance, and homosexuality, mainly for my own interest, and I happened to stumble upon a website, that had several articles claiming to explain speech online, and why it is different from offline.
These articles look at a number of factors, such as the issue of privacy, the anonymous or semi-anonymous nature of internet communication, the anti-synchronous nature (in legal terms: no immediate response) of many forms of internet communication (such as discussion boards), the democracization and classless nature of the internet, and the difference between the written and spoke word. My interest is particularly in the later, as writing is so important to my site, and to me as a person—and I want to be truth both in spoken and written word.
One concern about the general demeaner of the site is it tends to try to link the spoken word with various forms of psychopathy and psychological disorders. It even goes as far to suggest that maybe a virtual psychology could be benifical in select cases. We are more frank in the written word, particularly when it comes without quick rebuttel or feedback to what we say—but I don't think words alone convey enough meaning to explain how a really acts.
The site tries to connect certain behavior to certain psychopathic labels, even though it is impossible to know soley by the written word, what a person is feeling. People can write anything, they can string any group of letters or words together, and mean absolutely nothing. Or mean something beyond the literal meaning of the words, or something that you totally do not understand. And certainly, equating the use of fairly mild speech in a public forum to an action or a pathological problem is just plain wrong.
Words are interesting to the point that they often reveal a lot about ourselves, without us consciously knowing what we reveal. Frued noted that much of how we think deep down, comes from repressed fragments of our childhood. Still to base all of psychotherapy on words alone and not action poses a serious risk to the freedom and dignity of mankind.
Still, this article is very interesting—and demostrates that online thought may lead to a greater truth, where people's inhabitions are less and their speech is closer to how they really feel. To take the written word as serious is to be foolish and ignorant. With the democratic nature of being online, people can express freely and relatively equally, which inevitably leads to a greater freedom for all that are involved.
I've kind of always wondered what it is like to work for the print media. In print land, you inevitably have editor and censors who refine and dull down ideas, beyond what you get online. The work off-line is clearer and better written, but does it question and ask the for the same level of truth?
And own a lot of forested land, and want to keep the quality of the area up—think doing some selective logging, suggests the Times Union paper.
There is a lot of value in wood, especially now with timber prices being so high—and a good logging job, done well, can have great environmental benifits. I can't understand how one could own a bunch of rural wooded area, and not selectively logging it, and also using it for timberland. But I guess, there is always exceptions to every rule.
