A lawsuit is to be filed this morning on behalf of a convicted sex offender who is prevented from moving from Schenectady to Scotia because he would be in violation of a county law that restricts where sex offenders can live.
I feel special affection for people who make my job easier, and no one meets that standard more satisfactorily than the good people at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, who have just added to their already formidable Web site an entire truckload of information on public schools to augment the information they already had on local governments.
OK, let’s move on.
Or, let’s look forward, not backward, as President Obama says with regard to the torture of prisoners authorized by the previous administration.
If you are looking for daytime entertainment, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot in good conscience recommend the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno now taking place in the federal courthouse at 445 Broadway, Albany, N.Y. (Courtroom No. 6, on the first floor — go through the metal detector and turn left.)
With 13 American soldiers dead in Texas, gunned down by a military psychiatrist who was apparently a devoted and angry Muslim, I am again trying to understand a mind very different from my own, that is, the mind of someone who can be moved to murder by the fierceness of his religious faith.
I have been dropping in on the trial of Joe Bruno from time to time, at the federal courthouse in Albany, just to see how things are going, and I must say, merely as a layman not versed in the legal arts, the government’s case seems awfully thin.
Lest you have any doubt about who the cops and jail guards like for Schenectady County sheriff, it’s Dom Dagostino, the candidate of the Democratic and Conservative parties, who recently retired after 20 years as a Rotterdam police officer.
Well, Saturday is Halloween, ladies and gentlemen, the time when kids traditionally dress up in scary costumes and go house to house soliciting candy, and all I can say is ... Boo!
A few days ago when an anonymous benefactor provided me with the police disciplinary record of a candidate for Schenectady County sheriff, Joe Lazzari, I said I would print particulars of it only if someone provided me with the comparable record of the other candidate, Dom Dagostino, a recently retired Rotterdam police officer.
I popped around to Luther Forest the other day, in Saratoga County, to have a look at the construction site of the much-ballyhooed GlobalFoundries computer-chip factory, and, though I failed to get a walking tour, I was able to see enough from the asphalt periphery to make me as enthusiastic about this project as I will probably ever be, which is not very.
I hope nobody was surprised that Barry Kramer, Surrogate’s Court judge in Schenectady County and a Democrat, got the endorsement of the Conservative Party in the coming election for state Supreme Court judge.
As for the campaign to allow dogs in downtown Saratoga stores, I took note of the letter to the editor the other day from a reader in Princetown: “Please do publish a listing of the establishments (especially the restaurants) who will welcome these four-legged guests so I can boycott them,” and I thought, well, there’s someone who’s out of step, someone who obviously doesn’t appreciate Broadway in Saratoga Springs as upstate New York capital of dogdom.
You’ll never guess what I got in the mail, ladies and gentlemen. I got the disciplinary record of retired Schenectady police officer Joe Lazzari, who is running for sheriff of Schenectady County.
