A few thoughts on the layoffs here at the Gazette, announced in today’s paper: It is no secret, ladies and gentlemen, that the newspaper industry in general and not just this newspaper in particular is on hard times. We are trying very hard to adjust to the new Internet world, ...

A few thoughts on the layoffs here at the Gazette, announced in today’s paper: It is no secret, ladies and gentlemen, that the newspaper industry in general and not just this newspaper in particular is on hard times. We are trying very hard to adjust to the new Internet world, ...

In case you’re wondering if I took a dip in Lake George on New Year’s Day, the answer is no, I did not.

In case you’re wondering what I was doing Sunday afternoon during the snowstorm I can tell you I was attending a spirit session in the Inn at Saratoga. By a spirit session I mean a gathering at which a medium receives messages from the dead and passes them along to ...

“The family plan” is what Greg Kaczmarek’s lawyer called it today outside the Schenectady County Courthouse. Greg, former Schenectady police chief, agrees to do two years in state prison so that his wife, Lisa, can get off with just six months in the county jail, it being understood that the ...

It’s nothing new that most people don’t know their hindquarters from their elbow when it comes to civic affairs.

Damas y caballeros, you have come to the right place, in case you followed the directions from my column in the print version of the Gazette.

I visited Frank Duci, the former mayor of Schenectady, the other day, having learned that he has lung cancer, and I brought with me a little scrap of paper by way of a spoof. The paper was a will, written by me but in Frank’s name, leaving me all his worldly goods, closely patterned after a will that he himself wrote for a friend a few years ago when that friend was just hours away from death.

I don’t know who won the great presidential debate, but I’ll tell you what most struck me, what, in fact, almost knocked me out of my chair. Two things actually. First, John McCain saying early in the debate that he “opposed President Bush on torture.” Second, Barack Obama saying later ...

Quite the stunner, ladies and gentlemen: Greg Kaczmarek, former police chief of the city of Schenectady indicted as a drug dealer and arraigned in Schenectady County Court, with, coincidentally, another retired chief, Dick O’Connor, standing by as court security officer. I never thought I’d see it, but there it was. ...