Even in the 1980’s, college was not cheap. I relied on TAP and Pell Grants, as well as a partial scholarship from Hamilton College, just to make it through four and a half years of college life. I say “and a half years” because I spent a summer as a pre-freshman in Hamilton’s Higher Education…
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The SAVE Act would make me ineligible to vote.
Yeah. You read that headline. And trust me, I’m not being over-dramatic on this. Here’s the core. If the SAVE Act passed, the only way someone could be eligible to vote in the United States is if they possessed a birth certificate and current passport in which their name matched EXACTLY to both documents. These…
Read MoreAm I ready for Fantastic Four: First Steps??
Yeah, I’ll admit it. I was a comic book nerd as a kid. And I’m still that person who goes to the “first showing at midnight” premieres for new Marvel movies. Because, yeah. That being said, I realize that there is tremendous anticipation and hype and interest over the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s integration of Marvel’s…
Read MoreIt’s “Subways Of Your Mind” by FEX? Well, that explains EVERYTHING.
You have to love those Internet mysteries. The ones where someone uncovers some mysterious fragment of a historic artifact, and the Internet’s hive mind tries to uncover the mystery. Well, such a mystery was revealed last weekend. Follow along with me. In 1983, a German radio station played its usual mix of new wave and…
Read MoreFormer WRGB news anchor makes false equivalency argument
The Capital District has its share of successful broadcasters who have gone from the local news broadcasts to nationwide acclaim. Chris Jansing, for example, spent several years as a trusted news anchor on WNYT-13 (back when she used her maiden name of Chris Kapsostacy). Joe Tessitore turned his ability to call a 3-minute sports anchor…
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