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Feb 27, 2011 4:29 pm
Hundreds, including locals, rally in Albany
The Register-Star had a big story by John Mason following Columbia County residents, and workers, who traveled to Albany on Saturday for the big rally there, like others across the nation, in solidarity with state workers in Wisconsin, where the new governor, Republican Scott Walker, is pushing to strip collective bargaining from public employee unions.

Germantown pilot feared dead; search resumes
The Daily Mail updated local reports on the vintage military jet, privately owned, that went down into the Hudson just north of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge on Saturday afternoon, noting that its pilot appears to have been a Germantown man, 38 year old Michael Faraldi, was flying the 1969 British-made BAC 167 Strikemaster, now flown in air shows, from Nashville via an airfield in Johnstown, Pa., and headed for the Columbia County Airport in Ghent. Police were still dragging the river for Faraldi's remains on Sunday.

REPORT: EPA, drilling industry know hydrofracking dangers are greater than has been understood
The Daily Freeman and other regional publications were running stories about the New York Times report published February 27 about the many grave health posed by gas drilling, proposed for parts of New York and other areas in the Northeast, noting that internal documents obtained by the Times “from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood.”

Work on courthouse could begin this year
Francesca Olsen of the Register Star reports from this past week's Columbia County Public Works Committee that "architectural drawings are at 90 percent completion and everyone's expecting bids for renovation work to go out and construction to begin by the autumn of this year" on repairs to the historic county courthouse in Hudson.

The Sting, Part II
Sam Pratt has a riveting piece on his blog that follows up on the January underage drinking busts of several Warren Street establishments in Hudson by taking an assessment of growing charges that the cases, along with an attempt at follow up "stings" in February, may have been a set-up.

New York lags in “race to top” of education
Kathy Kahn of HV Biz reports from a recent talk by Jonathan Drapkin, president of the Hudson Valley think tank Pattern for Progress, where he noted how “New York ranks No. 1 in spending per student and 34th nationwide in outcomes. Although the business community is concerned about the taxes it pays, there is seldom any involvement by the business community in the activities of school districts. Why not?” Drapkin noted the major reductions in school aid projects, loss of federal stimulus funds, and the fact that elected officials are loathe to raise property taxes any higher as a call for business leaders to enter the discussion... and realize new solutions are needed to save education and other key elements of the state's social fabric.


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