Driving home last night and looking at the Empire State Plaza all lit up, it got me thinking it won’t be long before the decorative lights on the Plaza will be extinguished due to cuts in state funding due to the recession.
I guess it’s good to save energy and therefore natural gas, but there also is a cost to the lack of beauty, a lack of city’s core landmark dimmed and dulled. I am sure as the lights of the plaza go out, so will the fountains in the summer waterfalls up front.
The timing of his tenure as Region 5 director for the Department of Environmental Conservation is not lost on Robert Stegemann. “I came in with Hurricane Irene and I’m going out with the coronavirus,” he said.
But in between it was quite a run, a decade that is likely to be noted as among the most significant in Adirondack history. Region 5 covers northeastern New York, including the heart of the Adirondack Park.
The FBI’s March NICS background data for march was released yesterday and it was every bit as horrific as the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex feared it would be.
The adjusted background check data quantified what we’ve all seen in the photos of Americans lining up — sometimes for hours — outside of gun stores all across the country.
