More Upstate Support for O’Donnell

The Denise O’Donnell campaign has another announcement of upstate support, touting “landslide” votes from the county committees in Columbia and Putnam, which join the Broome, Rensselaer, Chautauqua and Erie organizations in backing her candidacy.

It’s always a nice idea, in theory: the candidate of upstate New York, the perennially ignored constituency, rides a wave of Read More

In the Shadow of Ikea

Taking a break from our coverage of the Fairway opening yesterday, we walked over to the Ikea site that sits on the Erie Basin. While officially inaccessible, smart adventurers know how to gain access to the site–which is where we found this creepy tableau that’s suggestive of horrors too eh, horrible to mention. These Read More

Ikea’s Animated Short

Yeah, it’s clever of Ikea to use a Dire Straits song for its animated walk-through of their planned Red Hook store (the Erie Basin and the long struggle to get this store approved are but two referents we can think of immediately), but “Walk of Life”? Song blows, yo. Nonetheless, this video Read More

Jack Davis: “Let’s Rumble”

Jack Davis, the throwback anti-trade industrialist who almost beat Tom Reynolds Upstate two years ago, is back in.

Here’s his letter:

Hello Friends,

Many of you have encouraged me to pick up my slingshot and fight the Goliath Reynolds. I have tested the waters (polled) and discovered the possibility of defeating Reynolds looks Read More