The Letter of the Law


By DIA, Section News
Posted on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 03:17:59 AM EST

When Jack Abramoff was recently sentenced for his role in his gambling/wire fraud/murder for hire scheme in Florida (he still hasn't been sentenced for his DC antics) he asked people to write letters to the judge on his behalf. You know you are in trouble when people write letters like this:
Over many years, I've known a far different Jack that the profit-seeking megalomaniac portrayed in the press
And that was from a congressman. Ouch. He is going to prison.

Recently our own Mayor Jennings has run into a little heat of his own since he has once again broken his promise to the people of Albany and is proposing using more of the Pine Bush as a garbage dump. So, like Abramoff, he's gotten some people to write letters. To the press. What people are writing on his behalf? His employees. Mr. Bruce thinks we all should know his boss is really cool and is just breaking his promise to all of us for our own greater good.
I am writing to comment on the April 4 editorial cartoon that was a less than flattering portrayal of Mayor Jerry Jennings in relation to the Pine Bush Preserve. If anyone thinks the mayor isn't concerned about the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, they need a brief history lesson.
And then he gives you the history lesson. For some reason he leaves out the bit about promising to dedicate the land to the Pine Bush and then breaking the promise. But he does use the "don't worry, we'll make more Pine Bush" argument to say why its ok to fill this 10 acres with garbage.

How come my employees never say such nice things about me?

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Cause you can't readjust their property taxes... (none / 0) (#1)
by TV Truth Machine on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 08:52:55 PM EST


I've heard that advancements in technology have made an ANSWERS type facility more feasible now in terms of environmental impact.


The garbage won't go away until the price of oil makes plastics prohibitively expensive. Trash burning may be the lesser of two evils. Burn it and you risk polluting the air; bury it, and you risk pooluting the ground. Maybe the real answer is people not buying so much useless, pointless crap.

 

Vision Problem (none / 0) (#2)
by A Muse on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 08:08:19 AM EST
It is interesting to look at the neighboring city and see what Stratton has done in a short time.  Maybe someone should recruit him to be the Mayor of Albany.  It is documented and a known fact that Mayor Jennings does not keep his word.  This is unfortunate for him and everyone else.  A large portion of the population even those who voted for the Mayor have little confidence in him.  

The Pine Bush is an asset to the City of Albany.  Unfortunately it is easy to become short sited when immediate pressures of daily living are not under control.  Where do you put the garbage?  The recycling program in Albany is a joke.  Albany was 20 years behind the times when they started it and it is still not up to speed although some effort has been made.  I would suggest that the façade of the Wellington and other buildings be kept in downtown.  Dig out the area use it as landfill location. Eliminate trash pick up for the more affluent residents of the city and let them come downtown to dump and recycle their trash.  This would get more residents who generally do not frequent downtown to see its amenities, buy a suit and go to Jack's for lunch.  Savings on the trash pickup could be used to build the convention center on top of the landfill in a few years.

It is such a shame that the amenities that the City has have not been put to proper use.  An example is a community garden in the Normanskill area.  They have no water.  It was the stupidest thing I ever saw.  For a few hundred dollars you could back hoe a couple of wells and put in a hand pump for these people.  It is in a low water table area and next to a water supply.  This is just an example of the lack of thinking on the part of the administration.  It could be paved for it by not sweeping my street weekly which is a tot

The Gerald Jennings Garden (none / 0) (#3)
by TV Truth Machine on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 08:53:56 AM EST


Maybe we should have the garden named after him. He seems to like that. Maybe he'll pay more attention to it. Like get those wells.
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