A couple of other stalwarts. A place in Albany called Maharas, which is now gone. So at the time, everyone thought I was crazy, because if you know at UMass Amherst, it's a pitcher and shot for a dollar kind of town.
You know, he was working with amazing amazing kids with the Special Olympics this summer. you know, he was he was um inspiring children in Albany um who had trapic brain injuries and they can they can help us a lot and it's it's a great working partnership. Um and it is unfortunate that if if there are for instance a very badly behaved animal
Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had their first major demonstrations in the South after Montgomery in Albany , Georgia in 1962. But that didn't go very far.
And just today I drove the car in because I thought maybe we could take some test drives, get some butts in seats if people wanted to do it I can get to Albany , New York.
mostly out west. There were only a couple in the east. There was Newman's Albany Amber up in Albany . I don't know if any of you remember that.
Yep. How does this happen? because this had to get approved in Albany , who were going to be most affected by congestion pricing, the ones typically on the outer boroughs on the other side
Well, hello. And it's good to be back in Chicago. I used to live in Andersonville and Albany Park. So it's always good to be back home.
I don't know what the poor, low-income parents in the Farragut Houses whose children go to my daughter's school, I don't know what they could do that could bring elected officials from Albany to attend every meeting that they're holding on an issue. That is what integration does, is it gets people-- it ties the face of white children and black children together.
And you certainly heard in 2015 about the Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank, which is going to be putting up $150 billion and more with many countries participating This a city-- right now in Albany and elsewhere, they're actually discussing whether or not to give migrants and non-citizens voting
And I am one of them. We meet four times a year in Albany , and we just create all the rules that real estate agents must follow. I write for the Huffington Post business section.
So there's some really sleazy state capitals out there. I had the good fortune of spending several weeks in Albany , New York, which is just really a terrible place. Not the city so much, but the politics are just really grim there.
that's what all this stuff I'm gonna show you today is about. It's the stuff that I found that provides a little window into this period of a hundred years ago. For example, "The Albany Argus has espoused the beard movement." This article is from the 1870s. This is his argument. "We have come to the conclusion that the practice of shaving is alike ridiculous and absurd, and that it violates one of the laws of nature.
not, he is doing things. about Robert Moses is Caro writing that Moses was the best bill writer in Albany , that he understood the machinery
Stage three was to be in New York City, even though there was no permit. And at the first stage, coming down from Albany to finish at New Paltz, New York, demonstrators held placards saying fight Trump, and "The Art of the Deal" equals the rich get richer, and Trump equals "The Lord of the Flies." They also passed out a small parody brochure
faces the Porter Square bookstore. The Kendall Square Cinema is right back there where the Boston and Albany Freight House used to be.
So between sitting on this board where we meet four times a year in Albany to discuss the rules and teaching, there's a lot of insight that I have that I'm here
I'm entering capacity in a political capacity in terms of writing to Albany donating I mean there are things we can
Yep. How does this happen? But again, it was defeated by the same guy up in Albany .
Yep. How does this happen? My question is, how can the city wrest control from Albany in order to do some of the things that you've described?
And what we did, we spoke to legislators at Albany .
to have to just when you grow up you're going to have to go down to Albany change the law
and then they could park the boat full of oil that had come from the Midwest, somewhere over to the Port of Albany , and wait for the prices
And we worked really hard to make it happen. And the reason, ultimately, it didn't happen, it was defeated in Albany , the state capital, by, really, one guy. The one guy is a guy named Sheldon Silver, who was the speaker of the assembly.
Yep. How does this happen? And in fact, I would say one of my great regrets-- I joke a lot about the state-- is that I should have been up in Albany a lot
This is me when I-- in "Time" magazine, I wrote an op-ed for "Time." And that's when I was speaking in Albany .
And so they settled there, initially in settlements that would eventually evolve into places like Richmond, and Fredericksburg, and Washington, DC, and Albany .
So, I, luckily, made the acquaintance of the Albanian wine merchant, Kermit Lynch, when he was a wine merchant in Albany , California. And Kermit got me interested in Rhone varieties