Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from October 2000:
NEW LIVES BRING NEW EXPECTATIONS TO RURAL COUNTY.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: JACQUELYN SWEARINGEN Staff writer In a 19th-century Chatham storefront down the road from cow pastures, Jacob Brackman went shopping the other day, hoping to buy a new notebook computer and modem. With a fast enough modem, Brackman, a lyricist, figures he ...
CRUNCH TIME IN QUEST TO SIGN UP VOTERS.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Political writer NEW YORK -- They call it the nerve center of the statewide push to bring more voters into Democratic ranks. Maps of New York, color-coded by region, paper the walls. Stacks of promotional flyers clutter hallways. Young aides pore ...
CITY HISTORY RAZED WITHOUT APPROVAL.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer Preservationists were outraged to learn that Albany County had begun to tear down a 155-year-old building in a city historic district without a permit last August, but they would have been even more shocked to learn it was nothing new. ...
12 MORE SLAIN IN MIDEAST.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: TRACY WILKINSON Los Angeles Times RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian and Israeli forces fought pitched battles with guns, stones and fire Saturday in clashes that raged across the West Bank and Gaza Strip and left hopes for peace in the Middle East in bloody shambles. ...
CLINTON VOWS TO BUDGET BILLIONS FOR EDUCATION.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, bemoaning what he said were too many overcrowded and crumbling schools, pledged Saturday not to budge from budget talks until Republicans set aside billions for school construction and his education ...
AT 65, NOT SO MUCH SHAKIN' GOIN' ON.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Great balls of fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis is a senior citizen! Some 500 fans and well-wishers showed up at the legendary rocker's ranch in Nesbit, Miss., to ring in his 65th birthday on Friday. The visitors, who had paid $250 each for a weekend with Lewis, did not ...
THURMOND `DOING WELL' AFTER COLLAPSING.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Sen. Strom Thurmond, at 97 the oldest person to serve in the Senate, appeared ``to be doing very well'' at a hospital Saturday after collapsing at a restaurant in suburban Alexandria, Va., his spokeswoman said. Doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have not determined why ...
BLIND PATRONS DEMAND NEW RULES AT ADULT SHOWS.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... In Hove, England, the administration of the Pussycats Club has complained to local authorities that a licensing regulation forbidding the touching of exotic dancers discriminates against the blind. Club director Kenneth McGrath told the London Telegraph that when two blind men ...
MILOSEVIC TURNS DOWN RUSSIAN HELP.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: MISHA SAVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Preparing to face down the opposition in the streets, President Slobodan Milosevic on Saturday turned down an offer of Russian mediation, a U.S. official said. The defiant Balkan leader declared Yugoslavs themselves ...
NORTH KOREA PRESSES U.S. FOR MORE AID.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- North Korea is threatening to stop cooperating with U.S. efforts to recover remains of American servicemen lost in the Korean War unless the Pentagon provides more humanitarian aid. In talks Sept. 15 in the North ...
A LEGAL BUZZ FROM THE BACK YARD.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: EVELYN NIEVES New York Times UKIAH, Calif. -- No one can say for sure when the first seeds were planted, or how things reached the point where marijuana became Mendocino County's No. 1 cash crop and claim to fame. What is a given is that pot (the word of ...
POLICE CASES LEADING HIGH COURT DOCKET.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARK HELM Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- After tackling such volatile issues as gay rights and late-term abortion during its last session, the U.S. Supreme Court opens a new session Monday with far-reaching but less dramatic cases involving police power, the ...
CHAMPION IS ONE OF KIND -- FOR NOW.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: PHILIP BRASHER Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Her chest is broad, her legs and back straight, and she has ``an excellent mammary system,'' her owner says. Mandy may be one of a kind, but not for long. An exact copy of the champion Holstein cow will be ...
JAILHOUSE STRIPES SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: THOMAS VINCIGUERRA New York Times Think of jail and a vivid image comes to mind of surly convicts clad in black-and-white striped uniforms. Those distinctive outfits, a staple of Jimmy Cagney movies and Halloween parties, are actually relics of a time that had ...
COMPARE BUSH'S, GORE'S DRUG PLANS.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore's and TExas Gov. George W. Bush's plans to help Medicare beneficiaries buy outpatient prescription drugs. General description Bush: Send $12 billion a year for four years directly to states to supplement or ...
BUSH SEEKS TO SHORE UP CHRISTIAN COALITION SUPPORT.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: DAVID HO Associated Press WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush reaffirmed his support for the Christian Coalition's values Saturday in a three-minute videotaped address meant to soothe any hard feelings created by his absence from their convention. ``Should I be ...
BUSH, GORE DRILL FOR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas -- Al Gore and George W. Bush dug into intense preparations Saturday for the first presidential debate, honing styles and strategies for trumping the other guy in confrontations five weeks before the election. For Democrat ...
CONVENTION PROTESTERS ENTER PLEAS, SEEK TRIALS.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: --Associated Press PHILADELPHIA -- The last of the nearly 300 people charged with misdemeanors stemming from demonstrations during the Republican National Convention entered guilty pleas or demanded trials Saturday. In three Saturdays of special hearings, 185 ...
FBI WIDENS PROBE OF BUSH TAPE SENT TO GORE CAMP.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The FBI has expanded its investigation to determine if superiors of an employee of George W. Bush's media consultant were involved in sending a Bush debate tape to his Democratic opponent, a federal law enforcement official said ...
CHINESE OPPOSE CANONIZATION RITES.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: PHILIP P. PAN Washington Post BEIJING -- In a poor village in northern China known as Wang La, four girls raised in a Catholic orphanage were seized by a secret society of peasants sweeping across China a century ago in an anti-foreign, anti-Christian revolt against ...
THEY'RE UNDECIDED.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Our six undecided voters in the U.S. Senate race appear to be starting to make up their minds between Democratic First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and GOP Rep. Rick Lazio. And for the most part, Clinton is so far winning over the swing vote. But even those who said they were leaning toward ...
APPLY CENSUS STRATEGY TO OUR CRITICAL NEEDS.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: EVAN OSNOS Americans -- those self-centered, gated-community TV watchers -- just got up off the couch. And while barely anyone noticed this obscure bit of news from the U.S. Census Bureau a few days ago, it just might suggest a way to puncture America's ...
ISSUES OF RIGHT TO DIE, RIGHT TO LIVE.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: DIANE CAMERON The past few weeks we have been following the case in England of the conjoined, or ``Siamese,'' twins. In this sad situation, twin girls were born joined in such a way that one or both are doomed. Their fate has presented the courts and medicine with a ...
DECISION TO DEMOLISH `DUE DILIGENCE' NEEDED TO SAVE HISTORIC BUILDINGS.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: CAROLINE MASON The recent donnybrook, chronicled in the Times Union, over the fate of 41 Ten Broeck St. indicates the need for a major overhaul in the way our city and county governments provide stewardship for Albany's historic properties. Demolition without due ...
WRONG TO LIMIT LEGAL SERVICES ON WEDNESDAY, SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR CASE ON RESTRICTIONS FOR THE POOR.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARTHA DAVIS Imagine if your lawyer could only write half of your will, or only file a personal injury claim for your broken leg, not your broken back. Imagine, then, that this is not just any lawyer, but the only lawyer you can find or afford, and that your food and ...
THE `NEW' ASSEMBLY.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... It's commonly referred to as the failed coup attempt. Last May's challenge to state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, ended with him still in power, after all, and his rival Michael Bragman, D-Cicero, stripped of his majority leader post. Look closer, though, and it's clear all ...
NOW, A RACE FOR DA.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Albany County's Democratic machine has a long history of denying the people the right to choose their political leaders. Yet in recent years there were hopeful signs of change, as insurgencies offered voters a genuine choice at the polls. Two of Albany's leading Democratic officeholders -- ...
CHESTER ARTHUR SERVED THE NATION WELL AS PRESIDENT.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: RICHARD P. NATHAN Director The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Albany - I write to comment on Jeff Perlee's Sept. 17 letter comparing U.S. President Chester A. Arthur to vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman. Despite the official history ...
REMIND SOCIAL AGENCIES TO SERVE UNINSURED.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: GINA ZABEL Clifton Park I agree with much of the Sept. 17 Perspective article, ``Medical myths'' that identifies a growing number of uninsured citizens in our country. However, the article states this problem in a textbook manner. The article did not expand on its main ...
NO ONE APPROACH IS RIGHT TO PROVIDING CHILD CARE.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: ROBYN D. RINGLER Ballston Lake A Sept. 17 letter regarding Mike Dannenberg's ``Grandchild Care Tax Credit'' proposal suggests that we must choose between supporting stay-at-home parents and supporting other child care providers, like grandparents. Helping ...
NATION MUST TAP INTO DOMESTIC OIL RESOURCES.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: DAVID J. DWYER Geneseo Your Sept. 19 editorial on the country's energy policy and how to correct it had one glaring omission. Probably the most important thing we have to do is obtain oil from domestic sources, particularly Alaska and off the coast of California. These ...
HIGHWAY UNIT GIVES IN TO THE AUTO INDUSTRY.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: NORMAN GREENFELD Albany A Sept. 19 Times Union article reports on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration inaction as a cause of needless deaths. While true that a number of its standards are weak or fail to address important causes of vehicular death and injury, ...
SENATE RACES AN INCOHERENT PICTURE.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: GEORGE WILL MINNEAPOLIS -- To understand why finding a national trend in this year's Senate races is like discerning a narrative in a Jackson Pollock painting, start here. Once a hotbed of cool, earnest Scandinavian welfare state liberalism, Minnesota, which has not ...
LONELY ON THE HUSTINGS.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON -- It was a tip-top Tipper moment. Al Gore was appearing with his wife on Larry King's show Thursday, leaning closer and closer to her. Please, I muttered to myself, don't let them start making out on national TV. ...
SINKING WHILE THE TIDE RISES.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: SAUNDRA SMOKES In deference to my late mom, who hated the word pee and wouldn't let us use it at home, let me make this point the way she would have made it: ``Don't tee-tee on my leg and tell me it's raining.'' This expression came to mind after I looked at ...
MISUNDERSTANDING CAUSES OF VIOLENCE.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: HARRY ROSENFELD The evidence is in. The conclusion is inescapable. Reduction in crime is tied directly to an increase in the media's portrayal of violence. There's no sense arguing. The same reasoning that legitimized the cause-and-effect relationship when ...
BASEEL, AMEEL J.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... CLIFTON PARK -- Ameel J. Baseel, 80, of Frankie Lane, Clifton Park, died on Friday, September 29, 2000 at St. Mary's Hospital in Troy after a long illness. He was born on December 1, 1919 in Cohoes, NY and was the son of the late Ayoub and Sarah Baseel. He was educated in the Cohoes School ...
CALLAHAN, MICHAEL J. SR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, FL -- Michael J. Callahan Sr., 64, of 71st Avenue, died suddenly Thursday at his residence. Born in Albany, he was son of the late Edwin J. Callahan Sr. and Katherine V. O'Loughlin Callahan and husband of the late Marie Sagendorf Callahan. He had resided in ...
CAPLAN, RUTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... POMPANO BEACH, FL -- Ruth (Sutin) Caplan, age 78, of Pompano Beach, Florida, died Saturday, September 30, 2000 at St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, NY. Born in Albany, NY, Ruth resided here in the Albany area for many years before moving to Pompano Beach, Florida with her now late husband, Jay ...
CLAIRMONT, MARIE A.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... COHOES -- Mrs. Marie A. Patrick Clairmont, of Simmons Ave., Cohoes, died Thursday, September 28, 2000 at the Samaritan Hospital after a lengthy illness. Born in Cohoes, NY, daughter of the late John and Mary Burns Patrick. She was educated at St. Bernard's Academy and a graduate of Cohoes ...
COOK, ALSON L.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... VIRGINIA BEACH, VA -- Alson L. Cook, 72, formerly of Lansingburgh, died Wednesday, September 27, 2000 at home, after a long illness. Born in Troy on July 28, 1928, he was the son of the late Lorell and Catherine Spall Cook and the husband of Evelyn King Cook of Virginia Beach. A Troy ...
CURTIN, KATHLEEN M.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... INTERLACHEN, FL -- Kathleen Marie Curtin, 65, of Interlachen, FL, died September 25, 2000 at North Florida Regional Hospital, following a brief illness. She was born in Watervliet, NY and had been affiliated with the Union National Bank of Troy, NY and was a real estate agent in New York ...
DEUEL, FLORENCE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... TROY -- Florence Elizabeth Deuel, 69, of Wynantskill (Snyders Lake), died Friday afternoon at Samaritan Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Born in Rutland, VT, she was the daughter of the late George E. Coro Sr. and the late Ida Mills Coro. Mr. Deuel had been employed at Marshall ...
FAULKNER, LORETTA C.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... WATERFORD -- Loretta C. Faulkner, 92, of Mill View Adult Home, died Friday at Samaritan Hospital. Born and educated in Mechanicville she was daughter of the late Michael Edward and Jennie Lord Commons. She moved to Waterford in 1934. Mrs. Faulkner had been employed for 15 years at the ...
FEDERICO, BRUNO W.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... BUFFALO, NY -- Bruno W. Federico, 82, of West Seneca, NY and longtime former resident of Mechanicville and Clifton Park, died Saturday at Veterans Hospital, Buffalo after a brief illness. Born in Troy, April 27, 1918, he was the son of the late Joseph and Mary Vallo Federico and husband of ...
HAYWOOD, EDITH F.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... PHILMONT -- Edith F. Quinion Haywood, 87, formerly of Mellenville, died Thursday, September 28, 2000 at Pine Haven Nursing Home. Born on February 13, 1913 in Ghent, she was the daughter of the late Edgar H. and Mary E. (Stickles) Pultz. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Haywood was a member of the ...
JEFFERSON, ALLIE BET.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Allie Bet Jefferson, died September 28, 2000 at St. Peter's Hospital. Daughter of the late Charlie and Martha Tunstall. Mother of Joe Jefferson, Betty Thompson, Irene Jefferson, Ruth Robinson, all of Albany, Cathy Henderson of NC; one daughter-in-law, Lounelle Jefferson; four ...
KELLY, GEORGE L.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... COLONIE -- George L. Kelly, 69, of Alta Rd., died Friday, September 29, 2000 at St. Peter's Hospital. Born in Albany, he had lived in Colonie for the past 38 years. He owned Kelly's Disposal Service in Colonie for over 30 years until his retirement in 1995. Survivors include his wife, ...
MUELLER, COMMANDER WILLIAM A.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... CARLISLE, PA -- Commander William A. Mueller, CECUSN, Ret., age 79, a member of the First Lutheran Church of Carlisle, died at the Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community. He had lived in Carlisle for four years, previously living in Florida. Bill earned a bachelors degree in ...
PANZA, STEVEN A.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Steven A. Panza, age 31, died suddenly, Friday, September 29, 2000. Born in Albany and a lifelong resident. He was a graduate of Albany High School. Steven worked in the restaurant business most of his life and was currently employed by S.U.N.Y. at Albany. Son of Roberta Gracek ...
SACHS, BELLE, (BILLIE).(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... AVENTURA, FL -- Belle (Billie) Sachs, age 88, of Aventura, died Monday, September 25, 2000 at the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield, CT. Mrs. Sachs was born in New York, daughter of the late Louis and Ida (Gandleman) Brounstein and was a secretary for the New York Public Schools ....
SEDLACEK, LOUIS R.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... MECHANICVILLE -- Louis R. Sedlacek, 74, of McDermott Road, died Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital, Troy, after a long illness. Born in Binghamton, NY, December 25, 1925, he was the son of the late John and Mary Hudy Sedlacek. Mr. Sedlacek lived in the Binghamton, Endicott, Johnson City ...
SENRICK, MAY RICE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... EAST SCHODACK -- May Rice Senrick, 81, of County Route 7, died Saturday at The Hospice Inn at St. Peter's Hospital, Albany after a brief illness. Born in North Schodack, she was daughter of the late Henry and Gertrude Mackey Rice and wife of the late Charles I. Senrick who died September ...
SMITH, EDWIN W.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Edwin W. Smith, of the Ohav Shalom Apartments and the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Home, died Friday, September 29, 2000 at the nursing home. Mr. Smith was born May 18, 1911 in Milwaukee, WI but had lived in Albany since 1937. He was a graduate of the Academy of Display in New York ...
FOREIGN ISSUES MERIT MORE DISCUSSION.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: LOUIS R. GOLINO The presidential candidates of both major parties owe American voters a better explanation of their positions on international issues and how, if elected, they would shape U.S. foreign policy. International issues tend to play a minor role in ...
CONGRESS VOTE.(PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: States News Service WASHINGTON -- Here's how the senators and representatives of New York state and the Capital Region voted on key bills and amendments last week. Senate VISAS: The Senate on Wednesday rejected, 43-55, a motion by Sen. Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., to ...
CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT GREENWAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: FRED LeBRUN Dave Sampson says he was jolted into reality by an out-o'-mind experience. ``Not two weeks after I was fired (as the director of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council), I pulled up to a gas pump on the Thruway, and right next to me ...
GROUP TRAVERSES THE HIGH TRAIL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer - Rise at 6 a.m. Grab a burly flannel. Gear up the horses and tend the saddles. The ride will be long: 22 miles across the top of a mountain in six hours. At Petersburgh Point along Route 22, after the sun was up just ...
EXPERT ON TEACHING BLACKS FINDS REASON FOR CONCERN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE Staff writer Few people escaped blame Saturday when Jawanza Kunjufu explained why some African-American children lag behind children of other races in school performance. On teachers: ``You can't teach a student you are afraid of,'' he said ....
FROM THE EARTH, A RARE MINERAL AND CONTROVERSY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer WHITE LAKE -- Shirley Cornish stood atop the escarpment behind her house in Oneida County, waving an arm out at the view from the top of the 70-foot granite cliff. In front of her was Putt's Monument, a completely detached pinnacle ...
FORMER BARTENDER CONVICTED OF RAPE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: KIM MARTINEAU Staff writer A former bartender accused of using a date-rape drug to sexually assault a college sophomore was convicted Friday of rape due to physical helplessness. Kevin Rogers, 29, also was found guilty of sodomy. He faces up to 50 years in ...
COPS SEEK SUSPECT IN LURING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... GLOVERSVILLE -- Police are looking for a man suspected of trying to lure a young girl into his pickup truck Friday afternoon. Police said the man, described as a white male with black hair and an unshaven face, drove alongside the girl as she walked along the street and tried to ...
BRIDGE PLAN DIVIDES LAKE'S COMMUNITY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: LYDIA POLGREEN Staff writer Edinburg Residents and representatives of the state Department of Transportation sparred Saturday morning at an open house held to discuss plans to replace the 70-year-old Batchellerville Bridge. Representatives from DOT set up ...
WHATEVER THE UNIFORM, COPS NEEDED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK When city and county officials announced plans to put 33 more police officers on the street during the next 13 months, you didn't have to be Eliot Ness to figure out there is concern about the cops losing the war on the streets. Besides filling a dozen ...
IT'S `A PERFECT FALL WEEKEND' FOR FEST, EVERYTHING APPLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 2000 ... Byline: LYDIA POLGREEN Staff writer Altamont Perfect weather Saturday and not-so-perfect weather this summer were a recipe for a terrific Capital District Apple Festival and Craft Fair this year. ``We got a perfect fall weekend,'' said Joe Abbruzzese of Altamont ...