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Bill's Broadsides
 Bill Ackerbauer |
What I've been readingWed, May 7, 2008 @ 2:58PM Once a year, my friend Roland Vinyard from Sprakers writes up a nice summary of all the books he's read in the past year. It's always an impressively long list, and he annotates it with brief reviews -- which titles were good, which were disappointing, which were surprising. He sends his annual "What I've been Reading" report as an e-mail message to all his online correspondents, but nowadays he also writes about books and all sorts of other stuff in a blog on his MySpace page. I'm not about to produce an annual personal book report as comprehensive as Roland's, but as I mentioned in a previous post, I'd like to open this blog up for discussion of books (and other media: movies, blogs, music, video games, you name it). If you come across something you'd like other folks to know about, leave a comment here or send me an e-mail.
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Publisher's Point
 Pat Beck |
Mind Your NetiquetteMon, April 28, 2008 @ 3:11PM Emily Post penned tens of thousands of words on proper social behavior - in other words, manners. In 1922, when Emily first wrote her definitive guide to etiquette, she said, "Wherever two people come together and their actions affect one another, you have etiquette." Wow, little did she realize that those two people would be able to meet on the Internet and their actions have the possibility to be observed by millions of others. Yes, there have been a great deal of cultural changes in eighty-six years but does that really give permission to people to be cruel when hiding behind a fictitious name? In the short time that our new website has been operating, since February of this year, we have had 4,682 comments on stories and blogs. Undoubtedly, a few more even while I am typing. I value the opinion of our readers and how they react to what we are reporting. What you have to say does really matter.
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Glove City blog
 Michael Yerina |
From Education to Poverty to retailMon, May 5, 2008 @ 7:03PM There is a lot of concern in Gloversville about our prosperity or lack of it. Everyone has a view on the proposed retail expansion that will hopefully bring in the tax dollars and help our town to grow. Of course by now I suppose that all of you readers know my opinion of the anticipated retail expansion for Gloversville. In truth retail is necessary for the community, we have to have it. The concerns that I have are as the old saying goes; “too much of a good thing” and the other concern is the fact that we will be subsidizing retail expansion to companies that make billions in profit annually; this is wrong.
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