Author: NYCO

With fuel prices edging upward and upward as oil hits $61+ a barrel, some businesses are desperately seeking the path of least resistance for transporting their goods.  AP reports that the 180-year-old Erie Canal is being...

As was diaried here yesterday, New York’s governor George Pataki has got it in his head to run for president, which would be a laughing matter if only there wasn’t going to be real suffering behind it.  While...

Congratulations to London and the U.K. for winning the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics! The U.K. deserves it, not having hosted an Olympic games since the 1940s or 50s (I forget which).  

(Originally posted at Liberal Street Fighter) On this Fourth of July, I just wanted to pass along an interesting essay in today’s New York Times about the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and their influence on...

There was a U.S. appeals court decision today of gigantic significance and negative impact on potentially all U.S. Indian tribes who are seeking legal settlement for lands illegally appropriated from them.   This one,...