THE SADDEST STORY YOU'LL I'LL READ TODAY
As you probably know -- because you've been hanging on every word in this blog for almost four years -- in an earlier career, I spent more than fourteen years working for the New York State Assembly.

I physically left that job slightly more than a decade ago, but my heart left it a few years earlier. Read The New York Times and learn why.

Albany in the 1980s and early '90s... a lot of good times and great memories. Now? I imagine that New Yorkers have a somewhat more open, clean, and honest state government, but I could never go back there again.

Adieu to the Beverwyck. Adios, P.D. Ladd's. Sayonara, Jack's Oyster House. I knew ye all too well...