Update on this morning’s health update.

Bummer. The cold, sinus whatever thing I mentioned this morning has sent me temperature up this evening. It’s 101.9

So I am off to Sloan "Urgent Care" in a few minutes, where they’ll run some tests, and hopefully send me home with antibiotics.

The whole scenario is very similar to my trip to Urgent Care on March 28th, 18 days ago.

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My letter to the Gazette

The Gazette is the local weekly for Croton on hudson. I confess that up until very recently I never read it. then I got a call from one of their advertising firms, took out an ad, and started receiving it gratis.

Anyway, the letter is about the recent election and campaign in Croton. I wrote about it on a number of occasions on this weblog, for example here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Voting today for my Village Board and here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Waste transfer, local politics, and organized crime

While in the past I’d never paid much attention to local issues I always voted – for mayor or trustees – essentially based on whether I knew the persons. However the recent controversy about how to deal with a waste transfer station wanting to locate in Croton changed all that. And I was motivated by the particular obnoxiousness of one partisan with a blog.

To read my letter click "continue reading"

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