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rachel72
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Hope this turns out better than the $600,000 Trustco Bank purchase (now empty and no taxes being collected for years) and the Gillette House Welcoming Center (over $200K spent in environmental clean-up and renovations only to be sold for less than $50K to a private investor).
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Quoted from rachel72
Hope this turns out better than the $600,000 Trustco Bank purchase (now empty and no taxes being collected for years) and the Gillette House Welcoming Center (over $200K spent in environmental clean-up and renovations only to be sold for less than $50K to a private investor).


Millions for a small extension mainly for private office space. Architects have all panned the horrible design. Of course, a larger kiddie reading room where bums can sprawl out. We got this scaled down but this County can't afford any additional spending. This includes the Savage County Home that needs to be immediately trashed.
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boy, u guys are really stretching it... have u ever been to a library before?


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boy, u guys are really stretching it... have u ever been to a library before?


they would have to crawl out from under their rocks to go to a library .. and worse .. they might actually be exposed to facts and the TRUTH if they read a library book


“And yet our opponents tell us not to interfere with abortion. They tell us not to impose our morality on those who wish to allow or participate in the taking of the life of infants before birth. Yet no one calls it imposing morality to prohibit the taking of life after a child is born. We’re told about a woman’s right to control her own body. But doesn’t the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” – Ronald Reagan
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You should spring for a dictionary and at least spell check. Again it's all about increasing public payrolls not improving the library. It's for the administrators.
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How very "Schenectady" of them.

As per usual, Schenectady is putting whipped cream, and a cherry, on the top of a turd, and patting themselves on the back over their "achievement".

Wanna improve the library? CLEAN THE DAMNED BATHROOMS!!!
I'm not talking about the filth that happens in the course of one day either.
It makes the worst, most scummy bar that you could ever think of, at 4AM, look like a sterile operating environment.
Seriously, I've seen cleaner Port O'Johns at a biker rally.

I once used an old maintenance supervisor's trick, and left a wad of paper (with the date on it) on the floor, to see how long it would remain there.
EIGHT days later, it was still there, and probably longer, because I didn't come back to check, and I wasn't about to try to unfold my now urine soaked paper mache project.

Not in a million years, would ever I let a child use that bathroom unattended, as the last two times I used it, some guy would wander in, check his eyebrows in the mirror, and glance over to see if I was "interested".

Ya know what's fun too?
Using the computers with graffiti carved into the monitors, while listening to some welfare mom that has to YELL into her cell phone for 20 minutes, because she has one baby running around the room screaming, and banging things with her toy, while another, an infant, is crying for 20 minutes, and boat day childrens being ignored, becose she be rocking "MySpace" yo, while she shares a set of ear buds with her home girl, listening to Pee Doody's new joint.

UH HUH, DATS WHAT ICE TALKIN' BOUT!

Once upon a time, the Schenectady library was my solace. A fascinating place containing vast amounts of knowledge that you could surf long before the internet existed.
Every newspaper for the last 150 years, on microfilm, was worth the visit alone.

Currently, if I really want to read a book, I go online, and they deliver it to the Woodlawn branch, or I just buy it.







Welcome to Schenectady. Please remember to wipe your feet on the way out.
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Quoted from Tommy
How very "Schenectady" of them.

As per usual, Schenectady is putting whipped cream, and a cherry, on the top of a turd, and patting themselves on the back over their "achievement".

Wanna improve the library? CLEAN THE DAMNED BATHROOMS!!!
I'm not talking about the filth that happens in the course of one day either.
It makes the worst, most scummy bar that you could ever think of, at 4AM, look like a sterile operating environment.
Seriously, I've seen cleaner Port O'Johns at a biker rally.

I once used an old maintenance supervisor's trick, and left a wad of paper (with the date on it) on the floor, to see how long it would remain there.
EIGHT days later, it was still there, and probably longer, because I didn't come back to check, and I wasn't about to try to unfold my now urine soaked paper mache project.

Not in a million years, would ever I let a child use that bathroom unattended, as the last two times I used it, some guy would wander in, check his eyebrows in the mirror, and glance over to see if I was "interested".

Ya know what's fun too?
Using the computers with graffiti carved into the monitors, while listening to some welfare mom that has to YELL into her cell phone for 20 minutes, because she has one baby running around the room screaming, and banging things with her toy, while another, an infant, is crying for 20 minutes, and boat day childrens being ignored, becose she be rocking "MySpace" yo, while she shares a set of ear buds with her home girl, listening to Pee Doody's new joint.

UH HUH, DATS WHAT ICE TALKIN' BOUT!

Once upon a time, the Schenectady library was my solace. A fascinating place containing vast amounts of knowledge that you could surf long before the internet existed.
Every newspaper for the last 150 years, on microfilm, was worth the visit alone.

Currently, if I really want to read a book, I go online, and they deliver it to the Woodlawn branch, or I just buy it.


AWSOME!!! - A+


A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
~ H.L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H. L. Mencken

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Quoted from Tommy
How very "Schenectady" of them.

As per usual, Schenectady is putting whipped cream, and a cherry, on the top of a turd, and patting themselves on the back over their "achievement".

Wanna improve the library? CLEAN THE DAMNED BATHROOMS!!!
I'm not talking about the filth that happens in the course of one day either.
It makes the worst, most scummy bar that you could ever think of, at 4AM, look like a sterile operating environment.
Seriously, I've seen cleaner Port O'Johns at a biker rally.

I once used an old maintenance supervisor's trick, and left a wad of paper (with the date on it) on the floor, to see how long it would remain there.
EIGHT days later, it was still there, and probably longer, because I didn't come back to check, and I wasn't about to try to unfold my now urine soaked paper mache project.

Not in a million years, would ever I let a child use that bathroom unattended, as the last two times I used it, some guy would wander in, check his eyebrows in the mirror, and glance over to see if I was "interested".

Ya know what's fun too?
Using the computers with graffiti carved into the monitors, while listening to some welfare mom that has to YELL into her cell phone for 20 minutes, because she has one baby running around the room screaming, and banging things with her toy, while another, an infant, is crying for 20 minutes, and boat day childrens being ignored, becose she be rocking "MySpace" yo, while she shares a set of ear buds with her home girl, listening to Pee Doody's new joint.

UH HUH, DATS WHAT ICE TALKIN' BOUT!

Once upon a time, the Schenectady library was my solace. A fascinating place containing vast amounts of knowledge that you could surf long before the internet existed.
Every newspaper for the last 150 years, on microfilm, was worth the visit alone.

Currently, if I really want to read a book, I go online, and they deliver it to the Woodlawn branch, or I just buy it.


BRAVO Tommy!!! Can't AXE for more!


If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-James Madison

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BRAVO Tommy!!! Can't AXE for more!


I heard that the makers of AXETM Body Spray, are about to release a new product, more taylored to the black demographic.

They's gonna call it ASKTM Body Spray.


Welcome to Schenectady. Please remember to wipe your feet on the way out.
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does everyone have their e-readers in place to receive their library borrowed books.......

what a waste of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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does everyone have their e-readers in place to receive their library borrowed books.......

what a waste of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


Guess schenectady really has their finger on the pulse of the future.......NOT!!!!!


If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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It will be a 'daycare'/community center......let the local businesses buy plaques like they do for baseball....dont need taxpayer funds....


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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Construction zone: Schenectady County library expansion headed for spring completion
The Business Review by Michael DeMasi, Reporter
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 7:22am EST - Last Modified: Monday, February 13, 2012, 8:45am EST

The latest investment in downtown Schenectady, New York — an expansion of the public library headquarters — has been a long time coming.
Library supporters and local officials started talking about the need to expand and renovate the main branch more than a decade ago.
A master plan unveiled in late 1999 envisioned $8.3 million in improvements to the 1970s-era building.
Fast forward through many debates — and two recessions later — and a scaled-down version of the project is on its way to being finished.
Completion is expected in late spring..........................>>>>........................>>>>............http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/morning_call/2012/02/construction-zone-schenectady-county.html
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Out of NY and LOVING it!
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And in 5 years we can do it all over again.  Thank you taxpayers.


“There's a term for Obama - not two terms.” – Kimmel.

Vivat Jesus
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In Him, all things are possible
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Hey, I'm all for libraries and expansions!! Education is one of the key building blocks of our society.

I just take issue with spending millions of taxpayer's money on a project, when the entire area is crumbling under crime and failed infrastructure and high taxes. When residents are leaving the area in record numbers only to be replaced with drug dealers/addicts, welfare and section 8 recipients. When even the best of homes are not attracting home buyers. When a school system can't even graduate more then 50% of it's students who can read and write. When pitbull have become the pet of choice with nowhere to house the strays.

...............just saying.................


If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
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