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The Times Union is a Monday to Sunday newspaper published by Hearst Corporation. First published in 1856 as The Morning Times,The Times Union is located in the greater Albany, N.Y. area.The Times Union has one of the largest circulations in the United States and has a diverse readership, with the majority of readers between the ages of 25 and 60. Most readers have a college degree or some college background and an income above the national median. The newspaper covers the greater Albany area.With award-winning editor Rex Smith, a two-time Pulitzer juror, at its helm, The Times Union is known for its excellence in investigative reporting as well as commentary. In addition to being a leading news contributor during former Governor Eliot Spitzer's expose regarding his involvement as a client of a high-priced call girl operation in 2008, which led to Spitzer's resignation, the paper has also investigated an underground weapons operation that involved area police officers. And it also helped expose a state practice of granting parole to violent offenders in order to keep prison populations to a minimum. In addition it has detailed high profile domestic violence disputes and broke the story of how federal agents subpoenaed labor unions that invested pension funds with a Connecticutt company that employed high powered Republican Joseph Bruno as a consultant.Active in the community, The Times Union pledged to pay $3.5 million over a 10-year period for the Albany-based Pepsi Arena naming rights. On January 1, 2007, the arena received the name of the Times Union Center. George R. Hearst, III, is the publisher; Rex Smith is editor; Harry Rosenfeld is editor-at-large and Joann Cruppi is editorial pages editor.
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Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) archives from August 2003
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 22, 2003... Aug. 22--PAKISTANI OFFICIALS TO BUILD TIES AT UALBANY CONFERENCE: Strengthening business links between America and Pakistan is the focus of a conference this weekend at the University at Albany.
Pakistani officials will meet with area...
Schodack, N.Y., Firm Seeks Cheaper Way to Turn Manure into Power.
August 22, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 22--SCHODACK, N.Y.--Getting electricity out of manure is not new, but Stephen Hoyt is trying to make it a lot cheaper.
And the giant white dome rising behind the barn at Spring Valley Dairy off Route 9 in...
Blackout Shines Light on Latham, N.Y.-Based Plug Power.
August 21, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 21--Last week's blackout should help alternative energy company Plug Power Inc. leverage more federal research dollars, the chairman of the House Science Committee said Wednesday.
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert,...
Albany, N.Y., Attorney Leads Investors' Attempt to Open Empire State Bank.
August 20, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 20--By day, Leslie Apple is a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the region's largest law firm.
On the side, he is a behind-the-scenes player in the local banking industry, a...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 20, 2003... Aug. 20--NYC-BASED GROUP HEALTH INC. POSTS SMALL QUARTERLY GAIN: Group Health Inc., a New York City-based health insurance company that offers services in the Capital Region, has posted a small financial gain for the second quarter but a loss...
FCC Rule Delay Lets Faxes Off the Hook, for Now.
August 20, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 20--Steve Janack instantly felt the relief of the decision to delay new rules for commercial faxes.
As the vice president of communications at the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, Janack had been...
Albany, N.Y., Foundation Forms Unit to Handle Gifts of Land.
August 20, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 20--The Community Foundation for the Capital Region is an unlikely real estate company.
A charitable organization by form and function, it can't turn a profit and it doesn't want to deal in real estate.
...
Unions Hold Picket against New York State Teachers Union.
August 20, 2003... Byline: Rick Karlin
Aug. 20--The tables have been turned on New York State United Teachers: The state's largest teachers union is facing labor woes of its own as its unionized workers are complaining and threatening a strike over health...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 19, 2003... Aug. 20--SCHODACK MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING HAS NEW OWNER: A White Plains real estate investment firm has bought the Pond View Medical Arts building off Exit 10 of Interstate 90 from the group of physicians that opened it more than 10 years ago....
Albany, N.Y.-Based Health Insurer Blames Costs in $4.6 Million Quarterly Loss.
August 18, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 18--The rising cost of health care services has caught up with one of the major insurers in the region as Capital District Physicians' Health Plan reported quarterly and year-to-date losses on Friday.
...
Founder of Defunct North Hudson, N.Y., Amusement Park Hopes to Reopen.
August 18, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 18--NORTH HUDSON, N.Y.--Paint chips off the plank boards. Weeds sprout up in the gravel roads. And kids have broken in and vandalized some of the concession stands and other buildings.
Five years since it...
Stocks Surge for Two Latham, N.Y., Energy Companies after Power Outage.
August 16, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 16--The power outages that crippled much of the East Coast boosted the prestige -- and the stocks -- of two Latham companies working at different sides of the energy issue.
Plug Power Inc., which develops...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 15, 2003... Aug. 15--A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Thursday approved a Greene County physician's plan to buy a Central Avenue office complex for $4.1 million.
Dr. Martin Kosich's purchase of the West Mall Office Plaza should be finalized next...
Albany, N.Y., Neighborhood's Merchants Praise Street Redevelopment.
August 15, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 15--For most merchants on Lark Street, the pain was not too bad.
When a $2.5 million construction project along the Albany street between Washington and Madison avenues started in April, many business...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 14, 2003... Aug. 14--BON-TON SEEKING WORKERS FOR NEW LOUDON CENTER STORE: The Bon-Ton Stores Inc. later this month will begin accepting applications for the roughly 100 full- and part-time jobs to be created at its new store in Latham.
The York,...
Vacationers' Demand, Low Supply Lift National, New York Gasoline Costs.
August 14, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 14--They're back.
Higher gasoline prices have returned to pumps throughout the United States, and the Capital Region is no exception.
The average cost of unleaded gas in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area...
Albany, N.Y.-Area Health Plan Rolls Out New Product, Strategy.
August 13, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 13--Capital District Physicians' Health Plan on Tuesday announced a new product line and a revamped sales strategy through which it will develop customized products for employers seeking health insurance for...
Longtime Albany, N.Y., Shoe Store to Leave Downtown.
August 13, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 13--A shoe retailer that has operated on North Pearl Street since 1919 will be leaving downtown this fall.
Famous Shoe Store has reached an agreement to sell its building at 71 N. Pearl St. in Albany to the...
Troy Financial Corp.'s CEO to Collect $2 Million 'Golden Parachute'.
August 12, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 12--Daniel J. Hogarty Jr. and other top officials at Troy Financial Corp. will be well taken care of when First Niagara Financial Group Inc. acquires the Troy-based bank holding company.
Hogarty, president,...
Lockport, N.Y., Firm to Acquire Troy Financial Corp.
August 12, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 12--A Lockport bank holding company will buy Troy Financial Corp. for an estimated $356.6 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Monday morning.
First Niagara Financial Group Inc., headquartered...
Albany, NY, Firemen's Home to Get $34 Million Replacement.
August 12, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 12--An aging nursing home for former volunteer firefighters in the city will be replaced by a pair of long-term care facilities as part of a $34 million project announced Monday by the nonprofit organization...
Albany, N.Y.-Area Railway Workers Uncertain about Company's Fate.
August 12, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 12--Many of the Delaware & Hudson Railway's 250 Capital Region workers are on tenterhooks as they await their parent company's decision to sell or lease the line by year's end.
Canadian Pacific Railway...
Manufacturer Albany International Corp. Appoints Lead Director.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 11--Albany International Corp. on Friday announced the appointment of a lead director to act as a liaison between its board and top management.
Thomas R. Beecher Jr., an Albany International director since...
Independent Music Stores in Albany, N.Y., Area Threatened by Online Piracy.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 11--COLONIE, N.Y.--Tim Freligh visits Mr. Bill's CDs on Route 9 every few months, hoping to find an addition or two for his collection of oldies music. The 49-year-old Niskayuna resident has no interest in...
Brand-Name Tenants Fill Vacancies at Albany, N.Y., Technology Park.
August 9, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 9--ALBANY, N.Y.--There's no more room at the inn: The second building in the Albany NanoTech complex, which opened earlier this year, has been fully leased.
And two semiconductor companies that hadn't made...
Bethlehem, N.Y., Church Offers Steeple as Cover for Mobile-Phone Antennas.
August 8, 2003... Byline: Anne Miller
Aug. 8--BETHLEHEM, N.Y.--The church is more than 100 years old, but the fund-raising idea is cutting edge.
Community United Methodist Church leaders in Slingerlands are hoping to have cellular phone antennas...
Demand for Goat Meat Grows with Immigrant Population in East Chatham, N.Y.
August 8, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 8--There's Rafter and Mahoe. Plush Boy runs over, too.
Soon, Deborah Butler is surrounded by about a dozen of her charges, a herd of goats on her small East Chatham farm.
"Yes, they all have names," she...
New York Approves Sale of Albany-Area Nursing Homes.
August 8, 2003... Byline: Claire Hughes
Aug. 8--The state Thursday approved new ownership for Hallmark Nursing Centre, Schenectady-based chain of eight upstate nursing homes.
James Durante and Joseph Nichols, who owned Hallmark for 25 years, will sell...
Union Claims Talks Cost Verizon $1 Million per Day.
August 8, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 8--ALBANY, N.Y.--As Verizon Communications Inc. workers gathered for a pair of rallies in Albany on Thursday, officials with the Communications Workers of America said their strike-that-isn't is costing the...
Halfmoon, N.Y., Water Treatment Plant Ready to Start Pumping.
August 8, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II
Aug. 8--HALFMOON, N.Y.--The town declared independence Thursday as officials said a new $10.3 million water treatment plant will meet the community's water needs and can be expanded to handle future growth....
BMW Looks at Potential Motorcycle Dealership Owners in Niskayuna, N.Y., Area.
August 7, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 7--German automaker BMW is looking for someone to open a motorcycle dealership to sell its bikes in the Capital Region, after Berkshire Motor Works Inc. in Niskayuna shut its doors this summer.
Berkshire had...
New York State Faults Saratoga Hospital on Plan for Radiation Therapy Center.
August 7, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II
Aug. 7--SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.--Saratoga Hospital is not considering the community's best interests in refusing to cooperate with Glens Falls Hospital in building a radiation therapy center for cancer patients...
Opponents Ask Regulators to Pull Plug on Delayed Scotia, N.Y., Power Plant.
August 7, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 7--Developers of a proposed power plant in Glenville are facing a raft of opponents -- including state regulators -- as they try to keep their project alive after missing a filing deadline.
State officials...
Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Lists Queries on County's Proposed Water System.
August 7, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II
Aug. 7--Public Works Commissioner Thomas McTygue sent a list of questions Monday to Saratoga County about its proposed water system, which the county wants the city to commit to with a contract to purchase 4...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 6, 2003... Aug. 6--COLONIE, N.Y.--NINETY NINE RESTAURANT OPENS DOORS: A New England-based casual-dining restaurant chain on Tuesday opened its first New York location on Wolf Road.
The Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub at 107 Wolf Road brings to 83 the...
Albany, N.Y., Business Center to Launch Online Directory of Area Firms.
August 6, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 6--When Kelsey Kohler meets people these days, she hands out two business cards.
One is for her job as program director of the Center for Economic Growth's Technology Roadmap. The other is meant to steer...
Albany, N.Y., Drug Research Firm Reports Further Drop in Quarterly Earnings.
August 6, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 6--Drug-discovery firm Albany Molecular Research Inc. on Tuesday posted weaker earnings for the second straight quarter, blaming continued softness in the market for contract research.
The Albany-based...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 5, 2003... Aug. 5--EATERY'S OWNER AS LEADER: The owner of a Johnstown eatery will become president of the Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry next month.
The chamber on Monday announced that Wally Hart will take over the post by...
Owner Redesigns Bar, Theater Businesses in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Jeremy Boyer
Aug. 4--Business had slowed at Broadway Joe's sports bar, but that was not the prime reason owner Sue Ellen Mathers converted the 86 Congress St. space into an upscale steakhouse in the spring.
"I never really...
In 10 Years, Family & Medical Leave Act Has Transformed Lives, Workplaces.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Kenneth Aaron
Aug. 4--Brad Dennie could have been a trendsetter 10 years ago.
Yet when the 40-year-old network administrator at the Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany decided to take a one-month paternity...
Times Union, Albany, N.Y., Business Briefs Column.
August 1, 2003... Aug. 1--ALBANY, N.Y.--TECH FIRMS REPORT PLANS TO HIRE MORE WORKERS IN QUARTER: Technology firms in the region reported a sharp increase in hiring plans during the current quarter, according the latest Tech Valley Technology Hiring Index.
...
Fewer Guests Check Out Albany, N.Y., Region.
August 1, 2003... Byline: Kevin Harlin
Aug. 1--An unusually cold winter and a wet spring may have kept some travelers at home instead of in Capital Region hotel beds.
Occupancy in the region's rooms fell 2.4 percent in the first six months of the...
