Thursday, March 7, 2013

Woodstock NY Solar Farming

With the town of Woodstock backing off a big solar farm at the waste water treatment plant and looking into alternatives, here's one that would be a win win win for the town and solar advocates.

Put it up over the Rock City Road Parking lot, provide tons of electricity, shade, and a big political statement that Woodstock is big on solar.

Since the town Supervisor had those grand shade trees cut down a few years back, it get's mighty hot in that space. Plus, drivers would get some shelter from rain and snow as they get to their cars.

Panels would be high off the ground and discourage vandalism and theft.

A thing of beauty!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

News of the Day Feb. 27, 2013

Very powerful investigation into health care costs by Steven Brill, founder of Court TV.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

News of the Day Feb.13,2013

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2013/feb/13/did-the-police-start-fire-that-killed-christopher-dorner

From today's Guardian

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Channel 23 is back streaming live!

Great news for all you folks who live outside Woodstock cable TV's limited reach. Channel 23 has resumed streaming live via www.woodstocktv.org - You can now catch our weekly show at 9pm Thursdays and again throughout the week on replays-plus you can watch Town Board Meetings from afar-Oh Joy!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Welcome to Woodstock Progressives Blog

Michael Veitch & David Menzies

This blog is meant to compliment our weekly TV show (now over 8 years running) on Public Access Channel 23 in Woodstock, NY called "Progressive Issues." Comments are always welcome but be aware they may get read over the air. If you would like to not have your name used, please let us know. We will be posting to this site weekly and hopefully giving you some interesting links to articles and even repeats of our show. Still a work in progress but not for long. Check back soon. MV-ps and check out some bike signage photos from Germany. (below) and take a quick look at this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/26/1136564/-How-one-firm-got-Mitt-Romney-to-invest-in-its-Chinese-factories?detail=hide

And take a look at this!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html?hp=r13

whoa!

And this! http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/26-8

These are just some of the stories we are following this week at Progressive Issues.

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Singer-performer-songwriter
Location	Woodstock, NY
Introduction	All photos and paintings are Copyright 2012 Michael Veitch. A note about the camera-I'm using a Samsung TL225 Digital with a Schneider-Krueznach 4.6 Optical Zoom. I am using the highest resolution-12.2 mega pixels. Helpful trick-if you click on the photos they will appear very large in your screen.
Interests	Music, photography, travel, politics, Corgi's
Favorite Movies	Hard Days Night, Dr. Strangelove Groundhog's Day, Beatles Anthology. What About Bob.
Favorite Music	Beatles, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Flamin' Groovies, Stone House Project, and of course, MVeitch
Favorite Books	Just finished Germania by Simon Windon-highly recommend! Also the Steig Larsson Trilogy-wow!Great stuff-but they sure drink a lot of coffee.

Here are some shared Bike and Pedestrian friendly signs from Germany

Typical bike lane

Bikes are everywhere here in Munich.

Maybe Woodstock can start to look at making itself more bike friendly?????