Daniel JeansonApr 29, 20212 minGirl Gone Planning: 89 PeopleThe US Census reporte preliminary numbers for their 2020 count on Monday and it reported that New York would be losing a House seat (and...
Daniel JeansonApr 23, 20213 minGirl Gone Planning: Pandemic Winners: Places Like Albany?Albany, NY is a city of 98,000 (pending 2020 Census numbers) sitting along the Hudson River 130 miles north of New York City. It is the...
Daniel JeansonAug 14, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Be CountedThe following is a repost from Nov 2019. Fill out the Census today to make sure that your community gets the resources it deserves. The...
Daniel JeansonJul 8, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Once Again Albany DisappointsRegular readers of this blog will remember a post I wrote back in February imagining what a car-free Lark Street would look like. Then...
Daniel JeansonMay 18, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Will COVID kill the city?While the novel coronavirus keeps most of us holed up at home, sustained by an ever increasing deluge of deliveries of all kinds, some of...
Heather C FazioMay 5, 20204 minGirl Gone Smart: My breast biopsy experience (language warning)I wasn't going to write about this because it feels too personal, but a friend reached out after I had checked in to St. Peter's Hospital...
Daniel JeansonFeb 26, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Albany's new high schoolAlbany residents got a first glimpse at their newly renovated and expanded high school over the weekend, and from the pictures it looks...
Daniel JeansonFeb 13, 20203 minGirl Gone Planning: Imagining a car-free Lark Street (for a few hours a week)Think about some of the most magical urban places that you've visited in your life. Maybe it's a lovely town square in Milan, or a...
Daniel JeansonJan 28, 20202 minGirl Gone Planning: Axes Away in AlbanyFirst came the hot yoga studio, then the smoothie place, the brewery, and the dog walking service. Now the latest trend in gentrification...
Heather C FazioDec 4, 20193 minGirl Gone Reading: Local author Nick Pignatelli has what you needAre you tired of politics yet? Or perhaps you’re tired of the multitude of social media posts by friends who just learned the word...
Daniel JeansonNov 20, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Census 2020 or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Accept the CountIf you have been paying attention to the Trump administration, you're probably suffering from spinning head syndrome or whiplash. The...
Daniel JeansonOct 29, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Are Millennials Leaving the City for the Suburbs?Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, one of the big stories in demographics and urban planning has been the trend of Millennials...
Daniel JeansonOct 20, 20193 minGirl Gone Planning: Lark Street Is A Model For Our Region And Is Getting A MakeoverLark Street between Washington and Madison Avenues in Albany is a popular mixed-use business district in the middle of an existing...
Daniel JeansonOct 2, 20192 minGirl Gone Planning: (Insert local transit provider here) SUCKSAnother day, another complaint about nearly any transit system from friends on Facebook who live here in Albany or elsewhere across the...
Heather C FazioSep 25, 20191 minGirl Gone Smart: Impeachment TuesdayYes. Yes we can. That is all. #girlgonesmart
Heather C FazioSep 20, 20192 minGirl Gone Local: A night at June FarmsIt has been a pretty rough week for a thousand reasons but my husband, who knows me better than all, knew just the solution - June Farms....
Heather C FazioSep 6, 20192 minGirl Gone Eating: A summary of good eats in Albany from this summerEvery once in a while I like to pull together a list of good books I've written about, but this time I'm going to do a list of the places...
Daniel JeansonJul 26, 20192 minGirl Gone Planning: MilestonesAsk nearly anyone what constitutes a milestone and they will probably respond that it is an important event that marks the end of one arc...
Daniel JeansonJun 24, 20194 minGirl Gone Planning: InfrastructureOf all the topics inside and out of my professional life one that comes up directly or indirectly more than almost any other is...
Heather C FazioJun 14, 20192 minGirl Gone Local: An invitation to The Lincoln Dress, A Ghost StoryAlbany Ghost Story to be premiered at Siena College and then traveling to International Festival in Eastern Europe. WHO: Piper Theatre...