Squawkbox – September 2, 2025

Kudos to Diana Brown for standing up for what she believes in and to the bully, Chairman Heard.   

“Access Albany” phone app allows customers to inform Albany Utilities when power is out. The AMI (advanced metering) was a “key feature” of the meter upgrade (at great expense and increased billing) with automatic, real-time outage detection to the DOC (Detect Control Center) and a by-phone outage map. Redundant app or does something not work?  

The Democrats hate President Trump more than the world hated Hitler.

The U.S. government has outlawed several items to protect the public, yet it seems the only ones who can’t get their hands on these items are the public.Criminals easily obtain these items: guns, drugs, women and cash easily change hands on the black market.

Three out of every Five Republicans say they will not get the new COVID shot. That means some may not live long enough to vote again.

Inside Public Accounting’s 2025 Top 100 Firms list is based solely on Net Revenue, nothing else. It is all about the money, not how good you are.

I guess I’m gonna have to quit holding my breath waiting for King’s $195,000, taxpayer-funded virtual walk down memory lane. It pays, I guess, to be a friend of Heard and his posse of outlaws.

Miss Harris was right: The True President is being played by Putin.

Think before you donate to nonprofits. From 2015-2022, Brian Gallagher, the CEO of United Way, was compensated $12 million. Many local employers put a lot of pressure on their hourly salaried workers to donate to make their company look like good community stewards. 

Diana Brown must hate some black people as much as she hates white people. 

The president is letting in 600,000 Chinese students (who could be spies), and kicking out Mexicans that are working on our farms.  So sad.

For the person who offered the old “when it bleeds, it leads” quote at the State of the Community gathering: What do you expect? Are the media supposed to leave out all the criminal activity so that the community is unaware and a false picture arises? I, for one, am thankful for our local media.