Notes from around town

 Yes, we do have morons in the state GOP.

Matt Slater, an assemblyman from Westchester County (i.e. Yonkers, White Plains), is sponsoring a bill that would effectively change high school sports as we know it.

This issue has to do with a perceived disparity between public & private schools, in that private schools, such as Christian Brothers Academy, both in Colonie & Syracuse, and Shenendehowa in Clifton Park, have an unfair competitive advantage over public schools.

The root of Slater's lame argument stems from Somers High losing a sectional football final to CBA-Syracuse in 2021 by a single point. Somers, as readers of this blog and Tri-City SportsBeat may know, has beaten Section II teams in state play over the years, such as Burnt Hills. The Tuskers have won the last three state Class A titles, so why is Slater whining over a simple game?

He's a Republican looking for a cause to get behind and to get attention. As Chris Churchill asserts in today's Albany Times-Union, Slater's bill likely isn't going anywhere, because it's just a small, petty issue.

Translated:

Private schools have an open enrollment outside their districts, which is why CBA, Shen, Catholic Central, et al, can have student-athletes from, say, Troy or Cohoes or Niskayuna playing for them. That's the part Slater doesn't get.

I've heard of making a mountain out of a molehill, but making a molehill out of an ant hill?? Yeah, that's today's GOP in a nutshell.

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Behind all those TV & radio ads for Destination Kia/Nissan, James Morrell, Jr. & his wife, Megan, are dealing with some traumatic issues that now have legal consequences.

Patrick Tine is reporting in today's Times-Union that the Morrells, the son & daughter-in-law of Destination & Albany Broadcasting owner James Morrell, Sr., stole 5 memorials in memory of Shaker graduate and ex-Marine Nicholas Camilli, who passed away in the fall of 2023 when his motorcycle collided with a car driven by the elder Morrell. The younger Morrells believed that the memorials were on county property, not private property, and never contacted Camilli's grieving mother, Angela Colloca, about moving the memorials.

Contrary to the Destination ad campaigns, it's not even close to being "kooky", but sad.

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We wrote last week that Magic 100.5/AM590 had discontinued Madison Wealth Managers' Sunday reruns to give morning host Jaime Roberts a full 5 hour Sunday berth (7 am-noon). However, a commercial with Dan Polansky plugging both the Saturday & Sunday broadcasts are still running. Hmmmmm.