Potato Creek State Park Worster Lake on state's high algae count advisory list 8-26-12
Potato Creek State Park Worster Lake on state's high algae count advisory list 8-26-12
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By Judi Lykowski jlykowski@abc57.com
August 26, 2012
NORTH LIBERTY, Ind. -- Potato Creek State Park Worster Lake is on a list of 13 lakes across the state that are considered under a high Blue-Green algae counts. DNR officials would not comment on camera about the issue, nor would the staff allow ABC 57 on the park property Sunday afternoon.
A DNR Specialist at Salamonie Reservoir located in Andrews, IN told ABC 57 news that two dogs died last month after the water their had high Blue-Green algae counts. He mentioned the Indiana Department of Environmental Management samples the water at the reservoir and issued a health alert after 100,000 cells of Blue-Green algae was measured.
ABC 57 called the Potato Creek State Park to find out if the DNR staff is taking any precautions. The DNR Staff said they are advising visitors to shower with soapy water after swimming. When asked about the warnings for pets the staff said they were pretty sure the Blue-Green algae counts weren't at the same level as that of the Salamonie Reservoir located in Andrews where the two dogs died.
However, ABC 57 found Potato Creek State Park Worster Lake on the in.gov/idem/algae website list updated on August 24th that states the lake is under a high count alert. On the website the Indiana State Department of Health cautions Hoosiers that dogs are particularly susceptible to Blue-Green algae and it may cause sudden death.
Listed on Potato Creek State Park's website ( is a caution advisory that states, due to high Blue-Green algae counts, users and pets should avoid ingesting water, avoid contact with surface scums when visible and shower with soapy water after swimming.
A DNR Specialist at Salamonie Reservoir confirmed the Blue-Green algae warning is the same warning that is posted on it's website.
ABC 57 spoke with people who were leaving Potato Creek State Park on Sunday afternoon, only one family heard anything about the high Blue-Green algae advisory and the precautionary measures the DNR staff said they were advising their visitors to follow.
Andy Horvath of South Bend said, We came in yesterday and all the kids wanted to go swimming because it was hot so we took the kids, but we didn't take the dog though. He said after they got out of the lake they all took showers. When asked how he found out about the high Blue-Green algae counts at the park, he said his mom informed him who heard from another camper about the ordeal.
As for Elizabeth Kwaitkowski of South Bend she said, I would have like to have known what area we had to stay out of, we come here all the time and I never check the website right before we come, we came to walk with our dog and no one told us anything as we entered. I mean she's (their dog) is the one that we should have known, we are not going to drink any water there, but hiking she gets thirsty and we were by the lakes, but thankfully she didn't drink anything. We packed our own bottled water and cup for her.
ABC 57 talked with folks in 7 other vehicles exiting Potato Creek State Park on Sunday afternoon and none of them had heard anything about the Blue-Green algae warnings nor the precautionary measures the Indiana State Department of Health recommends for humans or pets.
Hiking Turkey Run State Park, Indiana
Explore one of the most beautiful places in Indiana. The park is filled with hollows, gulches, canyons, forest, small caves, creeks and waterfalls.
I visited Turkey Run State Park in mid October during an unusually warm spell, with highs around 80. It also rained heavily for a few hours before my hike, which added to the misty look you see in the video. Almost unreal in person, like something out of a movie.
Trails hiked: 3, 5, 9, 10. These trails took us from the Nature Center where we parked over the suspension bridge, through the Ice Box, Bear Hollow, Falls Canyon, Boulder Canyon, and Rocky Hollow. We also walked off trail along the shores of Sugar Creek, where we saw no one. We saw one deer and heard an owl.
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Health Department warns about the dangers of blue-green algae 8-30-12
Health Department warns about the dangers of blue-green algae 8-30-12
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By Jenny Dolph
By Judi Lykowski jlykowski@abc57.com
August 30, 2012
NORTH LIBERTY, Ind. -- The Indiana State Department of Health is warning Hoosiers about the dangers of blue-green algae, also known as Cyanobacteria, in Indiana lakes. Two dogs recently died after taking a swim in Walbash County.
So what does this mean for you and your pets for your Labor Day plans? We took a closer look at the murky issue.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Worster Lake at Potato Creek State Park is under a high alert for blue-green algae levels.
DNR Naturalist Tim Cordell, with Potato Creek State Park says, the name blue-green algae is deceiving, It's not even an algae, it's a bacteria. Cordell said you can't see blue-green algae, but if you were to fill up a glass with the lake water, the water would have a slight blueish green color due to the Cyanobacteria.
The Indiana State Department of Health's warns you to take precautionary measures including avoiding contact with visible algae and swallowing water while swimming. Also recommended is to take a bath or shower with warm, soapy water after coming in contact with untreated water in ponds or lakes.
The website states, Pets should not be allowed to swim in or drink untreated water from these sources. However, the dog beach at Potato Creek State Park is currently open and that confuses Portage camper
Sharon Riley who is camping at the park with her husband and their 13-year-old dog. We were hoping to take her (their dog) down to the water to get a drink and I'm glad you (ABC 57's Judi Lykowski) mentioned it because we weren't aware of it, said Riley.
Cordell said warnings are posted on a wall as beech goers head in to use the bathrooms. It's about a block away from the beech, but Riley doesn't think that's good enough when you are gambling with her dog's life. She said, My concern is over the weekend now because it is like the last camping weekend of the season and there will be a lot of people here with their pets.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) began sampling the week of June 18Th. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses a guideline level of greater of 100,000 cells/ml are considered a high count alert. According to the August 21st numbers, Worster Lake at Potato Creek State Park had a count of 880,000 cells/ml.
We spoke to Cindi Wagner, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's Chief of the targeted monitoring section of Office of Water Quality, she said there is no scientific way to know if the Cyanobacteria in any lake is toxin. She also said the blue-green algae grows best in warm stagnant water and if Tropical Storm Issac brings rain to our area this holiday weekend, it could break up the count levels.
ABC 57 also asked her what the Cyanobacteria levels were in the Salamonie Reservoir, where two dogs died on Sunday July 15th after playing in the water. Wagnor said IDEM does not monitor Cyanobacteria levels in the particular areas where the dogs were at playing that day.
Testing was conducted earlier this week at Worster Lake at Potato Creek State Park, Wagner advised new numbers should be posted sometime tomorrow.
Turkey Run Civilian Conservation Corps Reunion | Indiana DNR
Five veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps met at Turkey Run State Park this spring for an annual reunion and to share their stories. Introduction by Fred Wooley, Interpreter at Pokagon State Park.
Each year groups of veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps gather at reunions all over the state of Indiana. These are the stories of those who meet at Turkey Run State Park.
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Ouabache State Park (IN)
If you've hiked here, which is your favorite trail?
Ouabache State Park is a park we've appreciated for many years. It was originally formed in the 1930’s as the Wells County State Forest and Game Preserve which was at one time considered to be the Greatest Wildlife Laboratory in the United States.
I must tell you there were 2 reasons I frequent this park- anyone care to guess what they are?
1. The American Bison. I have been observing Bison for years as you can see from some of the images I’ve included in this video. The park has a 20-acre wildlife exhibit of American Bison and there's a fall feeding program where you can learn more about this national mammal.
If you looking for an interesting reads on Bison, I would suggest you read up on the height, gender study of Natives in relation to the Bison Slaughter beginning in the later 1800’s.
The second thing I love about this park is memories of climbing the 100-foot (30 m) fire tower which was a little nerve-wracking on windy days and yet provided a magnificent view of the park and surrounding area. The Firetower has been newly restored for those that weren’t aware so this is on my venture list for the spring
There are five hiking trails ranging from 1 mile to 6 miles. The longest, Trail 5, encircles the park and can be started and finished at any trail entrance. And boats, paddle boats, kayaks, and bicycles are available for rent by the hour or by the day.
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A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. Cox was photographed with only his legs still dry and wearing Wrangler jeans, so the company is also giving him a year's supply of pants
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The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)
Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 1850s. Blight continues his description of the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, describing the guerilla war that reigned in the territory of Kansas for much of 1856. The lecture continues, describing the caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate and the birth of the Republican party. The lecture concludes with the near-victory of Republican candidate John C. Fremont in the presidential election of 1856, and the passage of the Dred Scott decision in 1857.
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Frederick Douglass | Wikipedia audio article
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Frederick Douglass
00:02:03 1 Life as a slave
00:06:46 2 From slavery to freedom
00:10:10 3 Abolitionist and preacher
00:13:40 3.1 Autobiography
00:14:53 3.2 Travels to Ireland and Great Britain
00:17:59 3.3 Return to the United States
00:20:07 3.4 Women's rights
00:23:43 3.5 Douglass refines his ideology
00:26:12 3.5.1 Photography
00:26:54 4 Religious views
00:32:38 5 Civil War years
00:32:48 5.1 Before the Civil War
00:33:15 5.2 Fight for emancipation and suffrage
00:35:37 5.3 After Lincoln's death
00:37:21 6 Reconstruction era
00:41:39 7 Family life
00:43:18 8 Final years in Washington, D.C.
00:47:23 9 Death
00:48:30 10 Legacy and honors
00:54:13 11 In arts and literature
00:57:04 12 Works
00:57:13 12.1 Writings
00:58:06 12.2 Speeches
00:58:36 13 See also
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union With Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | Audio book with subtitles
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) Read by Mark F. Smith.
Jules VERNE , translated by UNKNOWN ( - )
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days... immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible.
With his excitable French manservant in tow, Fogg undertakes the exercise immediately, with no preparations, trusting that his traveling funds will make up for delays along the way. But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge sum by someone who resembles him, and they will track him around the world, if necessary, to apprehend him.
This is an adventure novel of the first water, with wholly unexpected perils, hair-breadth escapes, brilliant solutions to insoluble problems, and even a love story. And can this be? - That he returns to London just five minutes too late to win his wager and retain his fortune? (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction
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0:33 | Chapter 1
11:34 | Chapter 2
20:12 | Chapter 3
35:19 | Chapter 4
43:01 | Chapter 5
50:07 | Chapter 6
59:32 | Chapter 7
1:05:37 | Chapter 8
1:13:58 | Chapter 9
1:25:32 | Chapter 10
1:37:10 | Chapter 11
1:56:00 | Chapter 12
2:11:12 | Chapter 13
2:25:11 | Chapter 14
2:38:58 | Chapter 15
2:52:22 | Chapter 16
3:03:48 | Chapter 17
3:16:20 | Chapter 18
3:25:42 | Chapter 19
3:40:38 | Chapter 20
3:53:15 | Chapter 21
4:10:32 | Chapter 22
4:25:20 | Chapter 23
4:39:04 | Chapter 24
4:52:56 | Chapter 25
5:07:22 | Chapter 26
5:18:53 | Chapter 27
5:32:38 | Chapter 28
5:49:40 | Chapter 29
6:04:31 | Chapter 30
6:19:28 | Chapter 31
6:31:58 | Chapter 32
6:39:55 | Chapter 33
6:57:24 | Chapter 34
7:04:37 | Chapter 35
7:16:26 | Chapter 36
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The Master of the World by Jules Verne | Audio book with subtitles
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related. And when Strock gets a hand-lettered note warning him to abandon his investigation, on pain of death, he is intrigued rather than deterred.
Set in a period when gasoline engines were in their infancy and automobiles were rare, and when even Chief Inspectors had to engage a carriage and horses to move about, the appearance of a vehicle that can move at astounding speeds on land, on water - and as later revealed, underwater and through the air - marks a technological advance far beyond the reach of nations. It is technology invented by and for the sole benefit of a man who styles himself (with some justification) The Master of the World.
This book is a sequel to an earlier Verne novel, Robur the Conqueror, but enough detail is given to fully appreciate this story without having first read the other. (Summary by Mark)
The Master of the World
Jules VERNE
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Our Miss Brooks: Exchanging Gifts / Halloween Party / Elephant Mascot / The Party Line
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes | Full Audiobook with subtitles
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation and empire. In Thirty Years A Slave Hughes provides vivid descriptions and explicit accounts of how the McGee plantation in Mississippi, and the McGee mansion in Tennessee functioned--accounts of the lives of the many slaves that lived, suffered and sometimes died under the cruel and unusual punishments meted out by Boss and his monstrously unstable and vindictive wife. He described the profane manner in which this peculiar institution dehumanized, on a daily basis, not only the black man but even more so the white man. Ultimately, Thirty Years A Slave is an expression of Hughes’s desire to accurately describe the nature of the influence that the institution of slavery had on this country during the two hundred years in which it existed here, and the influence it continues to have on the heart and soul of a post-Civil War, post-14th Amendment United States. (Introduction by James K. White)
Thirty Years A Slave
Louis HUGHES
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890)
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A timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law proclaiming that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent for an improved method of Making Pot and Pearl Ashes. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years. However, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 (URAA) changed the patent term in the United States to a total of 20 years, effective for patent applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, thus bringing United States patent law further into conformity with international patent law. The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792).
From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
Albany, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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Albany, New York
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Albany ( (listen) ALL-bə-nee) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River and approximately 150 miles (240 km) north of New York City.
Albany is known for its rich history, commerce, culture, architecture, and institutions of higher education. Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. As of the 2010 census, the population of Albany was 97,856.
The area that later became Albany was settled by Dutch colonists who in 1614, built Fort Nassau for fur trading and, in 1624, built Fort Orange. In 1664, the English took over the Dutch settlements, renaming the city as Albany, in honor of the then Duke of Albany, the future James II of England and James VII of Scotland. The city was officially chartered in 1686 under English rule. It became the capital of New York in 1797 following formation of the United States. Albany is one of the oldest surviving settlements of the original British thirteen colonies, and is the longest continuously chartered city in the United States.During the late 18th century and throughout most of the 19th, Albany was a center of trade and transportation. The city lies toward the north end of the navigable Hudson River, was the original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal connecting to the Great Lakes, and was home to some of the earliest railroad systems in the world. In the 1920s, a powerful political machine controlled by the Democratic Party arose in Albany. In the latter part of the 20th century, Albany experienced a decline in its population due to urban sprawl and suburbanization; however, the New York State Legislature approved a $234 million building and renovation plan for the City in the 1990s that spurred renovation and building projects around the downtown area. In the early 21st century, Albany has experienced growth in the high-technology industry, with great strides in the nanotechnology sector.
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