By Brian McLane As most know, I spent much of my life in politics. It was, as I’ve said time and time again, a career I loved because it was so much like sports. There were two teams and two sides, and almost every time you introduced a piece of legislation, one side won while […]
By Brian McLane I love basketball. That much is rock-solid certain. In fact, among the three principles that have long guided my life – faith, family, and friends – the odd little game invented by a graduate student named James Naismith on the Winter Solstice of 1891 to give the boys of the Springfield YMCA […]
By Larry Bashe Let’s get this out of the way up front, shall we? I love Brian McLane. He’s the man I someday hope to be when I grow up. So, everything you’re about to read has, shall we say, a certain bias baked into it. That said, there a few things I’d like you […]
By Brian McLane You may have noticed I refer to myself on my blog's home page as an “accidental warrior.” The reason I chose that particular phrase is because (and, I suppose, all evidence to the contrary) I never actually wanted to be a disabled rights advocate, or to spend my adult life trying to […]
By Brian McLane Jack Vandervort was a friend. Jack Vandervort was one of the most remarkable men I’ve ever known. Yet, I promise you, Jack Vandervort will never, ever get his due for just how much he did to change the texture and tenor of life in Central New York, as well as the direction […]