In these troubled times, when I find myself working the night shift, shackled to the desk when I would rather be out walking the beat, starting (or, more correctly, re-starting) a second Saratogian blog may seem like a strange decision. And yet, here it is. My predecessor on the city desk, Ted Reinert, started this blog before he left for greener pastures, but he wasn't much of a blogger, and thus never posted more than a couple things on it. I'll try to do a little better.

I'm not going to write any originally content for the 20th District blog (let's be honest, I don't have the time or the energy for that). Instead, it will serve as a repository for the wealth of press releases that I receive from the Gillibrand and Treadwell camps. Any release that makes it's way into my in box (and, as previously noted, there are a lot of them), will be posted on the blog.

In these tough times it can be difficult for a small paper to cover so many elections at once. This is me trying to do a little for you.