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Photo credit: Sarah Melcher On Monday, April 30, Senator Jeff Merkley held his 344th town hall in the Russell Tripp Performance Center at LBCC, where he answered questions, gifted a representative of the American Legion Post No. 10 a flag that flew over the capitol, and touched on issues regarding climate change and net neutrality. Albany Mayor Sharon Konopa emceed the town hall and David Solomon a representative from the American Legion Post, who was also a 9/11 first responder, gave an opening statement explaining how the post works with setting up a suicide hotline for veterans. Solomon said, “Twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day, and if we can prevent one then we did something right,” Sen. Merkley thanked the representative for his service and gave him a flag that once flew over the U.S. Capitol. The senator spoke about net neutrality before beginning the question-and-answer session. “100 to one of the phone calls I receive are in regards to net neutrality,” ...

Courtesy of Flickr.com So I’m in a bathroom at LBCC standing in front of a sink with my hands up like a heart surgeon. I just dropped a heinous deuce and washed my hands, but there's a problem; I can’t dry them. The only things available to aid this situation are those Dyson jet hand dryers. They do get the job done in regards to drying my hands, but they coat my hands with microbes of poo. Most of which are not my own. Now, I would trust Dyson telling me that their hand dryers are the “ most hygenic ” out there, but I don’t. Honestly, Dyson’s assurance of the cleanliness of their dryers is like a lettuce supplier advertising that their lettuce is E-coli-free. It’d make me a little concerned. So I decided to do a little digging and what I found was surprising. A review done by the Mayo Clinic (“ The Hygienic Efficacy of Different Hand-Drying Methods: A Review of the Evidence ,” Huang, et. al) reports that jet dryers are almost as effective in drying hands as th...