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New York?s Strongman Underwriting Unshackle Upstate
2009-06-12 20:22:00 In this video, New York 's Floridian Strongman announces that he will bankroll Unshackle Upstate . The person introducing him is the head of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Andrew Rudnick. He had to look 60 miles down the Thruway to find a billionaire to underwrite his project. [HTML1] Golisano acknowledges that you ... More About: New-York
The Buffalo Fail Sign
2009-06-12 20:22:00 Chris Collins might be doing something about that. Here's an idea. Get a company to sponsor it so that there's not a penny of public money going to make the repairs. Regrettably, the remaining money isn't going to demolishing the existing convention center. More About: Buffalo , Sign
A Note about Balance
2009-06-12 01:35:00 On another site, commenter "shim" called me out for being a hypocrite when it comes to this takeover of the New York State Senate. While I am a proud and partisan Democrat, when it comes to state politics, I generally find each side generally to be a corrupt failure. ... More About: Note , Balance
Dear Mayor Brown
2009-06-11 19:34:00 You were, until recently, a Democratic State Senator, and you are closely aligned with Steve Pigeon and his benefactor, Tom Golisano. If you were still a State Senator today, would you have decided to caucus with the Republicans and participated in the coup orchestrated by Golisano, Pigeon, and Espada? Love, ... More About: Brown , Mayor
Descent into Madness
2009-06-11 19:34:00 Neoconservatives have agitated for bombing Iran because - well, that Ahmadinejad guy is crazy and hates Jews and denies the Holocaust! They want the US to bomb Iran back into the stone age and they want it done yesterday. (At least Ahmadinejad didn't open fire inside the Holocaust ... More About: Descent , Madness
Joe Bruno Supports Gay Marriage
2009-06-11 19:34:00 You read that right. According to this site, via Andrew Sullivan, "It's time. Now. For the government to back off, let people make their own life decisions, and about how they care about and who they don't care about...." Could this be a green light to the Republicans in the ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Bruno
Hatred is Hatred. Violence is Violence. Terrorism is Terrorism.
2009-06-11 19:34:00 This morning CBS interviewed the young son of the security guard who was shot yesterday by a lunatic Nazi at the Holocaust Museum, of all places. The little boy was so sweet, wearing glasses that were a bit too big for him, and he was about 7 or 8 ... More About: Terrorism , Violence , Hatred
Allez Cuisine!
2009-06-11 08:01:00 Buffalo will soon have its own version of Iron Chef, where local chefs battle each other using a theme ingredient. I'm honored to have been selected as one of the three judges for the inaugural battle between Nickel City Chef Krista Van Wagner of Curly's in Lackawanna vs. Challenger Chef ... More About: Cuisine
Four Men, A Billion Dollars, and some Patronage Jobs in a Room
2009-06-11 08:01:00 Tom Golisano posted a self-congratulatory, self-indulgent post at the Responsible New York blog today, and concludes with this : One important concrete change is that with these rules reforms and coalition government all 62 senators will play a role in negotiating the next budget. That means in one fell swoop ... More About: Jobs , Room , Dollars , Billion
Cynicism is the Only Appropriate Response
2009-06-11 08:01:00 While the Buffalo News' Editorial Board was busy tsk-tsking the Senate coup, it crossed its fingers and wished that something good might come out of it. When the coup plotters took over, they announced a bunch of rules changes, which are analyzed here by a Brennan Center representative. More ... More About: Response
Terrorism
2009-06-11 08:01:00 Terrorism comes in many forms, from many sources. Today, we saw right wing terrorism continue apace because some anti-Semitic asshole decided to shoot up the Holocaust Museum, of all places. I don't have the heart or the stomach to repeat here (or even link here) to the murderer's ... More About: Terrorism
Settle?
2009-06-10 07:59:00 Anyone else catch this little reveal? ...we are told by a highly reliable source that information technology entrepreneur Syaed Ali would probably settle his lawsuit against the City of Buffalo related to the highly questionable police raid on his home last Nov. 7 if the City would just agree to ... More About: Settle
You?d Better Put that Blackberry Away
2009-06-10 07:59:00 Let's make something crystal clear. I don't give a crap that the Republicans took over control of the Senate with the help of two opportunistic indictees. There is not a single, solitary person who can convincingly argue that the same crowd that ran the Senate from 1965 - ... More About: Blackberry
2+30 = Reform Coalition?
2009-06-09 19:58:00 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g Lr9tQwwCq8[/youtube] As I watch this first video, I'm struck by the enthusiastic applause from the Republicans in the Senate, completely oblivious to the fact that this entire episode is an embarrassment to the people of the State of New York who sent them there. The people who just want to ... More About: Reform , Coalition
The Buffalo Ruse?s Guide to Vendor Permitting in Buffalo
2009-06-09 19:58:00 This is exactly right: 1. Download a permit application online using the ?Easy Permit? link found on the City of Buffalo ?s CityServices webpage. 2. Complete the application in Braille and English (use blue or black ink). 3. Collect the necessary supplemental forms from ?Steve? who can usually be found in City Hall ... More About: Guide
New York State Government
2009-06-09 19:58:00 From now on, I think I might just refer to it as the Albany Junta. Between parliamentary coups and three men in a room, there's hardly a more apt term. More About: Government , New York , York , State , New-York
Albany Asplodes
2009-06-09 19:58:00 Two prominent Western New Yorkers teamed together with a couple of discontented and/or power-hungry New York City-area Democratic State Senators to engineer and execute a Republican takeover of the State Senate. That didn't take very long. To upstaters who were upset at how downstate-centric the State Senate had ...
Civil Disobedience with a side of Toasted Almond
2009-06-08 19:58:00 In comments, Jon Splett suggests: If I was doing it, I?d get a hold of the guy and plan it for somewhere he?s banned from selling. Then have a TON of people show up and buy ice cream from him there illegally. It makes it more of a legit protest ... More About: Almond , Side , Civil Disobedience , Civil
Clarence First & the Wegmans Proposal at Roll & Transit
2009-06-08 19:58:00 I have read the concerns of the Clarence First group and have the following comments: 1. The Clarence Master Plan shows the entirety of Transit Road as being "commercial" use. More specifically, at its drafting in 2000, the area bordering Transit Road is zoned as "major arterial". The area ... More About: Proposal , Roll
But if the Ice Cream Guy Joined Grassroots?
2009-06-08 19:58:00 Perhaps James the Ice Cream Bicycle Guy could apply for six figures' worth of loans from BERC, but in smaller, less scrutinized incremental amounts, and then retain the assistance of a BERC official who's friendly with the mayor and have her pay his bills, negotiate with vendors, and otherwise run ... More About: Grassroots
I Like Turtles
2009-06-08 19:58:00 While we criticize Buffalo's downtown, let's not forget that Niagara Falls, NY is an utter and complete failure when it comes to developing the parcels of land within easy walking distance of the state park. There are some B and C-list hotels nearby, the gorgeous park itself, the food ... More About: Turtles
Enlightenment in Lew-Port
2009-06-08 19:58:00 The Lew-Port School Board President thinks racist, misogynist emails are hilarious. Like most people over 50, he takes glee in forwarding them to a lengthy list of email recipients. Problem is, many of them don't think "negro" jokes and black-people-hate-to-work jokes are all that "funny". When interviewed by ... More About: Enlightenment
Success Breeds Morons
2009-06-08 19:58:00 This story at Buffalo Rising, which details the really idiotic hoops that some guy with an ice cream bicycle cart needs to go through just to ride his bicycle cart in parts of town where people actually are, is simply infuriating. "The city peddler's permit is good for anywhere but ... More About: Success , Breeds , Morons
Buffalo: A Sense of Chicken Wings
2009-06-08 19:58:00 Given "Wing King" Cerza's wonderful success with the National Wing Festival, this is an excellent pick. Hell, chicken wings have mass appeal and are far more identifiable with Buffalo among average people than Frank Lloyd Wright houses and other pretty buildings. Best of luck to Drew and the rest ... More About: Sense , Chicken , Wings
If it?s Sunday, It?s Hardline with Dave Debo
2009-06-08 19:58:00 While Hardwick's on hiatus, dropping lit in Tonawanda, I still like to listen to a show I'm rather fond of. Debo's at the microphone on Sunday at ten, talking teabags, taking phone calls at WBEN. This week, his first guest, will be Rus Thompson. They'll be talking tea parties - ... More About: Dave
Terrell Owens, Media & Orchard Park
2009-06-04 21:54:00 This is not a sports blog, so I don't know a damn thing about Terrell Owens except what I see and hear on the news. I realize that he is a marquee player, and Bills fans are very excited about his arrival here for a one year deal. ... More About: Media , Park , Terrell Owens
Downsizing: Symbolic, but Provides Momentum and Opportunity
More articles from this author:2009-06-04 21:54:00 Well, if you give a voter a choice between bigger and smaller government; when you give a voter a chance between more costs versus less, it appears as if that voter will vote to downsize and make government leaner and cheaper. I don't know if that would have been ... More About: Opportunity , Momentum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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