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Buffalo to Get a Passport Office
2009-05-19 15:38:00 From a Press Release: Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) announced that Western New York will receive $700,000 in Recovery Act funding to support the opening of a regional passport agency in Western New York. Congressman Higgins and Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) first advocated for a WNY passport office in a ... More About: Office , Buffalo , Passport
Dear Tom Golisano:
2009-05-19 15:38:00 I read this in the Buffalo News yesterday: "I wish there were 100,000 people standing behind me feeling the same way and acting the same way, but they're not," Golisano told reporters at the state Capitol. But, he added, he still feels a sense of responsibility to stay engaged in ...
Red Light Camera Protest
2009-05-19 09:37:00 As heard on Shredd & Ragan, there will be a good, old-fashioned demonstration protesting the installation of red light cameras in Buffalo. Why? Because everyone knows they're not about safety, they're first and foremost about revenue enhancement. It will be held on Thursday, May 21, 2009 between 3pm ... More About: Camera , Protest , Light
Key to the City of Buffalo, NY: Cheap
2009-05-19 09:37:00 Terrell Owens received the key to the City of Buffalo today. Owens may be the best football player ever, but the fact remains that he has yet to accomplish a single, solitary thing in Buffalo, except merely arriving. [HTML1] Let's just call this what it is - world-class attention-whoring ... More About: Cheap
Rummy & Bush
2009-05-18 15:35:00 It appears not to have been a very normal working relationship, and yes - the fact that Rumsfeld patronized Bush by adding old Testament quotes on the cover pages of military briefings bothers the hell out of me - not just for their irrelevance, but for the fact that Bush ...
Whoa
2009-05-18 09:34:00 Quite the negative set of reviews here. I might have to check it out just to see if it could possibly be that bad. More About: Whoa
So, I Went Car Browsing
2009-05-18 09:34:00 While the little one napped yesterday, my oldest and I went to do a little light car browsing. It was crappy out, and there were some newer cars I was interested in seeing. This isn't a car post, though. It's a dealership post. I went to ... More About: Browsing
Deep Thought
2009-05-18 09:34:00 Now that Golisano is moving to Florida, will he pour money into candidates' coffers and (allegedly) also maintain close ties and coordinate with those campaigns? Or is that sort of benefaction only reserved for New York State races? More About: Thought , Deep
Election 2009 Just Got Interesting
2009-05-18 09:34:00 Today was the last "Hardline with Hardwick". Professor Kevin Hardwick will be running on the Republican line against Michelle Iannello. I'm curious to see what, if anything, WBEN will put on the air from 10 - 12 on Sundays. This is also going to suck for me ... More About: Interesting , Election
When Proofreading Isn?t Done
2009-05-18 09:34:00 On the side of the kid's meal box at Ted's Hot Dogs is this information from the "Factosaurus": I envision Mississippi textbooks looking somewhat similar, only with cavemen running around with the dinosaurs. More About: Proofreading
The Buffalo Ruse
2009-05-17 15:32:00 From the Buffalo Ruse, two blockbuster stories: 1. Mickey Kearns, On Offense, Vows to Oppose Mayor's Every Move Kearns announced that he will hold a rally at Niagara Square this week ?not only to oppose the menacing Red Light cameras that Byron Brown has approved but to gather support for my ...
Liberty? - It?s Like Being an Only Child?
2009-05-17 03:31:00 An only child...on an island...alone. This is the strangest, most petulantly self-indulgent, disturbing blog post in recent memory. And blog posts are generally well renowned for being petulant, self-indulgent, and disturbing. More About: Liberty , Child
NEXUS Update
2009-05-17 03:31:00 We just underwent the NEXUS application process and interview. For the 4 of us, it took about an hour. You're allowed to bring your typical exemptions into and out of Canada, and they trust you to stick to that when using a NEXUS lane. They have zero tolerance for even the ... More About: Update
GM & Chrysler Dealers
2009-05-17 03:31:00 There's no reason why any city or town in this country needs 9 Chevy dealers or 4 Chrysler dealers. Reformation of the way dealers do business, and the number of them, is critical to GM's and Chrysler's survival. Mediocre cars + crappy marketing + lame dealership experience = ...
Stachowski & Gay Marriage in the NY Senate
2009-05-17 03:31:00 Buffalo Geek runs down the way Democratic State Senators will likely vote for the pending marriage equality bill. Bill Stachowski says, ?He?s not going to vote for it,? Stachowski spokesman Bob Koshinski said. ?He has no problem with same-sex civil unions, but does not want to get into the ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Senate
Tom Golisano moving to Florida
2009-05-17 03:31:00 Wow - that's never happened before. Wealthy New Yorkers of a certain age moving down to Florida , where homestead rules and other regulations are lax, taxes are low, and weather is mild? My sweet God, this is a blockbuster! People moving out of New York!? Look - Golisano ... More About: Moving
Torture
2009-05-17 03:31:00 It's torture to read people defending the use of torture. I don't care if Democrats did it. I don't care about any moral or expediency justification anyone can come up with as an excuse to violate domestic and international law regarding the use of violent coercion to elicit ... More About: Torture
Democrat Socialist Party
2009-05-14 15:16:00 The RNC is supposedly going to meet in an extraordinary session to officially re-brand the Democrat ic Party as the "Democrat Socialist Party". First of all, party ID for the Republicans has gone down to 25%, while Democrats boast 36%, and people calling themselves "independent" are at 37-ish%. So, ...
Logic
2009-05-14 15:16:00 President Obama backtracked yesterday on a pledge to release more Abu Ghraib-style photographs of Americans mistreating and torturing detainees. Military leaders urged him to reconsider, arguing that releasing the photographs would make life difficult for American servicepeople who are in harm's way. This prompted Josh Marshall to wonder, ... More About: Logic
When You Hit the Atlantic Ocean, Turn Right
2009-05-14 15:16:00 This could very well be the dumbest blog post I've read all year, and that's no small feat. The fact that it was written by someone with an education makes it even dumber. If you don?t want to die in a fiery crash, drive. Because car crashes are less ... More About: Ocean , Atlantic , Turn
Spokesfail
2009-05-14 15:16:00 BuffaloBloodDonor talks about the current state of advocacy in the Republican Party, and gets to ask Trent Lott a question.
Chop Suey?
2009-05-14 15:16:00 I wonder why this person chose the words he did when writing about Chris Collins' perfectly reasonable desire to want Erie County to do more business with China? Strictly 30s-era Charlie Chan stereotypical garbage. Fuck him and his xenophobia. Certainly greater trade ties between China and WNY could ...
$16,254
2009-05-14 09:15:00 That's what the first officer on Colgan flight 3407 earned per year. She was based out of Newark, but lived in Washington State. She moonlighted at a coffee shop. That's who Colgan thought should be flying planes with other people on them. That's no way to run ...
Dear Tea Party Boycotters:
2009-05-14 09:15:00 Can someone give me a straight reason why the tea party folks are going to picket a Stachowski fundraiser, but there are no similar plans to picket a Volker or Maziarz fundraiser? Thank you so very much in advance. Love, BP More About: Party
?It Worked?
2009-05-14 09:15:00 The last great argument made by torture proponents (a term I can't believe I have to type about Americans, and an idea that is repugnant at its core) is that torture "works". Well, sure it can "work", but it's a lot less reliable and a lot more dangerous than ...
The Buffalo Beast Reports on the Tea Party
2009-05-14 09:15:00 Yes, THAT Buffalo Beast sent Ian Murphy to scope out and report on the April 18th Tea Party in Buffalo. As observant as he is irreverent, Murphy reports on this exchange: ?I don't know what to think of him,? a guy named Dave says of Obama. ?I don't care ...
New York & Gay Marriage
2009-05-14 09:15:00 The State Assembly not unpredictably passed the Marriage Equality Bill last night: The State Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday night that would make New York the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage - a pivotal vote that shifts the debate to the State Senate, where gay rights advocates and conservative ... More About: Gay Marriage , New-York
Today?s Flight 3407 Revelations
2009-05-13 03:14:00 The NTSB released a video animation showing flight 3407's last 2 minutes of flight. It's quite disturbing to watch. Here are the last few seconds picked up by the cockpit voice recorder: I confess that I have to work for a living and didn't get to watch the ... More About: Today , Revelations , Flight
The Urban Farm
More articles from this author:2009-05-13 03:14:00 Dave Torke reports that the city has reached an agreement to permit an urban farm to be operated on 27 vacant lots on Wilson Street on Buffalo's east side. All's well that ends well. More About: Urban , Farm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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