GRAND ISLE, La. — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico today, Thursday, at about 9:30 a.m., west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.... Read more...
UB Football 2010: Predictions and Preview
WECK GAME NIGHT: UB vs. Rhode Island, 7 p.m., UB Stadium (WECK1230AM). Once you’ve gone to a bowl game, there is no other goal for a college program regardless of how many starters you lose. The seniors don’t want to hear about building... Read more...
Lando Still Channel 4 Favorite
Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * One would have thought that Channel 4 would have made its decision by now on who is going to be the permanent replacement for Lisa Flynn as anchor of its 5:30 p.m. news and... Read more...
UB Football v Rhode Island Live Chat
By Chris The Bulls start their new season tonight at 7 p.m. If you can’t make it out to the game, join us in our live chat. UB Football v Rhode Island ... Read more...
“Interim”; it’s Latin for Git some!
Does this photo remind of you of someone? Judging from the email in my inbox, UB President John Simpson and his merry band of California carpetbaggers can’t be sent packing soon enough. There is that lingering problem of his anointed successor, Nostaja, though.... Read more...
An End and a Beginning (Updated)
Operation Iraqi Freedom started on March 20, 2003, in tanks on the Kuwait-Iraq border, in aircraft launching from Saudi and Qatari airfields, and on ships in the Persian Gulf. It ended last night, on August 31st, 2010, in the Oval Office, in a... Read more...
Boy Killed by Car in Supermarket Parking Lot
Sometimes I don’t like being at the right place at the right time. Today was one of those days as we were driving past Tops Supermarket just as a tragic and scary scene unfolded in the parking lot of the Niagara Street location.... Read more...
Defining Love
A few days ago, a friend asked me how I defined love. After consideration, I gave this friend my best explanation of the elusive emotion, in what I thought was a concise several minute summary. I then asked him to define the same.... Read more...
New Buffalo 2005 – 2009
I started blogging in late 2003, and started focusing on local issues about a year later – after John Kerry lost the presidential election. Soon after that, in early 2005, George Johnson contacted me about Buffalo Rising – it was then a print... Read more...
Senecas Smoke NYS Tax Attempts
As I predicted, the attempts of cash-strapped New York State to collect hefty cigarette taxes from the Seneca Nation of Indians has been blocked at the 11th hour by a federal judge. And already the angry rallies are starting up in anticipation of... Read more...