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Mayor Byron W. Brown announced a 41% reduction of take-home vehicles used by City of Buffalo employees.  The significant reduction follows an extensive internal analysis over a period of months, which included meetings with city department heads. Through meetings with the city’s Law Department it was determined that 15% of the city’s previous 85 take home vehicles were mandated by contractual obligations.    ...

It may be Buffalo's best summer tradition. The annual Independence day game and Philharmonic Orchestra concert has drawn a quarter of a million fans over the last fourteen years and is the one Bisons game of the year you're guaranteed the ballpark will be sold out and rocking. This year's game is being aired live on Time Warner Cable channel 13 and I'll be resurrecting the old live blog for the occasion so tune in, check back in here and start the long weekend off right with the best thing America has ever given the world - baseball....

The most important thing to me about my work is that it be authentic. It wasn't until college that I discovered that art was a wonderful way to say things that couldn't easily be said with words. I majored in painting at Binghamton University and learned from my professor, Angelo Ippolito (an Abstract Expressionist) that artists needed not only to "work", but also to "play". In other words, if you take your work and especially yourself too seriously, you take all of the life out of the artwork. After Binghamton, I lived in Ithaca and worked with young children, teaching. I enjoyed watching how they percieve the world, their tenderness and sense of fun. From Ithaca, I moved to Maine and did an intensive six-month photography program at the Maine Photographic Workshops. One of my projects was working with a family and doing photographs of their children, playing and discovering their world. Returning to Buffalo from Maine, I worked as an assistant to photographers and then started to do some portraits and weddings on my own. Much of that work fell by the wayside when I got married and had my own children because I wanted to give most of my time and energy to teaching and nur...