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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...

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced that the fighting in Iraq was finally over. All that was left was to get our people out and help the Iraqis transition into a self-sufficient government. The surge worked. Our political arm-twisting worked. Our efforts to better... Read more...

The state and the Senecas are arguing and sniping over taxing cigarettes and casino revenues. Under the 2001 agreement with the state allowing the Senecas to operate class III casinos, a cut of the take from slot machines is to be paid to... Read more...

Government and public spending has, can, and should play a role in moving Buffalo forward – out of its dead industrial past and into a knowledge-based future. Our excellent public university system molds and mentors the business leaders of tomorrow. They experiment and... Read more...

I, too, hope that someday Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and thousands of other Caucasian Americans have the right to vote, not pay a poll tax, to use the same public facilities as other Americans, ride anywhere in the bus that they wish, not... Read more...

So far, I’m liking the new WNYMedia.net. Then again, it’s easy to like the recent, new iterations of WNYMedia.net because Chris Van Patten knows what he’s doing and works within a deadline. So far the only major things I’m noticing are the omission... Read more...

I don’t understand how or why normal people cede the narrative on cultural issues to the cynical-hysterical ultra-right. I’m thinking specifically about the Park51 non-Ground Zero non-mosque, but it happens all the time. The right wing noise machine starts out with its daily... Read more...

It’s the last weekend in August, so I’m going to blog lightly over the next week or so. With respect to the poll yesterday, here’s how it shook out: Of those who clicked “other”, here were the responses: Joe Illoser darnell jackson Mendola... Read more...

Accused City Grill gunman Riccardo McCray – the man without a face – worked out a surrender to police at Channel 4′s studios yesterday with the help of community activist Darnell Jackson. It was somewhat of a bizarre spectacle, and some Tweeters speculated... Read more...

The other day, I wrote that ECDC was unofficially supporting Sean Coffey for AG. I have since been informed that this isn’t necessarily the case. I based my statement on what I had been told by unnameable sources at the NYS Democratic Convention... Read more...