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Acropolis to Expand to 2nd Floor, Central Terminal, HSBC Tower, Trico Plant & Your House
Mar. 15 | Coming soon to everywhere! Elmwood Village restaurant proprietor Pauly Tsouflidis announced on Twitter that he will be moving forward with plans to expand his popular Acropolis restaurant on the second floor, which has been a heated issue with some fuddy-duddy...
SmartPill Approved for Category I CPT Code
Mar. 7 | SmartPill Corporation, manufacturer of the SmartPill GI Monitoring System, announced today the CPTR (Current Procedural Terminology) Editorial Panel’s acceptance of SmartPill’s request for conversion of a Category III code (0242T) to a...
Semi-Fake News: Local Edition
Feb. 24 | All the news that’s unfit for print: Tommunisms Semi-Fake New Rundown! Maid of the PIssed! DON’T ROCK THE BOAT Hornblower Cruises has been awarded the contract to provide tourist boat rides at the base of Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. This...
First Niagara Reports Record 2011 Results
Jan. 26 | – Operating EPS increased 13% to $0.98 in 2011, up from $0.87 in 2010 – Fourth Quarter Highlights: • Operating non-GAAP EPS of $0.24; GAAP EPS of $0.19 • 28% annualized increase in commercial and industrial loans • Superior credit quality...
First Niagara Completes Divestitures Related to its HSBC-Branch Acquisition
Jan. 20 | – Community Bank and Five Star to Acquire a total of 27 Upstate New York branches and assume $1.4 billion in deposits – BUFFALO, N.Y. – January 20, 2012 – First Niagara Bank, N.A. announced today that it has reached agreements with Community...
KeyCorp Buying 37 HSBC Branches from First Niagara
Jan. 12 | First Niagara Bank, N.A. announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement for Key Corp to purchase 37 HSBC locations and assume approximately $2.4 billion in deposits and approximately $400 million in loans in the Buffalo and Rochester markets. Under...
Sending Out An (NY)SOS
Jan. 5 | Mixed with love (so the world tastes good!) Wednesday afternoon saw Governor Andrew Cuomo give his second “State of the State” address. During the opening “mutual stroke fest of love” between all the big wigs, I was put in a semi-catatonic...
Chinese Street Vendors
Jan. 3 | Parts of China are a very similar to New York City. Sure, cities like Beijing and Shanghai have their share of impressive skyscrapers. But I’m talking about the street vendors. Like NYC, street vendors pop up when you “need” them. If it rains, there...
NFTA To Be Saved By “The Honeymoon-Lighters”
Dec. 21 | [caption id="attachment_2463" align="alignnone" width="473" caption=""All aboard the FAIL bus!" with Henry Sloma, Kim Minkel, James Eagan and Eunice Lewin, to name a few..."][/caption] Rather than raise the $1.75 fare, so that people who...
Carl Paladino: A True Preservationist
Dec. 20 | [caption id="attachment_115922" align="alignnone" width="403" caption="Carl Paladino at Central Library in Buffalo 12/20/2011"][/caption] Tommunisms stepped into the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Central location today, and entered “The...
Matt Chandler: Don’t Legalize the #BUFTruck
Nov. 2 | When last we Fisked a column by Matt Chandler of Buffalo Business First, he was busy imploring all the mean people to stop being mean to kind old racist Carl Paladino. Today, he publishes an article that is supportive of the food trucks in Buffalo, but...
Poloncarz on Jobs
Nov. 2 | We like to tout how immune we’ve been from the global financial crisis and recession, but I don’t think 50 years’ worth of economic, commercial, industrial, and population decline and treading water are much to be proud of. And while...