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Listen to the Local Dish with Edible Buffalo!

Listen to the Local Dish with Edible Buffalo!

May. 22 | Join us every third Wednesday on local talk radio station, WLVL 1340AM from 11:15am-12:00pm to dish about local food. We will be discussing everything from what’s in season now and how to cook it, timely local food topics, cool food events, and previews...

Lewiston Up For National “Best For Food” Title

Lewiston Up For National “Best For Food” Title

May. 11 |   Lewiston is currently in 2nd place on the USAToday/Rand McNally list of “Best for Food” small towns in America. They stand behind last year’s runner-up, Burnsville Minnesota. A combination of three things determines the winner-...

Collins’ Three Rs – Resist , Retain, Raise

Collins’ Three Rs – Resist , Retain, Raise

Nov. 16 | The View from Poloncarz HQ Bob McCarthy talks to local Republicans who seem as disgruntled as they are un-named, and lists off a series of concerns they have about the Erie County Republican Committee’s direction now that it lost the Corwin and...

Wrapping My Head Around Last Week

Wrapping My Head Around Last Week

Nov. 14 | [HTML1] I’ve been thinking about the County Executive’s race all week, and I can’t seem to crystallize my thoughts into a coherent post, so here you go. I’m not quite sure why regional campaigns would leave their messaging and...

Election Night Interviews

Election Night Interviews

Nov. 11 | I’m still catching up on sleep and recovering from Election Night, and I’m still mulling over what I think Tuesday meant for our body politic, and for WNY’s near future. So, in the meantime, here are interviews I conducted early Wednesday...

Doc Maelstrom Re-Emerges

Doc Maelstrom Re-Emerges

Nov. 10 | Doc Maelstrom was a thorn in Collins’ side during the early days of the campaign, but abruptly stopped posting over the summer. On Election night, I received an email from him, reproduced below. Had to lay low the past few months because Collins...

Endorsements 2011

Endorsements 2011

Nov. 7 | These are not predictions. These are preferences. Please be sure to join WNYMedia.net Tuesday for election night coverage starting around 9pm. Your mileage may vary. Offer void where prohibited. 1. Erie County Executive: Mark Poloncarz No surprise here....

Siena Poll on the Erie County Executive Race: Dead Heat

Siena Poll on the Erie County Executive Race: Dead Heat

Nov. 6 | Things I find interesting from the Siena Poll for the County Executive’s race that was released last night, apart from the fact that the race swung from a statistical dead heat of 49/46 for Collins with a MOE of +/- 3.4%, to a genuine dead heat...

Collins vs. Poloncarz: Final Weekend

Collins vs. Poloncarz: Final Weekend

Nov. 4 | 1. The Siena Poll will be releasing updated numbers on Saturday. The hot rumor is that it will find Mark Poloncarz ahead of Chris Collins, likely by about 3 points. This would represent a 6-point swing in Poloncarz’s favor in just less than a month....

Hey, What About Clarence?

Hey, What About Clarence?

Nov. 2 | About a month ago, I wrote this post, which included the text of an email that Republican Clarence Town Councilmember Bernie Kolber sent to the town’s Republican committee. Former clown and current Republican supervisor candidate David Hartzell...

Poloncarz on Jobs

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...

Lying Liar Chris Collins

Lying Liar Chris Collins

Oct. 31 | Going to the voters of Erie County to debate, speak, and listen to them at candidates’ forums? Absolutely not. Go on Obamaphobic proto-fascistic Fox News and lie through your dirty whore mouth? Absolutely. Having watched Chris Collins lie lies...

Podcast the Fourth: Dirty Republican Telephone Tricks

Podcast the Fourth: Dirty Republican Telephone Tricks

Oct. 28 | A press release from the New York State Democratic Party’s Executive Director, Charlie King: “The State Democratic Party is asking Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III to investigate reports of widespread and fraudulent phone calls that...

County Executive Race Friday

County Executive Race Friday

Oct. 27 | Mark Galvin is what you might call a hack’s hack. A former Erie County Parks employee in charge of administering Derby Beach under Joel Giambra. Was very active in the Keane campaign in 2007. When that failed, he was ousted from county government,...