Swannie House and Aj’s Hollow in Clarence Closed For Not Following NYS PAUSE Order

On Friday, March 27, public health sanitarians from the Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) issued Commissioner Close Orders to two establishments for violating the “New York State on PAUSE” executive order. This order, effective since Sunday, March 22, allows for restaurants and businesses that sell alcohol to remain open for take-out and delivery only.

With support from the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, sanitarians served Commissioner Close Orders to A.J.’s Clarence Hollow at 10250 Main Street in Clarence and Swannie House at 170 Ohio Street in Buffalo.

The Division of Environmental Health will be reporting these actions to the NYS Liquor Authority.

“Bar and restaurant owners have to take this new reality seriously,” said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz. “These regulations are in place for a deadly serious reason, and bars and restaurants that are open in violation of the law are putting their customers and their employees at risk. This is unacceptable and we will shut you down.”

“We have seen generally good compliance from Erie County restaurants and bars on the PAUSE orders, with restaurants and their patrons understanding the need to avoid congregating in a closed space, and to wait in their cars or outside for their take-out purchases,” said Commissioner of Health Dr. Gale Burstein. “Sanitarians are still investigating food safety complaints and violations of the PAUSE order, and they are continuing their inspections of food facilities.”

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Furious columnist hits out at N.Y. Times for report on Black voters’ view of Kamala Harris



Black pundits and columnists are already predicting the racism that will surface from some of the top media outlets in the country as they try to cover a candidate of color in the presidential race.

Writing for "The Nation," legal expert Elie Mystal shredded the New York Times for a report they titled: "Some Black Voters Say They Wonder if a Black Woman Can Win."

Mystal was furious as the Times "used other Black people to make their point."

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He explained that as a Black voter, he wonders about many things.

"I wonder if aliens exist; I wonder if God is an a--hole; I wonder how many abortions Donald Trump has paid for," Mystal wrote Tuesday. "But the Times wouldn’t run a story that stated 'Some Black Voters Say They Wonder How Many Active Ku Klux Klan Members Attended the Republican National Convention.'"

He thinks that more Black voters likely wonder about the latter than about whether Harris could win in November.

One Black woman from Atlanta, interviewed by the Times, said, "America is just not ready for a woman president, especially not a Black woman president."

Keli Goff at The Daily Beast is another writer parroting that language, he said. Her sentiment is akin to, “I’d vote for a Black woman, but not that Black woman.”

Mystal wrote that Goff simply stating what the U.S. has told Black people for generations, especially Black women. That message: "America hates you."

"We see the disdain this country holds for people of color whenever we turn on the news. We feel the antipathy this country holds for women every time we go to work, or read an opinion from the Supreme Court," Mystal wrote.

"Harris has been subjected to the worst press coverage of any vice president in my lifetime, and she’s about to be subjected to the worst coverage of any presidential candidate in American history… save perhaps Hillary Clinton."

He called it nothing more than "white male supremacy," which not only dictates the leadership, but works to hold others down by telling them that they feel don't deserve power.

"I can already see David Brooks and Bret Stephens clacking away on their keyboards, doing everything in their power to call Harris unqualified, unintelligent, and undeserving of the office she seeks," Mystal wrote.

The Washington Post editorial board has already taken a different path by encouraging Harris not to hold back out of prudence.

He warned it will get "ugly," but said he won't be deterred by "programming that’s designed to make me think a woman of color can’t win."

While "they are not ready for her, but she is ready to beat them," Mystal closed.

Read the full column here.