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The Schmidbauering

Joe Schmidbauer cranked up ye olde Altpress machine to excrete this. A young lawyer comes to town from the Boston area and with great hubris brands himself the Buffalo-pundit all the while living in suburban (white bread) Clarence and thereby gains entrance to the lucrative networking game called local politics. WOW! That’s the best opening paragraph, ever! I came here

On the Fourth Day of Preetsmas

Mickey Kearns and Aaron Pierce To what extent might Assemblyman Mickey Kearns be implicated in the Great Preetsmas Massacre of ’15? On Tuesday, I ran through the fact that Kearns had been a recipient of generous campaign contributions from a Seneca businessman named Aaron Pierce. Pierce and his companies have recently run afoul of the law and been prosecuted,

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Merry Preetsmas

On the first day of Preetmas, my true love gave to me: a search warrant for Pigeon and Casey. Thursday, May 28 at midday, state police and FBI agents executed search warrants at the homes of three prominent political figures: lobbyist Steve Pigeon, former Buffalo Deputy Mayor Steve Casey, and Representative Chris Collins’s chief of staff, Chris Grant. All of this raises more questions

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One Lancaster

The controversy over Lancaster High School’s anachronistic, racist “Redskins” mascot was resolved by unanimous vote of that district’s school board. There was some outcry and protestation, and two of the most vocal opponents of the change were elected to the school board last week. The students, for their part, are in the process of selecting a new mascot via plebiscite. It’s

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Lancaster at a Crossroads

Who better to expound on whether “Redskins” is offensive to American Indians than two blonde non-Indians? The Buffalo News reports that Brenda Christopher and Kelly Depczynski are running for the Lancaster school board, and sort-of-possibly-but-maybe-not-but-really-yes advocating for the voters to fail the Lancaster school budget and a capital bond proposal, all to the detriment of the community and her students.

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Donn Esmonde’s School Vandals

When you wage war on the public schools, you’re attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You’re not a conservative, you’re a vandal. – Garrison Keillor Maybe Donn Esmonde is too busy with his new hobby of trying to be a retiree version of Bernice Radle, rehabbing dilapidated investment properties on the West Side of Buffalo, but his opinions and pronouncements

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Fox’s Brit Hume Warns Trump Has Put Himself in ‘Predicament’ — And May Make Same Grave Mistake as Obama

Brit Hume warned that President Donald Trump has put himself in a predicament and risks repeating a grave mistake made by former President Barack Obama

The post Fox’s Brit Hume Warns Trump Has Put Himself in ‘Predicament’ — And May Make Same Grave Mistake as Obama first appeared on Mediaite.

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