March 27, 2007
CONTACT:
Michael Gainer
Executive Director, Buffalo ReUse
Email: info@BuffaloReUse.org
Web: www.BuffaloReUse.org
BUFFALO RE-USE: Preparing for Start-Up!
Local organization creates momentum for recycling and reuse.
On Saturday, March 31st at 10:00 a.m., Buffalo ReUse, a new community organization focused on building deconstruction and material reuse, will be holding a press conference at the Central Terminal, located at 495 [...]

Speaking of the Skyway… since winter has officially ended, let’s tally up Skyway closings. We had an early unprecedented storm in October that resulted in widespread driving bans, yet no official Skyway closings. We had another late start to winter, but then had a pounding of snow and frigid temperatures. For [...]

North Coast Online shares some hard data about post-Park East Milwaukee. Seems that John Norquist’s silver bullet project has done nothing to halt the declining population in Milwaukee. Craig postulates…
So along with Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Baltimore as cities we might do well not to emulate, how about we add Milwaukee to the list? [...]

Do you have strong feelings of loyalty towards certain brands? Generally, I don’t. For many products, I’m happy buying whatever is cheapest at the moment. That often consists of store brands, like Wegmans pasta sauces, or ice cream, or… cat food.
We’re 2 for 2 in recall roulette this year. First, [...]

Congrats to Mike Miller, who has exchanged his duties as Treasurer of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation for the Vice Presidency!
Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’m swamped at work and spending my free net minutes working on the new website for the Terminal. It should be ready in a couple weeks!

Chris Byrd ruined my morning today by posting that Brad Delp, legendary singer of Boston, has died. A statement released by his family said the following:
“On behalf of the Delp family and Brad’s fiancé, Pamela Sullivan, it is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Bradley Delp, the legendary vocalist of the [...]

There’s a changing of the guard at an iconic Rochester restaurant. This week, Nick Tahou’s II (the Lyell Ave location) was rechristened “Steve T. Hots and Potatoes”. The change reflects a branching off in the Tahou’s family tree between the two locations. Nick Tahou’s father, Alexander, opened the original location on West [...]

I was cruising around Club3G the other day, posting up for sale some spare parts I still had laying around from the Eclipse, and I ran across a thread with one of the old Eclipse commercials in it:

The commercial was a nice bit of near-term nostalgia, but several of the people in the thread were [...]

I’ve attempted two “minor” homeowner projects in the last couple of weeks that should have been breezes. The first – replace the nasty stove hood that was here when we bought the house, had no filter, and which I had repeatedly super glued the light knob back on to. The second, add adjustable [...]

Been swamped at work this week, so I haven’t even had a chance to give an update on the new car. I picked it up Tuesday night. In a final fit of protest by the Eclipse, as I pulled the plug from the radar detector out of the power outlet it completely fell [...]