Isis, Guardian of CTRC Merchandise
Our cat Isis standing guard over the Central Terminal merchandise stash. Or just staring out the window. Either or. 😉
It was a great week for Buffalo. The National Trust preservation conference has wrapped, and I’m admittedly still coming down from the “conference high” (the condition where you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for a week and reality has yet to set in again) but that doesn’t change the fact that this conference will have a…
The outgoing Broadway Market board of directors have decided once and for all that they are going to show us just how they’ve had the Market’s best interests in mind all this time by… attempting to sell off the Market’s historic artifacts! In what can only be described as a hissy fit of epic proportions,…
One of the advantages of being a homeowner is that certain home improvement projects are sales tax free, if they fit the New York State’s guidelines of being a “Capital Improvement”. The tricky part can be determining what exactly qualifies as a capital improvement. The NYS Department of Taxation lays it out like this: A…
Dear Governor Spitzer, I’m not going to spend much time on this letter, because I’m fairly certain you’re not going to understand it anyways. It’s hard to teach an old Democrat new concepts, like economics. I read through your State of Upstate address and boy was I impressed. It’s astounding how someone who spent so…
I’ve said it many times before – I’m completely fine with urban development in the city. I’m even fine with urban development in suburban villages. So why is it that those that love the urban lifestyle are so vehemently against the suburban environment? On Buffalo Rising, we find this post about an urbanist who ventured…
Ha! Your spare room looks just like mine did last year (sans Isis!)!!
Meow…
Thats a pretty cat!