Sucks to be Rudy
A few months ago, nobody would have expected the New York Times to evict him from their candidate tracker. He was the mayor of what city again?
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Buffalo makes the Fortune 500
ByDerek
In case you were getting depressed by statistics about Buffalo, like population loss, tax rates, and politician approval ratings, here’s one to rejoice: Buffalo now has it’s first Fortune 500 company. M&T Bank moved it’s way up into slot number 496 of the Fortune 500, moving up from 519th place in 2006’s more expansive Fortune…
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I don’t think I can hold it until intermission
ByDerek
No matter how many times I read this, I can’t make up my mind whether it’s really cool or really dumb. I’m torn, because I think the idea of building an instrument to play the next few notes of a piece while that piece is being played is a neat idea. I think the idea…
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Higgins talks Skyway, ignores facts
ByDerek
Buffalo Rising posted this interview with Congressman Higgins. First topic – the Skyway. I didn’t need to get more than 5 minutes into the interview to unravel it. Higgins talks about his new best friend, John Norquist, head of the Congress for the New Urbanism. “What is readily apparent to him has been lost on…
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Windy, but tolerable
ByDerek
Red reminded me of something I wanted to mention here. It was damn windy yesterday. I drove over the Skyway on my way home. It certainly blew the car around a bit. I would imagine those going over the Grand Island bridges had about the same experience. So did those using the 90E/290W interchange. Or…
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Derek | Hamburg | Preservation
You give love, er, preservation a bad name
ByDerek
(apologies to Bon Jovi) I ran across an editorial in The Sun the other day from another anti-Wal-Mart individual. Obviously, anti-Wal-Martites are not at all unique, but this one tries to play the preservation card. While Hamburg seems to be split on the issue of the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter, I stand firm on my belief…