A couple photos
Took these while at the Central Terminal tonight.



Fifteen minutes later I was in a torrential downpour in East Aurora.
Took these while at the Central Terminal tonight.



Fifteen minutes later I was in a torrential downpour in East Aurora.
From Business First… The McKinley Mall’s redevelopment effort has landed one of the biggest names in electronic retailing. Best Buy has signed a long-term lease to occupy 30,000-square-feet in the town of Hamburg shopping center. The store is slated to open by June 2007. “Best Buy is an important part of the redevelopment at McKinley,”…
I love the Tax Foundation because they tend to uncomplicate tax issues so that everyone can understand them. Their annual Tax Freedom Day report was released today. It tells you, quite simply, that if you started giving your entire paycheck to the government on January 1st and weren’t allowed to keep any for yourself until…
The amount of snow that’s fallen is pretty crazy. It’s the light, fluffy, kind where you can see distinct snowflakes, and when you walk on it, you sink to your knees. Thought I’d take the camera out for awhile yesterday and see what I could capture.
I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…
via Power Line… For a man of Biden’s experience, this is a surprising series of misstatements. First of all, he gets wrong one of the most basic facts about the Constitution: Article 1 establishes the legislative branch, not, as Biden said, the executive branch. This is not exactly an obscure fact; my 17-year-old daughter pointed…
There are lots of great applications and technologies out there for us internet addicts to use as we read and blog. Generally these technologies are invented to fulfill a specific need, but then are frequently adapted by others to extend beyond the original purpose. Generally that purpose is advertising or spam. Take Twitter, for instance….