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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, there was the peanut…
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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…
Walters supports redeveloping existing properties
With the announcement a few weeks ago that Best Buy was withdrawing their plans to build a new store on an undeveloped piece of land on Milestrip road near the Thruway entrance came an interesting quote by new Town Supervisor Steven J. Walters: Walters added: “I’d like to see some of these empty plazas filled……