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• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  OK then, how about giving meaning to the up and down votes by strangers at this BR: Please, raise your hand (up vote): (1) If you are a landlord. (2) If you are a landlord who read: *Meet the new...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  The Buffalo public school system, thanks for the most part to the Internet and public comments, is in the media as never before in the history of the Buffalo public school system! But this article at BR, surprisingly, is not...
• Commented on 21st Century Park proposed for Outer Harbor
  About ALL the Outer Harbor area: The 21st century will last for 100 years! This is only the beginning of this century so give it time. Although, for now, and for a while yet, much of the city and some...
• Commented on Fantastical Place: Bethlehem Steel
  As I stated earlier on this topic, I remember being a little tiny child holding an uncle's hand while walking along the front of that building and, being in the building. Its the outside of the front that I still...
• Commented on Fantastical Place: Bethlehem Steel
  To continue what I already stated here~ Every summer there are young people (of childbearing age) boating on over to that seriously-contaminated-for-all-time former steel plant soil. Those boaters can be seen landing their boats across the water from Gallagher Beach....
• Commented on Fantastical Place: Bethlehem Steel
  There is much documented and document-worthy about this plant. Sure hope though that Steele did not trek any of that carso-crud home on his shoes......
• Commented on Buffalo from Space
  What is that opaque oval image at the bottom, right of the screen? Is it a reflection of the moon? What is that bright roadway to the right? Is it Bailey or Harlem?...
• Commented on Buffalo from Space
  Great image!...
• Commented on Then and Now: WTF is progress anyway?
  A little "WTF" goes a long way! And this comment could well cause Steele's post to go past #74! I check the articles here every so often. Sometimes there are updates on interesting past posts, but mostly not. Seems if...
• Commented on Then and Now: WTF is progress anyway?
  All that and "WTF" too! Otherwise, very good responses....
• Commented on A look at St. Paul's Union Depot
  Ok then. Think of it this way: Patience oh ye of little patience......
• Commented on A look at St. Paul's Union Depot
  The Central Terminal is perfectly located with future routes already laid out along rail lines, especially the one headed toward the Int'l airport. Patience oh you of little faith! lol...
• Commented on Groundbreaking Held for 49 Fruit Belt Townhomes
  "Rental" is just another word for rent-to-own. A BAD idea that won't die......
• Commented on ECHDC and City Submit Joint Proposal for NFTA Outer Harbor Land
  This will be a contract between the ECHDC and the CITY OF BUFFALO, not the ECHDC and the present Mayor, Byron Brown... The ECHDC is an entity that ALL taxpaying citizenry in NYS can hold accountable for many generations and...
• Commented on Student Art Show at Buffalo Arts & Technology Center's Future Home
  YOU GO GIRL!...
• Commented on Feed the City
  Did anyone read the PARADE article featuring Howard G. Buffett (one of Warren Buffett's sons) as "The Good Farmer"? "One man's crusade to stamp out hunger in America. And how you can help." Hmmm. Could this Buffett provide the supply...
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo City Hall, Black is Black
  And all the house burnings and houses being torn down since the 1960s... Hmmm, some nasty memory lane memories there!...
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo City Hall, Black is Black
  Add the black soot belching from all the trains all over Buffalo well before the 1960s....
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo City Hall, Black is Black
  That was a newspapers/magazines/cigars/cigarettes/matches stand....
• Commented on Say Yes Buffalo Unveils "Letters to the Superintendent, A Community Responds" at Book Launch Event
  At The Buffalo Public School website's link to the District Parent CC there was a picture of Bertram promoting those letters from children. That reference to those letters was datable and is now gone, replaced by a picture of Supt....
• Commented on The Frederick Law Olmsted School at Kensington-Buffalo's Other Art Deco Building
  Retry: What became of that historical Compass flooring in the main hall lobby?...
• Commented on Say Yes Buffalo Unveils "Letters to the Superintendent, A Community Responds" at Book Launch Event
  Can Brooks-Bertram put a date to when those letters were gathered and dated, especially the ones from Buffalo public school children and their parents?...
• Commented on Amber Dixon Named Executive Director of the Buffalo Arts and Technology Center
  Buffalo's young people are lucky to keep her expertise here....
• Commented on Time for Plan B
  Oops! goal, not goat!...
• Commented on Time for Plan B
  Today, at The Buffalo News online (buffalonews.com) There is an article titled City schools chief sets graduation goat at 80%, but there is no commenting at TBN now and nothing about this article at the Buffalo BoE or Buffalo Schools...
• Commented on Time for Plan B
  Buffalo Rising used to feature more about the Buffalo BoE than just this privatizing v. public school issue. Is Elena Cala still involved in what gets into print at Buffalo Rising?...
• Commented on "Kids, nowadays...(fill in the blank)"
  An OCTOBERfest set for September 29th! I love it! It is sooo Polonia!...
• Commented on Oak and Elm get bike lanes... not!
  Think 33. Think 190. Think of Elm and Oak as feeder streets. Then think where unlicensed, uninsured bike riders (not "bikers") would think they can follow drivers (including "bikers")who are licensed and insured! It would be informative if members of...
• Commented on M/Y Tribu' and Tò-Kalòn
  What the heck is going on at Buffalo Rising? My 'Nice comment' comment was meant for and read that it was going to Nuttree, and my earlier votes, a thumb down for Louis Tully and a thumb up for Nuttree,...
• Commented on M/Y Tribu' and Tò-Kalòn
  Louis Tully continually sounds as if he enjoys eliciting! I gave him (defi a "him") a thumb down. Will my vote count this time?...