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• Commented on The Lodge - "The evolution of Chippewa has begun."
  I agree. Laminated menus or menus in plastic sleeves sometimes have the same visible smudges that can make a patron a little too aware that they are touching something that was touched by a thousand other people. I'd go with...
• Commented on The Lodge - "The evolution of Chippewa has begun."
  I was just commenting on the trend, not your restaurant exactly. Sharing ipads with the general public is maybe less gross than an iphone that has been pressed against a taxi driver's face. Still though, I would worry about griminess,...
• Commented on The Lodge - "The evolution of Chippewa has begun."
  It seems like all the actual benefits of using ipads/iphones for ordering are on the business's end. I've noticed it a lot in Chicago, especially in taxi cabs. I find it a little gross that I'm being forced to hold...
• Commented on Buffalo For Real For Real
  okay, but what makes you so sure there isn't also some underlying charm to your co-worker's gated community if you just look past the well manicured lawns?...
• Commented on Preservation Buffalo Niagara Proposes to Further Assist with Trico Reuse Planning
  "I won't shed any tears whether Trico stays or goes, myself." I agree. I'm not rooting for demo but if there is a plan to build in its place, energy might be better spent making sure that plan is a...
• Commented on Artfarms Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant for First Sculpture Series on the East Side
  The thing is that Buffalo is a real city, open space and all. Its like telling a 40year old "you don't look 40" and their response being "this is what a 40yr old looks like". Accepting what Buffalo actually is...
• Commented on Artfarms Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant for First Sculpture Series on the East Side
  "Artfarms simply weaves together the ongoing initiatives in the East Side to support a common vision for its landscape," This is great. Urban farming in general is the best solution I've seen so far to the problem of urban vacancy....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  We've been talking about primary and secondary education because it is compulsory education. College is quite different. Communities are not required to provide a college level education to its citizens which is why they are structured and located differently than...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  When did public schools step into an education marketplace? Are homeschoolers also in the marketplace? I think you are choosing to use the word marketplace instead of the word system. Every community in America has an education system which usually...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Our government is not a company. What makes you think our public schools belong in the marketplace? Is it just because it delivers a service?...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  To follow-up on my first comment: "Accept that teachers will be unionized and public education is not going away and operate within those constraints. " I'm wondering if the pro-voucher and pro-charter campaign is closing an opportunity to reform teaching...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  I think I see how my scholarship program idea to MR could seem like I was accusing him of being all-talk-no-action the way some people accuse STEEL. I didn't mean it that way. MR IS taking action or at least...
• Commented on Paver aka Puncture Alley
  I see. That really is a shame then....
• Commented on Paver aka Puncture Alley
  Its hard to tell from the photos but the pavers seem to look very nice. I am not an avid bicyclist though so I don't really know how easy it is to puncture a tire....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  A protest march doesn't have a comment section so there isn't much of an opportunity for dialog there. Sometimes people organize counter-protests which is a kind of dialog but they are still just about assembling people, not debating policy details....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Here's a thought. Why don't you put your energy behind developing a private education scholarship program? You can solicit funds from people and organizations who share your views on increasing access to private and religious schools....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  I can imagine that poorly educated or poorly organized parents may be slow to recognize that a problem exists. Also, if you live in a very rural place, there may be very few options and few people who are in...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Vouchers take funds from the public system and give to a private/religious school. That will take its tole on the performance of the public system. "Allowing students to opt into private, parochial, charter, or public schools that actively compete for...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Professionalization does not guaranty higher wages or greater respect. Just ask your architect friends. It does seem to guaranty more responsibilities though. There have been many times in just the past 6 years since I graduated that I would've liked...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Aren't you arguing for undermining public schools? It seems to me that you are talking about a conservative campaign of divestment. If you cut funding to public services, making it harder for those services to be delivered, you can later...
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  As long as your goal is to privatize and break unions, your ideas will continue to face the same resistance. Quit approaching school reform with the same boilerplate conservative agenda. Accept that teachers will be unionized and public education is...
• Commented on echo... shouts out!
  Very nice. I hope he puts up a new one after May 17 passes....
• Commented on March Against Monsanto - Buffalo
  You and Buffalogni are asking way too much of a protest. Its not a workshop. I would not expect a whole lot of focus or strategy. The purpose of most protests is just to register dissatisfaction. The aftereffect is usually...
• Commented on 21st Century Park proposed for Outer Harbor
  "the point of the parkland is to create incentive for development" If they want the park to have a conceptual link to Olmsted, there it is....
• Commented on 21st Century Park proposed for Outer Harbor
  Sorry, I don't see how the Niagara Falls point is relevant to this 21CP discussion. Niagara Falls, a world famous tourist attraction, is an entirely different bird. An outer harbor park might include an event venue, a beach or an...
• Commented on 21st Century Park proposed for Outer Harbor
  I really don't think this 21CP should have anything to do with Delaware park or even the rest of the Olmsted system. A better conceptual starting point would be to create a park that supports new residential development and renewal...
• Commented on March Against Monsanto - Buffalo
  I'm sure you can find anti-Monsanto concerns on the internet as easily as I can. This Vandara Shiva http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1FTCzDSck probably sums up the main points. All I was commenting on was something I noticed while the Occupy protests were going...
• Commented on March Against Monsanto - Buffalo
  Who specifically are you asking? I wouldn't expect to find consensus around a set of specifics at a protest like this. Protests usually cast pretty wide nets to get as many people on board as possible to build pressure around...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  As always, its totally up to you. Suit yourself. I get the sense that you are a somewhat conservative person. Gays have always been everywhere but silent and oppressed. This why the out, loud and proud element is so important....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  The problem with constantly referencing North Campus when talking about architecture is that you are conflating the issues related to urban planning/Amherst location with the design of individual buildings. Individually, many of the buildings on North Campus are decent. They...