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• Commented on Give Away Day!
  That’s great; as I have realized STUFF becomes a burden trying to sell it seems to be more work than selling it. I hope that all the people that come out give a donation to the church for what they...
• Commented on Sprawl-tastic Grab Bag #2
  This appears to be some sort of right wing conspiracy driven by the auto lobbyists and big oil....
• Commented on Farmer Pirates announces plan for HSBC building
  On the top 20 floors Super Wall-mart and Bass pro....
• Commented on Farmer Pirates announces plan for HSBC building
  Only if the governor legalizes medical marijuana. Ka ching...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  We could be like the Germans; you can drive at 17 as long as you are with a parent or 18 you can drive alone. You can drink beer or wine in public at 14 if you are with a...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  Free trade caused the loss of manufacturing jobs. It’s was a thinly disguised tax break for large manufactures. At one time not so long ago imports were heavily taxed to make up the lost tax revenue lost by not making...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  You can tell how good of a night it was at the Essex by how many bikes are parked out front the next morning. Thirty years ago if you rode a bicycle to a bar or party it was...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  This generation has become Indentured servants to their student loans and autos have become a secondary priority....
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  1957 Chevy Bel-Air wagon, Sweet...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  If I were offered free bus passes I would sell my car....
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  The cost of owning a car is getting more and more cost prohibitive. With the internet you can get most things shipped to your door. People that don’t own a car you will never have to listen to them bitch...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  Thirty years ago I would never considered using mass transit to go out. Now you go on the 20 bus on a Friday or Saturday night its standing room only with 20 something’s talking about what bars to hit. Go...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Our problem is the Buffalo suburbs and beyond they keep building homes and expanding infrastructure even with decades of population loss and eroding tax base. Sprawl without population growth spending 10’s of millions of dollars for a school expansion while...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Your link sounds like a page form the Florida real estate market 2007. “Condo investors own an estimated 30 to 95 per cent of units (depending on the building) in the newer high-rises cluttering the Toronto skyline. And they are...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Sprawl from population growth......
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  In a Buffalo News article a year or so ago Buffalo and surrounding burbs have over the last 25 years lost 15+% of its population while commute time while still short is up 50%. We still have too many people...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Toronto Condo market is sounding like Florida real estate market of the mid 2000’s Large investors are buying up whole floors of these condo complexes as there are being built hoping to make a buck and small investors are buying...
• Commented on Planning 101: Don't Leave Out the Residents
  A renter only has an agreement with the owner who they signed the lease agreement with. If the property is sold, the new owner can honor the old agreement or not. It’s up to the new owner and the renter...
• Commented on A Gift of Renewable Energy, From Buffalo to Haiti
  Hate to say it but, as soon as they leave it will be stripped off by some government official for their own home then installed incorrectly and made unusable then scrapped....
• Commented on Campaign Urges Mayor Brown to Block Colvin Church Demo
  Insurance Co. will only pay out 50% if you don't rebuild....
• Commented on Done Deal: 495 Main Street Sold
  Open for twenty years closed for fifteen. If the King works anything like the Clown “McDonalds” they only engineer their building to last twenty five years not saying they don’t use them longer. If so this building must some real...
• Commented on Campaign Urges Mayor Brown to Block Colvin Church Demo
  Demo North Park Baptist Church, demo Bethlehem Steel Administration Building, demo Colonel Samuel Wilkeson house. Burger King on Main “SAVED”...
• Commented on Rehabbed Homes in Masten Neighborhood Come with a High Price Tag
  I got Obama phone from Ronald Reagan....
• Commented on Metro Buffalo deserves better treatment for its most successful transit asset: Metro Rail.
  Move to Portland and ride a bike....
• Commented on Metro Buffalo deserves better treatment for its most successful transit asset: Metro Rail.
  The Metro rail on its own turns a profit. The NFTA as a whole is highly subsidized as most all public transit systems in the world are....
• Commented on Metro Buffalo deserves better treatment for its most successful transit asset: Metro Rail.
  Main street is not ¾ vacant there are better parts than others. The subway is one of the most profitable in the country if that’s an asset? Last I knew 25,000 averages per day ridership keeps many cars off the...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  I love the `70s disco era metro logo....
• Commented on Vineeta International Foods to Strengthen Grant-Ferry's Status as Buffalo's Place for Ethnic Foods and Wares
  Great to see Grant street coming together. One more ghetto chain store gone....
• Commented on Cities: Rather Than Patronizing Young People, Give Them What They Ask For
  A lot of the southern city growth is weather related because it’s nice and warm. Go south the wages are generally not as good the schools are awful outside major cities. The better schools are in the cities where...
• Commented on Cities: Rather Than Patronizing Young People, Give Them What They Ask For
  But,I would have to admit University Circle, Little Italy, has really cleaned up since I lived there in the mid. `80s. Even Coventry Ave., where we used to skate and drink quarts of Genny before the Rocky Horror Picture show...