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• Commented on Koelmel to Oversee HARBORcenter Project
  Right, the fact that he was fired doesn't mean anything? It's one rich guy hiring another unemployed, jock sniffing, rich guy who really pushed for a First Niagara-Sabres partnership, which really just equated to free money for Pegula. He obviously...
• Commented on D'Avolio comes full circle...
  I know that they don't just sell olive oil, but still... how does this place not only stay in business but seem to thrive? Good for them, really, but it is a head scratcher....
• Commented on On The Market: Two Acres in Allentown/Med Campus
  Hopefully this will become another People Inc or a drug rehab clinic as those are sorely missing from Main St....
• Commented on Liberty Hound Summer Concerts - 65 total
  This is great! I haven't even heard of these bands before. Finally some new music in Buffalo....
• Commented on Leasing Begins as Bethune Lofts Nears Completion
  Fantastic job. I hope this spurs a renaissance on that stretch of Main. From Kenomore & Main to Amherst & Main it's thug life central. It's embarassing enough that most of our "Main" street consists of drug rehab centers or...
• Commented on #Rapper Problems Tour at DBGB's
  These guyz are dope, hardcore, gangsta rappers from the streets of Saratoga Springs so you best be packing or wearing kevlar....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Typical "Someone pay attention to me as nobody does in the real world!" commenter on BR. Very sad....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Clearly you failed to understand my crystal clear point. I suppose I can write it in simpler terms for you. Suburbs=Good, under the same education system as the city. City=Bad, under the same education system as the suburbs. The problem...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Not to be redundant but can the "writer" explain how this dysfunctional, monopolistic, python manages to more or less work in the suburbs? I dare say he won't comment because Buffalo Rising excels at tossing out these baseless, inflamatory articles...
• Commented on The Phoenix - An American Tavern
  Don Warfe=Midas...
• Commented on Construction Watch: One Canalside
  And malcontents thought that Benderson couldn't create a unique signature building that would rival anything in NYC, Toronto, or Chicago....
• Commented on Metro Buffalo deserves better treatment for its most successful transit asset: Metro Rail.
  This seemed like such a great idea at the time, just like the convention center. Nobody wanted either but the politicians shoved it down our throats. It was dubbed as a train from nowhere to nowhere from the start....
• Commented on Metro Buffalo deserves better treatment for its most successful transit asset: Metro Rail.
  It doesn't turn a profit becauze 3/4 of the patrons that ride it, ride for free as subsidized passengers....
• Commented on Governor Cuomo Expected to Veto Preservation Tax Credit Legislation
  Wait, he's pro-charter schools and for crippling public schools, which I like but he's against historic tax credits? What should I think BRO? Is he in favor of loft apartments for under 30 year olds?...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: 375 Colvin Avenue
  Unpopular opinion, but North Buffalo is the new East Side, some pockets of great neighborhoods yes, but for the most part it's going down fast....
• Commented on Albright-Knox: Turns 150, New Staircase, Louis Grachos Day and an Ambulance
  I did this one time and the driver got out and punched me in the nose, then had to take to the hospital in his ambulance....
• Commented on Surprising Buffalo: Mike A's
  The building is amazing, you feel like Roy Hobbs will walk around the corner at any moment. I just can't get behind the prices at Mike A's though. I understand that not everyplace is going to appeal to the wings...
• Commented on After Latest Failed Agreement on Evaluations It's Clear: Students Come Last in Buffalo
  http://artvoice.com/issues/v11n14/week_in_review/evaluating_the_evaluators Example of a balanced article. Study it BR....
• Commented on After Latest Failed Agreement on Evaluations It's Clear: Students Come Last in Buffalo
  If one thing makes me stop reading Buffalo Editorializing it will be these unabashed endorsements for charter schools. The articles are not simply one-sided, they're flat out wrong, some serious disinformation going on. Even if a large proportion of the...
• Commented on Buffalo: The Capital of Dyngus Day
  Yay! Another reason to drink blue light and/or polish vodka. I've always found this "celebration" more of an embarrassment than anything....
• Commented on A Main Street Message To Mayor Brown
  That's vile behavior but barring a permanent changing of the guard, like Buckingham Palace, I don't see an increased police presence doing much. I'm guessing that even if they caught someone in the act, the scumbag isn't ending up in...
• Commented on NFL Mock Draft: Buffalo Bills
  Not a chance that they take Upshaw, Nix is no genius but he won't waste that high of a pick on a guy that's strictly a 3-4 player. I wouldn't be surprised to see them take an OT then defensive...
• Commented on Symphony Circle, Looking Fine Once Again (for now)
  I still complain all the time about the city, and there is a distinct lack of vision especially when it comes to getting families back and the growing inequities of poor vs affluent BUT when I was growing up the...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: The Marlowe Theater
  Every time I think there's not much else to know about Buffalo something like this pops up. Thanks Mike...
• Commented on Road Trip: People Packed Streets, St. Louis Style #1
  Really, who thinks St. Louis is a down trodden city? There are many American cities that seem interesting but I'll probably never get to for one reason or another, including this one. Also, St. Louis has NFL, NHL, & MLB...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Planning Two New Hotels
  Am I the only one who thinks the rendering looks like something from UB's Amherst campus? Very uninspiring at best....
• Commented on David Milch Can Save Buffalo
  Who wants a soundstage when you can have One Sunset?...
• Commented on THE ADDAMS FAMILY
  Every time I go to Shea's I get some j-off sitting in front of me & it blocks the ENTIRE stage! Every time. Regardless, the performers were great, the plot and numbers are barely mediocre. Broadway, like television is really...
• Commented on How Will the Board of Ed Fill Jacobs' Vacant Seat?
  I didn't say anything about unions in China. You were bitching about "communists" in this country but they appear to be doing something right with respect to education in China. And let me get this straight, unions are OK if...
• Commented on How Will the Board of Ed Fill Jacobs' Vacant Seat?
  Funny. China (still a communist country) and Finland (a country with entrenched unions & semi-socialistic) are often numbers one & two in student test scores. Your other points are extremely well thought out and articulated so clearly though....