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• Commented on "Why Buffalo is bouncing back faster than Atlanta" - WP
  Well said, Blackrock. Frequently on this blog posters are too quick to turn good news into bad. Buffalo's solid recovery from the recession has been national news for over a year now. Its not some flash in the pan. Given...
• Commented on Buffalo's Surreal Slip
  When cities start beating to their own drum, strange....yes, even bizarre things happen. Get used to it, Buffalo....
• Commented on Work at The Statler Moves Forward
  Ye of little faith. Growth begets growth. Buffalo is not a tiny village. Metro Buffalo has 1.2 million people. Only a tiny fraction is needed to fill the clubs and other spaces proposed for the Statler. When people get jazzed,...
• Commented on $10 Million Gift Boosts Roswell Park Expansion
  Richest One Percent Of Americans Control 40 Percent of Wealth http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201106010006...
• Commented on Comment Promoted: Historic Preservation and Buffalo's Future
  @elliotnick....you're vaguely irritating. All you have is your partisan anger and not much else. Preserving of older structures has led to the revival of many a city. Georgetown in DC was a very poor neighborhood before people began to restore...
• Commented on Comment Promoted: Historic Preservation and Buffalo's Future
  I have said it before on this blog and I say it again.....you all need to take over the leadership of your city. Its 2011. If your leaders don't get that historic preservation can lead to the revitalization of a...
• Commented on About that census and also, "Is Soul-Crushing Sprawl Killing Business?"
  First let me say I am not a proponent for sprawl. Sprawl is a waste of resources and consumes land voraciously. Fortunately, sprawl is not the only thing that is happening in metro America. In fact, a recent study pointed...
• Commented on Design Ideas Floated for Maryland/West Project
  From a design perspective, I like the vernacular style the best because it mimics the pitched roof of the single family house on the block. From a managment/maintenance perspective, I like the colonial style because the roof is pitched, allowing...
• Commented on Medical Campus a Bright Spot Amid a Dark Job Market
  I have to question the data. Pittsburgh is listed as one of the 9th hardest cities to find a job and yet, for both January and February, 2011, Pittsburgh had very solid job growth....an increase of over 20K jobs YOY:...
• Commented on Buffalo's Vanishing Watercolors
  The link to the article that I provided in my prior post was a bad one. Here is a better one: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014538726_bullitt19.html?syndication=rss...
• Commented on Buffalo's Vanishing Watercolors
  Great article and kudos to the artists! This is the kind of stuff the average person can do to keep their officials accountable. In a democracy the average citizen has a lot more power than s/he thinks.....but that power has...
• Commented on Ouch! City's Population Down 10.7 Percent in Last Decade
  It shouldn't come as a surprise that Buffalo lost more population. First of all, I have been following the census results pretty closely and most cities in this country experienced losses greater than expected or gains less than expected. Perennial...
• Commented on The Eights Bistro - A Unique Dining Experience
  Sounds great. Wish I lived in Buffalo....
• Commented on Fed-Up Verizon Scraps Niagara County Data Center
  I guess maybe I am missing something here but I've read the Buffalo News article three times albeit quickly and the Verizon rep said they were not building in Wyoming. In fact, its sounds like their recent acquisition is causing...