EricOak and others: I think articles like this can do a better job. I know where you are coming from because the articles and comments coming from BuffaloRising (and in my experience, from conversations with people around the city) seem to trend i…

I guess that's good, unless you are actually considering it a competition with the *** 44 **** cities that did better than Buffalo, and which would seem to be calling people to move on to brighter horizons. But that's only if you want to look at i…

Is part of the appeal here that Canada still has a lower drinking age than the US? Or are they at 21 now too?

Why doesn't someone start a citizen-based news portal. We're 75% of the way there with Buffalo Rising, just copy the infrastructure and tweak the editorial focus a bit. The online newspaper will be defined by it's editor and its contributors. Ma…