Dec 14
2012
Trickle down in reverse
Posted 12 years ago
Dec 14
2012
Dec 14
2012
ProPublica reports that Crossroads GPS claimed in an application filed two years ago with the IRS that its spending on campaigns would be “limited.” Rove and Co. then went out and spent $70M to influence elections.
Dec 13
2012
Those traveling to the Bills-Jaguars game on Dec. 2 may have seen the billboard on McKinley Parkway: “It’s a crapshoot: Feces taints 50% of Buffalo Chicken.” I hope you didn’t throw your chicken wings out the window after seeing the billboard because there’s another side to the story that the billboard sponsors aren’t telling us. Read on. The billboard came from the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which advocates for vegetarian lifestyles and “encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.” The Buffalo findings were posted on the group’s website on Nov. 29. Out of the hundreds of[...]
Dec 12
2012
Dec 12
2012
The co-chairman of the WNY Regional Economic Development Council said that while Albany Molecular Research is losing money, it remains a sound company worthy of state support. Highlights of Jim Heaney’s interview with Zemsky will air Saturday on WGRZ’s Daybreak; the full interview and transcript will be posted on this website over the weekend.
Dec 12
2012
The snapshot of homelessness that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released today shows a slight decline in the total population of homeless people in the United States for a single day in January 2012. “Our local numbers sort of mirror the national numbers,” said Dale Zuchlewski, the executive director of the Homelessness Alliance of Western New York. But that doesn’t mean Zuchlewski is breathing a sigh of relief. The Buffalo/Erie County Continuum of Care reported 120 chronically homeless people on that January day, down from 129 in 2011. Another positive that Zuchlewski pointed out is that the number[...]
Dec 11
2012
iPost Editor Jim Heaney discusses Mayor Byron Brown’s much-criticized appointment of Antoine Thompson as executive director of Buffalo Employment Training Center.
Dec 10
2012