What Are You Doing New Years Eve? by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Mike Markkula was employee number 3 at Apple and had a great deal of influence over the success of Apple. The marketing philosophy of Apple has always been very customer focused. Government can and should learn from Apple’s marketing approach. Empathy – Government must do …

Mayor Byron W. Brown  appointed Buffalo attorney Amy C. Martoche to fill the vacant Buffalo City Court judgeship, as a result of the election of Judge Sharon M. LoVallo to Erie County Family Court. Ms. Martoche was selected after a diligent and public search and …

Ah, the week between Christmas and New Year’s. When nothing ever gets done, right? Well, yes and no. It’s true that we all took some time to relax and enjoy our families. After everyone had left on Christmas evening I settled in with my bottle of Heatwave, the prototype American Barleywine that Rudy had made, [...]

Over the years, Christmas Eve dinner has always been a special tradition in my home. Apparently that’s also been the case for an American colleague at United International College where I teach. So Johnny Liu from Hawaii s invited a group of us to his …

Preservation Buffalo Niagara has issued a call for nominations, seeking exemplary historic preservation projects from throughout its western New York region. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, January 20, 2012. Nominations will be reviewed as they are submitted and early submissions are appreciated. Additional information …

Preservation Buffalo Niagara has issued a call for nominations, seeking exemplary historic preservation projects from throughout its western New York region. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, January 20, 2012. Nominations will be reviewed as they are submitted and early submissions are appreciated. Additional information …

New York State through law and regulations  imposes procurement requirements that local governments must abide by. One of the recommendations of Governor Cuomo’s Mandate Relief Redesign Team is to allow local governments to conduct reverse auctions electronically. As I was not familiar with utilizing reverse …

1) When three players — Zack Kassian, Jason Pominville and Luke Adam — account for 65 percent of your team’s shots in a game and not one of them manages a point, the result is generally not going to go your way. 2) Ryan Miller made a number of remarkable saves in the game, but [...]

1) When three players — Zack Kassian, Jason Pominville and Luke Adam — account for 65 percent of your team’s shots in a game and not one of them manages a point, the result is generally not going to go your way. 2) Ryan Miller made a number of remarkable saves in the game, but [...]

  Introduction There are many famous sayings with respect to “too late”. A classic is “shutting the barn door after the horse has got out”. Or “better late than never”, even if “it’s all for naught but still for show”. And that brings us back …

Imagine a world where we didn’t need to control air pollution because we could prevent it.
The Clean Air Coalition’s membership did just that earlier this month at a workshop about pollution prevention. Check out our new short film featuring their thoughts about pollution prevention and how we can use this concept to help reduce dangerous [...]

Over the past 10 years, there has been endless posturing in Washington about our broken immigration system. Unfortunately, these debates have achieved nothing to produce critically needed comprehensive immigration reform.
It is shameful that Congres…

Please join us for Occupy Buffalo’s “Dome Warming” Event this Saturday to celebrate our dome, and to give tribute to Buckminster Fuller, the great visionary humanitarian. He developed the geodesic…

In stark contrast to the gridlock in Washington D.C., the Senate Republican Majority has worked together with Governor Andrew Cuomo to accomplish major changes and positive reforms this year. The new Middle Class Tax Cut and Job Creation Plan will buil…