Twitter. Facebook. Ryan Fitzpatrick isn’t going anywhere. Not after a bad game last week nor after a gross, ugly and poor two-quarter stretch against Miam, an hour-or-so span in which he was picked off thrice. That doesn’t make me an apologist, it makes me a realist. Buffalo has a need for a dynamic defensive player [...]

1) Evgeni Malkin is an absolute monster and just having one center better than the Sabres top middleman instead of three — Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal are injured — was enough to get Pittsburgh by Buffalo 2) Ryan Miller was a garbage monster tonight. 3) Derek Roy is lost on the ice right now [...]

Apparently, the gods in Hockey Heaven let any ol’ sinner inside the gates, because this Sabres team is worse than their .500 record indicates. The team spending the fourth-most money in hockey certainly isn’t damned at this point in the season, but the fans can be forgiven for feeling they’ve taken a trip into purgatory. [...]

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and long-time advocate for farmers, today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor released an Employer Handbook for employers anticipating filing an H-2A application for next season.  It was thanks to a meeting Slaughter convened …

I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of what we take for granted and what we overvalue as sports fans, especially Buffalo sports fans. Do we take solid running backs for granted because we have a track record of NFL name-value players running through our lines (Thomas, Henry, McGahee, et. al)? Did we immediately [...]

Two lines are officially not enough for me to describe why the Sabres won or lost. For more thoughts on any game, hit up my Twitter feed. 1) Thomas Vanek had three goals in his last 14 games and now he has four in his last five after the brace tonight, but it was Zack Kassian’s [...]

Let us, in the beer blog/beer review world, be one of the first to introduce to you Community Beer Works. Located in Buffalo’s West Side, CBW is a soon-to-be-nano-brewery with a passion for the community (hence the name) and a passion for gre…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After visiting multiple 9-1-1 call centers throughout the 26th District, Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today announced she has introduced the Allowing Local Emergency Response Technicians to Accept Cellular Texts Act, or A.L.E.R.T. A….

Today Assemblyman John Ceretto and Senator George Maziarz voiced their support for increased funding for Niagara Falls State Park, which was announced yesterday at a meeting of New York State Park officials.
Senator George Maziarz said, “Niagara Fall…

Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes on the left and right, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 62. A prolific and public intellectual who enjoyed his drink …

A study by IBM of 1,500 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from different size organizations, 60 countries and 33 industries determined creativity to be the number 1 leadership skill needed by CEOs managing companies today. As one CEO stated “We need to find, recognize and reward …

Patrick Kane puts on the moves in this shootout clinching goal ‘No new videos.’

Michele Bachmann attacks Newt Gingrich over his time as a ‘historian’ for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘No new videos.’

Riverkeeper is pleased to announce the open registration of its Spring 2012 Semester of its popular River Academy course in partnership with Erie Community College. River Academy is a comprehensive training course that provides an introduction to our Niagara River watershed through Saturday morning classes …

Melanie Amaro, Chris Rene and Josh Kracjik have hardly become household names in Western New York. They are the three finalists in Simon Cowell’s “The X Factor,” which has a two-night finale next Wednesday and Thursday. The 90-minute semifinals Wednesday night only earned a 5.2 rating on local Fox affiliate WUTV, meaning 5.2 percent of [...]