It was a quiet weekend for the Bernie Fine story coming out of Syracuse. Image by Getty Images via @daylife That’s good news for Fine, the assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University who has been accused of sexually abusing two former ball boys decades ago. If true, the Thursday report by ESPN’s Mark Schwarz featuring on-air [...]

The State saw no bump in their revenue after their first attempt to shut off supply to Native tobacco retailers. Native brands filled the hole left by the State shutting off access to national brands. The State budget is projected to be over $350 million short so what’s up their sleeve. Listen to this show [...]

Twitter. Facebook. “Get at me.” Postgame podcast: Bills/Fins & Sabres talk Rather than a group of bitter verbs, nouns and adjective (specifically “mighty,” “have,” and “fallen”)  to lead this thing off — for surely there will be plenty of that in these coming paragraphs — how about we begin with a sobering thought that belies [...]

Western New York was shortchanged by about $167 million in infrastructure funding after the Department of Transportation made a human error while calculating allocation formulas for fiscal year 2008-2009. Senator Tim Kennedy, as a member of the Transportation Committee and ranking member of the Economic Development Committee, has called for a roundtable forum to be [...]

In February 2001, Robert Kull took the concept of “escaping the urban” to its logical extreme: he moved to an uninhabited island in the glaciated fjordlands of southern Chile and lived alone for a year. On purpose. The only companion he packed in was a cat named Cat – all other kinship he discovered while [...]

Erie County Executive-elect Mark C. Poloncarz proudly announced the formation of his transition team’s executive committee. This committee, led by businessman Michael Joseph will work closely with the current administration to ensure a smooth transition so that the Poloncarz administration can begin its work on behalf of the County’s taxpayers. Michael Joseph brings an incredible [...]

Had a chance to catch up with FreeDarko, Bleacher Report and the wonderful TheClassical.org‘s Bethlehem Shoals this morning — both our babies cooperated — to get his take on the NBA Lockout. Besides taking money out of his pocket, Shoals has another somewhat unique take… and he’s on the players side. All that and some [...]

On December 11th, join the Clean Air Coalition for the premier of their documentary, You Are Where You Live by Vince Mistretta.
The film chronicles the personal stories of The Clean Air Coalition’s fight for the people’s right to a healthy environment by following Coalition members Ann Sciandra, Rosa Caraballo and Renata Pokrasky.
This documentary is a [...]

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee today sent a follow-up letter to the US Judicial Conference requesting that the matter of Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose required financial information be referred to the US Attorney General. The letter, signed by 52 Members of Congress, was drafted after new details [...]

The local news battle from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. during the November sweeps is tighter than all the runners will be at the start of the Turkey Trot. Round 3 of the November news ratings battle in the early evening was pretty much a draw  between Channel 2 and Channel 4 in the first sweeps [...]

I thought that things couldn’t get much busier than they were last week. I was wrong! This weekend CBW took up drill and saw and set out to turn an empty space in our brewery into a walk in cooler. It took four days, help from five people (our eternal gratitude goes out to Ed, PJ, [...]

Like Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, “I’ve got all this stuff twirling around my head” again. Buffalo-born supermodel Beverly Johnson (see right) is about to get her own series from OWN, the little-watched Oprah Winfrey Network. According to an OWN release “Beverly’s Full House” is a docu-series that “follows what happens when three generations of [...]

Bob McCarthy talks to local Republicans who seem as disgruntled as they are un-named, and lists off a series of concerns they have about the Erie County Republican Committee’s direction now that it lost the Corwin and Collins races. One could easily quip that the Republicans have a problem running neighbors from Cobblestone Lane in [...]

The fierce yin and yang of America’s divergent relationship with its two borders is embodied in two provincial border cities: Buffalo in the north, and El Paso in the south. Here our concerns are greater engagement with Canada, the easing of border restrictions, developing an economic plan to build off bi-national trade. Here our elected [...]

A BBC documentary television series called “Frozen Planet” will soon air on the Discovery Network here in the U.S. Well, most of it will. U.S. audiences will not be shown the last episode, which looks at the threat posed by man to the natural world. It is feared a show that preaches global warming could [...]