On September 7, Joe Golombek’s campaign filed notice that it had received a $3,050 contribution from Brown for Buffalo, the committee for Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. Golombek is challenging incumbent Assemblyman Sam Hoyt in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Taken with a $500 contribution in January and a $250 contribution in June, that brings Brown for Buffalo [...]

Chevrolet has announced that Wednesday Sept. 8th will be the official launch of the compact Chevy Cruze. The event will take place outside the Lordstown, Ohio plant where the Cruze assemblyline is located. Also, if you’re watching any television tonight you just might see the first Cruze commercials, featuring television and film star Tim Allen [...]

Yesterday, the Buffalo News ran this piece about Scott Nostaja, who was named interim president of SUNY at Buffalo by UB Council head Jeremy Jacobs last Monday (August 30)—upon the resignation of John Simpson (on the first day of classes for the fall semester). Buffalo’s daily paper joined every other news outlet in town when [...]

If you’re of a certain age, this truck was something you probably saw daily in your neighborhood. Well, maybe not this one, but one like it. The Divco milk truck was used by many — if not most — local dairies for home delivery starting from when it went into production in 1939, right up [...]

Ford recently unveiled its redesigned 2011 Explorer SUV. Thought by some to be the vehicle that started the SUV trend, the Explorer first hit the market back in the 1991 model year. The new Explorer will be less of a truck, losing the body-on-frame platform, switching to a lighter unibody structure based on the Ford [...]

For those of you who grown tired of Mazda’s “smiley face” front ends, I’m please to announce that last week they unveiled the new Shinari — a four-door, four-seat sports car concept which introduces their new styling theme. The theme even has a name: KODO – Soul of Motion. Okay, so the name sounds a [...]

GRAND ISLE, La. — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico today, Thursday, at about 9:30 a.m., west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.

Head south on Rt. 16 out of the village of East Aurora, and eventually you’ll pass 455 Olean Rd., which in 1975 was the home of Jacobs Chevrolet-Triumph. How’s that for strange bedfellows? Looking over old photos and brochures, trying to decide which ones to add to this post was not easy. In 1975 Chevrolet [...]

Less than 24 hours after SUNYAB president John Simpson announced his retirement effective January 15, 2011, questions were flying within the UB community: How is it that Jeremy Jacobs, in his capacity as UB Council Chairman, could name Scott Nostaja interim president of the university? It’s a good question, when you consider that the Education [...]

TOO MUCH LIPSTICK!! What were they thinking when they painted the bumpers red on this 1956 Oldsmobile Super 88 four-door sedan? Yikes! I spotted it a while back sitting in front of a collision shop in Yorkshire, N.Y., and it has since had a “for sale” sign attached to the window. I don’t know; to [...]

UB President John “Suitcase” Simpson is calling it quits after seven years in the position. Not quite a year ago, he delivered a speech at Babeville quoting Teddy Roosevelt: ““It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have [...]

Another bus shelter sign targeting State Senator Antoine Thompson, paid for by the Committee for Economic Growth, the political giving arm of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership:

Continuing a long tradition of promoting pipe dreams, the Committee for Economic Growth—which is the Political Action Committee run by Andrew Rudnick’s Buffalo Niagara Partnership—is now plastering this message on NFTA bus stops, blaming Antoine Thompson because UB2020/PHEEIA legislation didn’t make it through the legislature. This hunk of propaganda bemoans 20,000 UB2020 jobs lost. Let’s [...]

Continuing a long tradition of promoting pipe dreams, the Committee for Economic Growth—which is the Political Action Committee run by Andrew Rudnick’s Buffalo Niagara Partnership—is now plastering this message on NFTA bus stops, blaming Antoine Thompson because UB2020/PHEEIA legislation didn’t make it through the legislature. This hunk of propaganda bemoans 20,000 UB2020 jobs lost. Let’s [...]