The only thing missing from Carl Paladino’s newest ironic sign, (placed on the side of a building recently cited for multiple code violations), is a Palinist gun sight, AMIRITE? I’ll bet he wishes that billboard was bigger.

I’m hearing that Hoytian local attorney Marc Panepinto is seriously considering challenging Republican State Senator Mark Grisanti for SD-60. Grisanti is a former Democrat who defected to the Republican Party and won a very hard-fought election against current Realtor Antoine Thompson. Although Grisanti endeared himself to Democrats in his district in the wake of his [...]

Called in to shepherd the sale of UB’s public radio station to WNED two years ago, WBFO station manager Mark Vogelzang has announced he’s leaving at the end of December to accept a position as CEO & President of Maine’s public broadcasting network, MPBN. You can read all about it in the Maine media. Click [...]

Click here to see the black goo and read about the 800 gallons of “dangerous materials” illegally dumped yesterday by a truck driver for Talisman Energy on state game land in Pennsylvania, just a few miles from the New York border. The driver has been arrested and bail is set at $100,000. He’s 27 years [...]

Republican Minister of Propaganda, Frank Luntz, is advising his underlings in the party, and its official organ, <<Fox News>> to modify the language they use in discussing the #Occupy movement. The reason? The Republicans’ unifying theme: fear. “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death,” said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist [...]

“Occupy Buffalo II” by Flickr user Nykino2011. Join the AV Photo Daily group here.

Here’s a Presidential follow-up to this post from earlier this week. Sure, there’s class warfare going on, but it’s being waged by the Republican Party against the American wage-earning middle class. Statement by the President Tonight, Senate Republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million hardworking Americans because they refused to ask a few [...]

All the news that’s fit to read during your morning grumpy. 1. I’m always on the lookout for interesting and innovative ideas to improve Buffalo. Other rust belt cities are implementing big ideas to solve their problems and I like to keep an eye on how we can try similar programs here. I’m intrigued by [...]

Considering that it’s 47-years-old, I’d say this 1964 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser doesn’t look too bad at all. I saw it early one morning a while back parked on a Wheatfield side street. That little bit of a rise in the roof, complete with window glass, emulated the styling of the Greyhound bus. It didn’t add [...]

Click here to see the flyer distributed to residents of McCarley Gardens, the HUD-subsidized moderate income housing controlled by Reverend Michael Chapman of St John Baptist Church. “Help shape the Fruit Belt’s Future,” the flyer reads. The meeting is being called “to provide and update on McCarley Gardens and UB, discuss any issues and concerns, [...]

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning of the risk to American lives from right-wing extremists. The American Limbaughist commentariat blew a gasket, accusing the DHS of a sweeping indictment of all conservatives. Never mind that it was prepared during the Bush Administration. Since that time, we’ve had a guy fly [...]

The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We [...]

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From the YouTube page: Zach Wahls, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa. The fight [...]