Aunt Bee’s ’55 Ford Sunliner And you thought Aunt Bee was a Fuddy-Duddy. When she decides it’s time to get a driver’s license and buy a car in episode 22, season six of The Andy Griffith Show, she picks up this nifty 1955 Ford Sunliner (unusual to see one these not painted as a two-tone). [...]

I like the Buffalo News’ new editorial direction. The mainstream media of yore would have exposed – oh, I dunno – maybe the fact that the country’s political, taxation, and entire socioeconomic structure has been systematically co-opted by the richest 1% of Americans for their own benefit, thanks to a compliant governmental structure that is [...]

State Senator Mark Grisanti’s Chief of Staff Doug Curella’s stock keeps rising after “The Capitol” did a story asking “How popular are NY State Senators on facebook?” The WNY Lawmaker is the most popular and has almost 7,800 Facebook “likes” fans, 5,000 more then any other Senator in the state. Grisanti’s stellar voting record and [...]

Yesterday, Amherst Police held a brief press conference to inform the public that no charges would be brought against any of Jamey Rodemeyer’s tormentors. Jamey, you’ll remember, was the 14 year-old Williamsville North student who took his own life after having been bullied relentlessly for being a little bit different. I wrote about Jamey’s suicide here, [...]

At least it’s easy to find in the parking lot! I can certainly show you this mid-1990s Lincoln Continental Mark VIII, which I often see in Tonawanda, and just have to hope that a picture really is worth a thousand words, because I can’t think of anything to say about it except “Yikes!” Perhaps if [...]

I have a voracious appetite for internet memes, video, podcasts, news, and analysis. Each morning I’ll share several links that you can consume during your “morning grumpy”. 1. The internet moves pretty fast. On Monday night, Fox News blonde-of-record, Megyn Kelly sat in on the Bill O’Reilly Condescension Hour to discuss the pepper spraying of [...]

After a long and complicated process that included SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher’s rejection of the first choice for SUNY Binghamton president back in March of this year, Zimpher and the SUNY Trustees today approved SUNY Buffalo interim provost Harvey Stenger to take over the job at BU. According to today’s letter from UB President Satish [...]

This afternoon, lawyers for the family of Amanda Wienckowski released the long-awaited report by Dr. Silvia Comparini, the pathologist they hired to determine the cause of the 20-year-old woman’s death. The verdict: manual strangulation. On January 9, 2009, Wienckowski’s body was found—bruised and scarred, folded in two and frozen stiff, stripped of clothes, her long [...]

I actually interviewed at the Steven Baum foreclosure mill last year. I knew they did foreclosure and collections work, but didn’t know the full nature of what they did. I answered an ad for a litigation attorney, dressed up for it, and met with two women who were dressed in sweatshirts and jeans. They asked [...]

It’s somewhat astonishing to consider how our President with a funny name continues to engender a new and unique kind of hatred and derision among a certain population in this country. It’s not so much about his policies, (most of which they’d be misinformed about, anyway), but about the nature and location of his birth. [...]

I have a voracious appetite for internet memes, video, podcasts, news, and analysis. Each morning I’ll share several links that you can consume during your “morning grumpy”. 1. It is tremendously sad that up to 700 people will now be out of work at Pillar Processing and Steven J. Baum PC. In an abrupt turn [...]

. Apparently your grandmother was in Niagara Falls last week. I saw her 1967 Dodge Dart 270 four-door sedan in a parking lot on the Boulevard. — Jim Corbran, You Auto Know

Libertarian activist and attorney Jim Ostrowski had been spearheading a lawsuit brought against several corporations, Empire State Development, and the state of New York, alleging that state business development incentives were violative of the state constitution. The New York State Court of Appeals put an end to that suit in a decision released today. §8. [...]

Good morning! For those of you unfamiliar with who I am, my name is Chris Smith and I’ve been blogging about Buffalo and WNY since 2005 on WNYMedia.net. The editors and instigators at Artvoice have deemed me worthy of promotion to this fine publication and I intend to abuse their hospitality. How about a little [...]

Check out the comments to this Buffalo News article regarding changes that County Executive-elect Poloncarz would like to make to Collins’ 2012 county budget. It involves re-shuffling existing money to fund what Poloncarz considers to be his priorities, as opposed to Collins’. The uninformed are already accusing him of increasing taxes and spending, when neither [...]