About

The Buffalo Bean is a new political blog community for conservatives in Western New York. The blog covers politics and current events effecting Western New York and the entire state.

The Team

Matt Margolis – Founder and Editor-in-Chief:

Matt is a recent transplant from the suburbs of Boston, MA to Buffalo, NY. He started his first blog in March of 2003. Matt runs a number of other blogs, including Blogs For Victory (formerly Blogs For Bush, which became one of the most popular political blogs during the 2004 campaign), and Hub Politics (a blog covering politics in the state of Massachusetts).

Matt was one of a dozen bloggers given media credentials to cover the 2004 Republican National Convention, and has participated in a number of blogger conferences in Washington D.C. on Capitol Hill with members of Congress. Since then, Matt has been an invited guest on various local and national media networks including CNN, BBC Radio, New England Cable News, WBZ-TV (Boston), and C-SPAN.

Matt moved to Buffalo, NY in March 2008. The Buffalo Bean is his latest local politics blog project.

Matt’s is the coauthor of Caucus of Corruption (written with co-author Mark Noonan) which was published by World Ahead Publishing (now WND Books) in May 2007.

Contact Matt via e-mail