Buy your own damn art.  Take the money you’ve earned, give it to someone who created a piece you enjoy, and hang your acquisition in your den.  Dragging everyone else into the transaction creates a bitter public that would rather purchase a second plasma screen to adorn a nude wall than a first watercolor. Sadly,...

We felt tremors at my office in downtown Buffalo… lasted 15-20 seconds… reports are coming in.. WGRZ has some information. Residents from all across Western New York are calling the Two On Your Side Information Center telling us they felt an earthquake. We have received calls from from as...

It wasn’t too long ago I said that Cuomo’s entry to the race would be the prologue to a decline in his support. It seems like that is happening already. Support for New York’s top Democrats among independent voters is eroding as voters remain dissatisfied with government in Albany and...

Time to unite. The former Congressman Rick A. Lazio emerged as the Republican Party’s preferred candidate for governor at an often raucous convention in Manhattan on Wednesday, dealing a fatal blow to the efforts of Steve Levy,the Suffolk County executive, to become the nominee of a party he joined...

The first thing I’d like to say is “It’s about time.” Solidly leading all match-ups, the race is his to lose. And, call me crazy, he could still lose it. If you think it’s impossible, just ask Martha Coakley. The biggest problem for the Republican candidates and for Steve...

Do you watch horse racing, grandpa?  Betting which whipped animal can run a lap fastest is a rather inter-world-war-era diversion.  Nearly everyone living in 2010 would consider television, video games, the internet, and just about anything else with a plug or battery to be more entertaining than an...

That pretty much sums up his entire trip. At least from a national perspective. A quick perusal of online stories about Obama’s split-second trip to our miserable, dying city finds that the non-Buffalo media (and blogs) really dug the fact that Obama got buffalo wings in Buffalo. USA Today: Obama...

Okay, as details of Barack Obama’s visit have been revealed, one thing that is clear is that he will barely be here. From what I understand the amount of time between when Air Force One touchesdown at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport and when it departs is three hours. So, all that time, energy,...

You can’t smoke while at work, in restaurants, at bars, and, depending how stifling a particular community is, within the public portion of the outdoors.  But at least you can still light up at home. Or maybe not.  The public/private consortium of health bullies that is the Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free...

Well, things just got so much more interesting in the gubernatorial race. At least for a couple days. We all certainly get email forwards to us. Some are funny, some are stupid chain letters that we ignore (well, I ignore them anyway)… well it turns out that Carl Paladino is no different. Imagine...

There’s good news for anyone worried that sanctimonious disgrace Eliot Spitzer learned lessons and improved himself since he joined the Emperors Club: he hasn’t changed at all.  Yep, he’s still as contemptible as ever. I hate to even give attention to someone who most people hoped would enjoy...

Okay, we all know he won’t, but our senior Senator was highly critical of recess appointments when President George W. Bush made such an appointment to put William Pryor on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004,  Schumer’s had the  following reaction: “The president is on shaky...

The New York gubernatorial race takes another bizarre twist. Andrew Cuomo is still on the bench and Carl Paladino is allegedly going to announce on April 5, but the latest development is that Long Island Democrat Steve Levy is switching parties to run in the GOP primary. Strangely enough, some county...

As I suspected, Andrew Cuomo has taken a hit in the polls. A rather sharp drop in fact. Although everyone from Mayor Bloomberg to Rep. Anthony Weiner to Paterson himself have rejected the suggestion floated by Republicans and some supporters of the governor that Cuomo is too conflicted to investigate...

As if New York politics needed more drama, Politco reports that Rep. Eric Massa says that the White House and DEmocrat leaders in the House of Representative ousted him over his position on health care. Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments...

My friend S.E. Cupp, in her latest column for the New York Daily News, dares to say that the New York governor’s race isn’t merely just waiting  for Cuomo to jump in and cruise to an effortless victory. To fellow jaded New Yorkers who think they’ve heard it all, I humbly offer this:...