Smoke-Free, Stressed-Out Living...
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Matt in
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04 26th, 2010 |
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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...
Buy Your Own Art...
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Anthony Bialy in
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04 19th, 2010 |
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This year’s Hallwalls’ Artists & Models Affair might be fun or freaky. It could be both, too, but it should be up to individuals to find out for themselves. Admission to the undoubtedly provocative May 1 event is 15 bucks presale or a Jackson at the door. Either way, taxpayers are also...
Bad Ideas, Worse Behavior: Spitzer’s B...
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Matt in
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04 8th, 2010 |
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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...
Plenty of Vacancies...
Downtown Buffalo’s most common sight might be plywood. Regrettably, the vertically-placed sheets aren’t particularly appealing to shoppers, tourists, or potential apartment renters. The boarding-up-unused-places industry may be booming, but numerous other aspects of the city’s economy grow...
Orchard Park Blows Smoke...
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Anthony Bialy in
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02 26th, 2010 |
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Liberals tolerate any lifestyle choice, unless that choice is smoking. That little trail of fumes emanating from the lit end of a smooth, satisfying, delicious cigarette or rolled-up-phonebook-sized cigar frightens them far more than, say, radical Islam or unsustainable deficits.
As evidence, the fun...
New York Will Repay You, Someday...
You’d think they’d be grateful. But the beneficiaries of our involuntary kindness are too busy punishing us for it. New York State is planning on propping itself with tax refunds in lieu of promptly returning the overpayments to their proper owners. A governor who amusingly thinks he could...
Another Clunker...
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Anthony Bialy in
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02 15th, 2010 |
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New York State is attempting to simultaneously help the economy and environment. Yeah: they’ll do nothing for either. Enticed consumers spent the weekend racing about trying to grab government entitlements for those outfitting their kitchens and basements. They’re taking part in a transparently...
All You Need is a Dollar and a Ludicrous...
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Anthony Bialy in
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02 8th, 2010 |
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While I’m sorry to be a downer, I don’t think you’ll win Powerball. Someone will pick the correct numerical combination, although it’s astoundingly unlikely to be you personally. But playing is like attempting to entice a model from the opposite gender or cheering for a non-Yankees franchise:...
Failing to Earn Credit...
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Anthony Bialy in
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02 3rd, 2010 |
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The one thing that’s better than making money is being handed some. That’s why anyone who doubts the Earned Income Tax Credit is the most wondrous gift our benevolent government has ever bestowed upon us should read The Buffalo News.
In particular, their January 31 take on the subject, helpfully...
Off-the-Rails Spending...
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Anthony Bialy in
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02 2nd, 2010 |
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We need government-funded trains to facilitate travel across the country. On top of that, their construction will spur financial recovery. That’s because it’s 1936. Regrettably, when it comes to fixing and administering the economy, we’re still coping with a Depression mentality; further,...
Saving Gas Money on Wining and Dining...
If one wants to acquire wine to enjoy with your Doritos and cookie dough, one shouldn’t have to make a second trip. The freedom to purchase fermented grape juice on the same receipt as one’s other groceries might not be explicitly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. But the prohibition against...
Buffalo Should Not be Minding Others’ ...
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Anthony Bialy in
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01 11th, 2010 |
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City Hall can’t run the economy properly. City Hall can barely run City Hall. Buffalo has not quite been dragged into financial utopia by its government; that’s especially seen in the folly of redistributing our money among companies of the bureaucracy’s choosing. But at least one...
Paterson Prefers State-Level Excess...
Fiscal responsibility doesn’t mean spending other people’s money before they get the chance. Regrettably, certain governors disagree. For one, New York executive David Paterson took a break from railing about pitfalls created by the state’s massive debt to point out how much cash same state...
Holiday Miracle: Slaughter, Conservative...
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Anthony Bialy in
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12 28th, 2009 |
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It’s nice to agree with your congressperson every so often. Concurring with one’s representative makes one feel, well, represented. That’s true even if accord happens for some as rarely as seemingly every area of the country except Buffalo gets walloped with Christmas-week snow. Anything...
McCain’s Not Gonna Take It, Never Did ...
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Anthony Bialy in
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12 21st, 2009 |
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The best summary of the social disease factory called the Woodstock Festival was offered by The Who. The unenthusiastic participants’ perfectly crude, decidedly and awesomely not safe for work reaction both during and after the squalid affair effectively summarizes the faux idyllic colossal mud bath. ...
Dinner Should be on the Hall...
The City of Buffalo would like you to dine out. Please. But kindly only do so at sanctioned eateries that the local government has blessed with cash. The Buffalo News recently highlighted the specific flaws of a loan program that removes “free” from markets:
City Hall lending to business...