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Taking the “Public” Out of Public Hearing
Tuesday I ran down to City Hall to catch the 5:30pm public hearing on Mayor Byron Brown’s proposed 2008-2009 budget. This is not a particularly popular pastime, I know; usually only a half dozen or so...
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No, It Was Barzini All Along
I don’t know why I take local politics so seriously, when I’d be better off doing analysis First Amendment Club style (from today’s Buffalo Rocket): Marc Panepinto discusses the Kavanaugh matter with...
View ArticleThe Hatch Hitch
As anyone who’d bother to read this post knows, South District Councilmember Mickey Kearns and Delaware District Councilmember Mike LoCurto submitted a resolution asking the city’s law department to...
View ArticleBlind
This week I wrote about Delaware District Councilmember Mike LoCurto’s fruitless efforts to obtain financial information from three of the city’s alphabet soup agencies: BERC, BURA, and BNRC. For more...
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St. Joseph’s Day in North Buffalo
AV street correspondent John Duke sends in this report about last Friday’s St. Joseph’s Day observances: Last Friday, (March 19, 2010), board member Rick Ganci, Delaware District Councilman Mike...
View ArticleCouncil Says No to Rodriguez
Today’s Common Council session opened, as it always does, with a prayer. (Does anyone pray publicly so often and so audibly as the elected official?) The University District’s Bonnie Russell’s message...
View ArticleCouncil Meets to Discuss City Funding for Culturals
On Monday evening, April 18, the Common Council’s Finance Committee will hold a special meeting to discuss different ways the city might restore funding for arts organizations zeroed out of this year’s...
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