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A Garbage Plate™ kid living in a chicken wing world. #MassMob co-founder. Writer @BuffaloRising . @BuffaloSpree contributor. Also: Urbanism, greenways, politics.
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@whstancil
I Have No Speaker and I Must Adjourn is one of the most terrifying Harlan Ellison stories.
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BREAKING: The
#coronavirus
has announced it will begin self-quarantine after learning it may have been exposed to
#TedCruz
.
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@Indiawaltonbflo
@jamesherrmannn
Our 911 is garbage. Every public official knows it but no one will do anything. Maybe they just think everything else here is broke & broken, so why not 911 too? Meanwhile an hour down the road the 911 in Monroe County wins awards. This was a huge culture shock when I moved here.
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Well, but first let's do the full Florida recount and make Al Gore president.
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@strickdc
@RobCGalbraith
@NBCNews
Who would have thought, over a century later, we'd be back to the Lewis Hine days :-(
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@Charlie_Reports
@Indiawaltonbflo
@WKBW
Charlie, you are being diligent, thorough & fair as always. Walton is right - this is what so many in poor and disadvantaged communities go through. It's also a long time ago.
Unlike her opponent, her offices & her closest political associates have never been raided by the FBI.
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Well, well. Look what someone found on a printer at the Rath Building today 👀
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24 hours ago I never would have guessed that this morning I'd be on a panel discussion with a cabinet secretary but hey.
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@Knightcartoons
@theheraldsun
@usopen
Hard to tell what's more disgusting: that you drew this, or that you're putting it out there like you're proud of it.
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It's about time the media talked about all the looting going on in Buffalo. These corporate chains have been preying on our poorest communities for decades with impunity. They do it right out in the open and even on social media while authorities call it "economic development."
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I live in an America where a Black woman:
* just saved the nation (
@staceyabrams
)
* is VP-Elect (
@KamalaHarris
)
* is the nation's most admired woman (
@MichelleObama
)
* is going to send Trump to prison (
@TishJames
).
There's something to be said for this America.
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Love your pizza & your people,
@LovejoyPizza
, but if ever there was a time to not boost anti-vaxxer hysteria I think now is it.
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@BrettKelman
@Tennessean
This is a great thread but TBH after reading it I'm way more interested in Bill than in the crooked pair-o-docs.
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@dankois
It's like WWII, when we had paid day-care for women workers, encouraged people to grow food at home, recycled, built workforce housing, gave returning soldiers a free college education, upgraded our infrastructure, and made the wealthy pay for it.
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This was shared by
@BuffaloPundit
on the other site, about WBEN's coverage of the NF tragedy:
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So this doesn't look at all fascist. Not. At. All.
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Boy it's lucky for Nick Sinatra that he only owed $800,000 in taxes instead of $600 in parking tickets or he really would've gotten blasted by the mayor.
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The
@ZephyrTeachout
for AG campaign is breaking some new ground in fundraising. Looks like Zephyr has the wind @ her back.
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When America finished the election & opened its fortune cookie...
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What a difference a year makes. In 2020 7 was the local news to watch. In 2021 they straight-up ran Madison Carter out of town, then lost Charlie Specht & Keith Radford. Now they seem to be taking a hard-right swerve into WBEN territory. It's like a case study of what not to do.
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@GovMikeHuckabee
In lieu of a comment of my own...
Dear
@GovMikeHuckabee
: You have no need to worry because your 1 yr old grandson was not ripped away from his parents by the
@realDonaldTrump
Administration.
In Christ,
Ted
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
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@Taniel
I worked for the president of the legislature when we lost the majority. I don't care how slim the margin is - this is huge.
@JKTBurgess
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And oh my, what a crew paraded with
@Indiawaltonbflo
today, taking her message straight through the heard of Byron Brown territory on McKinley Parkway in South
#Buffalo
. In three decades of involvement in politics, I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it.
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A month ago tonight
@Indiawaltonbflo
became
#Buffalo
's next mayor. And the political ground is still shakin'.
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11 Republicans walk into a bar.
After they all schmooze with the bartender, one of them asks "so which of us do you think would make the best congressman?"
Bartender replies, "Whichever one of you is
@Nate_McMurray
."
11 Republicans leave a bar.
#NY27
11 Republicans to meet with party leaders in hopes of replacing
@RepChrisCollins
on the ballot
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@abbydphillip
@deanbphillips
I guarantee Joe Biden will never confuse Dean Phillips with a viable candidate.
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A case filed after the 2019 FBI/HUD raid of Buffalo City Hall has been unsealed. It alleges illegal use of federal antipoverty funds, bid rigging by Mayor Brown & the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency, & retaliation against the whistleblower, former BURA Executive Director Nona Watson
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I loved
@markpoloncarz
' April Fools joke about a "strange cryptid" creeping around an Erie County park.
At least, I think it was just a joke 😬
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@bobrieneden
Is it my imagination, or do some of them seem to be hiding their faces behind their signs?
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@the_transit_guy
New York City. Amazing harbor, outstanding access to Europe, the only east-coast city with good access into the midwest, and great bedrock for building on and under.
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In what may be a first for an AG campaign announcement,
@ZephyrTeachout
's midwife is speaking - about maternal health.
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EVERY media outlet should refuse to be bound by these rules, and refuse to enter the rectory unless Charlie is allowed in. Seriously: EVERY news director should talk with their counterparts & agree to this. No wavering.
.
@BishopRJMalone
is calling a 2:30 p.m. news conference in reaction to our
@WKBW
investigation, but the
@BuffaloDiocese
says I'm not allowed to attend. Diocese spokeswoman has chosen which reporters she is allowing to the news conference.
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@RepMattSchaefer
Guns are a "God-given right"? How did I miss that in 2 decades of Sunday school?
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You absolute assholes,
@WBFO
. You should've nominated
@MikeDesmondWBFO
for a Pulitzer for his coverage of the assault on Martin Gugino. It was clearly worthy. Whether he won or not it would've been a capstone on a great career.
And now do this? Fuck you.
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I hope someone's getting a court order to stop City Hall from shredding files & deleting emails.
Q: Does this tweet apply to
#Rochester
or
#Buffalo
?
A: Yes.
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It's been a decade since I heard a challenger give such an inspiring speech at a parade. Last time is was
@markpoloncarz
, when we needed change in the Rath Building. This year it's
@Indiawaltonbflo
, when we need change in City Hall. Let's win change now as we did then!
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I'm old enough to remember when
@TheBuffaloNews
Editorial Board had the chance to endorse
@VGlushefski
, who they agreed was more qualified, but they stuck with this self-promoting clown👇
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Get you a mayor who personally cheers you up when you're feeling down about your city.
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Stefan Mychajliw is making a lot of noise this morning, likely to deflect attention from this report by
@Charlie_Reports
published minutes ago showing he's not showing up to work.
Stefan doesn't want people to notice this report, so you know what to do:
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@LeighGiangreco
The real explanation? Bad move. Try this: "The stealth comes from a sort of cloaking device in the airframe - no, they really call it that! Origins of the device are classified, but..." [lower your voice & look around] "...there's a reason stealth aircraft look kinda alien."
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@juliegraceb
Back when Twitter was still fun Jim Jordan's suit coat would've had its own account on here.
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You could build an urban planning lecture around this picture.
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@GovKathyHochul
Looks awesome! Still, the ultimate NY power dinner has to be a Garbage Plate™ with white hots from
@Nick_Tahou_Hots
😋
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@JasonThorne_RPP
An angle I'm interested in is that the City of Niagara Falls, NY, about this time also bet big on modernist architecture (some by big names like Cesar Pelli and Paul Rudolph) but it was a flop. There has to be some lessons in there somewhere about what to do & what no to do.
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@the_transit_guy
The NYS Senate High-Speed Rail Task Force's 2006 report recommended extending it to the Capital District.
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Light years beyond Buffalo 😩
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Early last year I learned of a video in which a local militia group chanted white-power slogans. I contacted several reporters but no one would cover it. So I asked electeds to hold a press conference & show the video, forcing media to cover it. No takers.
Update: Ten killed in mass shooting at Jefferson Avenue supermarket; shooter in custody
via
@LouMichelBN
@makibecker
@Tsuj10
via
@TheBuffaloNews
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When is the inaugural meeting of the Blocked By
@StefanMychajliw
Club? We should definitely hold it at the Ukrainian Center.
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A great day for
#Buffalo
's Puerto Rican Day parade with
@Indiawaltonbflo
. I'm not sure I've ever seen a campaign connect with people the way I saw today. A beautiful thing. It was also great to run into occasional partner-in-crime Jim Anderson.
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Hey
@NardinAcademy
, is this your music director, Mark Mazur? The candidate he's openly promoting is publicly associated with infidelity, horse porn, overt racism, sending videos of "Miss France F*cking" etc. Are those values you want your students to see your faculty support?
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I'm old enough to remember when they showed up to lend support to the mayor's police-reform plan that wasn't a plan and wasn't police reform and was never heard of again.
When these guys aren’t singing they’re smiling! I’ll tell you what’s next for Buffalo’s singing cops and how their latest adventure is taking their talents overseas on
@SPECNews1BUF
!
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This election post-mortem by Betty Jean Grant in this week's Challenger is devastating: could Byron Brown's hard-right campaign have cost us the opportunity to elect Erie County's first Black woman sheriff?
This is something we need to understand better.
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You heard it here first: the Federal Rail Administration has released (after over a decade) the EIS for high-speed rail in NY's Empire Corridor. Their preferred alternative is "90B" which creates separate track, allowing trains to travel at 90MPH. Link:
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Autocorrect keeps changing Hardwick to Hardwork and Dixon to Mychajliw.
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So:
* Folks stuck in the snow all over the city all week;
* Erie County, private plows, volunteers filling in;
* No information about whether trash pickup is delayed;
* Mayor's Twitter hasn't tweeted in 2 days;
* City of Buffalo's "official" (is it?) Twitter has never tweeted.
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Top staffers for
@SecretaryPete
sitting in on today's ROCC (Restore Our Community Coalition) meeting, including the head of the Reconnecting Communities Program, from which the Kensington Expressway recently received the largest first-round grant.
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@BillsMafiaChick
@SeinfeldBuffalo
@Indiawaltonbflo
@Nate_McMurray
@shippens4north
@NYWFP
Not sure if you intended that as a compliment or not but India is a warrior for sure. I wish I had half her guts.
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Seeing a take this AM that
@Indiawaltonbflo
was "the wrong candidate with the right platform" because inexperience. I disagree. While there were some unforced errors, I don't believe anyone tainted by local government and politics could have done what she did - or would have.
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Love this: when
@Nate_McMurray
was looking at running for congress against Chris Collins, the only person in Washington to encourage him was
@louiseslaughter
.
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Good day! I'm Peter M. Jones. I live at 65 Middlesex Road. As you read in the Buffalo News, I evicted a family without cause from 183 Lemon Street.
I'm now the official poster boy for why
#Buffalo
needs a "good cause" eviction law - like the Albany Common Council just passed.
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