Commentary
Proud Boys posing Friday outside New York City's Metropolitan Republican Club. (Photo credit: Twitter @HuntedHorse.)
New York’s Republican Party has endorsed misogyny and white nationalism—or, at minimum, declared them to be scourges less worrisome than vandalism. |
 Nate McMurray has momentum and is in a statistical tie with Chris Collins. Collins, on the other hand, has seen his support effectively collapse, and there are... |
 What the arrest and soft treatment of Kenmore Police Chief Peter Breitnauer exposes about our criminal justice system. |
Aerial photo of the city of Buffalo skyline, fall of 2015. Image via Creative Commons.
It’s well past time to pressure local governments to enact policies that address climate change realities. Here are some ways to begin. |
 Once they were co-conspirators. Then they both ran afoul of the law. Why, oh why can’t we excise them from our politics? |
 It’s our city, the OUR CITY Coalition says with its platform for political and economic change, and we all have a right to it. |
Some proposed sites for a new or expanded convention center in donwtown Buffalo, as presented in a new feasability study commissioned by Erie County.
What’s the real return on investment for a new convention center? We’ve had this conversation before… |
 Since 1950, humans have created 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic—more than a billion elephants by weight. |