Commentary
| The man who put Clarence Thomas on the US Supreme Court on the cover of this week’s TIME magazine. | We are not paying Amazon to hire 25,000 people. We are paying Amazon to effectively lay off hundreds of thousands more. | 
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  Photo via WikiMedia Commons.    	
   We’re crucifying Trump’s allies for what’s business as usual in Albany. Will the incoming state legislature change that? |  
  The 1988 inauguration of President George H. W. Bush. Image courtesy of the National Archives.    	
   Sanitizing George H. W. Bush’s story amounts to historical revisionism: Here are eight reasons he was detestable. | 
| A Niagara County tour of public art, restoration, and terror—with some respites in between. | With guilty pleas from two of his gang, Steve Pigeon’s political operation may finally be finished. | 
| Instead of a single line out to the suburbs, how about we serve the transportation needs of the city core? | On Saturday afternoon, Erie County’s elected Comptroller tweeted the following: | 










