Commentary
Photo by Gage Skidmore
Freaking out about Syrian refugees is like police responding to a violent crime by locking up or shooting the victim. |
First responders dig out South Buffalo during November 2014 lake effect snowstorm. Photo by Jay Burney
The November 2014 Lake Effect Snowstorm as seen through the eyes and camera of Jay Burney. |
 Is any of this out of genuine security concerns, or is this all about politics? |
 I’ll have more to say later about this past week’s descent into anti-refugee, anti-immigrant hysteria - from what the Erie County Legislature did on Thursday... |
Paris tribute: The flag bears the city’s motto, Fluctuat nec mergitur (“Tossed but not sunk”)
Image by Maya-Anaïs Yataghène via Wikimedia Commons.
Organizing a climate change conference involving nearly 200 countries has been made considerably more difficult by the recent shootings in Paris. |
 Truvada may not solve your intimacy issues, but it will probably prevent your contracting HIV. Isn’t that enough? |
 Planes in the air, boots on the ground, automatic weapons in the hand: They won’t fix this. |
 The shameless local developer class snarks at the Erie County executive for daring to ask for accountability in exchange for tax breaks. |