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 Raising the minimum wage is one thing; providing wage-workers more hours might help them even more. |
Photo by Gage Skidmore
Freaking out about Syrian refugees is like police responding to a violent crime by locking up or shooting the victim. |
 An unofficial One Buffalo fire sale is in full effect right now on secondary market ticketing sites like StubHub. |
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. |
 Hundred of BTF members and supporters rallied in protest of receivership. |