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Where the votes will be in the Democratic mayoral primary - Buffalo Rising

1 week ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

The name of this blog is Politics and Other Stuff. Posts are usually on one subject or the other, but today’s post merges the two. Politics and money impact both candidate politics and Church politics. First, the Church. The Buffalo Catholic Church has been struggling for many years with the damage that sexual abuse and harassment by some members of the clergy has had on the Diocese.
Where the votes will be in the Democratic mayoral primary

2 weeks ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

The primary elections are down to the last two weeks. Early voting starts on Saturday, June 14. For the candidates and their teams it’s all hands-on deck for the final push. TV ads, mailers, door-to-door canvassing, and phoning will be non-stop. At this stage the candidates will be hunting for votes where they see their best opportunities. Those opportunities need to be targeted. My first experiences in campaigns a long time ago was in helping to identify the targets.
Public Supports NYS Packaging Reduction Bill - Buffalo Rising

3 weeks ago | buffalorising.com | John Szalasny

The reason we have a problem with plastic can be explained with the principles of compound interest. As many of us learned as a child, if a penny doubles every day for 30 days, you will be a multi-millionaire. The lesser-known version of the story involves of the origins of chess. The game was presented to the emperor. Impressed by the gift, he grants the inventor his request for what appears to be a token reward.
The Buffalo Common Council mostly approves the budget proposed by Scanlon, leaving several major financial issues unresolved - Buffalo Rising

1 month ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

The Buffalo Common Council on May 27th adopted the 2025-2026 city budget, totaling $622.1 million. The Council presented some important policy matters but the actual approved spending plan mostly agrees with the budget proposed by acting Mayor Chris Scanlon. Seventeen budget lines, out of the hundreds included in the annual budget, were amended including $1.3 million in line-item cuts and an equal amount in line-item additions.
Buffalo’s Democratic mayoral primary attracts the focus; Republicans have 5 races for town supervisor; the Bills schedule - Buffalo Rising

1 month ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

By its very nature, the race for mayor of Buffalo always highlights primary election activity in Erie County. The city’s population, the wide variety of issues, and the city’s financial woes dominate media interest. That is what is happening in 2025. TV ads, phone calls, and mailers are directing the public’s attention. Aside from the Democratic mayoral primary, however, things are relatively quiet in Erie County.
Some facts, observations, and heard-on-the-streets

1 month ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

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The battle of the Buffalo budget plans; O, Canada - Buffalo Rising

1 month ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon and Senator Sean Ryan are really mixing it up about competing plans to resolve the city’s impending financial crisis. As it turns out both plans involve borrowing money. Scanlon has proposed selling the city’s parking ramps for cash to help fill the city’s budget holes. The plan is not very well defined.
A crowded Democratic primary ballot for mayor of Buffalo; dozens of other offices in Erie County will be uncontested in November - Buffalo Rising

2 months ago | buffalorising.com | Ken Kruly

The petitioning process is nearly over and November election line-ups for many offices in Erie County are nearly set. There is still, however, some sorting out to do. The major race is for mayor of Buffalo with all six Democrats submitting sufficient signatures to qualify for the June 24th ballot. Originally five of the six candidates had general objections filed against their petitions.
Positive Signs as We Approach Earth Day 2025

2 months ago | buffalorising.com | John Szalasny

It may be the times we live in. Just before settling in to write my annual Earth Day article, I was in a creative writing workshop and given a prompt about springtime. It turned it into “Springtime flowers for a post-apocalyptic Earth Day.” As I am not a fan of the genre, I was surprised at how easily the story flowed from the keyboard, which made me work harder to show that there is hope as we commemorate Earth Day in 2025.
Moore Street Neighborhood featured in Buffalo Jane’s Walk

2 months ago | buffalorising.com | Benjamin Joe

Jane Jacobs was a journalist and activist who wrote “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in 1961, and while she had no formal training as an urban planner, she invented the groundbreaking view that neighborhoods are living ecosystems with streets for veins and buildings for organs. How we treat them, she said, defines how they will live or die, just as a living being will change in response to interaction with it.