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  • Bills staff members re-grow Western New York

    Buffalo Bills staff and members of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy took part in a full-staff volunteer day at Delaware Park today to help restore a section of the park near the corner of Forest Avenue and Rumsey Road. Bills staff members left their Orchard Park offices to assist in the effort by planting trees, laying gravel, repainting a park shelter, safety surfacing the area and making ...

  • Erie police investigating crash that closed Colo. 52

    The driver of a Mazda 3 that crashed on Colo. Highway 52 just west of Weld County Road 3 late Friday morning was flown to Denver Health Medical Center and police have closed the highway to investigate. Lt. Lee Mathis of the Erie Police Department said at 11:45 a.m. that he expected the highway to remain closed between Weld County roads 1 and 3 for at least another hour while police investigate ...

  • Up up and away 17th annual Erie Balloon Festival under way

    eriechamber.org The skies above Erie were filled with colorful hot air balloons early this morning as this weekend's 17th annual Erie Balloon Festival kicked off. The festival is part of the annual Erie Town Fair, which continues Saturday and Sunday in downtown Erie. In addition to a 6 a.m. balloon launch from the Colorado National Golf course each morning, the festival will feature ...

  • Catholic Charities inches closer to fund goal

    Its crunch time for Catholic Charities of Buffalo, with $500,000 remaining to be raised in the next six weeks. The agencys 2013 Appeal has so far raised 95.6 percent, or about $10.2 million of its $10.7 million goal. The campaign ends on June 30, the end of its fiscal year. To get there, the agency is relying on the efforts of its leadership team and 600 volunteers, as well as the power of the ...

  • UB athletics subsidy at 79.4 percent

    Friday's higher educational foray The University at Buffalo heavily subsidizes its athletic department more than $20 million of its $26.2 million in 2011 revenues came from school funds and student fees. That isn't at all uncommon, according to a USA Today analysis of public Division 1 colleges and universities. Only 23 out of the 228 school surveyed generated enough money to pay for ...


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Movie Review

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

The thing I always remember most vividly after seeing Martin Scorseses best films is the momentum. Whether it be the slow, methodical burn of Taxi Driver (1976), the purposefully infuriating stasis of The King of Comedy (1983), the melodramatic pull toward disaster in Cape Fear (1991), or the headlong existential rush of GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), Scor ... ...

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  • NY Oneidas agree to casino pact

    New York and the Oneida Nation have announced a deal that will see the tribal nation return one quarter of casino revenues to the state in exchange for exclusive gaming rights in a 10-county area of Central New York. State officials say that 25-percent return is worth $50 million. The announcement, which came from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, comes a week after he again called for New York state to expand ...

  • Whaley preaching hard work accountability

    Bills have NFL's youngest front office trio "It's not about me," said Whaley. "It's about us and this organization. From Russ (Brandon) instilling in this organization that this is a shared common goal to put this organization back to where it's supposed to be, us competing consistently for championships, I buy into it. That's my philosophy and that's ...

  • Doug Whaley Consistently compete for championships. Thats our goal.

    BILLS PRESIDENT AND CEO RUSS BRANDON ANDm GENERAL MANAGER DOUG WHALEY Thursday, May 16, 2013 Russ Brandon Opening Statement: First my time management skills are probably not the best. My definitions of a long, long time and not in the very near future are probably not in line with what you guys were thinking of and I apologize for that. (Jokingly) But first and foremost, I did not know on Monday ...

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