Donn Esmonde: Pork dollars are in essence buying votes
Santa Claus keeps coming to town. And coming. And coming. If you are a soccer league, fire department, AMVETS Post, Boys&Girls Club or similar group, there is a good chance that you are on his list. (Updated: 10/04/09 3:59 PM )
Donn Esmonde: Downsizing trumps voter suppression
Meet Bob Wohlgemuth, victim. Wohlgemuth lives in Alden. He last week put up a lawn sign in favor of downsizing the Town Board. By the next morning, it was gone—taken, with dozens of others, by a town official. (Updated: 10/02/09 2:56 PM )
Donn Esmonde: City should keep its hands off Olmsteds
The folks at City Hall should have enough sense to leave well enough alone. The key word in
that sentence is "should." (Updated: 09/30/09 9:30 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Parents are on a crusade for the truth
They are on a crusade. They are on a crusade to prove that their daughter was murdered, and to find out who did it. They have questions that deserve answers. (Updated: 09/27/09 4:05 PM )
Donn Esmonde: Downsizing is being fueled by frustration
I guess it now is official. This is not an accident or an aberration. It is a movement. (Updated: 09/25/09 10:50 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Why not turn vacant lots into gardens?
Most folks would see a weed-strewn vacant lot squeezed between two houses on a largely forgotten street. (Updated: 09/23/09 8:48 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Pioneer rewarded for his patience
He talked as he walked, sounding like a starving man reciting the menu for a promised feast. (Updated: 09/20/09 5:04 PM )
Donn Esmonde: Nothing to hide? Then stop hiding
If I am running the U. S. Justice Department, my next step is obvious: deputize Keanu Reeves. The actor, in town last weekend to scout locations for an upcoming movie, toured the Erie County Holding Center. He boldly went where no Department of Justice investigator has gone. (Updated: 09/18/09 7:57 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Brown’s win should be his wake-up call
Once the celebration dies down, I hope that Byron Brown sees a surprisingly tough primary campaign as a wake-up call. (Updated: 09/16/09 7:40 AM )
A guide to the best of the East Side
As a wake-up call and a cry for help in a violent summer, I recently laid out a personal tour of blighted sites on the East Side—the toughest part of America’s third-poorest city. (Updated: 09/13/09 7:09 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Wing Fest gives city global boost
The map hung last weekend at the entrance of Coca-Cola Field. It was the brainstorm of Pete Calleri, a longtime Buffalo guy. (Updated: 09/11/09 7:46 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Mayor’s record is blunderful
The normally placid Byron Brown lashed out at a reporter Tuesday, disproving the notion that we have a Stepford Mayor. More than revealing the flesh-and-blood man behind the monotone, the flash of temper showed that Brown—with the Democratic primary six days away—is straining under the weight of a list of screw-ups. (Updated: 09/09/09 11:37 AM )
Preservation has become waiting game
“This is the type of project . . . that could be done by September (2000)” — Then-Councilman Byron Brown, April 14, 1999. (Updated: 08/23/09 6:50 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Abuse tales show need for reform
Joey thought he was having a bad day when, in a crystal meth-induced rage, he started screaming and smashed stuff in his South Buffalo home. (Updated: 08/21/09 8:02 AM )
Donn Esmonde: Kearns gives Buffalo voters needed choice
Igive the guy credit. I write that not just because it was 85 degrees Monday afternoon, and there was Mickey Kearns, walking down Swan Street under a pounding sun wearing a suit, shirt and tie. It made me sweat just looking at him. (Updated: 08/19/09 8:44 AM )
