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by Sarah Bishop
Natasha Soto is a community organizer with the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, where she works on campaigns that address public health concerns, specifically in low-income communities and communities of color. She has been acknowledged both locally and nationally for bringing greater transparency and equity around the Peace Bridge expansion project and for helping to facilitate Western New York’s first participatory budgeting process.
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by Geoff Kelly
Last December, an extraordinary opportunity was presented to four Western New York nonprofits engaged in social justice work: The Open Society Foundations, funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, invited them to create a collaborative proposal that could lead to $1 million in funding per year for at least three to five years, maybe as many as nine or 10 years.
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by George Sax
If nothing else, last week’s Buffalo Board of Education meeting demonstrated board member Carl Paladino’s large and growing box-office value. It’s difficult to imagine any other member or school district staffer who could inspire such unusual numbers of the mostly general public—120-130 of them—to turn out and sit through a couple hours of primarily routine-sounding board business for an opportunity to express their displeasure.
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by Michael I. Niman
When I first saw the September 17 Wall Street Journal headline, “A Reprieve from Climate Doom: A forthcoming report dials back the alarm on global warming,” I hoped against all odds this was a credible, evidence-based story and not just another piece of well-placed oil industry PR.
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by Bruce Fisher
The Small Business Administration, which helps local enterprises in Batavia, Hamburg, Clarence, Mount Morris, and other towns in the largely rural district represented by Christopher Collins, ended its operations this week when Collins and his Republican comrades in Congress voted to shut down the federal government.
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by Dan Telvock, InvestigativePost.org
Opening Gallagher Beach for swimming is “probably impractical from a public health standpoint” because of stormwater pollution, sediment contamination, and neighboring toxic sites, a consultant for the Erie County Health Department has concluded.
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by Kevin Kegler
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by Patricia Pendleton
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by Jack Foran
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by Andrew Esposito
What one thing do all great puppeteers have in common? Talented puppets? Perhaps they use special strings that don’t snap under the glare of a disdainful crowd.
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by Jan Jezioro
It is not all that often that you can attend a classical music performance and enjoy a completely different musical experience, but if you purchase a ticket to the season opening event of A Musical Feast in the Tower Auditorium at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on the Buffalo State College Campus on Friday, October 11 at 8pm, you will be in just that enviable position.
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by M. Faust
Now in its seventh year, the Buffalo International Film Festival has settled into a four-day format that seems best suited to what it can accomplish. The bulk of the presentations fit into three categories: locally made (or linked) movies, animated films (and documentaries about them), and foreign films that have not otherwise been released in the US.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by George Sax
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by M. Faust
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Lee Ranaldo and the Dust performing at the Tralf on Wednesday, October 9th.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Despite all the hand-wringing, despair, and consternation that has hung over Sabres Country and the First Niagara Center throughout the offseason, there is hope in the air as the Buffalo Sabres begin the 2013-14 season of NHL hockey.
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by Joe Gerken
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by Kevin F. Yost
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by Joe Bialek
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by Chuck Shepherd
Which is more characteristically American—that a Texas company could invent an ordinary rifle that mimics a machine gun or that America’s incomparable legal minds could find a loophole in existing anti-machine-gun laws to permit it to be manufactured and sold?
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by Rob Brezsny
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I periodically hike alone into the serene hills north of San Francisco and perform a set of my songs for the birds, insects, squirrels, and trees. Recently I discovered that British comedian Milton Jones tried a similar experiment.
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by Nicole Cooke
Thursday, September 26: Main Runway Event at Statler City. Photos by Nicole Cooke.
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