The top five vote-getters are listed in no particular order and photos are chosen randomly. Winners announced at the Best of Buffalo Party, Monday May 19, 6pm, at the Town Ballroom.

BEST ACTIVIST CAMPAIGN Gaunches Unite! Buffalove home rehabs Save Trico Anti-fracking movements Clean Air vs. Tonawanda Coke Terror Technologies BEST ACTIVIST GROUP PUSH Buffalo Gaunches Unite! Terror Technologies Buffalo Young Preservationists Clean Air Coalition of WNY BEST INDIVIDUAL ACTIVIST Bernice Radle Carl Paladino Erin Heaney Aaron Bartley Greg Hinaman BEST ANNUAL FUNDRAISER Ride for Roswell Buffalo Zombie Walk MASH Bash Wines in the Wild Variety Club Telethon BEST LOCAL BLOG Trending Buffalo Artvoice Daily Buffalo Eats Buffalo Rising Buffablog BEST LOCAL PRINT JOURNALIST Donn Esmonde Jeff Miers Jerry Sullivan Tim Graham Colin Dabkowski BEST LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITY Clay Moden Sandy Beach Shredd & Ragan Bulldog (Chris Parker) Janet Snyder BEST LOCAL TV PERSONALITY Don Paul Mary Alice Demler John Beard Kevin O’Connell Kevin O’Neill BEST LOCAL TWITTER @terrortech @trendingbuffalo @sabres_101 @kevinbuffalo @buffalopundit BEST NEW IDEA FOR WNY HarborCenter Waterfront stadium for the Bills Mercado Revolution Continuing waterfront development Tearing down the Skyway WORST NEW IDEA FOR WNY Waterfront stadium for the Bills New Bills stadium anywhere Bills leaving town A new Peace Bridge Tearing down the Skyway BEST PEOPLE-WATCHING SPoT Coffee on Elmwood Avenue Canalside Erie County Fair Bidwell Parkway Walden Galleria

BEST PLACE TO WATCH A SUNSET Erie Basin Marina Canalside Sunset Bay Outer Harbor Hamburg Town Beach BEST URBAN GARDEN Japanese Garden at Delaware Park Trinity-Tupper Garden Massachusetts Avenue Project Rose Garden at Delaware Park Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Massachusetts Avenue Project MOST INSPIRING PLACE Niagara Falls Albright-Knox Art Gallery Delaware Park Canalside Top of Buffalo City Hall FAVORITE LOCAL ATHLETE Jim Kelly Fred Jackson Ryan Miller Stevie Johnson Patrick Kane MOST OVERCOVERED NEWS STORY The weather Malaysian Airlines crash Jim Kelly’s cancer Buffalo schools and school board Obamacare MOST UNDERCOVERED NEWS STORY Buffalo schools and school board Tonawanda Coke Corruption in city government Potholes Climate change THING YOU HOPE WILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR Bills stay in Buffalo with a local owner Bills make the playoffs Bills win the Superbowl More waterfront development Skyway is torn down Carl Paladino WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE... Carl Paladino Brian Higgins Rocco Termini Howard Zemsky Terry Pegula AND FEWER PEOPLE LIKE... Carl Paladino Byron Brown Pamela Brown Tom Bauerle Chris Collins

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Best of Buffalo 2014 Winners List

The top five vote-getters are listed in no particular order and photos are chosen randomly. Winners were announced at the Best of Buffalo Party, Monday May 19, 6pm, at the Town Ballroom.