On Monday, political gossip-slinger Joe Illuzzi reported that Caroline Kennedy had called Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, apropos her interest in filling Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat:

On a recent tour of 19th Street, Niagara District Common Councilmember David Rivera and community leader Harvey Garrett highlighted a dozen long vacant or neglected properties targeted by several nonprofit agencies and private homeowners and investors in an effort to revitalize a two-block stretch between Rhode Island Street and New Hampshire Avenue.

On Monday, the same day he spoke with Caroline Kennedy on the phone, Mayor Byron Brown vetoed a number of additions the Common Council made to his proposed 2009 capital budget for the city.