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BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: 60 years later, Buddy Holly’s classmates remember the day the music died. The ice jams cometh. The big excavators attack. The battle to…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news — Sen. Kamala Harris launched a Presidential campaign. Trump apologist Rudy Giuliani wriggled his way out of his previous denials over the proposed…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Saying “Impeach the motherfucker” and being defended by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is enough to get Rashida Tlaib to Fox news for another day. Of…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: I lost track of how many shows we saw in 2018, but here’s my Top 10: Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Babeville. Cathartic, raw,…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Back to our great America edition. I don’t like calling names, but who are you if you ever thought for a moment our…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: As 2017 ended, I made a list of the best live music shows Beth and I saw all year. At No. 2, just behind Sir…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Nickel City Sessions Inaugural Season Finale edition — Season 1 went out with a flourish, from Davey O dusting off the first song he…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Please donate blood on Saturday. UNYTS needs you. Native plants are trending for 2019 in Western New York, according to Connie Oswald Stofko. You…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Down go the Orange. The UB Bulls are, easily, the best college basketball team in New York, defeating SU for the first time…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: In the next episode of lying liars and the liars that lay them, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn faces federal sentencing today…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Please sign this petition to improve Sheridan Drive. Minimize accident severity. Improve traffic flow. Make left hand turns easier. Make room for bikes.…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: When former Trump fixer Michael Cohen was sentenced to jail, it wasn’t just another connected crook heading up the river. It was the…

BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news: Long-time National Enquirer publisher David Pecker (yes that’s really his name) will not face criminal charges for catching and killing a story about…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: Victory is ours, sayeth the Slow Spokes! Elves unite! We will rule the world! Thanks Mark Mitri for leading with love. The world needs more…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: If you are a Trump supporter, you might call them “fake” or “enemies of the people.” Time Magazine calls slain and imprisoned journalists…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: New Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the liberals in declining for the court to hear a case in which a lower…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: –Examining the rise of white supremacy in the time of Trump. https://www.npr.org/…/what-the-ebbs-and-flows-of-the-kkk-ca… –A notoriously finicky federal program which turned grants into loans if teachers…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: –Visited Bedford Falls Saturday. Saw Zuzu, George, Little Janie, 5,000 people running and had some mulled cider. I wanted to see if I…

BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: –It’s Pearl Harbor day. May we never forget. –In the wake of President Trump’s dismissal of a report on climate change, federal environmental…