The Buffalo Chronicle
Culture
-
Good help is hard to find
BY NORBERT RUG I ran a handyman type business part-time for 35 years until health problems caused me to quit. I put an ad in the paper for just one week and…
-
Exercise your mind
BY NORBERT RUG I do Sudoku puzzles, crossword puzzles and write 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. I feel that keeping my brain healthy is as important as keeping my…
-
The Club 747
BY NORBERT RUG In the 60’s and 70’s, the drinking age was 18 in New York, which meant I was sneaking into bars when I was 16, and I was not the…
-
Have you ever thought about November?
BY NORBERT RUG In early November there are two things that occur that I think should be eliminated. One is a throwback from days gone by. It is the switch from daylight…
-
Food for thought
BY NORBERT RUG During the fall, food banks all across America remind people that hunger never goes away. Around the holidays they will see an increase in donations because people feel more…
-
Billions could be gained from a more physically active population
A new study by the RAND Corporation argues that billions in GDP can be gained if Americans were more physically active. It is estimated that about 30 per cent of the global…
-
Empire Center ranks local taxes, spending, and debt across New York
This week, the Empire Center for Public Policy released its annual Benchmarking New York report, comparing and ranking government tax, spending and debt levels for hundreds of counties, towns, cities and villages throughout New York. The…
-
Federal lab known for security failures loses enough opioids to kill 1,750 people
A government-owned nuclear laboratory long plagued by scandals and security breaches is in trouble again for recklessly managing controlled substances, including enough opioids to kill more than 1,700 people. Other illicit narcotics…
-
BARFIELD: Watch Germany on Huawei and 5G
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Europe is at the center of a worldwide debate and conflict over the role of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the emergence of 5G technology. Within Europe, Germany occupies…
-
KOBER: The way out of New York’s crunch is supply-side housing policy
BY ERIC KOBER Even as employment grows rapidly, New York City remains stubbornly slow to build new housing. Annual average wage and salary employment in New York was 4.081 million in 2015…
-
Excelsior scholarship is inferior to TAP, report says
New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, now offering tuition-free public college to students from families making up to $125,000 a year is “deeply flawed,” and the $119 million the state now budgets for Excelsior…
-
Age is just a number
BY NORBERT RUG I have decided to age gracefully. Sure I have a few health problems, I need hearing aids to hear, glasses to see, I use a cane to walk, I…
-
October is national anti-bullying month
BY NORBERT RUG As a redhead, I was bullied when I was a child. Even today I can still hear the chants “Redhead, redhead fire in the woodshed”. This is the only…
-
Trudeau operatives have been hounding Mark Zuckerberg to censor a US-based newspaper
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior figures in his government — including Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould — and several of his principal political operatives have been hounding Facebook CEO Mark…
-
MUFLEH: Educating children of war requires innovation and patience
BY LUMA MUFLEH As the Trump administration continues to reduce the number of refugees the U.S. will admit each year, our leaders should look to Ohio for examples of how states should…
-
The more Holloween changes, the more it stays the same
BY NORBERT RUG I was sitting, looking out my window one morning recently, watching the falling leaves fluttering by, and waving goodbye to the summer when my thoughts turned to Halloween at…
-
Costumes, roleplay whet a young Trudeau’s sexual appetite
In his early to late-20s, Justin Trudeau had a robust and wide-ranging sexual appetite — most especially for costumes and role play, a former classmate tells The Chronicle. The two young men were…
-
AKERS: Millennials aren’t drowning in student debt
BY BETH AKERS The Narrative “[My plan] forgives all student debt and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college…
-
MCMAHON: Film tax credit costs big bucks for no impact
BY E.J. McMAHON The billions of dollars funneled from New York’s treasury to movie and TV producers had no statistically significant impact on the industry’s employment in the Empire State through 2017,…
-
In Troy, a lesson on apprenticeships
BY KEN GIRARDIN The raw politics behind giveaways to building trade unions were on display last week in Troy, a city outside Albany. The Troy City Council on October 3 voted unanimously to require…
