Commentary: Humor is one of the best ways to break down boundaries and bring people together.
🎧 The hosts also talk about whether what we laugh at has changed over the past several years.
"What’s the best place to live? As with politics itself, the answer is: Somewhere in the middle," writes Rod Watson.
The 13-floor landmark is an architectural masterwork by Louis Sullivan, an American genius and "father of the skyscraper," his plans reinforced by such brilliant colleagues as his partner, Dankmar Adler, and draftsman George Arthur Elmslie.
George Santos, the infamous fabulist, got the boot from Congress last week. The first member to be expelled in over 20 years and one of only three members to be kicked out for something other than fighting for the Confederacy, Santos was the only representative since the Civil War to be remo…
Politics seems to have invaded nearly all aspects of our lives, and not in a good way. Research by the American Psychological Association shows that the stress of following daily political news can negatively affect people’s mental health and well-being. As someone who reads, watches, and wr…
🎧 The hosts discuss what can be done to strengthen our ties to the Earth and to each other.
Commentary: Humor is one of the best ways to break down boundaries and bring people together.
🎧 The hosts also talk about whether what we laugh at has changed over the past several years.
In the wake of last month's elections, the bulk of media coverage and analysis has understandably focused on whether Democrats or Republicans have more momentum going into 2024. But Election Day 2023 gave momentum to the fastest-growing nonpartisan voting reform in the nation: ranked choice voting.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., posed the same question Tuesday to the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, proxies all for America’s liberal intellectual elite.
Former President Ronald Reagan once noted, “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.” That’s true, which is why what’s currently happening with Medicaid is so remarkable.
"What’s the best place to live? As with politics itself, the answer is: Somewhere in the middle," writes Rod Watson.
The 13-floor landmark is an architectural masterwork by Louis Sullivan, an American genius and "father of the skyscraper," his plans reinforced by such brilliant colleagues as his partner, Dankmar Adler, and draftsman George Arthur Elmslie.
It is really very easy to explain the dissonance between the economic realities people face and the seeming optimistic inflation numbers of recent months. Our last serious inflation occurred way back in the 1970s. During the extended period of mild inflation that persisted up until the last …
Maybe it's time for the Bennett High School football Tigers to go back to playoffs with only other Buffalo public high schools. Back to competition for the Harvard Cup. Ditto for basketball and the Yale Cup; for baseball and the Cornell Cup.
As the college bowl season approaches, it suddenly brings to mind a recent visit to South Bend, Ind., for the annual USC/Notre Dame football classic. As I got off the train at the South Bend train station and took an Uber, I became very excited to visit the campus. While I am a life-long Tro…
This controversy is not just about one football game. It is about equity and how it potentially affects Buffalo student-athletes – and others throughout New York – for the rest of their lives.
The controversy is over the ExpressVote XL system by Election System & Software, which the Board of Elections approved in August. Even before that approval critics had been citing what appear to be serious defects in the technology.
Critical assessment must rely on the actual arrival of an extreme blizzard event – which we do not welcome – but significant improvements have been made in coordination and readiness.
State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald recently traveled to UB's Jacobs School of Medicine and announced that the state is amplifying its support of a program designed to aid students who possess the intellectual ability to succeed in medical school, but who do not necessarily meet certain criteria.
Reviewing is one thing; using those reviews as leverage is another, Watson says.
Today, Billy the Buffalo serves as the big blue mascot controlled and sanctioned by the team. But for at least one full season decades ago, the rogue "dancing buffalo" was beloved to 80,000 Bills fans in Rich Stadium.
It hardly matters that white students cause mayhem too. The reality is that when that happens, no one tars the entire race. Yet when Black kids misbehave, it plays right into the bigotry that already exists, Watson says.
Xavier Mann, a City Honors grad, begins his collegiate career at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina embracing a profound responsibility: He is one of 10 recipients of scholarships honoring Aaron Salter Jr., the security guard who gave his life protecting others during the racist massacre at Tops.
President Joe Biden needs to secure the nation’s southern border -- if not for its national security implications, then for Biden’s own political benefit and the welfare of our republic.
The fourth Republican presidential debate thankfully featured just four candidates rather than the cattle call we saw in previous sessions. But whether there are four or 14 running, the same problem persists.
One climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on is that trees are good. Even former President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a Chinese hoax, has proposed planting a trillion trees.
Time's person of the year could have decisive political influence if she mobilizes her suburban fan base, a Park University professor says.
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