Over 2 million long-term unemployed Americans remain inexplicably and unacceptably caught between a divided Congress and nearly stagnant economy. The Senate voted 59-38 to pass extended unemployment compensation Monday, which would provide five additional months of unemployment benefits to the unemployed in struggling states beyond the current 26-week limit.
A $6 million blunder by the New York state tax department - after innumerable mistakes by a department subcontractor - has residents in the state perplexed and annoyed. An audit released Wednesday by state comptroller Thomas P.
It's 9:05 a.m. and your alarm has been going off for at least an hour. You roll over, open the curtains and ... it's pouring.
The economic diviners have cast their oracle bones into the flames, as their eager followers grit teeth and grip chairs anxiously awaiting the readings.
There are two sides to the argument that student-athletes should be paid: those who think an education is enough, and those who think it isn't. The truth is that the argument is much more complex than that, which is why the Northwestern football players' efforts to be unionized are so important. Since the NCAA's inception in 1910, it has been an organization ensuring college athletes are amateurs.
A debate over standardized tests is reaching a fever pitch across Western New York as teachers and rally groups formally proclaim their opposition, all with students stuck in the middle, sitting and staring, caught between bureaucracy and ideology. Discontent has grown over the past year toward state-mandated standardized tests administered to elementary and middle school students.
President Obama has deported more immigrants than any other president in United States history, and despite claims to only deport
Dear Hannah Montana, I truly loved you circa 2007. You were a role model to young girls all around the world.
Thirteen deaths, 31 crashes, 2.6 million cars recalled. Most appalling, however, is that it took 10 years before General Motors fully admitted the problem publically, issuing a recall. A defective ignition switch was the culprit - when the key would shake or move in just the right way, the car would turn off and the air bags, power steering and brakes would become disabled as the vehicle continued to barrel forward, leading to a disastrous end in far too many cases.
Jillian informed her mother that cars were expensive. A whole $110, she said. She told a passenger by her side that her sneakers were three weeks new. Jillian was a little girl, seated beside me on the bus. As I rode a city bus in downtown Buffalo Saturday morning and sat beside her and her quiet brother who said nothing, her mother re-sewed buttons on her peacoat and told her friend that she was done with men. The boarded-up buildings blew past us, so skeletal they seemed as though they would fall over in the wind.
Buffalo is finally receiving the $1 billion committed to redevelopment projects promised by Gov. Andrew M.
Twenty years ago Monday, Hutu extremists, armed with machetes and machine guns, began killing their neighbors.
Any illusion of a government by, for and of the people was put to death Wednesday by five Supreme Court justices.
There was a silver external hard drive that my mom found when she helped me clean out my room the summer before I left for college in 2010. Neither of us knew what was on it.
Let's think about Kurt Cobain. This year marks the 20th anniversary of his still questioned death - his joining the 27 Club. He was universally considered the ultimate personification of the bad-boy rebel. His problem-riddled, drug-fueled life was heavily publicized as he and his band, Nirvana, catapulted to fame. His face now appears on commercialized t-shirts worn idly by teenage girls, unaware of the struggle and pain etched into every photograph and corresponding remake. Now, the story of his fragile and unstable life is being pitched to become a musical. In 2012, Cobain's former wife, Courtney Love, shunned all rumored ideas of a musical to one side by stating that some things are best left alone.
Imagine entering high school among the top quarter of your class in reading and math, only to have a lower GPA, SAT and ACT at the end of your tenure there. The counter-intuitive result is the reality for tens of thousands of minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged students across the country, according to a new study released by The Education Trust this month. Following a reading and math exam administered by The Education Trust, students scoring in the top quartile were labeled "high achieving." These students were then tracked throughout high school.
The Spring Fest 2014 lineup, chosen and organized by the Student Association, draws some immediate questions, including but not limited to: Who are these bands?
Let me first say that I am in no way a "bracketologist." My expertise of March Madness includes skimming the match-up overviews that pop up on my computer with the click of a button as I sit and pick my tourney winners. I, as they say, dabble in college basketball. But this year, my interest in March Madness increased exponentially when Quicken Loans teamed up with Warren Buffett to offer $1 billion to whoever can somehow craft the mythological perfect bracket. Now, I may not be the most enthusiastic, well-versed fan of college basketball, but I would definitely not be complaining about an extra billion dollars in my ever-dwindling bank account.
Drop the dining hall dishes and Student Union tedium. Western New York's Local Restaurant Week offers the perfect opportunity to venture off campus and away from mundane mediocrity. WNY's Local Restaurant Week is a biannual event that runs in the early spring, when restaurant attendance tends to sag.
As the Buffalo winter melts into spring, it's time to celebrate the season as you'd welcome any other long-awaited arrival - with good times accompanied by good brews. Spring beers bring the sweet, complex and floral tastes that are strongly evocative of the flower buds pushing through the earth again and warmer days to come.
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