The timing could have been better on Buffalo State's part, someone should send them an e-mail pointing this out, and maybe next year (if the Elmwood Arts festival has a date for the 2009 festival already in place that is) they could plan for welcom…

An idea about how to get more garbage cans on the street, maybe "sell" advertising on garbage cans to companies, the same way that NFTA buses are totally painted with ads from an advertiser? The company picks up the cost and maintenance of the ga…

Excellent article! I liked the use of photos to illustrate each point.

Does Buffalo have some sort of Facade Improvement Loan Program? Savannah did, and it was a way to get building owners to tear off the crappy facades of their buildings to restore them to the more interesting and original structures underneath (look…