High Speed Rail Good! But Don’t Forget about the Poor!

At last week’s Great Lakes Metros Summit there was much discussion about the potential benefits of developing high-speed rail line that would connect NYC to Toronto along with a number of upstate cities including Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. The line could produce jobs associated with maintaining the line as well as attract industry that [...]

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Charity, the Impoverished, and the Wealthy

During the Poverty Challenge we received a ton of interesting thoughts and comments in the Poverty Challenge Blog as well as from people who have previously taken the Challenge.  In an interview for this years Poverty Challenge, Rev. Drew Ludwig talks about an experience he had last year while taking the Challenge:

For those of you [...]

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A Distressing Situation: Jobs, ECIDA, the Family Dollar, and the Lower West Side

A recent Buffalo News article,”Long-empty gas station on Lower West Side to be razed, replaced by Family Dollar“, reports that ECIDA, the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, is providing $300,000 in tax incentives for a $1.25 million project to rehabilitate a former gas station and build a new Family Dollar on the West Side.
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