Sunday has always been my favorite night for dining with friends. This preference goes way back to an early learning experience. During my college years, I worked summers in a fancy – but consistently busy - Cape Cod restaurant. The Sunday night patrons were always my favorite. The crowds ...

Headlines are often the first thing readers see and, in some cases, the only thing they will read. They make the reader focus on a specific part of the story, allowing the reader to make a quick and immediate judgment. Most of the time, journalists create something that is perfect for online ...

Growing up around here you get so used to living around the Great Lakes that you don’t appreciate them. Recently, in reading a book about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, it hit me again about how significant this watershed is. The Great Lakes make up 80% of the freshwater in North ...

For more than a century, Catholic Charities of Buffalo has stood beside our neighbors in their most difficult moments — offering not just assistance, but dignity, stability, and hope. Every day, Catholic Charities is often the first place people across Western New York turn to when they ...

Proposed changes at Memorial Park are once again in the news. Without a doubt anything that affects the park has been a hot topic throughout my life. Veterans jealously guard the nature of its use and rightly so. After World War I, World War II and Korea virtually all men had served in the ...

The West seems strangely intent on committing suicide, even though it was Western Civilization that liberated mankind from its history of slavery, servitude, and poverty. The unparalleled freedom and prosperity we have enjoyed in this country are the direct result of uniquely Western — ...