Buffalo will be a destination city. Cleveland, too. 65%
By Jim Heaney78%
8/3/2026, 3:00:36 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Emotion, and Overconfidence Bias, with Politically Left Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 20.9% saturation with 156 hits. Analysis detected 816 faulty-reasoning hits from 747 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.5% and a BS Rank of 65% (10,104 of 28,112 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.10% of the article peer group.
Water rationing is about to begin in Arizona, Nevada and California.
The Washington Post reports the states “ will be required to curb their use of the water from the Colorado River by a combined 20 percent over the next two years — and could ultimately face even larger cuts.”
The combination of water shortages and scorching temperatures – today’s forecast for Phoenix is for a high of 112 – will have long-term implications for Buffalo and other cities on the Great Lakes.
We’ve got plenty of fresh water and temperate weather.
In due time, places like Buffalo, Cleveland and the like will become destinations for climate refugees.
In the meantime, the challenge for Great Lakes cities is to get their act together.
In Western New York’s case, that starts with cleaning up our government and environment.
It’s not too early to start planning for that future.
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A story in City and State New York asks the question: Should our state Legislature meet year round ?
Lawmakers meet in session from January through June.
At $142,000, they’re the highest paid state legislators in the nation and supported by large staffs.
There’s a case to be made that they ought to be in session for at least part of the second half of the year, but that’s not the most-significant reform to be had.
That would be reinvigorating the legislative process, which presently puts too much control in the hands of the leadership of the Senate and Assembly, who in turn negotiate with the governor.
(AKA, three men in a room.)
The state budget and many key policies are then presented – take it or leave it – to the rank and file at the 11th hour of the legislative process.
Trump’s war against Iran is good for business at Moog, which reported a big increase in profits in its latest quarter .
Contributing to the increase is a push to replenish the military’s stockpile of missiles, for which Moog produces guidance systems.
The war is also good for the big oil companies, which are reporting a huge increase in profits .
Exxon’s quarterly profits more than doubled from the previous year to $14.5 billion.
Chevron’s quadrupled to $12.1 billion.
A new study has determined that economic development subsidies do, indeed, lead to job creation.
For lobbyists .
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Ken Kruly reflects on the legacy of Robert F.
Kennedy – the father, not the son.
I consider RFK’s assination one of the great tragedies of my lifetime.
I think we’d be living in a much different country if he had lived to be president.
The trend to electronic vehicles is unmistakable and probably inevitable.
So why is Detroit retreating in favor of gas guzzling trucks and SUVs ?
File this under “Let Them Eat Cake.”
Trump has ordered 250 Cadillac Escalades for his presidential motorcade , declaring: “ We look sharp in those Escalades.”
At the same time, his administration has announced the elimination of subsidies for Medicare Part D – the government health insurance program’s prescription drug benefit — that will drive up costs for tens of millions of beneficiaries.
In short, he wants to spend on bombs and Cadillacs, not prescription drugs.
Ah, but it’s not just old people he’s gunning for.
His administration is also going after Head Start .
File this under “presidential pettiness on display:”
Trump overruled his own agencies to deny disaster relief to four blue states and his administration withheld clean energy grants to states that voted for Kamala Harris in the last presidential election.
The”drill, baby, drill” president is refusing to release $7 billion in transit funding approved by Congress.
It’s not as though he’s ignored public transit.
He reportedly wants Penn Station in New York City renamed after himself .
Trump is trying to strangle Cuba into submission.
Cubans are responding with resourcefulness and hanging tough , as difficult as it is.
Reports The New York Times:
They are swapping their gas-guzzling 1950s American cars for electric motorcycles and rickshaws from China; importing hefty lithium batteries to keep televisions and fans running through blackouts; jury-rigging generators to run on more accessible natural gas; and installing solar panels on rooftops and even vehicles.
Here’s your Doonesbury offering for the week .
And now, what you’ve all been waiting for: a short featuring the Three Stooges .
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