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Thanksgiving preparations are underway, the 2026 elections are shifting into gear, and the Bills are wondering if they might not make the playoffs.

Here are some facts, observations, and heard-on-the-streets:

  • There seems to be some problems in MAGAland. Affordability and the cost of groceries, inflation, rising medical and other insurance costs, threats ...
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    Except for a race or two here and there that is still too close to call, the 2025 elections will soon be certified. On to some very serious and important politicking in New York State.

    All four statewide offices – governor, lt. governor, attorney general and comptroller – will be on the ballot. For the first time in recent memory, candidates for governor and lt. gov...

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    The headline of this post is an old saw that at least anecdotally is truer than not. How the Town of Cheektowaga votes often lays out a pattern that is duplicated countywide, statewide, and nationally.

    Here are just some recent examples:

  • 2020 – Joe Biden carries the town 54-46 percent over Donald Trump.
  • 2022 – Kathy Hochul wins the town 51-49...
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    Sometimes election nights can be long and suspenseful. It was not that way last night. Democrats won big in Erie County.

    Following up on his big win in the June Democratic primary, State Senator Sean Ryan coasted to a landslide victory in his campaign for mayor of Buffalo. Here are the numbers:

  • Ryan (Democrat, Working Families): 29,838 votes; 72 percent ...
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    One week to go in a relatively quite election season. And with the new state law moving most odd-year elections to even-numbered years this is sort of the end of a long tradition.

    The major local race on the ballot this year is for mayor of Buffalo.

    All three candidates – Democratic and Working Families candidate Sean Ryan; Republican and Conservative cand...

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