Growing up in White Plains, I gave little thought to such esoterica as "upstate New York", or "county government" or "Buffalo".  Or pretty much anything north of Poughkeepsie, for that matter. 

Now, I live and breathe this stuff. 

I'm an attorney by trade, and a centrist Democrat by ideology.  I started my blog in September 2003 and cover issues affecting Western New York in general, and Buffalo in particular.  In what little spare time I have, I'm President of a local civic organization called the WNY Coalition for Progress.

Buffalo. 

Snowy?  Sometimes. 

Dull?  Never.