Jun 4
2023
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The Buffalo News published a good analysis Sunday on the dynamics that doomed Medaille University and how they threaten other private colleges, as well. I graduated from Medaille in 1977, after first attending St. Bonaventure University, and it’s weird to see your alma mater go out of business. I got a good education at Medaille; three professors stick out, Kevin Ransom, Ross Runfola and Roger Bonenfant. I also had a good adjunct you might have heard of: Irv Weinstein. He got me my first serious taste of the news business via a full-time internship at WBKW the summer if 1976. It was a great experience. At the end of that year I was named editor of the school newspaper for the spring semester. When I went to register for classes, my adviser informed me I had earned enough credits to graduate. Drats. There went my editorship, although I can’t say the school administration was disappointed. I nevertheless got to edit one issue and published my first piece of muckraking. So, thanks, Medaille.
Politico has a deep-dive on how New York Dems fell asleep at the wheel, allowing the MAGA movement to gain numerous footholds.
Two items on tax breaks:
- A manufacturer seeking to locate in Jamestown is tapping into a wide variety of subsidies that will exceed $10 million. The cost per job is $63,000 and counting. Not the worst, but still pricey.
- Less defensible is the handout given for the redevelopment of a building that was part of the old Millard Fillmore Hospital complex at Gates Circle. Tax breaks worth $108,500 will go towards rehabbing a building into office space and apartments that will fetch upwards of $1,800 a month. Yeah, it’s not a ton of money, but do we need to subsidize medical offices and luxury apartments?
There’s another report from New York Focus on the lousy jobs our jails and prisons are doing to help inmates in need.
For you political junkies, Ken Kruly has a rundown on campaign fundraising by local political candidates this election cycle.
You may have heard things aren’t going well for the new CNN boss Chris Licht. The Atlantic has a deeply-reported profile of his tenure so far.
The Daily Beast reports that Twitter isn’t even trying to remove hate speech, while Bloomberg reports the social media platform has lost two-thirds of its value since Elon Musk took over.
The world is turning a blind eye to the atrocities occurring in Myanmar, the Guardian reports.
Mother Earth is sicker than we realize. Like, really sick.
