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I see feel and understand Marks frustration, it is really sad to see yet another bright young mind wanting to give up. We try to have a keep a positive attitude but things like reality continue to get in the way.

Our biggest obstacle is politics, greed and the constant struggle for power and control that goes on around us everyday, everywhere in this whole community. When

The one perfect example is the Hoyt situation, where did it come from and who put it out there? Shine a light on that and you will expose the dirty underbelly of why this place will go no where, until these things change.

Only when people wake up to this fact that everything that goes on is political, who gets credit for a project, who takes credit, who gets paid off, who pays off the politicians with the most and who brings in the most of our tax dollars to control and divide between their own cronies, only then when and if people realize this corrupt system that is currently in place, will this area ever move forward.

I have lived in 5 other states and you know what? Government seems to work everywhere else I have lived, except New York and Erie County. Massachusetts holds a close second.

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Dear Buffalo,

I officially give up.

After 3.5 years of insisting that this region was really in the beginning stages of turning itself around I am convinced that it either is not or is 50 years away from becoming as good as a 2nd rate city.

The turning point was last March when I visited Cleveland for the 1st time. Visiting places like Berlin or Amsterdam or Paris or Lisbon or Munich or NYC had no effect on how I felt about this place because there were much different circumstances that make those places so much better. But to see the rest our slightly bigger rust belt brothers aggressively try to make things better was what stood out. Cleveland acts big, and fights hard to maintain that almost self-assumed existence and with the hard work, focus and attitude has an amazing Warehouse District, a Ritz Carlton, museums, stadiam, shopping center, good waterfront, light rail transit even…the list goes on.

The next day I was in downtown Buffalo and all I saw was the same as I’ve always seen-mostly people who were using downtown for:
1. To collect social services
2. Attend court hearings
3. Catch school busses
4. Panhandle

The urban design which I knew was fairly pathetic before stood out to me more than ever before. And the progress I’ve been tracking all of a sudden seemed so mediocre.