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BY JOE GENCO
A short take on today’s news:
- Please donate blood on Saturday. UNYTS needs you.
- Native plants are trending for 2019 in Western New York, according to Connie Oswald Stofko. You should subscribe to her gardening newsletter.
- Please come listen to live music in Akron tonight. Nickel City Sessions will be the best $10 you spend all year. Peter Henley come join us.
- The same judge who earlier this week chewed a new one for General Flynn on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to return to the U.S. deported immigrants who filed suit and deserve to have their case heard. In layman’s terms, he kicked our President in the stones. And to think he was a Reagan appointee.
- Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick threw WBEN into a tizzy by announcing he would caucus with Democrats. That gives the Democrats a 7-4 majority. Of course, if Hardwick sees an important issue differently, and Tom Loughran agrees, they can swing things.
- President Trump is receiving praise and support from Vladimir Putin over the decision to remove US Troops from Syria.
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by refusing to wait her turn, is scaring the crap out of the establishment. I like that.
- And just like that, there she is on Page 1 of the Fox Website. They can’t get enough.
- Gee, while I was creeping out about the Speakwrite Google planted in our living room, Facebook is even creepier collecting data. Every click you take. Every move you make. Every bond you break. Every step you take. Zuck is watching you. (Ooh that stings).
- Despite President Trump’s predictions of investments coming home to the United States because of his new tax policy, repatriated funds have fallen 50%.
- Some of it is birthrates and some of it is a lack of immigration, but the US population is growing at the slowest rate in 80 years. If the House were reapportioned this year, the south and west would gain seats while a state like Michigan, New York, and Minnesota lose.
- Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon prank people who think they are touring 30 Rock.
- Boyd Curiosity: Ancient Egyptians manufactured plywood. That craft is almost as old as beer. Did I mention they also invented sourdough bread?
- I got the best junk mail Wednesday, an invitation to enter the NRA Guns and Gold Sweepstakes! 10 exclamation points on the envelope! A 4-page letter signed by Wayne LaPierre with 18 more exclamation points, sometimes in triplicate and lots of random capitalized words and images of guns!!! WIN GOLD! WIN GUNS! WIN GEAR! Oh boy! I think I’m going to enter the Sweepstakes without joining. I can’t wait for more mail!!!
- Friends of Times Beach are hosting a special event, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25 and 26. No experience needed and fun for all. Birds on the Niagara. Thanks for the invitation, Jay Burney.
- WNY Weather: Warm today, high of 11 (51) with heavy rain later. Much the same tomorrow with more rain. Coming back from the Hurt Locker Wednesday morning, I saw either a weasel or mink cross the road, long, skinny and almost white.
- “Stay back from the ocean or risk certain death,” said the National Weather Service warning, and so the surfers went in.
- “Skunk weed” is stinking up some California neighborhoods.
- Patrik Berglund, likely included in the Ryan O’Reilly traded by the Blues as a salary dump, quit showing up for work and has agreed to a termination of his contract. Hard to imagine a dude making almost $4 million annually decide he can’t do it anymore.
- It’s Patriots* week. Bill Belichick* knows about Robert Foster.
- How about some Mic’d Up Josh Allen.
- Nathan Peterman has a job. Surprised he’s not on the Bills’ practice squad.
