Buffalo 5th Most Recession Proof City... Go Figure

Buffalo, New York across the Niagara River from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada Copyright © Gordon L Wolford

Buffalo on the new list of recession-proof metro areas, with six of 21 spots, according to MetroMonitor, a quarterly report released by Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Buffalo in fact took the number 5 spot ahead of [...]

Robert Carter, Priest and Gay Activist, Dies at 82

The Rev. Robert Carter, who in the early 1970s was one of the first Roman Catholic priests in the country to declare publicly that he was gay and who helped found the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, died on Feb. 22 in the Bronx. He was 82.

His death, at a Jesuit health care facility, [...]

Fed Courts Pay Attention to Gay NY teen's harassment suit

The Washington Post reports that the New York Civil Liberties Union helped Robert Sullivan and his son, Jacob, file a federal lawsuit against the Mohawk school district claiming it failed to protect Jacob. Now the Department of Justice is seeking to intervene in the case. At issue is a question about how federal civil rights [...]