[wwcc]

When I asked a spokesperson there what the signs were about, she impatiently asked if I noticed the snowflakes. Yeah. Well, “the signs designate our new snow evacuation routes—these are the first streets to be plowed and kept clear.”

In December, Buffalo had 7 feet of snow. The national guard was on my street with backhoes trying to dig us out. The clean-up was made far worse by the fact people were out driving as soon as a street opened up.

By reading this piece, I'm sure you can catch the kind of attitude Mr. Niman gives off and why people don't like to talk to him.

Mr. Nimans' writing reveal all you need to know about his personality.

[Asclepius]

... Maybe I?m reading too much into simple traffic signs ...

Learn to trust your intuitions, man.

[Wright is right!]

"Mr. Nimans' writing reveal all you need to know about his personality."

Plus the fact that, in the very first paragraph, he reveals that he doesn't even know how to spell "martial law."

Michael

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe I’m reading too much into simple traffic signs.

Maybe you're reading too much into a simple newspaper column.

[Cable225]

Mr. Niman is an African-American, progressive (he voted for Nader), and an adjuct teacher at the State University of New York at Buffalo

Perhaps the good professor could learn how to spell -

. It’s been over almost a year and a half since the coup, and so far, no marshal law

It's martial law, dumbass.

[AppyPappy]

Someone needs their diaper changed.

[detsaoT]

is a African-American, progressive

.... So, whatcher trying to say is, he's a Black Communist? Not terribly surprising - There're a lot of them out there. There are also plenty of school administrators too afraid to fire 'em.

In any case, my equation says that Mandatory education = Compulsory idiocy. Why does absolutely everyone need a college degree these days, anyway? We, as a nation, are stupider now than we've ever been through our entire history. After all, the Federalist papers were written for your average, "uneducated" farmer in the late 1700's, and they understood it just fine. Why is it that less than 30% of our college graduates can do the same today?

:) ttt

[Clemenza]

I hate most NORTHEASTERN suburbs as they are just as socially liberal as the cities they surround (see Middlesex County, Mass, Westchester County, NY and Bergen County, NJ to confirm my point).

Are there THAT many people still living in METRO (city and suburbs) Buffalo? Are there any non-government jobs there, aside from the HSBC operations center?

[Clemenza]

BTW: If this guy were white, he would be writing for The New American and wearing a tin foil hat.

[Map Kernow]

It’s why people, driven by their fears, give up Victorian homes for the architectural squalor of ticky-tacky, particleboard cookie cutter domiciles.

HORSESH--People don't move out of inner cities because of traffic signs; they move out because of crime and neighborhood deterioration. If you don't want folks moving out when you move in, try behaving a little better.

[GuillermoX]

Marshall law

LOL! What a looser maroon ;)

[antaresequity]

Tastes like chicken

I had this idea for a resteraunt. I wanted to call it: "Tastes Like Chicken". The menu would be all sorts of wierd stuff like Rattlesnake Pie, Possum Stew, Daily Road Kill Grill....etc etc...

The deal is that every thing would be made from chicken...

[arly]

I am very happy this clown doesn't like the suburbs!... I hope all of his ilk never likes the burbs and atay in the cities!

[Cyber Liberty]

Darn. He's on to us. It's really a plan to escape from the city when the negroes start rioting. Again.

[alnick]

Maybe I’m reading too much into simple traffic signs.

Yes, I'd say that was a pretty safe bet.

[Hacksaw]

Does this Klansman with a Tan have an email?

[ez]

The author is too dense to realize the multiple possible meanings of "evacuate." He assumes it means "people leaving their homes" but in this case it means "snow trapped people leaving the city and heading home."

I work in Buffalo 4 days a week and just visited the International Institute on Delaware Ave yesterday. Funny, I felt like a foreigner...

[Lancey Howard]

If you want to contact ArtVoice and let them know what you think of Mr. Niman, here is the address:....

May I recommend not contacting this guy?
There really wouldn't be any point to it, and he might suddenly get an inflated sense of importance if he got a half dozen emails. Let the guy just bumble his life away in relative anonymity.

[jude24]

I looked at the classes he taught. All "journalism" classes. (I pulled up the listing for all UB student's and faculty's website accounts, and clicked to his "mediastudy.com" website (http://mediastudy.com/syllabi.html)

Here's what he teaches:

Comn 251 - Mass Communication and Society - Syllabus
Com 210 - Writing for the Media - Syllabus
Comn 261 - Radio and TV Writing - Syllabus
Comn 301 - Topics in Journalism: Investigative Reporting/Ethnographic Fieldwork
Comn 362 - International Mass Communication - Syllabus
Comn 364 - Issues and Problems in Broadcasting - Syllabus
Comn 368 - Critical Studies in Mass Media
AMS 162 - New World Imaginations - Syllabus
AMS 459 - Mass Media & Social Roles - Syllabus

Judge for yourselves....

[jude24]

Also, what in the heck were you thinking reading ArtVoice? That is a definatively liberal publication :-)....