From the Buffalo News:<\/p>\n
Over the years, Daniel Davis grew increasingly disturbed and perplexed by the cycle of failed and displaced development initiatives, the flight of industry and the overall economic malaise that inevitably brought his hometown, brimming with so much potential, to its knees.<\/p>\n
But family and career responsibilities left him no time for civic involvement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked and raised a family, like everybody else,\u201d he said. \u201cI really didn\u2019t have time.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was until he retired. With his free time and the city\u2019s persistent decline, Davis, now 67, took his gripes and potential solutions\u2014 targeting mainly the Robert Moses Parkway and the drab and listless downtown \u2014to the Web.<\/p>\n
First, he created a Yahoo Groups page, \u201cNiagara Causes,\u201d but it attracted only four members, so then in 2009 he started a blog called the \u201cNiagara Community Forum,\u201d at niagaraforum. blogspot.com, a more comprehensive and successful effort, with about 14,000 visitors since last April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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