Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

I've mentioned a couple of times in previous posts -- most recently here -- how the City of Buffalo, in the face of all manner of other pressing budgetary problems some of which ended up in such measures as closing police and fire precincts and shutting schools, nevertheless managed last year to come up with tax incentives amounting to $400,000 a year to keep a single K-Mart location within the city open.

Well, guess what.

I know that $400,000 doesn't buy what it used to, but I'm thinking that surely Buffalo could have come up with something better to do with that money than keep a K-Mart open for an additional year.