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Sep 22

2025

Buffalo Bills among NFL teams honoring Charlie Kirk

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Terry Pegula waved his right-wing flag Thursday by asking Bills fans to observe a moment of silence honoring Charlie Kirk prior to the game vs. the Miami Dolphins. The team also flashed Kirk’s image on the stadium scoreboard in the third quarter.  I’m told fan reaction was mixed, more confused than anything. No word on how the players felt about it, especially Black players, given Kirk’s proclamations that Martin Luther King was “awful,” the Civil Rights Act a “huge mistake” and accomplished Black women including former First Lady Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “do not have[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Sep 19

2025

More cuts coming at The Buffalo News

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The Buffalo News is cutting its newsroom staff again and dropping content from The New York Times. Management informed their newsroom staff of the moves at a meeting Thursday. No hard number is attached to the staff reductions, which would be effective in early November. Up to five cuts are likely. Buyouts will be offered and layoffs imposed if necessary.  The newsroom staff is approximately 45. It’s down from a peak of over 200 in the 1980s. That number had shrunk to about 95 when Lee Enterprises bought The News five years ago. This time a year ago 10 jobs[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 18

2025

Zellner, Rivera jockey for state Senate seat

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Assembly Member Jonathan Rivera and Erie County Democratic Committee Chair Jeremy Zellner are longtime allies. In recent months they’ve also become rivals. Both are positioning themselves to succeed Sean Ryan in the 61st district state Senate seat in the likely event that Ryan is elected mayor of Buffalo in November. Neither has publicly declared their candidacy, but both are canvassing party leaders, committee members and other Democratic stalwarts for pledges of support.  Rivera recently received letters of endorsement from a handful of building trades unions. As if in reply, Town of Amherst Democratic Chair Chuck Eaton used a meeting of[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 17

2025

Niagara County appoints Wojtaszek to OTB board

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Henry Wojtaszek addresses the Niagara County Legislature. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. Republicans in the Niagara County Legislature made it official on Tuesday, returning former Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek to the organization, this time as a member of its board of directors. In a vote largely along party lines, 10 of the legislature’s Republican lawmakers endorsed Wojtaszek’s appointment as a director representing Niagara County on the OTB board. Wojtaszek replaces Elliott Winter, who resigned last month citing personal reasons. Three of the legislature’s Democratic lawmakers and two Republicans objected to the move, suggesting Wojtaszek[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 17

2025

Inside the human smuggling racket along U.S.-Canadian border

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A smuggler waits for a reporter posing as a client in a Toronto parking lot. Photo via IJB. This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, a collaborative investigative newsroom supported by Postmedia that partners with academics, researchers and journalists while training the next generation of investigative reporters. A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end. Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a woman they’ve been communicating with over the previous days through[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 16

2025

Shaky math involving Buffalo’s budget balancer

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The 52-year-old Charles R. Turner Ramp across from Buffalo City Hall. Photo by I’Jaz Ja’ciel. The City of Buffalo’s current budget and its four-year financial plan rely on $42 million from the anticipated sale of four downtown parking ramps to a newly formed public authority.  But how Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon’s administration came up with that number, and whether it accurately reflects the price the ramps will fetch, is a mystery. City officials have refused to share documents showing how they determined what the ramps are worth. The board treasurer of the organization that manages the ramps now — and[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 15

2025

A tax subsidy that’s not funny

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There are a lot of ways to look at New York’s tax credit program intended to keep film and television producers working in the Empire State. The tax credits are projected to total $920 million this year. The subsidy works out to an average of $65,000 per job. The return on investment: about $1 in tax revenue for every $3 in subsidy. Put another way, during the first three months of this year, the producers of Saturday Night Live received more tax breaks than anyone, some $21 million, or $83,000 per job. (To not be very funny, I might add.)[...]

Posted 5 months ago

Sep 12

2025

A potential boost to ICE deportation efforts

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U.S. Rep. Tim Kennedy. Amid the backdrop of the Trump administration’s mass deportation program, Congressman Tim Kennedy, a Democrat, has sponsored a bill that would mandate the hiring of thousands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. Kennedy’s staff says the new hires would be used to facilitate people and goods crossing the borders. But data shows the Trump administration is using the class of officers covered by Kennedy’s bill to arrest and deport immigrants. The bill — dubbed the “Securing America’s Ports of Entry Act of 2025” — would require the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection to hire[...]

Posted 5 months ago
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