March 2016 – The Buffalo Chronicle

The Black Lives Matter Movement and the 2016 Democratic Presidential Campaign

March 23, 2016

BY KATRINNA MARTIN-BORDEAUX Date: Saturday, March 26: Pratt Willard Community Center Location: 422 Pratt St Buffalo, NY 14204 Time: 12:30-2:00 Speakers Katrinna Martin- Bordeaux, Young Black Democrats of Western New York Joan Simmons, Niagara Frontier Movement for the Advocacy of African American Human Rights Lion

The conspiracy to destroy Joe Mascia unfolds

March 20, 2016

On Monday, the Buffalo Common Council met at their regularly scheduled caucus, where members review agenda items ahead of their Tuesday committee meetings. The meeting discussed the BMHA’s pending request for a $250,000 grant to cover its ongoing operating deficit

Zellner shakes down patronage loyalists at birthday party, says Martin-Bordeaux

March 17, 2016

Jeremy Zellner, the chairman of the Erie County Democrats, is being accused of shaking down party loyalists for $250 under the premise of a birthday invitation, alleges Katrinna Martin-Bordeaux, the Chairwoman of Young Black Democrats of Western New York and a

Three unsolved mysteries at City Hall begging for answers

March 14, 2016

BY MIKE HUDSON Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster is known for running one of the most secretive administrations in recent city history. Freedom of Information Law requests need to be filed in order to obtain even the most routine public

SolarCity financial woes leave spinoff in limbo

March 14, 2016

BY THE NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER The company at the center of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” initiative and the stated reason Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and city Planner Tom DeSantis spent $165,000 of taxpayers’ money on a largely worthless piece of

Dyster’s follies cost taxpayers

March 13, 2016

BY MIKE HUDSON For Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, it’s not about the destination but the journey. Which is why, since taking office in January 2008, the city has been subjected to numerous and lengthy forays into the unknowable unknown,

Robert Moses to be renamed “Niagara Scenic Parkway”; Why not just remove it?

March 13, 2016

BY JAMES HUFNAGEL Strike up the band, join the parade, wave the flag and pop the bag. The politicians are renaming the Robert Moses Parkway, to the Niagara Scenic Parkway. Please curb your enthusiasm. Especially since, instead of renaming it, they

Will a road by any other name still cause controversy here?

March 13, 2016

BY MIKE HUDSON While lawmakers representing Niagara County may lack the political will to remove the Robert Moses Parkway, the state Senate has recently taken the bull by the horns and moved to change the road’s name. Sen. Rob Ortt

West Side residents concerned about school board candidate’s qualifications

March 12, 2016

BY C.B. MILLER West District school board candidate Jennifer Mecozzi has residents concerned over her lack of educational and professional credentials that would qualify her to sit on the governing board of a agency that controls nearly a one billion dollar annual

Flaherty, Flynn to mix politics on St. Patrick’s at Irish Center bellwether

March 12, 2016

BY TONY FARINA Just in case you are a newcomer to these parts, we’d like to remind you that St. Patrick’s Day next Thursday (March17) is more than a celebration of Irish and Irish American culture, it is the starting