January 2017 – The Buffalo Chronicle

Developers support locations for Albright Knox, Philharmonic near Niagara Falls State Park

January 31, 2017

Gordon Reger, who leads the ownership group of the landmark One Niagara Center, is preparing a redevelopment plan for the former Occidental Chemical headquarters that has since been redeveloped into a tourist welcome center. It is rumored that Reger favors

Trump says, ‘you’re fired’

January 31, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –President Trump rightly fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama holdover in place pending Jeff Sessions confirmation, because she used her office as a bully pulpit to criticize his immigration order. He was right to fire

Gleed: Pay attention, this is not a democracy

January 30, 2017

BY THOMAS ERROL GLEED As of 4:30pm yesterday afternoon, Muslim Green Card holders, that is resident legal aliens from certain countries, were prohibited from reentering the country for 90 days if they happened to be traveling. They were detained at airports and prohibited

When was the last time you took a train?

January 30, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes they did it all night long and from city to city. When was

The dictator’s playbook, and a more reasonable view…

January 30, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –The dictator playbook begins with targeting the immigrants. Soon after comes finding a reason for war. We are on that slippery slope. https://medium.com/…/welcome-to-the-dictator-playbook-51760… –Here’s a differing, and more reasonable view from the National Review. http://www.nationalreview.com/…/donald-trump-refugee-execut… –Meanwhile, Jay Burney went to Buffalo

Another perspective on the Buffalo school board and the teachers’ union

January 29, 2017

BY AUSTIN HARIG Former Candidate for Buffalo School Board In May 2016, I ran for the Buffalo School Board against Carl Paladino. I lost (by 2% of the vote), but it was a campaign driven by ideology. Mr. Paladino had

Flynn seeks special prosecutor in inmate’s death, citing conflict for DA’s office

January 29, 2017

BY TONY FARINA Citing a conflict because an assistant in his office is related to a potential target of the investigation, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn has asked a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the death

As Trump scapegoats refugee families…

January 29, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –Interested in learning more about eating the food that surrounds you? Join Eric Cornell, Euell Gibbons and me from 12-3 today at Ashker’s. Register here. Soon I will give up shaving my armpits. OK, I made up the

Buffalo scrambles for train station money

January 29, 2017

BY JAMIE MOSES When the state announced it was providing $25 million for a new Amtrak station in Buffalo, with the likelihood that the federal government would match that figure, it created a scramble for the money by competing interests

Jamie Moses, Carl Paladino, and Austin Harig walk into a bar…

January 28, 2017

BY JOE GENCO —Jamie Moses digs into trains and stations and how the Central Terminal should be the center of a revitalized neighborhood rather than a black ghetto with growing pockets of immigrants. White sub-urban people convene annually to commemorate Polonia,

Olmsted has left the region’s best Olmsted park

January 27, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO The Empire State Development Corp.will be issuing a request for proposals to build “greater outdoor activities” on Goat Island, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Build on Goat Island. “[T]hat will boost tourism and give people an international

Niagara County GOP is considering candidates for public office

January 27, 2017

Ready To Run for Office? This year there are numerous public offices up for election. In Niagara County, all 15 seats in the County Legislature will be decided by voters this year. There will be elections for supervisor, mayor, alderman

Meanwhile, in California…

January 27, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –So journalist/activists were arrested in Washington at the riots, not to be confused with alternative/journalists or working/journalists. You know they don’t all get First Amendment rights. –Meanwhile in California, Gov. Jerry Brown is moving forward with global

Opposition mounts to new soup kitchen on Pine Aveas hunger, poverty on rise

January 26, 2017

A Roman Catholic priest who is proposing to locate what he terms a “not-for-profit restaurant,” run by volunteers, serving low cost meals to low income residents and free meals to veterans, is running into stiff resistance from Mayor Dyster and

McMurray: State welcome center will be a boon to Grand Island

January 26, 2017

BY NATE MCMURRAY As you may have heard, a brand new, state of the art Welcome Center is coming to Grand Island. The Governor visited last week and he mentioned it specifically in his speech. I’ve been pushing for it

Cuomo promises come, as observers say that Niagara Falls must help itself

January 26, 2017

BY TONY FARINA Gov. Andrew Cuomo rode into Niagara Falls this week full of promises about using state funds from his Buffalo Billion Squared Initiative in his proposed 2017 budget to reclaim underused and vacant property near the state park,

Whipping up fervor with irony

January 26, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –As our President whips up the anti-immigrant fervor, it’s important to remember there have been 28 deadly attacks in the United States since 9/11 but not one has been committed by a foreigner. http://www.vox.com/…/11/23/9765718/domestic-terrorism-threat –6 journalists doing their

A slippery slope in Waukesha

January 25, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –President Trump today unveils plans for his wall. I love the way he keeps posing signing executive orders in the Oval Office with his posse of pasty white men. http://www.sfgate.com/…/Trump-to-move-on-border-security-im… –Here’s a fun story from Buffalo Rising about

To Andrew Cuomo, with apologies

January 24, 2017

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER In the past few years The Buffalo Chronicle has taken a decidedly anti-establishment perspective, rooted in my own world view and my experiences growing up in this city. If you were raised in Western New York, are a student

If you can’t drive, fly

January 24, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –Brunei pilots women might not be able to drive in Saudi Arabia, but they can fly. In fact, the first all-female flight crew recently traveled from Brunei to Saudi Arabia. Thanks Jim-Jill Trowbridge. http://www.independent.co.uk/…/royal-brunei-airlines-first-… –As empowering as that story