April 2017 – The Buffalo Chronicle

Brown, Garner expected to smear Betty Jean Grant

April 29, 2017

Political operatives close to Maurice Garner, the former President of Grassroots Inc. who is widely thought to control Mayor Byron Brown, say that he “is deeply worried” about County Legislator Betty Jean Grant’s campaign for Mayor. Operatives say that Garner is already designing a smear

Owners of slain dog pursue charges against neighbor

April 28, 2017

Raffaele Forte, the owner of Keeno, a three-year-old Dalmatian mix that was killed by a neighbor on Hutchings Road in the Town of Ogden last Saturday, has hired an attorney and is looking to pursue both criminal and civil charges

A citywide policy on community benefit agreements will be central to Mayoral primary

April 27, 2017

Critics of Mayor Byron W. Brown say that the administration has been much too focused on the interests of real estate developers in adopting a form based zoning code, which voids decades of community planning documents and replaces them with a code that says absolutely nothing about equity

Investigators rumored to be ‘probing’ top Cuomo aide, Melissa DeRosa

April 26, 2017

A source familiar with investigations initiated under former United States Attorney Preet Bharara has told The Chronicle that there is an “ongoing probe” of Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s top aide and her family. This week, Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa has been promoted to the

Pay to play culture at city hall could be Mayor Brown’s undoing

April 24, 2017

It may be true that donors contributed to Mayor Byron Brown out of an earnest desire for good governance, and it may be true that Brown gave no heed to whether a company or individual donated to his reelection campaigns

Grant tells WBEN she will announce her candidacy for Mayor this week

April 23, 2017

In an interview on Hardline with Dave Debo, on WBEN NewsRadio 930 AM, County Legislator Betty Jean Grant said she intends to enter the race for Mayor of Buffalo in a formal announcement later this week. Grant says that conditions of the

Pushing for Paladino’s ouster, activists renew calls for boycotts

April 22, 2017

Activists are renewing calls for mass boycotts against school board member and real estate developer Carl Paladino, following racist comments he made about Barack and Michelle Obama in Artvoice last December. Paladino has refused continued calls that he resign his office, even

Grant: “A few days in jail won’t kill me”

April 22, 2017

BY BETTY JEAN GRANT, County Legislator I have been told by two attorneys that the vote taken yesterday on the new train station may be illegal. Number one, they barred the taxpaying public from a meeting discussing public business even thought

Terrence Robinson to be Green Party nominee for Mayor

April 21, 2017

Mayoral candidate Terrence Robinson is expected to receive the nomination of the Green Party in this year’s Mayoral contest. The Green Party rules prevent endorsed candidates from appearing on another party’s line. Robinson is a registered Democrat and had been considering

Brown skips Dingus Day, campaigns in Amherst, and betrays the East Side

April 21, 2017

Mayor Byron W. Brown was campaigning at Amherst’s Crosspointe Business Park at the offices of GEICO, the car insurance company owned by Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway and lured to Western New York with a hefty package of public subsidies. The Mayor stopped