January 2018 – The Buffalo Chronicle

Rene Jones ridiculed by local activists for skipping NAFTA negotiations in Montreal

January 28, 2018

M&T Bank’s new CEO Rene Jones has just recently taken the helm — a top 20 American bank by market capitalization and Western New York’s largest employer — but local activists are already ridiculing the CEO for a perceived leadership

Social justice activist fundraises for Delaware North’s congressional candidate

January 28, 2018

Jane Cameron, purportedly a social justice activist, is actively fundraising money for the Congressional candidacy of Nate McMurray, a Vice President at the global hospitality giant based in Buffalo and owned by billionaire Jacobs family, Delaware North. Cameron is now

All eyes are on M&T Bank’s new CEO Rene Jones

January 26, 2018

The late M&T Bank CEO Robert Wilmers was as close as one could come to reigning over Western New York as its titular monarch. The installation of Rene Jones as Wilmers’ successor at the Bank is of no small consequence

Buffalo News lambasted for all-White prospectus gala

January 26, 2018

Yesterday, The Buffalo News hosted its annual prospectus gala at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens on Transit Road in Williamsville. Sources liken the event to Cape Town in the 1980s, under apartheid. Attendees report that there may have been one or two minorities in

NBC wants Megyn Kelly to host a second hour on Today

January 25, 2018

Programing executives at NBC want Megyn Kelly to manage and produce a second hour of its flagship morning program, Today — and they want her to get political. The network’s executives think that they are underutilizing Kelly, who is one of the nation’s preeminent

Cuomo is worried about Tim Wu

January 24, 2018

Political operatives close to Governor Andrew Cuomo say that he is worried this election year, and particularly worried about a lesser known challenger whose background, credentials, and reputation could soundly defeat him on the left. The potential gubernatorial challenger is

WNY defense attorneys, ranked

January 23, 2018

This year’s Top 5 Criminal Defense Attorneys have been released, ranked annually by The Chronicle. If you need them, these are the top guys in town to turn to — if you can afford them. This year, Vacco is ranked number one (despite

Schumer shuts down government for immigrants, but not for Rust Belt’s working class

January 21, 2018

If political chatter is any indication, support for Senator Chuck Schumer is falling precipitously following a federal government shutdown that stems from Schumer’s ‘procedural objection,’ effectively filibustering a vote on the budget. Schumer is demanding that immigration laws are liberalized

Golisano is ‘open’ to M&T Bank merger with Paychex

January 20, 2018

Billionaire B. Thomas Golisano, the founder and chairman of Paychex, the Rochester area firm valued at more than $25 billion, is open to merger talks with Buffalo based M&T Bank, whose market capitalization stands around $28 billion, a source familiar

Cuomo is willing to give Hochul the governorship in 2020

January 20, 2018

Governor Andrew Cuomo is making a strong play for Western New York in his third reelection effort, even as former County Executive Joel Giambra and other Western New Yorkers consider gubernatorial bids. That he recently decided to retain Lt. Governor