May 2019 – Page 2 – The Buffalo Chronicle

A few good people

May 3, 2019

BY NORBERT RUG I am a septuagenarian (look it up), as such I am not quite as active as I once was. No more roofing, no more biking and no more volleyball. I now have to pay people to do

Average Port Authority pay reaches six-figures

May 1, 2019

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) employees were paid an average of $100,302 last year, according to data released todayon SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website. Payroll at Port Authority totaled over $845 million last year, an increase

Overtime surge fuels $400M payroll hike at MTA

May 1, 2019

Overtime payments jumped nearly 16 percent last year at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), fueling agency-wide average pay hikes of 6 percent, according to newly posted payroll records at SeeThroughNY.net. The increase in MTA payroll costs for 2018 alone was $418 million—$82

Report claims Downstate declined twice as fast as Upstate last year

May 1, 2019

BY EJ McMahon In a turnabout from recent trends, downstate New York’s population decreased twice as fast as upstate’s last year, according to the latest Census Bureau annual estimates. To see where they are going, check out our analysis of federal

Judicial Watch sues DOJ for communications between Peter Strzok and Bruce Ohr

May 1, 2019

Ohr Testified He Had At least Two Meetings with Steele, Justice Department Told Judicial Watch it Has No Responsive Records Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for communications

Africans, Bangladeshis, Syrians, Afghans in Mexico caravan awaiting U.S. asylum

May 1, 2019

The chronic onslaught of illegal immigrants heading to the United States isn’t just coming from Central America, the caravan includes large groups of Africans, Indians, Bangladeshis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Syrians that have made it all the way to Mexico. Africa

Aide testifies that Clinton used personal email for State business

May 1, 2019

Insists that monitoring Clinton’s illicit use of private email ‘wasn’t really part of my job,’ but adds, ‘I wish she had used a State Department account’ Judicial Watch today released the transcript of a court-ordered deposition of Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s

Family weekends are the best kind

May 1, 2019

BY NORBERT RUG The other week, on a Friday night, my 7-year-old grandsons had a “sleepover” while their parents went out to dinner and had a date night. My son and daughter in law do this about once a month.

That time Poloncarz appointed ‘patronage hack’ to supervise CPS, following brazen fraud scheme

May 1, 2019

County Executive Mark Poloncarz‘ appointment of a well-traveled patronage hack as a supervisor in Child Protective Services, (Buffalo News) brought back memories of an interesting Democratic Plumbers scheme from 2006. That caper involved the efforts of then-County Legislator, now Poloncarz’