October 2019 – The Buffalo Chronicle

Age is just a number

October 31, 2019

BY NORBERT RUG I have decided to age gracefully. Sure I have a few health problems, I need hearing aids to hear, glasses to see, I use a cane to walk, I have Peripheral Neuropathy and cancer. But these are

Six Nations’ elections are being corrupted by Tribal administrators

October 31, 2019

Brenda Johnson, a widely respected social worker and community organizer from Ohsweken, ON, about 90 minutes south of Toronto, is being barred from running in the Six Nations Reserve’s elections. She was denied ballot access on transparently frivolous grounds by

Restaino leads in Falls mayoral contest, as political tricks are played

October 31, 2019

Bob Restaino is the endorsed Democrat running for Mayor of Niagara Falls. He won a heated primary battle that pitted him against Paul Dyster‘s Community Development Director Seth Piccirillo, who often found himself at the center of the administration’s recent development

After denying records exist, DOJ releases communications between Strzok and Ohr

October 29, 2019

Judicial Watch announced today it received through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit 13 pages out of 42 responsive pages of communications between former FBI official Peter Strzok and Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr. The DOJ previously claimed it could

Critics say that Dyster’s record in Niagara Falls has been a titanic failure

October 28, 2019

Mayor Paul Dyster has decided not to seek reelection in Niagara Falls this year. Three terms of fiscal management finally caught up with him — and a structural deficit somewhere between $15 and $20 million threatens to bankrupt a crushingly poor

Wilson-Raybould is planning a ‘constitutional reform caucus’ in Parliament — and Scheer may endorse it

October 25, 2019

The newly re-elected Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Granville, Jody Wilson-Raybould — the only non-partisan person elected to the 43rd Parliament — wants to bring constitutional and electoral reform to Canada. To do it, a source tells The Chronicle, she is planning to launch

October is national anti-bullying month

October 24, 2019

BY NORBERT RUG As a redhead, I was bullied when I was a child. Even today I can still hear the chants “Redhead, redhead fire in the woodshed”. This is the only one that was yelled at me that can

New Benghazi documents confirm a Clinton coverup

October 24, 2019

This week, Judicial Watch released new emails on the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for years and would have exposed Hillary Clinton’s email account if they had been released when the State Department first uncovered them in 2014. The long withheld email,

AP reporters put FBI codes in private locker of Manafort, in apparent effort to push criminal prosecution

October 24, 2019

Andrew Weissmann organized off-the-record DOJ/FBI meeting with AP to exchange ‘clarification’ and ‘assistance’ in their investigation for details on former Trump Campaign Director Paul Manafort This week, Judicial Watch released two productions of heavily redacted FBI documents – 28 pages and 38 pages – about

Does the Bloc Quebecois have a window of opportunity in Donald Trump’s presidency?

October 23, 2019

Some political operatives believe that President Donald J. Trump‘s tenure in office is creating a window of opportunity for the Nation of Quebec to engage in direct trade talks with the United States, in the context of the USMCA trade

Buzz Feed interviews Buffalo Chronicle publisher

October 22, 2019

Craig Silverman, a blogger with Buzz Feed, posed these questions to the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, Matthew Ricchiazzi. Here of his responses in their entirety. Have you ever received any kind of warning or notice from Facebook about your content

Flanagan speaks out against Cuomo campaign finance reform, & election commission

October 22, 2019

Democrats gave away law-making powers to create $100 million campaign welfare system & potentially nix choice through fusion voting Senate Republican Leader John J. Flanagan and Long Island Republicans spoke out against the unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform and Election Commission as

Will a weakened Trudeau be able to survive looming RCMP investigations?

October 22, 2019

Despite losing the popular vote, Justin Trudeau is likely to retain his position as Prime Minister of Canada, though his Parliamentary caucus has been reduced to 155 seats in the House of Commons, short of the 170 seats needed to

Trudeau operatives have been hounding Mark Zuckerberg to censor a US-based newspaper

October 20, 2019

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior figures in his government — including Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould — and several of his principal political operatives have been hounding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with appeals to censor a newspaper this week.

HUSOCK: What Barr got right, what he got wrong

October 19, 2019

BY HOWARD HUSOCK He singled out for criticism those who believe that, in effect, government social programs could replace the virtues instilled by religion. Attorney General William Barr finds himself the target of criticism for remarks he made at the

MUFLEH: Educating children of war requires innovation and patience

October 19, 2019

BY LUMA MUFLEH As the Trump administration continues to reduce the number of refugees the U.S. will admit each year, our leaders should look to Ohio for examples of how states should welcome and resettle refugees. With strong initiatives in

MURPHY: Call off the state bid to micromanage private schools

October 19, 2019

BY PETER MURPHY Last April, lawyers for private kindergarten through grade 12 schools found themselves defending, before a state trial-court judge, private and religious schools’ right to operate. The lawyers, representing Jewish, Catholic and nonsectarian independent schools, were challenging sweeping

Skoufis spends more than any new Senator

October 19, 2019

Sen. James Skoufis, D-Newburgh, had $134,858 in staff and member office expenses during his first three months in the Senate, the most among newly elected members of that house, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website. From

Public universities give Chinese communists exclusive rights to intellectual concepts, trademarks

October 19, 2019

BY TOM FITTON In the midst of a human rights crisis and violent pro-democracy manifestations in China, Judicial Watch has obtained records that expose a troubling partnership between a public American university and the Chinese Communists at the heart of

MORRISON: The left loses its mind in prison debate

October 19, 2019

BY MICAH MORRISON Ideas have consequences and yesterday in New York City arrived more evidence that progressive forces in Gotham have lost their collective mind. The New York City Council voted to close the 400-acre Rikers Island jail complex. Keeping