Month: January 2021

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 43-year-old Richard S. Swiderski of Buffalo was sentenced on January 6th before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth F. Case to an indeterminate sentence of 2 to 4 years in prison. Between

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 40-year-old Carlos Cherry of Reston, Virginia was virtually arraigned on January 5th before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case on an indictment charging him with one count of Assault in the

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 30-year-old Antonio L. Taylor of Town of Tonawanda was virtually arraigned this morning before State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns on an indictment charging him with one count of Attempted

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 45-year-old Aaron M. Naegely of Orchard Park was arraigned last night before Aurora Town Justice Anthony DiFillipo, IV on one count of Driving While Intoxicated, First Offense, and one count of

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 18-year-old Clifton D. Eutsey of Buffalo was arraigned this morning before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case on an indictment charging him with two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 61-year-old Michael B. Rattle of Buffalo was virtually arraigned this morning before Buffalo City Court Judge Betty Calvo-Torres on one count of Murder in the Second Degree, a Class “A-I” felony.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 20-year-old Keinn A. Moore of Buffalo was sentenced this afternoon by State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to a determinate sentence of 7 years in prison. He was sentenced on

BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Almost a month after the most recent — and most devastating — Russian cyberattack, we know a bit more about what we know, but still alarmingly little about what we do not know. Having observed and analyzed both

BY ELISABETH BRAW Last month, the Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison after having been detained in May on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Zhang’s crime: being one of the very few journalists

BY DEREK SCISSORS Earlier this week, India’s Supreme Court indefinitely stayed new, important farm laws, creating a court-appointed committee to . . . do something, maybe. This has been hailed as prudent and needed to protect farmers and attacked as a

BY RYAN C. BERG Mexico is poised to become just the third country in the world to fully legalize marijuana (after Uruguay and Canada). If legalized, the size of the country would make it the world’s largest legal cannabis market. Already, headlines are

BY ALAN D. VIARD In previous posts (here and here), I discussed the Trump administration’s decision last August to allow employers to defer the Social Security payroll taxes that they would otherwise have withheld from their employees’ paychecks during the last four months of

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Economic optimists (like me) who are hoping for a second Roaring Twenties have to concede version 2.0 isn’t starting off so good. Not only is the COVID-19 pandemic getting worse — as measured by cases, hospitalizations, and deaths —

BY KYLE POMERLEAU Last week, Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their Senate races in Georgia. Joe Biden will enter the White House on January 20 with a large Democratic majority in the House and a 50-member Democratic

BY MARK JAMISON Some politicians, academics, and regulatory practitioners are increasingly confident that there is something wrong with the structure of Big Tech. They are equally confident that smart regulators can remold Big Tech and make things better. They are

BY MATT WEIDINGER California Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal released last week suggests, as one article summarized, the state is currently “swimming in money,” including “a $15 billion one-time surplus.” That’s a massive turnaround from early in the coronavirus crisis, when headlines warned California faced

BY BRENT ORELL Last week, the Department of Labor released the final employment report of the Trump administration, and the news there, much like all the news these days, was not good. For months, I’ve written that the key to getting the economy

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Joe Biden wants more government intervention in the American economy. And not just cutting checks to people. Biden favors a national industrial policy, what his “build back better” campaign agenda describes as a “comprehensive manufacturing and innovation strategy” which “will marshall