
Month: January 2021

Niagara Falls

City & Region
Town of Tonawanda man indicted for attempted murder

Police Beat
Teen indicted on gun charges

Police Beat
South Buffalo man arraigned on murder charge

National Headlines
Chinese citizen journalist sentenced to four years on charges of ‘picking quarrels’

Foreign Policy
Marijuana legalization won’t curb Mexico’s drug cartels

National Headlines
Federal dollars keep California ‘swimming in money’
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

White House
Will Biden’s embrace of industrial policy pay off?
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