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Ricchiazzi cuts ties with Parlato publications

February 7, 2017

Matthew Ricchiazzi, who retains a controlling interest in The Buffalo Chronicle, is canceling a content sharing agreement with Frank Parlato, Jr. and three of his publications, including Artvoice, The Niagara Falls Reporter, the South Buffalo News and the Lackawanna Front

Parlato: Plan to dewater Falls is bad for business

February 28, 2016

BY FRANK PARLATO There has been a lot reported in local media about a recent New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSOPR) proposal to dewater Niagara Falls. “Dewatering is necessary for two reasons,” a report from

Parlato: Blame NYPA for sky-high electric costs

November 12, 2015

By Frank Parlato, The Niagara Falls Reporter Some things don’t add up. For instance, there is no cheap electrical power in Niagara Falls! That’s funny, too, because this is where power is generated. Search around the globe, and you won’t

CBC interviews publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle

October 18, 2019

The investigative reporter Andrea Bellemare of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a state-funded news network, posed several questions to Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle. Here’s that interview in its entirety. What prompted you to start publishing stories about

Toronto Star interviews Buffalo Chronicle publisher

October 17, 2019

Marco Chown Oved, an investigative reporter with The Toronto Star, posed several questions to Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, this week. Those responses are published here unedited and in their entirety. Where did The Buffalo Chronicle come from? I founded The

Paladino grasps at straws as removal hearing nears

May 3, 2017

Disgraced school board member Carl Paladino, who is likely to be removed from the board at a State Education Department hearing scheduled for June 22nd in Albany, won a small victory this week. Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia approved a request by

When was the last time you took a train?

January 30, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes they did it all night long and from city to city. When was

As Trump scapegoats refugee families…

January 29, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –Interested in learning more about eating the food that surrounds you? Join Eric Cornell, Euell Gibbons and me from 12-3 today at Ashker’s. Register here. Soon I will give up shaving my armpits. OK, I made up the

Olmsted has left the region’s best Olmsted park

January 27, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO The Empire State Development Corp.will be issuing a request for proposals to build “greater outdoor activities” on Goat Island, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Build on Goat Island. “[T]hat will boost tourism and give people an international

A threatening crescendo

January 22, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –I read this 1,100-word article from NPR, hoping for clarity, but there was none — the Women’s March in Washington doesn’t appear to be doing more than striking a threatening crescendo, “if you think we are mad

Did the US Attorney pay an informant $80,000 to lie in Chosen Few case?

January 19, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO Last week we wrote about an apparent miscarriage of justice perpetrated by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce as he prosecuted 20 innocent men who were members of a Depew, NY motorcycle club called the Chosen

A short take on today’s news

January 13, 2017

BY JOE GENCO –Carl Paladino lays out his motivations, and his views on how to make life better for the 1 in 2 children living in Buffalo poverty. http://artvoice.com/…/morally-bankrupt-board-education-bu…/… –When defendants attack: Frank Parlato, under indictment from a US Attorney,

Arroyo case, another BPD ‘wrong house’ ‘dog killing’ raid is in court

January 12, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO As we reported last week, a December, 20, 2016 raid by Buffalo Narcotics Police on the Ulman St. home of retired Army Sergeant FC, Gary Aljoe ended up with police finding no drugs and killing his German

Dyster fires Destino a day before civil service protections take effect

January 7, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO Terminating his employment him on the last day before his job became protected by civil service law, Mayor Paul Dyster has fired Johnny Destino, the director of purchasing for Niagara Falls. Destino was hired in May 2015, shortly

‘Wrong House’ raid leads to death of dog for Sgt. Aljoe

January 6, 2017

BY FRANK PARLATO Working off a tip from ‘snitch’, Buffalo Police Lieutenant Sean O’Brien and Detective Shawn Adams went before the Chief Judge of Buffalo City Courts, the Hon. Judge Thomas Amodeo, and swore they had probable cause to raid

Owner of dog shot by Buffalo Police queried as case moves forward

December 29, 2016

BY FRANK PARLATO An expected lawsuit arising from the police raid of a Buffalo man’s home that resulted in the death of his dog, an 18 month old male black and white pit bull, is apparently proceeding. The dog’s owner, Michael

Niagara Falls citizens organize to take back the city from Albany, but must reckon with pro-Albany mayor

December 24, 2016

BY FRANK PARLATO Earlier this year the Niagara Gazette announced that a group of locals organized something called “Reclaim Niagara” – formed to “get Albany out of our pockets.” To combat the “exploitation of our resources by public authorities and

A short take on today’s news

December 17, 2016

BY JOE GENCO –Snow Roll. Bike riding in the cold. Noon. Be there. http://slowrollbuffalo.org/site-map-snow-roll-barrel-facto…/ –Alan Bedenko glibly gloats as Chris Collins bleats and croaks about e-mails attacked and hacked. Bedenko has a point: Republicans want everything investigated until it’s something that

SPCA report contradicts police version of shootings that killed pit bulls in drug raids

October 16, 2016

BY FRANK PARLATO Buffalo NY – Necropsies by the Erie County SPCA on a pair of pit bulls shot and killed during ‘No Knock’ raids last summer contradict ‘Use of Force’ reports of the law enforcement officers who fired the fatal

FOIL seeks info on Assigned Counsel for persons uncharged and unchecked for financial need

October 6, 2016

BY FRANK PARLATO Artvoice has filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the Erie County Assigned Counsel Program to learn how often courts assign a free lawyer to someone in Erie County who has not been charged with a