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The Buffalo Chronicle
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HOWELL: When satellite chickens come home to terrestrial roosts
By Bronwyn Howell For several reasons, 1990s New Zealand was a natural test bed for the deployment of nascent broadband technologies and different business models for their commercialization: It is geographically contained…
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What we know about Biden’s 2022 defense budget submission to Congress
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN, JOHN G. FERRARI, and ELAINE McCUSKER As the Pentagon sprints to deliver its full 2022 budget request to Congress next month, Washington is anxious to get more information to…
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Cuomo creates $2 billion fund for those living in New York illegally
Since Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) was enacted in February, states have been busy designing ways to spend their share of the $350 billion in one-time federal “state and local aid” provided by that…
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America’s missing $11 trillion
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Increasing worker productivity is critical to raising living standards over the long run. But what does that mean, exactly? Consider this: If the American economy had been able to…
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California chases away citizens, startups, and, perhaps, the internet industry it invented
BY BRET SWANSON Between July 2018 and July 2020, California lost around 339,000 people to net out-migration. In the last nine months, that trend may even have accelerated. By one estimate, San…
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JAMISON: Journalism preservation is based on misinformation
BY MARK JAMISON According to members of Congress, American journalism is on the ropes. “Newspapers are locked in a life-or-death struggle with tech giants,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). “We have seen thousands…
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The zero-sum administration’s corporate tax plan
BY PAUL H. KUPIEC Newly-elected administrations try to lay the groundwork for their legacy in the first 100-days in office. During their “honeymoon” period, they introduce landmark legislation and issue executive orders…
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Remote work: Will country roads really take you home?
BY BRENT ORRELL That’s the question raised by a new incentive program designed to draw workers freed from geography by remote-work options to live in the state of West Virginia. Ascend West Virginia is…
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Securing children online: Balance caution with opportunity
BY SHANE TEWS In March, it was reported that Facebook had plans to develop a new Instagram product for children under the age of 13. Facebook follows the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Children’s Online Privacy…
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Quantum computing: A national security primer
BY KLON KITCHEN Quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field of computer science that harnesses the mind-bending dynamics of quantum physics—the behavior of the universe’s smallest particles—to produce computers with vast new…
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Does the US need a national paid leave law after the pandemic?
BY ANGELA RACHIDI When the coronavirus pandemic hit American shores in early 2020, questions emerged over how employers and employees would handle the anticipated need for workers to take time away for illness or to care…
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New Senate plan would make pandemic unemployment benefits permanent
BY MATT WEIDINGER The Washington Post reports President Joe Biden’s next trillion-dollar spending plan “is expected to devote hundreds of billions of dollars to new programs,” including “$225 billion for child-care funding; $225 billion…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Attacking corporations for their political views is bad for American business and the economy
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS It may seem merely silly, a GOP senator tweeting #GowokeGobroke over Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Georgia over the state’s new voting law. Despite the controversy,…
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Niagara Falls has infrastructure needs too, Senator Kennedy
The massive new infrastructure bill proposed by President Joe Biden makes more than two trillion dollars available to remake the American infrastructure system — and Western New York stands to be appropriated…
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Ocasio-Cortez plans to back Statehood for Upstate NY in primary challenge to Schumer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to primary United States Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the 2022 Democratic Party Primary contest — during which, she intends to endorse statehood for upstate and Western…
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Former AG Vacco may join Hochul’s gubernatorial administration as General Counsel
Former Republican Attorney General Dennis Vacco may join the administration of Kathy Hochul in the likely event that Governor Andrew Cuomo is impeached by the State Assembly, political operatives tell The Chronicle. Vacco…
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Pat Whalen floated to lead NYDOT in Hochul administration
Buffalo businessman Patrick Whalen is being floated to lead the New York State Department of Transportation in the likely event that Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will replace the increasingly embattled Governor Andrew…
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Camille Brandon to lead Hochul’s gubernatorial campaign
Sources tell The Chronicle that longtime Western New York political operative and Bolton St. Johns lobbyist Camille Brandon is likely to lead Kathy Hochul‘s gubernatorial campaign in the increasingly likely event that Governor…
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With Cuomo’s impeachment looming, Hochul begins transition planning
With Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s looming impeachment increasingly difficult to ignore, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul has begun transition planning in the event that she will be called on by the Assembly to perform…
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Playing defense for Cuomo puts Heastie’s Speakership in jeopardy
The progressive wing of the Assembly Democratic caucus is becoming increasingly disgruntled with the leadership of Carl Heastie in recent weeks, as the Speaker pulls out all of the stops to play defense…
