The Buffalo Chronicle
The Buffalo Chronicle
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Legislation to extend financial support for adult children with disabilities passes Assembly
Today, legislation that aims to aid families and dependent adult children who have surpassed the age of majority for child support but have developmental disabilities that necessitate a living allowance passed the…
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Addabbo partners with Simon Wiesenthal Center to bring two anti-semitism town halls to the peninsula
QUEENS, NY — As a way to help combat the rising incidents of Anti-Semitism across the city, State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. and Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato are teaming with the…
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BPS participates in August Wilson National Monologue Competition
Ten (10) Buffalo Public School students, representing ten (10) different BPS high schools, will take the stage on February 8th at Buffalo State College’s Rockwell Hall Auditorium to perform their August Wilson monologues in…
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Langworthy endorses Garbarino in New York’s 2nd congressional district
NEW YORK, NY — New York Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy today endorsed Assemblyman Andrew Garbarino, the Party’s official designee, in New York’s 2nd Congressional District. Garbarino is running in an open seat…
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SMULLEN: Public safety is job number one
BY ROBERT SMULLEN In his State of the State address, Governor Cuomo loudly proclaimed that government’s first responsibility is to protect the people. I wholeheartedly agree, and that is why we must…
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Driver sentenced for recklessly causing the death of passenger
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 23-year-old Aleia Easley of Buffalo has been sentenced by State Supreme Court Justice Paul Wojtaszek to 5 years probation. On Tuesday, April 23,…
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Three Chileans arrested for residential burglaries throughout Amherst
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 36-year-old Itan Jadiel (also known as Hector Rene), 35-year-old Christian Antonio Rodriguez-Gonzalez, and 27-year-old Angelica Marie Rivera Perez of Chile were arraigned before…
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Drunk driver heading to jail for hitting a pedestrian in Clarence
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 51-year-old Michael Eddo of Williamsville has been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge James Bargnesi to one year in jail. On February 16,…
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Two men sentenced for East Side homicide
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 23-year-old David Hunter and 24-year-old Brandon Jones, both from Buffalo, have been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge James Bargnesi to a determinate…
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Grand Island man pleads guilty to attempted arson for causing apartment fire
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 34-year-old Robert L. Shoemaker of Grand Island pleaded guilty before Erie County Court Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes to one count of Attempted Arson…
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Pentagon forces Congress to commit to defense strategy by cutting cherished — but old — programs and priorities
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is smartly trying to prep the political battlefield by getting in front of emotional reactions to defense cuts with thoughtful analysis and rationale. Last night, the…
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The dark art of political warfare
BY HAL BRANDS Political warfare is the next big thing in US foreign policy. For years, America’s authoritarian rivals have waged aggressive political warfare campaigns against the United States and its allies.…
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‘Hockey Stick’ spending hikes make even less sense now
BY MATT WEIDINGER Last October, the House Ways and Means Committee approved, along party lines, legislation to extend and expand the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program. HPOG is one of more than 40 federal education…
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What would Trump do in a second term?
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Did Donald Trump take over the Republican Party, or was it the other way around? Yes, Trump’s multi-front trade war was a violent break from GOP economic orthodoxy. But…
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Is the Army the richest service? Navy? Or Air Force?
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN This year’s battle of the budget between the services has been much more public than any in recent memory, as Breaking D readers know. Mackenzie Eaglen, who writes for…
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Bipartisan Rx for America’s health care: a practical path to reform
BY JAMES C. CAPRETTA The Bipartisan Policy Center launched the Future of Health Care initiative in 2017 with a bipartisan group of leading national policy experts to create a consensus approach to…
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How America gave up on free markets: Q&A with Thomas Philippon
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS How concentrated is corporate power in America today? How big of a problem is this? According to Thomas Philippon, the answers are “more concentrated than in Europe, and more…
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Coercing China on climate change?
BY DEREK SCISSORS The atmosphere does not respond to greenhouse gas emissions per capita or scaled by economic size or to “fairness,” only to the quantity of emissions. The latest data on those quantities…
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Stop a US coronavirus outbreak before it starts
BY SCOTT GOTTLIEB The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread at an alarming rate. More than 20,000 cases have been confirmed in China, with another 23,000 suspected. Many in China aren’t even being…
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Let’s help Americans move to where the jobs are
BY MATT WEIDINGER The list of supposed inequalities among Americans is long, and getting longer: income inequality, food inequality, housing inequality, education inequality, and even death inequality. Many see unequal outcomes in every facet of American…
