The Buffalo Chronicle
The Buffalo Chronicle
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Addabbo teams up with Red Cross to promote home fire safety
State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. recently met with representatives from the American Red Cross’s Greater New York Region, in support of their Home Fire Campaign. The American Red Cross explained to…
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Santabarbara secures funding to expand ‘Lifesaver’ program
Schenectady County Sheriffs to provide hands-on demo of the life saving technology Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara announced $10,000 in grant funding he has secured to expand the Project Lifesaver program in Schenectady County. Sheriff…
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LePetri sounds off on early release of inmates, warns of “dangers to come”
Beginning January 1, 2020, inmates across New York State charged with misdemeanor and felony crimes will be eligible for release from jail due to legislation signed earlier this year by Governor Andrew…
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Federal lab known for security failures loses enough opioids to kill 1,750 people
A government-owned nuclear laboratory long plagued by scandals and security breaches is in trouble again for recklessly managing controlled substances, including enough opioids to kill more than 1,700 people. Other illicit narcotics…
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Obama official was in contact with Russian Embassy a month prior to Trump inauguration
Documents also reveal State Department officials continued use of unsecure BlackBerrys to transmit classified material long after Clinton email scandal revelations Judicial Watch released eight pages of State Department documents this week revealing that…
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Nikki Haley honored by AEI with the 2019 Irving Kristol Award
Former Governor of South Carolina and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley was honored by the American Enterprise Institute last week, naming her the recipient of the 2019 Irving…
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ESTELLE: With or without Baghdadi, Salafi-jihadis are winning the governance game
BY EMILY ESTELLE The Islamic State just named the successor to its late leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi — Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi. The US military and intelligence community is doubtlessly already…
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BARFIELD: Watch Germany on Huawei and 5G
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Europe is at the center of a worldwide debate and conflict over the role of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the emergence of 5G technology. Within Europe, Germany occupies…
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KOBER: The way out of New York’s crunch is supply-side housing policy
BY ERIC KOBER Even as employment grows rapidly, New York City remains stubbornly slow to build new housing. Annual average wage and salary employment in New York was 4.081 million in 2015…
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Excelsior scholarship is inferior to TAP, report says
New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, now offering tuition-free public college to students from families making up to $125,000 a year is “deeply flawed,” and the $119 million the state now budgets for Excelsior…
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FDNY pensions average more than $129,000
The 471 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) officers and firefighters who retired in calendar year 2018 are eligible for average pensions of $129,259, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s…
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One in four New York educators earned six figures in 2018-19
More than 25 percent of public school teachers and administrators in school districts outside New York City were paid more than $100,000 as of 2018-19, according to salary data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire…
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Candidate for Six Nations’ council seen on video aiding in the brutal beating of a critic
Crystal Monture, a candidate for Six Nations’ administrative council, is seen on video footage aiding in the violent beating of a woman outside of a community meeting in February. She is seen…
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Six Nations’ elections are being corrupted by Tribal administrators
Brenda Johnson, a widely respected social worker and community organizer from Ohsweken, ON, about 90 minutes south of Toronto, is being barred from running in the Six Nations Reserve’s elections. She was…
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Restaino leads in Falls mayoral contest, as political tricks are played
Bob Restaino is the endorsed Democrat running for Mayor of Niagara Falls. He won a heated primary battle that pitted him against Paul Dyster‘s Community Development Director Seth Piccirillo, who often found himself…
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After denying records exist, DOJ releases communications between Strzok and Ohr
Judicial Watch announced today it received through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit 13 pages out of 42 responsive pages of communications between former FBI official Peter Strzok and Department of Justice official…
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Critics say that Dyster’s record in Niagara Falls has been a titanic failure
Mayor Paul Dyster has decided not to seek reelection in Niagara Falls this year. Three terms of fiscal management finally caught up with him — and a structural deficit somewhere between $15 and…
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Wilson-Raybould is planning a ‘constitutional reform caucus’ in Parliament — and Scheer may endorse it
The newly re-elected Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Granville, Jody Wilson-Raybould — the only non-partisan person elected to the 43rd Parliament — wants to bring constitutional and electoral reform to Canada. To do it, a…
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October is national anti-bullying month
BY NORBERT RUG As a redhead, I was bullied when I was a child. Even today I can still hear the chants “Redhead, redhead fire in the woodshed”. This is the only…
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New Benghazi documents confirm a Clinton coverup
This week, Judicial Watch released new emails on the Benghazi controversy that had been covered up for years and would have exposed Hillary Clinton’s email account if they had been released when the State Department first…
