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That whole peanut roll thing…
BY JOE GENCO A Short Take on Today’s News: –So that whole Peanut Roll thing didn’t work out. Showed up ready to ride, but ugh, fat tires and mountain bikes and mud…
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Journeyed to 9th Ward
BY JOE GENCO Journeyed to 9th Ward at Babeville for Davey O’s Food Bank of WNY fundraiser. Paul Lamont reminds me of John Prine. I never put my finger on it until last night. Tina…
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Genco’s short take on today’s news
BY JOE GENCO A short take on today’s news… –Hey! It’s Small Business Saturday. Take a walk around Clarence Center and spend some money on Main Street –Took a drive to Lockport…
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Has Andrew Cuomo ever boned a guy? Young voters want to know.
In the course of every election cycle emerges a question — often from younger voters — that flusters a candidate, sometimes projecting an awkwardness that alienates him from a potentially critical swath…
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Collins urged to step aside for Rob Ortt in 27th district
Republican activists are asking Congressman Chris Collins to step down his reelection effort following an indictment by the Southern District of New York for insider trading and providing false information to a…
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Vanessa Williams for Congress?
A spate of recent articles in The Buffalo News detailing celebrity superstar Vanessa Williams‘ affection for Buffalo has sparked widespread speculation among local political operatives that she is contemplating a run for Congress…
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Tourism advocates say Milstein, Jacobs should partner on Niagara Zoo project
Manhattan real estate tycoon Howard Milstein owns development rights to a 140-acre parcel of property in downtown Niagara Falls, and has contemplated redevelopment options for the tract of land since the late…
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Will Bishops Malone and Pridgen partner to preserve historic churches?
The Catholic Dioceses of Buffalo has been in decline for six decades. It was once a mighty institution and the cornerstone of so many of Buffalo’s ethnic communities. The Dioceses’ ornate churches…
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Pivotal political contests will animate much of 2018
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo hasn’t made it completely clear that he intends to run for reelection. He is widely expected to be a key witness in the upcoming public…
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Grant tells WBEN she will announce her candidacy for Mayor this week
In an interview on Hardline with Dave Debo, on WBEN NewsRadio 930 AM, County Legislator Betty Jean Grant said she intends to enter the race for Mayor of Buffalo in a formal announcement later…
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Roscetti fundraiser draws overflow Crowd
BY TONY FARINA It was a full house last Thursday at the Hyde Park Ice Pavilion for Alan Roscetti’s kickoff fundraiser in his campaign for Niagara Falls City Court judge. Roscetti, a…
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Local opposition ramping up to Cuomo’s lodge in Olmsted’s ‘Niagara Reservation
BY JAMES HUFNAGEL While the shock of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he wants to build a state-owned “lodge” (read hotel) on Goat Island in the Niagara Falls State Park is still…
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It can’t be as horrific as it seems so far
BY JOE GENCO –It’s only been 13 days, and everywhere I look, I find another story mocking, chiding or criticizing Trump’s decisions. Many of our Conservative or Republican blog followers, like Richard Neidrauer and Richard…
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Trump says, ‘you’re fired’
BY JOE GENCO –President Trump rightly fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama holdover in place pending Jeff Sessions confirmation, because she used her office as a bully pulpit to criticize…
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The dictator’s playbook, and a more reasonable view…
BY JOE GENCO –The dictator playbook begins with targeting the immigrants. Soon after comes finding a reason for war. We are on that slippery slope. https://medium.com/…/welcome-to-the-dictator-playbook-51760… –Here’s a differing, and more reasonable view…
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Another perspective on the Buffalo school board and the teachers’ union
BY AUSTIN HARIG Former Candidate for Buffalo School Board In May 2016, I ran for the Buffalo School Board against Carl Paladino. I lost (by 2% of the vote), but it was…
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As Trump scapegoats refugee families…
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…
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Meanwhile, in California…
BY JOE GENCO –So journalist/activists were arrested in Washington at the riots, not to be confused with alternative/journalists or working/journalists. You know they don’t all get First Amendment rights. –Meanwhile in California,…
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McMurray: State welcome center will be a boon to Grand Island
BY NATE MCMURRAY As you may have heard, a brand new, state of the art Welcome Center is coming to Grand Island. The Governor visited last week and he mentioned it specifically…
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Whipping up fervor with irony
BY JOE GENCO –As our President whips up the anti-immigrant fervor, it’s important to remember there have been 28 deadly attacks in the United States since 9/11 but not one has been…
