The Buffalo Chronicle
Zeitgeist
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Paladino emerges as a leading voice in Trump’s presidential bid
BY TONY FARINA The big political news this week, of course, was the nomination of New York billionaire Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president at the GOP convention in Cleveland.…
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Schneiderman-Pigeon political feud colors indictment
BY TONY FARINA Almost lost in the unbelievable feeding frenzy over the indictment last week of political operative Steve Pigeon was the news that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s highly-touted job-creation program Start-Up NY…
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Hang the Jury and nullify bad law
BY FRANK PARLATO As everyone knows, there is often a difference between “the law” and justice. After all laws are made by elected officials under the influence of lobbyists and their desire…
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Goldman Sachs bails out Hamister, Cuomo, Dyster
BY TONY FARINA Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to Niagara Falls on Tuesday to officially break ground on the long-awaited Hamister hotel project in downtown Niagara Falls and he used the occasion to…
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In defense of Steve Pigeon and American democracy
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI One of the most accomplished political activists of his generation, former Erie County Democratic Party Chairman G. Steven Pigeon has long been a target of entrenched special interests and…
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Politics is behind Rus Thompson’s Voter-Fraud charge, says wife
BY JOSEPH KISSEL Rus Thompson says he can’t talk about it, but as he said during his Sunday “remove the tolls” address at Fisherman’s Park in Grand Island, anybody else can. Thompson…
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Dr. Gosy was ‘Last Best Hope,’ says attorney Joel Daniels
BY TONY FARINA Dr. [Eugene] Gosy was “the last best hope for patients suffering from chronic pain,” said Joel Daniels this week in describing the difficulties many patients have had finding help…
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Jacobs is nervous in wake of school board losses
Rumor has it that County Clerk Chris Jacobs is nervous following sweeping losses for the school board’s reform coalition earlier this month. Jacobs has been a chief architect of the reform coalition for…
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Senator Greg Ball takes fundraising private
Former State Senator Greg Ball, a popular two-termer from the lower Hudson Valley, has taken a major annual political fundraiser private. The move follows a decision last year to forgo a reelection…
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Mayor Brown is judge, jury, and executioner
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI Attorney Ann E. Evanko, the politically connected managing partner of Hurwitz & Fine, a law firm that contributed to Mayor Byron Brown’s election efforts, will be issuing a legal…
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National Fuel to reduce rates in PA, increase rates in NY
BY JAMES HUFNAGEL National Fuel supplies natural gas to over 730,000 residential and corporate customers throughout Western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. The Williamsville, NY-based oil and gas concern is vertically integrated…
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Tear down the Skyway?
BY JIM OSTROWSKI The power elites who have run Buffalo into the ground for decades have largely squandered the greatest inland waterfront in the United States, ours. Only in recent years has progress…
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Grand Jury to be impaneled in Pigeon case
BY TONY FARINA We have learned that State Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman is expected to impanel a special grand jury in Buffalo on Monday (May 9) with the sole purpose of investigating…
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How Cuomo made medical marijuana insanely expensive
BY MARC GROMIS As the number of patients qualifying to purchase medical cannabis under New York’s program slowly rises, many are complaining about the high price of the medicine in New York. Medical…
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War of the words, a libertarian view
BY JIM OSTROWSKI The older I get, the more I think that politics is a battle of the dictionaries. Whoever has the best words, wins. The political movement I have been active in…
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At 18, Austin Harig with a bold political debut
BY CAROLETTE MEADOWS Eighteen year old Hutch Tech student, Austin Harig is young, bright, and talented. But for some, his youth is an unforgiving obstacle. Despite the cynics, Harig has demonstrated a…
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Hamister hotel still dormant if not dead
BY MIKE HUDSON Buffalo developer Mark Hamister was given “preferred developer” status on a valuable piece of property on Rainbow Boulevard just a few hundred yards from the state park entrance for…
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Trumping the Left
BY JIM OSTROWSKI What better topic to introduce my new column in this paper than Trump’s visit to Buffalo Monday night? So there I was, in the press pen, literally walled off…
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Ricchiazzi: Stop Higgins from screwing up the riverfront
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI Congressman Brian Higgins is urging the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to spend $43 million to redevelop the DL&W Terminal into a light rail station. That facility would only service…
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Three big contenders battle for Falls’ school board
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI There are two seats up for election on the City of Niagara Falls’ school board, which will be held on May 17th. The full slate of candidates is still…
