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Plouffe: “Primary is anything but locked up”
President Barak Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, said “this primary is anything but locked up,” in a fundraising solicitation behalf of the former Secretary of State. The email fundraising solicitation reads…
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Peter F. Paul threatens to expose Hillary Clinton
Peter F. Paul, a major contributor to Bill and Hillary Clinton when they were still in the White House, is alleging that he gave the Clintons $2 million in campaign contributions to Hillary…
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Mike Deely shows teachers how to waste $1.4 million
Mike Deely is the regional director of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the political arm of the state’s public teachers’ unions. He is tasked with spending million of dollars — from the…
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Evander Kane has a really hot girlfriend
Buffalo Sabers player Evander Kane is being accused of rape in an incident that allegedly occurred last Sunday at the Harbor Center hotel room where he lives. Kane is a well liked…
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State development agencies secretive on spending
BY TONY FARINA, The Niagara Falls Reporter I’ve written articles for several publications in recent months and years about the lack of transparency employed by state development agencies that spend millions and millions…
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Cox to fund moderates in WNY?
Buffalo based businessman Carl Paladino is flirting with another run for Governor of New York. Observers suspect that Paladino is posturing to force out the current party Chairman Ed Cox — a…
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Brown, Evanko thick as thieves
Today — at the second full day of the allegedly ‘public’ hearing to remove Joe Mascia as an elected official under New York State Housing Law — hearing officer Anne E. Evanko…
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State cannot afford project labor agreements
BY RICH PURTELL A project labor agreement is a protectionist strategy, usually applied to public work, which mandates a certain labor pool to be used for a construction project. New York State…
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Fisher discusses hiring disparities in construction
Charlie Fisher, the widely respected President of BUILD and longtime community activist hosted The Advocator with Nikita Williams to discuss ongoing efforts to force LP Ciminelli and other government contractors to meet minority hiring…
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Where is Dyster’s $200 million in economic development?
By Mike Hudson, The Niagara Falls Reporter The standard definition of economic development is that of efforts seeking to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for a community by creating and…
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Did Dyster know about DuPont closure before election?
By Mike Hudson, The Niagara Falls Reporter Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Back on July 30, 2013, we stated unequivocally that the 200 jobs at DuPont’s Niagara Falls facility were in grave…
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Black and Latino communities need an economic plan, says Cappas
By Alberto O. Cappas As promised, on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 I did speak at the City’s Common Council hearing on the subject of “Contract Compliance Community Review,” regarding jobs in the…
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Obama and Trudeau should open the Canadian border
It would require the elimination of customs tariffs, border crossing fees, and travel restrictions between the federal governments of the United States and Canada — but the concept of an open northern…
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Observers say Astorino appearance at SCOPE banquet means he’s running for Governor
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino — whose bid for Governor against Andrew Cuomo in 2014 performed strongly across western and central New York, but performed poorly on his home turf downstate — was…
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Civic leaders call for fair hiring practices at state funded construction sites
The respected Eastside activist Charlie Fisher and County Legislator Betty Jean Grant — the black community’s most trusted and respected civic leader in more than a generation — are rallying the city.…
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Continued stagnation necessitates statehood for northern New York
The release of recent economic data reveals that the widely decimated Cuomo administration propaganda that suggests that “Buffalo is Booming” has been a complete hoax, orchestrated by administration operatives with the complicity…
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Perfect corruption and the slow death of innovation
By Rich Purtell Adam Smith is widely considered to be the “Einstein of modern economics” with his Wealth of Nations monumental work published in 1776. He brought forth many concepts of free…
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Guercio’s, as an economic development strategy
Rumor has it that Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found inspiration in a visit earlier this week to Guercio’s, the ethnic Italian delicatessen that founded by an immigrant family who, four generations later, continue to…
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As WWII vet is evicted, growing consensus that M&T Bank has been socially destructive
Johnnie H. Hodges, Sr., age 90, is a WWII veteran. He has lived in his Humbolt Parkway home for more than half a century, but was forcibly evicted this morning, after M&T…
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Lynne Dixon rallies the region against DEC’s plan for Bethlehem Steel site
County legislator Lynne Dixon (I-Hamburg) is rallying the community against the State Department of Environmental Conservation’s plan to only partially clean up the former Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna. The Cuomo administration…
