The Buffalo Chronicle
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Blakeman pledges to address Western New York’s toxic legacy
BY STAFF REPORTER On a stretch of Fox Avenue in the Town of Niagara, where lawns sit beside modest postwar houses and the distant roar of the falls is sometimes audible on…
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Blakeman may explore National Park status for Adirondacks to boost tourism, federal funding
Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has floated the idea of elevating New York’s Adirondack Park—or significant portions of it—to National Park status, arguing that federal designation could expand…
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Blakeman is determined to deliver a Major League sports franchise for Rochester, and it’s most likely soccer
Rochester has been a major league city before. It has not been one in a long time, and the distance between those two facts is the whole argument. Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau…
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Blakeman wants to transfer Brooklyn Army Terminal to Cornell for new medical research campus
BY STAFF REPORTER Bruce Blakeman is privately floating a bold proposal for the Brooklyn Army Terminal that starts from a fact the City has lived with for forty years: the largest industrial…
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Blakeman’s plan to save Syracuse University would adopt Cornell’s governance model
BY STAFF REPORTER Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s soon to be announced plan to save Syracuse University from closure does not ask the state to buy the campus, fold it into SUNY,…
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Since childhood, Blakeman wanted to bring Major League Baseball back to Brooklyn. His supporters could make it happen.
The last major-league pitch thrown in Brooklyn was in 1957. The Brooklyn Dodgers left for Los Angeles after that season, Ebbets Field came down in 1960, and the borough has lived with…
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Blakeman will ‘wipe Cuomo’s name off the Tappen Zee Bridge, Republican activist predicts
ALBANY — A Republican activist in Westchester County with ties to Bruce Blakeman’s campaign has told associates that if the Nassau County executive becomes governor, he will take Governor Mario M. Cuomo’s…
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If Blakeman wins Governorship, Trump is open to bankrolling the reconstruction of NYC Subway system — but not if Hochul is reelected
WASHINGTON — President Trump is open to a federal reconstruction of the New York City subway, people familiar with the discussions say, on a condition his allies have begun to state more…
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Kathy Hochul denies wanting to ‘Make Nassau County the Sixth Borough of NYC.’ Why doesn’t anyone believe her?
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul does not, her aides insist, want to make Nassau County the sixth borough of New York City. She has said so in different words for three years:…
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Mamdani worries Blakeman will let Staten Island become its own City
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has begun to say, in private and increasingly in public, that a Bruce Blakeman governorship would do more than reverse the city’s progressive turn. It would reopen a question…
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Tina Abrams wins Seneca Party nomination for President, poised to become first woman to hold the office
Longtime Council Member poised to become first woman to serve as Seneca Nation President SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Tina Abrams, a longtime councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians and a member of…
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Seneca Tribal Council could lease Niagara Falls Reservation to individual tribal members to boost development
The Niagara Falls Territory is only about 56 acres, but it is one of the most valuable pieces of restricted-fee land the Seneca Nation holds. It sits next to one of the…
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Would reforming tribal member annuities ease the Seneca Nation’s drug crisis?
By Staff Reporter The trafficking problem on Seneca territories is documented by the Nation’s own leadership. Presidents have told Congress that non-Indian dealers use the reservations because jurisdiction is split and removal…
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Robert Jones says Todd Gates is to blame for Seneca gaming compact debacle, as Tribal Council candidates trade throes
CATTARAUGUS TERRITORY, N.Y. — Two weeks before the Seneca Nation’s Sept. 18 caucus, the argument over who lost the gaming compact with New York has moved from Council chambers onto the campaign…
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Losses at Seneca Holdings upend tribal elections, as members voice fury on social media
CATTARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY TERRITORIES, N.Y. — Two weeks before the Seneca Nation’s Sept. 18 Seneca Party caucus, the race to lead more than 8,500 enrolled citizens is no longer only about compact…
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Abrams vs Porter: race for Seneca Nation presidency is too close to call
By Staff Reporter With the Seneca Party caucus three weeks away and the general election on Nov. 3, two Allegany Territory councilors — Tina Abrams and Odie Porter — have emerged as…
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Pro-Israel PAC goes in balls deep with San Francisco’s Wiener
By Staff Reporter State Senator Scott Wiener, the leading candidate to succeed Nancy Pelosi in California’s 11th Congressional District, is receiving significant financial backing from pro-Israel interests as the June 2026 primary…
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Ricchiazzi calls for reinstatement of a ‘hard’ city control board
Buffalo, N.Y. — Local activist and longtime fiscal watchdog Matthew Ricchiazzi is urging Mayor Sean Ryan to join him in petitioning the state Legislature and Governor Kathy Hochul to reinstate a “hard”…
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RACISM: Liberals say DC’s oldest gay bar has been shamelessly exploiting Roberta Flack’s legacy
By Staff Reporter March 26, 2026 In the heart of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill, Mr. Henry’s—billed as the city’s oldest gay bar and a “historic gem” since 1966—has built its entire modern…
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Chrissy Jacobs debunks Halftown’s ‘unpaid rent’ fallacy in violent eviction on Cayuga Reservation
By Staff Reporter February 27, 2026 In a recent, heartfelt Facebook post, respected Akwesasne Mohawk community advocate and former Salmon River Central School District board member Chrissy Jacobs (also known as Onientatahse) offered…
