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MADIGAN: School closures ignore negative health impacts
BY MIKE MADIGAN The CDC has reported the following: The risk of Covid19 virus to school-aged children is significantly lower than the flu (CDC website) The CDC cites the 2018-19 flu season…
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KOLB: Rights are rights for a reason
BY BRIAN M. KOLB This past week, New York state Attorney General, Letitia James, with the support of Gov. Cuomo and his administration, filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association (NRA),…
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ASTORINO: New York’s fiscal mess has been a long time coming
BY ROB ASTORINO As New York continues to move to reopen our economy and society, the governor and state legislature must also move to rebuild our state. While it’s true that no…
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KOLB: Graduations must be in person
BY BRIAN KOLB This week, the governor announced that high schools will only be allowed to hold “drive thru” graduations this year. It’s yet another misguided policy. It’s a glaring example of…
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Kolb: New York State’s economy was vulnerable before COVID-19
BY BRIAN KOLB State Democrats blaming Washington for our economic troubles is nothing new. (President Trump cut taxes for about 80% of all New Yorkers, and the governor called it an “economic…
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DiPietro: Despite COVID, our work goes on
BY DAVID DIPIETRO I am writing to you to let as many people possible know that myself and my staff are hard at work to help our communities during this time of…
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HAMMOND: Fact-checking Mujica’s op-ed
BY BILL HAMMOND A fact-check of the newly published op-ed by state budget director Robert Mujica, defending Governor Cuomo’s Medicaid proposals, shows it to include a number of exaggerated or misleading arguments. The…
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MCCONNELL: This war on our institutions must end
BY MITCH McCONNELL United States Senate was made for moments like this. The Framers predicted that factional fever might dominate House majorities from time to time. They knew the country would need…
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WALLISON: Roberts Court is likely to restore nondelegation doctrine
BY PETER J. WALLISON Ramesh Ponnuru, in his December 11 Bloomberg article, “Conservative Justices Aren’t About to Abolish the Government,” correctly identifies the political and intellectual difficulties associated with restoring the nondelegation…
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SCISSORS: Parsing the ‘China Deal’ facts sheet
BY DEREK SCISSORS “Fact sheets” are public relations efforts. So it’s telling that the fact sheet for the US-China trade deal announced last week is not convincing — phase 1 is in fact a…
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Ricchiazzi responds to questions posed by Politico
Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, was kind enough to respond to questions posed by Caitlin Dewey, a writer with Politico. I understand the Chronicle is not your full-time gig — what…
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IRVING: More can be done to save veterans from suicide
BY DOUG IRVING Daniel Somers fought to the end—against horrific memories of what he saw in Iraq, against depression so deep it left him curled up on the floor, and against a…
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Buzz Feed interviews Buffalo Chronicle publisher
Craig Silverman, a blogger with Buzz Feed, posed these questions to the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, Matthew Ricchiazzi. Here of his responses in their entirety. Have you ever received any kind of…
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CBC interviews publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle
The investigative reporter Andrea Bellemare of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a state-funded news network, posed several questions to Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle. Here’s that interview in its entirety. …
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Toronto Star interviews Buffalo Chronicle publisher
Marco Chown Oved, an investigative reporter with The Toronto Star, posed several questions to Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, this week. Those responses are published here unedited and in their entirety. Where…
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Celebrating a half-century of true love
BY NORBERT RUG Last Friday, my wife Donna and I celebrated our 50th…
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Katrinna Martin: “The local Democratic Party is shameful…”
BY KATRINNA MARTIN The local Democratic Party is shameful in their tactics and the unleashing of their social media trolls that lie about any and everything to paint these wicked pictures of…
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Grant: “A few days in jail won’t kill me”
BY BETTY JEAN GRANT, County Legislator I have been told by two attorneys that the vote taken yesterday on the new train station may be illegal. Number one, they barred the taxpaying public…
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Wake for Judge Dillon offers warm memories to veteran reporter
BY TONY FARINA As I was moving slowly through the very long line at the wake for Kevin Dillon on Sunday at the Cannan Funeral Home, a gentleman who at one point…
