The Buffalo Chronicle
Niagara County
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Hamilton renames street, school to tout Tesla, while Niagara Falls neglects Nikola
BY JAMES HUGNAGEL This summer the city of Hamilton, a prosperous Canadian city of over a half million inhabitants located just over the border in Ontario, renamed a portion of its heavily-traveled…
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Maziarz may not be out of the woods just yet, as probe heats up
BY TONY FARINA Is former State Senator George Maziarz out of the woods nearly two years after he left office under the cloud of a federal investigation? While Maziarz left office denying…
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Williams: Dyster’s tax increases must be stopped
BY ANN WILLIAMS Mayor Paul Dyster deceived the taxpayers by waiting until five days after the mayoral election to tell us that he was planning to do a citywide reassessment. He plans…
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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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Subdued hotel groundbreaking has Hamister making excuses
BY MIKE HUDSON State and local officials were looking sheepish and Buffalo developer Mark Hamister was spinning excuses at Tuesday’s long delayed groundbreaking for a small, midmarket hotel project that was first…
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It’s time to move the Albright Knox to Niagara Falls
BY MATTHEW RICCHIAZZI If we could ever put the interests of institutional advancement over the prissy sensibilities of cynics, we may be able to make something spectacular of the Albright Knox, which…
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Illegal dumping at composting site in Niagara Falls
BY MATT RICCHIAZZI In our business, people frequently come to us as whistleblowers troubled by what they perceive as official misconduct and yet afraid that if they blow the whistle at work…
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Does Hamister have the audacity to ask for more taxpayer money for failed project?
BY TONY FARINA According to informed sources in the Buffalo development community, Mark Hamister is about $6 million short of the mark in financing for his much-hyped $35.7 million Niagara Falls hotel…
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Three unsolved mysteries at City Hall begging for answers
BY MIKE HUDSON Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster is known for running one of the most secretive administrations in recent city history. Freedom of Information Law requests need to be filed in…
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SolarCity financial woes leave spinoff in limbo
BY THE NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER The company at the center of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” initiative and the stated reason Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and city Planner Tom DeSantis spent $165,000 of…
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Dyster’s follies cost taxpayers
BY MIKE HUDSON For Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, it’s not about the destination but the journey. Which is why, since taking office in January 2008, the city has been subjected to…
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Robert Moses to be renamed “Niagara Scenic Parkway”; Why not just remove it?
BY JAMES HUFNAGEL Strike up the band, join the parade, wave the flag and pop the bag. The politicians are renaming the Robert Moses Parkway, to the Niagara Scenic Parkway. Please curb your…
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Will a road by any other name still cause controversy here?
BY MIKE HUDSON While lawmakers representing Niagara County may lack the political will to remove the Robert Moses Parkway, the state Senate has recently taken the bull by the horns and moved…
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Parlato: Plan to dewater Falls is bad for business
BY FRANK PARLATO There has been a lot reported in local media about a recent New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSOPR) proposal to dewater Niagara Falls. “Dewatering…
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Engineers to get nearly $5 million for design work on Goat Island bridges
BY MIKE HUDSON Greenman Pedersen, the Albany based engineering and construction firm overseeing the Peace Bridge project in Buffalo, is also in line to receive a healthy chunk of the $4.9 million…
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Public outcry prompts city to rebid Chilton apartments
MY MIKE HUDSON Niagara Falls – In a bow to public outrage and basic human decency, the Dyster administration has announced a do-over, and will hold a public auction for a four-unit…
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Dyster plans $435,000 sculpture for traffic circle
BY FRANK PARLATO Niagara Falls – It was our own resident genius, James Hufnagel, who wrote us this week, to say, “You know what would be really funny? A picture of Mayor…
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Smith charges politics in Planning Board ouster
BY MIKE HUDSON It’s politics as usual at the City Hall of Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster. That’s the charge of Rick Smith, who has served on the city Planning Board for…
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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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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…
