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Rochester launches website to encourage community input on rewrite of land use laws
Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced today the launch of a new website to encourage community participation in the Zoning Alignment Project to match the City’s land-use regulations to the goals in the…
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Parolee sentenced on promoting prostitution charge
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 43-year-old Richard S. Swiderski of Buffalo was sentenced on January 6th before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth F. Case to an indeterminate sentence…
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Virginia man indicted for randomly attacking two victims
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 40-year-old Carlos Cherry of Reston, Virginia was virtually arraigned on January 5th before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case on an indictment charging…
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Town of Tonawanda man indicted for attempted murder
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 30-year-old Antonio L. Taylor of Town of Tonawanda was virtually arraigned this morning before State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns on an…
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December’s jobs report and where we go from here
BY BRENT ORELL Last week, the Department of Labor released the final employment report of the Trump administration, and the news there, much like all the news these days, was not good. For…
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New York had largest 2019-20 population decline of any State
BY E.J. McMAHON New York could be on the way to its first population decline in any decade since the 1970s, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Empire State’s…
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Complications emerge over paid leave and childcare during the pandemic
BY ANGELA RACHIDI Congress responded to the arrival of the pandemic on US soil in spring 2020 by passing sweeping economic relief measures, including policies directed toward supporting the needs of families.…
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TSA program to protect aviation from high-risk passengers failing after eight years
A controversial government program launched nearly a decade ago to protect airline safety has failed miserably to meet its “mission of mitigating the threat to commercial aviation,” according to a scathing federal audit sprinkled…
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Housing market is overheated and prices are unsustainable, says housing report
BY EDWARD PINTO AND TOBIAS PETER Key takeaways: Purchase rate lock volume remains strongly above last year’s. For the last couple weeks, volume has consistently been about 30%-80% higher. Driven by ultra-low…
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How federal housing policies hurt borrowers of color
BY TOBIAS PETER The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a distressing fact in the housing world: Federal home loan policies that promote risky lending in the name of providing “responsible, affordable mortgage credit…
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With employment lagging, Cuomo may postpone scheduled minimum wage hike
BY E.J. McMAHON Still struggling to recover from spring pandemic shutdowns, now facing the threat of renewed restrictions due to a second wave of COVID infections, the last thing New York’s economy needs is…
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Mayor Brown is working to co-locate Greyhound at new Amtrak station
Sources close to Mayor Byron Brown tell The Chronicle that he is working to relocate the Greyhound Bus Station on North Division Street and to co-locate it at the City’s new Amtrak Station, which…
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Perverse incentives, high costs and poor outcomes: Special Education in New York
BY IAN KINGSBURY Much of New York’s highest-in-the-nation education spending is driven by a single category: special education. Of the $66.2 billion spent on K-12 education in New York in 2017-18, $15.8 billion went…
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ECHDC’s slow progress has planners demanding a second Harbor Development Corp
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC), a subsidiary of Empire State Development, has managed an excruciatingly slow 15-year process to develop the City’s Inner Harbor — all the while developers have…
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Ricchiazzi calls on Poloncarz to sell county convention center to Douglas Development for $1
Good government activist Matthew Ricchiazzi is calling on Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz to sell the county’s dated convention center to Douglas Development — the owner of the adjacent Statler Hotel and…
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NYC’s school reopening deal was costly and bumbled
BY IAN KINGSBURY Back in August, leaders of unions representing teachers and principals warned that the plan to allow parents to select between blended or virtual learning would produce “staffing shortages” in many…
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New York’s rising COVID curve casts doubt on Cuomo’s ‘micro-cluster’ strategy
BY BILL HAMMOND The ongoing surge in New York’s coronavirus pandemic raises doubts about the effectiveness of Governor Cuomo’s “micro-cluster” strategy. Beginning Oct. 6, the governor has imposed tightened restrictions on limited areas, or…
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Huawei ban disrupts supply chain for telecom components
BY BRONWYN HOWELL Since the US and other governments have effectively banned the use of Chinese (read Huawei, but also ZTE) equipment from future mobile communications networks, support for open radio access network (O-RAN)…
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The safety net in the aftermath of the pandemic
BY ANGELA RACHIDI The American Enterprise Institute commissioned NORC at the University of Chicago to field a survey of 3,518 working-age adults in late July 2020 to learn more about the employment situation of…
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The $540,000 camera in your pocket
BY BRETT SWANSON Every couple years, we update our original 2014 blog post that asked the question, “What would an iPhone have cost in 1991?” The purpose is to measure — at…
