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Recreational marijuana users who worked hard to elect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now feel “cheated” by his support of a police crackdown on storefront dispensaries, a cannabis industry spokesperson says. via Pot smokers feel ‘cheated’ by Prime Minister Justice Trudeau

The US Army Corps of Engineers announced they will no longer allow the DAPL to cross under a river near the Standing Rock reservation. via 10 Heartwarming Photos of the Celebration at Standing Rock — Observer

“How do you build a product that engages a user quickly enough to get them to The Zone and keep them over time?” Entrepreneur and Behance co-founder Scott Belsky explores building a product for new users and focusing on the

The activist and former firefighter who filed a citizen’s official misconduct complaint against Gov. Chris Christie over the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal plans to run for New Jersey governor in 2017. William Brennan made the surprise announcement Monday as

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are planning to move to Washington, DC, according to a new report. The power couple, who have been credited with steering Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to victory, are looking for a home in

BY FRANK PARLATO Buffalo NY – Necropsies by the Erie County SPCA on a pair of pit bulls shot and killed during ‘No Knock’ raids last summer contradict ‘Use of Force’ reports of the law enforcement officers who fired the fatal

President John F. Kennedy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City April 27, 1961 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some

Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs issued a press release this week announcing he saved county taxpayers $45,000 in pens. He reports that after becoming County Clerk in 2013, he learned the office bought $15,000 worth of pens per year, which

BY MATT RICCHIAZZI In the days after Artvoice and The Buffalo Chronicle published a story detailing the rampant open-air drug trade and prostitution economy that has engulfed the Grant Ferry section of the Upper West Side, residents say that the activity is

BY MATT RICCHIAZZI Barely four years after winning a landslide election as Pennsylvania’s first female Attorney General, Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction, criminal conspiracy, and other crimes relating to an illegal vendetta against a political enemy. The prosecutor,

John Ciampoli is the Nassau County Attorney who signed off on the Ab Tech deal that was designed to enrich Adam Skelos, the son of the former Senate Majority Leader who was convicted of bribery last year. Ciampoli was then fired

BY MATT RICCHIAZZI City Comptroller Mark Schroeder said if he is elected mayor in 2017, he will reverse the controversial new Hertel Avenue metered parking plan set to go in effect this fall. “Every single business district has been put

The Buffalo Police Department reported their Narcotics Division executed a series of search warrants during the week of July 25-29, arresting several individuals and announcing they seized small quantities of drugs, mostly marijuana. What they did not report was the

BY TONY FARINA The battle for the job of Erie County district attorney is turning into a war of words between Acting DA Michael Flaherty and his opponent in the Democratic primary, Tonawanda Town Attorney John Flynn. Last week in

BY FRANK PARLATO Former Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA) Commissioner, Joe Mascia, 71, who was removed by Mayor Byron Brown from office in May, is suing BMHA and The City of Buffalo in NY State Supreme Court. In what could

BY JIM OSTROWSKI “War is the health of the state,” said Randolph Bourne.  “War is hell,” said General Sherman.  The war criminal Sherman was an expert in the subjects of hell and war.  When I was twelve, I attended my

BY TONY FARINA Carrie Cohen was a big-time prosecutor with corruption-fighting U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara in the Southern District of New York and before that, with the State Attorney General’s office.  But she left it all behind a few

BY TONY FARINA The big political news this week, of course, was the nomination of New York billionaire Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president at the GOP convention in Cleveland. Prominent among the Trump supporters is Buffalo developer