The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Empire Center finds Buffalo spends more on educator pay per student than any other Big Five district. That number belongs in the school closure debate Twelve senators ask Congress to drop a Gillibrand-backed U.S.-Israel defense technology initiative from the final defense bill Trump says the U.S. has won the Iran war and will decide when it ends, as Tehran denies talks and keeps Hormuz closed Dorothy Myo, a fluent Saulteaux speaker, becomes Canada’s Indigenous languages commissioner as the office’s finances are under review Orchard Park adopts a 2027 budget with a 5.9% tax levy increase after cutting $414,929 Depew’s first female police officer helped run a statewide training conference for about 200 women in law enforcement Man-Aung Sushi’s second shop brings $6 rolls and poke bowls to Main Street across from Canisius New York won’t reopen the Love Canal neighborhood investigation. The family that found waste in its backyard is still waiting on tests Buffalo is paving over its brick streets one block at a time. On Eden Street, a landmark bid has stopped the asphalt for now Grand Island’s budget would raise the general fund tax rate 15% and the sewer rate 25%, as the board approves a battery lease on town land UB alum Russell Agrusa signed the last beam of the $111 million engineering hall that will carry his name Erie County’s permanently disabled veterans will owe no county tax on their homes, and Buffalo State plans a veterans center on Elmwood Hotel Niagara’s restoration has carried six price tags, from $42 million to $66.6 million. The county tax-break file still says $44 million Haldimand trial witness acknowledged Confederacy chiefs are staying out of the case over jurisdiction, Six Nations summary says Erie County cleared its child care waitlist. The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Kentucky lessons show what Western New York should do next New York’s $9 billion surplus goes to reserves and debt, while a SNAP cost Erie County puts at up to $50 million a year sits outside the state plan On Veterans Day, Buffalo’s 1949 VA hospital has no replacement planned. Secretary Collins says a new one costs too much Chludzinski concedes the 143rd Assembly District to Taughrin after a 570-vote count Summit Center buys a Sweet Home Road building to shrink a 500-child preschool waiting list, and still needs about $3.5 million Cheektowaga’s board rejects cuts and tables a 9.8% tax levy increase, with a Nov. 20 budget deadline ahead Torn Space Theater’s twelve summers at Silo City move into a museum retrospective at the Burchfield Penney Wicked Warren’s turned Jamestown’s empty brewery into a wood-fired pizza hall. Here’s what the record shows A 43-acre Eden farm is headed for permanent protection, and the land conservancy says leased farmland is especially vulnerable Schumer says he is confident of becoming majority leader as Sanders and Slotkin call for change and Gillibrand defends him The House shelves the Hegseth impeachment articles, 211-204. Here is how Langworthy, Tenney and Kennedy voted, and what the charges say Buffalo’s police overtime is a hiring problem and a budgeting problem, and City Hall should fix both now North Tonawanda voters back an $18 million community center, and the city’s seniors and teens get out of borrowed space The Bills stadium surcharge is beating its forecast, and Erie County should publish where every dollar goes AEI says the data-center backlash collides with plans to tax them. Western New York’s towns should use their pause to decide A judge keeps Six Nations’ elected council out of the HDI lawsuit, and leaves open who holds Haldimand Tract rights Schumer and Gillibrand vote to advance the permitting overhaul as New York activists urged a ‘no’ Hegseth asks Congress for $350 billion more as Senate Democrats weigh using the Dec. 11 funding bill to end the Iran war Buffalo police overtime to cover minimum staffing jumped 65% in a year, and new officers are two years away Speaker Heastie defends $1 million in Assembly Democrats’ sports spending, including suites donated by Buffalo’s Delaware North Gendron jury selection enters its fifth week as a juror is excused over the death penalty Carl Cain, who lost to Mayor Restaino by 212 votes in 2023, launches a 2027 Niagara Falls mayoral bid Colden’s highway tax would rise 24% as road salt jumps to $93 a ton, and a new general fund tax arrives Lancaster police publish their first annual report: 41 uses of force, and more than half involved a person in crisis The Bills scored 3 points on their first six drives in Minnesota and still won by 17. Here’s how John Rzeznik, the Broadway-Fillmore kid who never lost the shag, brings the Goo Goo Dolls home for FeedMore Buffalo Niagara added jobs again in September, but it’s the only peer region with fewer businesses than in 2020 Four years after it was announced, Tonawanda’s fix for Young Street bridge strikes gets final approval DOE touts West Valley cleanup progress, but the study behind its biggest decision still hasn’t been released Upstate Niagara’s West Seneca dairy expansion grows to $325 million, with $35 million for on-site power Erie County’s Legislature should write purchasing limits into law before it votes on the 2027 budget A fatal crash should trigger a quick look at the street, and Buffalo can build that habit now New York sues Interior to strip two Seneca parcels of sovereign status. The case turns on where the money came from Buffalo says it has 44 pieces of snow equipment and 3,000 tons of salt ready, as the first snow of the season nears Current Breaking