The Buffalo Chronicle https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 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 Haldimand trial witness acknowledged Confederacy chiefs are staying out of the case over jurisdiction, Six Nations summary says 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 The Bills stadium’s 6% surcharge has raised $2.88 million for Erie County in two months. None of it stays in the county Niagara County Republicans keep the Legislature at 12–3, but a 34-vote Democratic lead in District 5 is still being counted Trump and Carney say a trade deal is close, but a 50% tariff and the auto dispute remain The Feed: Seneca land lawsuits, New York’s ICE jail deadline, Canada’s immigration numbers and Stephen Miller’s appointment lead the week online The Kenney Field jet is nearly restored, and the crew found bullet holes under its old patches OLV Basilica’s copper dome is about 80% restored, with the scaffolding due down next August Alden’s ambulance switch is three weeks away, and residents still have questions about the Mercy Flight deal Sears-Paderewski Park is getting a $2.3 million rebuild. The public record is quieter on who will maintain it Buffalo’s $61.4 million heat network won approval. The state’s own math says heat pumps would cut carbon for less Congress returns with a Dec. 11 funding deadline, a stalled farm bill and a defense bill in doubt. Here is what Western New York has riding on it UB enrolls its 20 paused license-plate cameras in a seminar on how to be properly socialized Hamburg votes unanimously to pause data centers for a year, and officials say nothing is proposed Rachel Martinez wins Cheektowaga’s special Town Board election as voters also back term limits Current Breaking