Lets decid in all fairness what type of compensation package we would like to pay for law enforcement in Erie County. Lets not define this to just Buffalo. First few things we will not allow is: No cosmetic surgery except for reconstruction from an actual injury at the work place. IE: No...
Well, we come again to that joyous time of year when students across WNY parade across the stage to receive their high school diplomas. Oftentimes, these events can be somewhat lengthy. But in Buffalo they will be mercifully short thanks to a graduation rate less than 50%. I wonder where the...
Mayor Byron Brown's Administration has used property reassessments to penalize homeowners for doing precisely what we want them to do: to invest in their homes, thereby rebuilding our neighborhoods. Rather than penalizing them into perpetuity with a higher and higher tax bill, a Ricchiazzi...
Billboard campaign targets underage drinking Read the story in the Buffalo News
There will be a Republican primary for Mayor of Buffalo. Sergio Rodriguez has proposed Mayoral control of Buffalo's public schools. If there is one way to make BPS go from bad to worse, it would be this plan. Rather than exposing our system (and its nearly $1 billion budget) to patronage,...
National software and sensor company Sentient Science will open its new corporate headquarters in Buffalo at University at Buffalo’s Jacobs Executive Development Center on June 13. The company is relocating from Idaho to the Butler Mansion, located at 672 Delaware Avenue. The company...
The new wave of restaurant openings in downtown Buffalo will continue on June 17 when developer Rocco Termini and restaurateur Michael Andrzejewski unveil Tappo. Tappo, an Italian-themed restaurant, will open its doors on Ellicott Street in the former Horton Coffee Co. building, a block from...
The University at Buffalo’s Educational Opportunity Center formally opened Friday at the edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The $26 million building is UB’s latest project at or near downtown, following the UB-Kaleida Health building at Goodrich and Ellicott streets that opened last...
I love these business men more take breaks they cry to the IDA. or else:hopelessness: IDA approves $634,ooo package for Carl. another hotel,:congratulatory: restaurant, business office space, 27 to 30 apartments that are expected to rent for $1,300 to $1,900 per month, with the second floor eyed...
The vacant, but historic Cargill Pool Elevator will have a new owner. Following a closely-watched auction Wednesday morning, the 12-acre Fuhrmann Boulevard that’s anchored by the 1925-era grain elevator has apparently been acquired by a local investment group, whose top bid was $475,000. ...
I came across this petition about CSAT. I think charter schools are a very good concept overall, but in my opinion the superintendant of the Charter School for Applied Technologies should stop it with the million dollar real estate projects and instead ensure he doesn't have to let go of quality...
Buffalo Bills linebacker Bryan Scott will talk with students from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Baum School of Art, 510 W. Linden St., Allentown. Scott will meet with students of Baum's smART Program. Scott is also the founder of Team BScott and the Bryan Scott Pick Your Passion...
It’s a battle that has dragged on for 10 long years. But the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association - Local 282 finally reached a contract agreement. It is a tentative 15-year agreement covering the past 11 years and next four years that will now go to the...
Construction on the oft-discussed Ohio Street project is slated to begin this fall. The $11.3 million project, jointly funded through federal, state and local sources, is expected to turn a lightly-used industrial roadway that connects downtown Buffalo with the vast Outer Harbor property...
In what may be the first of several key public sector approvals needed to advance the project, the development team behind the proposed dramatic transformation of the long vacant H.H. Richardson Towers complex will be seeking an incentive package from the Erie County Industrial Development...
Well, Just saw the sign coming down last week on the church on the corner of Main and Jewett. The Ellicott Development Corp will gladly lease the space there to the Aloma D. Johnson Charter School, a school that presently enrolls students from the fruit belt. Presently located at 833 Michigan...
With Buffalo Planning Board approval in hand, a proposed live music club that will bridge the city’s Cobblestone and Canalside District could be open by late summer or early fall. City planners, Tuesday morning, gave approval to a development team headed by businessman Sam Savarino to open...
The New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), allows citizens to obtain copies of government records. In 2009, the Buffalo News after not receiving adequate responses to several FOIL requests wrote an editorial directed to Mayor Brown stating: “The law is clear. When we request city...
I interview local developer/investor George Hasiotis on the latest news regarding the project to get a new Downtown Stadium and entertainment center built on Buffalo's Outer Harbor waterfront site. He sets the record straight on how many jobs it would create, how much would the stadium complex...
Tonawanda News — Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick, who is also a political science professor at Canisius College, is using research gathered by several of his students to further explore a proposal to build a $1.4 billion waterfront football stadium in Buffalo. Hardwick, R-Tonawanda,...
NYSUT draws suspicion as illegal mail muddles School Board elections Read the full story before commenting in The Buffalo News Do you put it past the NYSUT that they would do this?
Renovations aimed at transforming the former Spaghetti Warehouse building on Elm Street into a mixed-use, historic restoration effort crossed a major milestone, courtesy of Buffalo’s primary economic development agency. The Buffalo Urban Development Corp.’s directors approved a $500,000 ...
The News offers its recommendations in races for Buffalo Board of Education Read the full story in the Buffalo News
Greetings Members of the Erie County Legislature: I’m writing you this letter asking you to support the resolution being put forward by Legislator Kevin Hardwick in favor of asking the NFTA to grant the Greater Buffalo Sports and Entertainment Complex a 9-12 month land option on the Outer...
A heavy list of developments within downtown Buffalo’s Canalside District may lead the way for a new wave of private sector-fueled investments. Sam Hoyt, Empire State Development Corp. regional president, said with work underway at the One Canalside Building, former Memorial Auditorium and...
The numbers were not impressive but nonetheless the Buffalo area topped Upstate New York in private-sector job growth compared to last March. According to state Department of Labor preliminary figures released Thursday, the Buffalo-Niagara Falls market added 3,200 private-sector jobs in...
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