Archive for December, 2016

Dr. Neil Dashkoff

Dr. Neil Dashkoff to lead new cardiac catheterization lab

Community News December 16, 2016 at 12:56 am

Neil Dashkoff, M.D., a prominent Western New York cardiologist and the former director of the cardiac catheterization (cardiac cath) laboratory at Erie County Medical Center, will become medical director of the new cardiac cath lab at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. Currently under construction on the second floor of TheRead More

Having fun making holiday placemats for the residents of Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Winter Clothing Drive at The Connection

Community News December 16, 2016 at 12:40 am

Sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, The Connection is a teen pregnancy prevention youth drop-in Center at 1700 Main Street in Niagara Falls. At The Connection, youth ages 11-19 years old can spend after-school hours doing homework, relaxing in a safe space or engaging in healthRead More

Anthony M. Bruce. His victims actually call him ‘Brucifer’.

Parlato Publishes PSA Seeking ‘Victims’ of Former Assistant US Attorney Anthony Bruce

News December 16, 2016 at 12:34 am

The prolific local publisher Frank Parlato, accused by the United States Attorney’s office of fraud and violating tax rules, is seeking “victims” of former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. ‘Tony’ Bruce in full page public service announcements running in The Niagara Falls Reporter, Artvoice, The South Buffalo News, and Lackawanna Front Page this week.Read More

Bills Keep Sinking as Playoff Hopes Disappear Again

Bills Keep Sinking as Playoff Hopes Disappear Again

Uncategorized December 16, 2016 at 12:19 am

There’s not much I can say about the Buffalo Bills that I haven’t said before many times in numerous articles dating back many years, long before the Buffalo sportswriters finally got around to writing the obvious.    I’ll sum it up this way:  the organization stinks. Throw out the four SuperRead More

Paladino’s meeting with Trump reveals much about the greatness of the man

Paladino’s meeting with Trump reveals much about the greatness of the man

News December 16, 2016 at 12:16 am

Buffalo developer, landlord, lawyer, activist, political candidate, idealist, and patriot, Carl Paladino met with President-elect Donald Trump last Monday for an hour. Paladino came and met the great Trump and did not ask for anything. Some have criticized Paladino for this.  Paladino did not lobby Trump for a position inRead More

Were you wrongly accused by this man?

Were you wrongly accused by this man?

Uncategorized December 15, 2016 at 10:50 pm

Former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce Upon information and belief, court records, document review, and eyewitness testimony, Anthony Bruce suborned perjury, obstructed justice, deceived the courts, recklessly and blatantly disregarded evidence that pointed to innocence, lied by omission and committed outright fraud and perjury as a regular pattern ofRead More

Mary Jo Tamburlin got a pay raise from Republicans. It prompted Democrat Dennis Virtuoso to decry the excess while standing mute on his own pay raises by Democrats just a few short years ago.

Look who’s calling the kettle black

Niagara County December 15, 2016 at 9:54 pm

Virtuoso slams GOP for Peck, Tamburlin raises, as he enjoys pension ala Dyster Some of us here at the Niagara Falls Reporter had to laugh when we saw the story that Dennis Virtuoso was complaining about pay raises for Niagara County Public Information Officer Christian Peck and Niagara County LegislativeRead More

Dennis Virtuoso

Virtuoso Says GOP’s Last-Minute Raises Out of Line

Niagara County December 15, 2016 at 9:27 pm

  A last-minute budget amendment giving hefty pay raises to two appointees of the GOP majority of the Niagara County Legislature is coming under heavy fire today from Minority Leader Dennis Virtuoso of Niagara Falls. Virtuoso told the Niagara Falls Reporter that the raises pushed through by the majority inRead More

Jeanne Leccese was recently hired as the executive director of the Niagara River Greenway Commission

Lack of Direction, Wasteful Spending rampant as Niagara Greenway enters 2nd decade

Niagara County December 15, 2016 at 8:56 pm

This newspaper first started reporting on the Niagara River Greenway Commission over ten years ago, in a Feb. 1, 2005 article headlined, “PATAKI GREENWAY PROPOSAL STINKS”. Among the problems identified at the outset: When an activist group of Niagara County environmentalists realized that Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper was selling them downRead More

Former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce

Were you wrongly accused by this man?

News December 15, 2016 at 7:34 pm

Upon information and belief, court records, document review, and eyewitness testimony, Anthony Bruce suborned perjury, obstructed justice, deceived the courts, recklessly and blatantly disregarded evidence that pointed to innocence,  lied by omission and committed outright fraud and perjury as a regular pattern of conduct during his notorious 38 year roleRead More

Nothing keeps a man warm better on a cold winter's night than a snootful of some intoxicating beverage. And what better time to get up and make a speech. Here (a very warm) Dyster appears at some taxpayer funded event to take credit for it.

Dyster always available for photo ops at taxpayer expense

Niagara Falls December 15, 2016 at 5:25 pm

A man for all seasons. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster sent out a press release to the local media (except the Reporter) to announce that there were “warming centers” for homeless people – which while taking credit in the press, he had, as far as we could determine, little toRead More

Dyster publicizes “Warming Centers”, but not in free Reporter

Dyster publicizes “Warming Centers”, but not in free Reporter

News December 15, 2016 at 3:48 pm

Winter is taking a turn for the worse here in Niagara Falls today and tomorrow, with wind chills in the negative numbers and the temperature plummeting to single digits. At around 7 pm Wednesday, the Buffalo News and the Niagara Gazette both reported on their web sites that Mayor Paul Dyster issued aRead More

Niagara Falls jokes

Niagara Falls jokes

Uncategorized December 15, 2016 at 1:09 pm

A tourist from “down south” was visiting Niagara Falls and saw a Nativity Scene in front of a local church. One small feature about the creche bothered her, however. She declared to her hosts that the three wise men should be wearing firemen’s helmets. They were at a loss to understandRead More

Print Edition: Dec 15, 2016

Print Edition: Dec 15, 2016

Online Newspaper December 15, 2016 at 1:16 am
The talented but often irascible Mike Hudson returns to the Reporter.

Hudson is back and is writing an investigative book on prosecutorial misconduct

News December 8, 2016 at 6:40 am

Mike Hudson, the founder of the Niagara Falls Reporter, is back with the paper after a short hiatus and disagreement with current Reporter owner Frank Parlato that Hudson claims erupted after Parlato became the first newspaper publisher in America to publicly praise Trump. Nevertheless, after the humiliating defeat of HillaryRead More

City Clerk Carol Antonucci has been asked to leave by Mayor Paul Dyster. She may have a hand in asking Dyster to leave too, as readers may soon see.

Lisa Vitello to be named City Clerk

News December 8, 2016 at 6:31 am

… As Former City Clerk may possess evidence of Hamister – Dyster fraud Mayor Paul Dyster, always eager to take care of his friends and supporters, will start the new year off taking care of his good friend Lisa Vitello who, a source says, will become the next city clerk.Read More

Paul Dyster with his idol Barack Obama.

Dyster may open floodgates for refugee welfare recipients, but will aid poverty industry immensely

News December 8, 2016 at 4:46 am

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster plan to aid in the resettlement efforts for up to 50 refugee families from the Middle East to the city will begin in earnest next year. “We have a very diverse community to start with and we just want to make certain people who comeRead More

"Motherboard" sign on the north Moses Parkway is deemed by the Federal Highway Administration to be distracting and in violation of federal regulations.

Feds to Cuomo: Parkway Signage out of Compliance

News December 8, 2016 at 2:29 am

“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind,” went a dopey 1970’s-era song by a group called the Five Man Electrical Band, which could reflect the regulatory mindset of the Federal Highway Administration as it attempts to rein in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest “I Love NY”Read More

Ancient pictoglyphs on the closed lanes of the Niagara Scenic Parkway reveal that prehistoric cultures liked to run each other down with bicycles.

“Scenic” Parkway Detracts from Economy, Environment, Quality of Life

Niagara Falls December 8, 2016 at 2:23 am

Last March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that a section of the north Robert Moses Parkway paralleling Whirlpool Street in the city will be removed, at a cost of $42 million. Perhaps the most interesting line of his press release was the following: “The project will remove an underutilized two-mile segmentRead More

10:10 am - two guys track in more dirt.

Never a Wait in line at new Niagara Falls Amtrak station

Niagara Falls December 8, 2016 at 2:09 am

Yesterday at 10 am, a mere 24 hours after the politicians and local media welcomed the first Amtrak train to the new Niagara Falls International Train Station, Intermodal Transportation Center and Customhouse Interpretive Center (“NFITSITCCIC”), we dropped in to snap some photos. The morning after, so to speak. First impressionRead More

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