Informant Ignasiak, like Bruce, was the true criminal in the case This week we continue our series on former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who was with Department of Justice for 38 years before retiring in 2016. In one of Bruce’s more famous cases, against 20 members of theRead More

Food-stamp recipients can use their taxpayer-funded benefit to order online from retailers like Amazon under a new Obama administration initiative that aims to facilitate the shopping experience for rural and urban residents. It marks the latest of many costly experiments by the administration to expand the fraud-infested program, which hasRead More

Oblivious to the fact that most have “had it up to here” with his failed policies, and as a dress rehearsal for his run for the White House in a couple of years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo hit the road this week carrying his “Happy Days are here again, the skyRead More

Readers of the Buffalo News are no strangers to the guest editorials written by local author and noted environmentalist Larry Beahan of Williamsville. Now a number of his thoughtful and erudite columns, spanning two decades, have been neatly tied together in book form, entitled “Buffalo View”. Wide-ranging topics from climateRead More

It is a special night. The annual black tie gala sponsored by the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center’s Foundation will be held Saturday at the Seneca Niagara Casino, and will honor two of the area’s best, a medical professional and a veteran lawyer who have distinguished themselves with their contributionsRead More

“Could only happen in Niagara Falls!” That’s what people were saying this week after Councilman Charles Walker – who is still dealing with four misdemeanor charges brought by the state attorney general for allegedly failing to file campaign finance reports – was elected to either his third or fourth two-yearRead More

As part of the implementation of the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly called “Obamacare”, an online insurance exchange was created to enable New York residents to purchase health insurance from private insurers participating in the new internet marketplace. Over 3.3 million New Yorkers purchased health insurance from “NewRead More

The Right Side By J Gary DiLaura How can highly educated people possibly be as dumb as they seem to be? It seems impossible… implausible, freaking incredible, to me! Some do the stupidest things possible… or do they?  Was passing a sweeping health reform bill without ANY bipartisan input, withoutRead More

By Johnny Destino “(I)t is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest When I accepted the position of Purchasing Agent with the city ofRead More

Shortly after the new year, Mayor Paul Dyster called in four employees for a meeting. “Staff,” he said, “this really cuts me to the quick, but I’m going to have to let one of you go.” The Black employee spoke up right away: “I’m a protected minority.” Then the femaleRead More

Newly elected NYS Assemblyman Angelo J. ‘Judge’ Morinello (R,C,I,Ref-Niagara Falls) whose district includes Niagara County and Grand Island in Erie County, has been assigned several committees for the 2017-2018 Legislative Session. This session, Morinello will serve as member of the Codes, Higher Education, Housing and Tourism Committees, and will serveRead More

North Tonawanda Alderwoman-at-Large Catherine Schwandt will be resigning from her elected position with the city of North Tonawanda to pursue a full-time position with the New York Power Authority (NYPA), she announced this week. NYPA is the behemoth, quasi-governmental authority that the late Robert Moses headed and which, since 1957,Read More