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YOUNG REPUBLICANS GROUP FORMING

YOUNG REPUBLICANS GROUP FORMING

Niagara County January 12, 2018 at 5:07 am

Niagara Falls, NY – Niagara Falls Young Republicans, a new group for people 18-40 who believe in Republican principles of limited government, free enterprise and individual responsibility, is starting a local chapter. Their first meeting will be a pizza party to be held on Tuesday, January 30th, at 5:30 pmRead More

IT’S CALLED “HARDBALL”

IT’S CALLED “HARDBALL”

Uncategorized January 12, 2018 at 5:04 am

The Right Side By J Gary DiLaura Call me a “Grinch” if you want, but what a few top executives at the FBI did was to commit multiple crimes including but not limited to obstruction of justice, interfering in a federal election, conspiring to commit both, possibly conspiring to fabricateRead More

Niagara Falls Jokes

Niagara Falls Jokes

Uncategorized January 12, 2018 at 5:00 am

Niagara Falls School Board president Nick Vilardo was the sole “No” vote last month on bringing sex ed to Niagara Falls High School, which has nearly the highest rates of teen pregnancy and venereal disease in the entire state. When asked about it, President Vilardo said it wasn’t so muchRead More

A New Year's Resolution for the residents of Niagara Falls

A New Year’s Resolution for the Residents of Niagara Falls

Local News, Niagara Falls January 7, 2018 at 11:40 am

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9     By: Nicholas D. D’Angelo Managing Editor As we enter 2018, there is no better time to reflect on what the previous year has taught us. On aRead More

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Niagara Falls pastor joins Memorial board

Uncategorized January 4, 2018 at 9:49 pm

The Rev. Craig D. Pridgen, senior pastor at True Bethel Baptist Church, Niagara Falls, and a senior business and planning analyst at M&T Bank, has been elected to the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Board of Directors. A graduate of Medaille College and Berean Baptist College, Pastor Pridgen has extensiveRead More

Exclusive: Raniere claimed he had proof for Holocaust denial, so Bronfman, Zionists, had to stop him at commodities

Exclusive: Raniere claimed he had proof for Holocaust denial, so Bronfman, Zionists, had to stop him at commodities

NXIVM January 2, 2018 at 1:21 am

By Frank Parlato; Back in 2005, two sisters, Sara and Clare Bronfman, invested $65 million into a series of commodities futures trades following the advice of their awesome mentor, a man named Keith Raniere, who told them he was the smartest man in the world. He told them he developedRead More

PLGGDN: Raniere’s latest heist of Bronfman money involved $20M cell phone scam meant to foil NSA & FBI; it followed commodities and LA real estate scams

PLGGDN: Raniere’s latest heist of Bronfman money involved $20M cell phone scam meant to foil NSA & FBI; it followed commodities and LA real estate scams

NXIVM December 31, 2017 at 4:13 am

By Frank Parlato;   One of the latest – perhaps the very latest – scamming of Clare and Sara Bronfman’s inherited money by cult leader Keith Raniere appears to be through a company called PLGGDN, [Plugged-In Technologies], in part, a high tech cell phone system Keith Raniere led in itsRead More

Raniere told followers ‘death threat’ [not law enforcement] made him leave for Mexico

Raniere told followers ‘death threat’ [not law enforcement] made him leave for Mexico

NXIVM December 28, 2017 at 5:19 pm

By Frank Parlato; Mystery explained:     What did Keith Raniere tell his followers in Albany that would explain him running away to Mexico that would not seem like an act of cowardice? The answer: He told his followers there was a death threat against him. From whom, or where,Read More

British surgeon who branded patients’ livers with his initials pleaded guilty to assault

British surgeon who branded patients’ livers with his initials pleaded guilty to assault

Uncategorized December 26, 2017 at 7:14 pm

By Frank Parlato;   A British surgeon, Simon Bramhall, 53, pleaded guilty in Birmingham Crown Court this month to two counts of assault by beating after he used an electric beam — typically used to seal blood vessels — to mark “SB” into a man’s and woman’s livers during their transplantRead More

Contractor files lien against Sara Bronfman’s Albany mansion, claims heiress stiffed him out of $35k

Contractor files lien against Sara Bronfman’s Albany mansion, claims heiress stiffed him out of $35k

Uncategorized December 25, 2017 at 5:35 pm

By Frank Parlato; Contractors went to work on Sara Bronfman’s new home in Clifton Park. According to public records, filed with the Saratoga County Clerks’ office, a mechanic’s lien was filed by J. Snyder Builders LLC on the Albany area home of Sara Bronfman, heiress of the Seagram’s fortune, and devotedRead More

Raniere says famous forensic psychiatrist evaluated sorority; Park Dietz says he was not hired to evaluate sorority

Raniere says famous forensic psychiatrist evaluated sorority; Park Dietz says he was not hired to evaluate sorority

NXIVM December 25, 2017 at 6:41 am

  By Frank Parlato;   Since about 2010, India Oxenberg has been a member of  NXIVM. For a time, she commuted from LA to NXIVM headquarters in Albany, NY to attend their endless curriculum of expensive classes. Then, in September 2016, she moved to Albany, NY to become a full time workerRead More

Mexico: ‘And Now The End Is Near’: Alejandro Junco, Felipe Calderon Wade In to Topple Salinas, Raniere

Mexico: ‘And Now The End Is Near’: Alejandro Junco, Felipe Calderon Wade In to Topple Salinas, Raniere

NXIVM December 23, 2017 at 12:27 am

After months of holding back, media giant Alejandro Junco has made his first firm irrevocable public statement: Keith Raniere and Emiliano Salinas must be stopped in Mexico. He did not say it directly in words. He entered the arena by reprinting in Spanish the New York Times crippling expose of NXIVM,Read More

Exclusive: Bronfman reached out to ‘Crisis’ PR as well as lobbyists,

Exclusive: Bronfman reached out to ‘Crisis’ PR as well as lobbyists,

Uncategorized December 22, 2017 at 10:23 pm

By Frank Parlato; The New York Times reported yesterday, in connection to their damning report on Keith Raniere, “Federal Officials Reportedly Investigating Group here Women were Branded”,  that ‘In recent months, Nxivm has … attempted to hire lobbyists in Albany to represent it before politicians and regulators”. Frank Report has also learnedRead More

The Niagara Falls Water Board was significantly revamped at the top levels earlier this year, with the influential Nick Forster serving as common council representative. Forster says many of the problems the city is grappling with were ignored by the previous regimes. Photo by Joseph Kissel.

STORIES OF THE YEAR: Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:58 am

Tough year for Niagara Falls with water board, casino cash woes By Joe Kissel It’s not surprising that Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently snubbed Niagara Falls and rebuked calls for emergency state aid when that very same entity is contributing to this city’s downward spiral to a control board. Which means Niagara FallsRead More

Independence Party candidate Austin Tylec won an impressive victory in Niagara County, upsetting former Niagara county Manager Jeffrey Glatz and gaining a seat on N.T.'s monolithic common council. Photo by Joe Kissel.

Single-party Governance meets varying fates across Niagara County

Niagara County December 22, 2017 at 5:56 am

Legislature rewards itself with raises after election By Joe Kissel Single-party governance — which is never in the best interests of the people — is part of why Niagara Falls currently finds itself between a rock and a hard place. With the election of libertarian and registered Republican Chris VoccioRead More

Council Chair Andrew Touma is "on board" with the Voccio resolution.

Community leaders talk about “changing the culture” but what does it mean and to whom?

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:50 am

By Joseph Kissel When the recently built $43 million train station provided lucrative employment for mostly out-of-city workers, residents from surrounding neighborhoods quickly noticed nobody from their community was employed at the site. “It’s a hard process and the biggest problem we have is to change the culture,” said outgoingRead More

Risky Sanabria, president of Local 714 Firefighters

Poison Pen letter is sneaky, vicious attack on Niagara Falls Firefighters

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:44 am

“You know there was a time when public servants really did care about the public they served,” the unsigned screed that arrived in the mail this week said, “Well I guess as the song says: ‘Those times they are a changin’.” “TAKE A LOOK AT THIS EXCERPT FROM A LETTERRead More

The stench plaguing Military Road and area residents is coming from more than just the landfill and it's importation of gympsum drywall, which generates noxious hydrogen sulfide. Photo by Joseph Kissel.

Stench from Allied landfill getting worse, impacting businesses on Military Road

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:40 am

By Joseph Kissel How bad does it have to get before the DEC steps in? For two years, the stench emanating from the Allied Landfill has been getting steadily worse. So much so, this summer tourists were seen retching by the side of the road as they hit the vileRead More

The $650,000 "Untroubled Waters" has generated backlash from residents but only time will tell how history and tourists will judge it. Photo by Joseph Kissel.

Falls, County react harshly to new “American” outdoor art installation, price tag

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:28 am

By Joseph Kissel It’s been a rough debut for artist Jeff Laramore’s “Untroubled Waters” in downtown Niagara Falls‘ Centennial Circle. Hundreds of residents have commented through social media on the $619,000 final price tag as well as the interpretive nature of the piece, which is to commemorate the obscure BoundaryRead More

Another Laramore piece, this one in Indianapolis, also unencumbered by ugly traffic signs.

Reporter critical of Mayor Dyster’s “public art” from the start

Niagara Falls December 22, 2017 at 5:24 am

There’s a saying that well sums up public opinion here in Niagara Falls with regards to the new Boundary Waters “public art” sculpture that was installed at the Rainbow Blvd. traffic circle last week – “Americans don’t act, they react.” “How could this happen?” people are now demanding of eachRead More

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