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Charges Against Leor Kweller Dismissed: A Tale of Vindication and Hope

Charges Against Leor Kweller Dismissed: A Tale of Vindication and Hope

In an unusual turn of events, the charges against Leor Kweller, a former teacher, were dismissed before trial, and the prosecution’s attempt to appeal the decision has ended. The dismissal marks a significant victory for Kweller and his family, who have been fighting to clear his name and restore hisRead More

Anti-Semitism Claims Against Lawyer Led to Disbarment; Might Lead to RICO Charges Against Corrupt CT Family Court Judge Gerard Adelman

Anti-Semitism Claims Against Lawyer Led to Disbarment; Might Lead to RICO Charges Against Corrupt CT Family Court Judge Gerard Adelman

News, State and National News May 16, 2022 at 6:54 pm

Nickola Cunha is a divorce lawyer. Allegedly, she made antisemitic claims about Judge Gerard I. Adelman. This led to her disbarment. She said Judge Adelman favors Jewish lawyers and Jewish therapists. He is Jewish.  This series will examine Cunha’s alleged anti-Semitic statements. We will also examine whether Judge Thomas G. MoukawsherRead More

"Niagara Digital Campus" digital rendering courtesy of PRCG | Haggerty LLC

GUEST VIEW: Niagara Digital Campus would generate millions in sales tax revenue. Here’s how.

Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls October 12, 2024 at 3:05 pm

By Dennis Elsenbeck If you’ve followed the debate over the proposed $1.5 billion Niagara Digital Campus, you know that the project is estimated to generate more than 5,000 union jobs during construction, and approximately 500 jobs when fully operational, with expected annual wages to exceed $29 million. You also mayRead More

The Time for High Tech has Arrived for Niagara Falls

The Time for High Tech has Arrived for Niagara Falls

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 October 4, 2024 at 11:15 pm

By Tony Farina Well paying high tech jobs or low tourism industry bottom-feeder pay? High tech vs. more of the same for poor Niagara Falls.  The contrast is stark and the time to step into the future with hope for a better tomorrow is now. We’ll take a look hereRead More

Time to Change the Development Game in Niagara Falls

Time to Change the Development Game in Niagara Falls

Community News, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls September 28, 2024 at 10:11 am

By Tony Farina No matter where you look in Niagara Falls, there is a failed or under water investment development plan that has come up empty.  Whether sponsored by the city of Niagara Falls or USA Niagara it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Outside of the Welcome Center developedRead More

Tugby’s Opens on Niagara Street

Tugby’s Opens on Niagara Street

Community News, Local News September 28, 2024 at 10:05 am

By Tony Farina The Niagara Reporter wishes to extend all the best in the future to the new souvenir shop opening at 616 Niagara St., Tugby’s, named for Thomas Tugby who opened one of the first souvenir stores back 75 years ago near the Goat Island Bridge and later atRead More

Niagara Falls Needs to Find a Better Path To Truly Become a Wonder City

Niagara Falls Needs to Find a Better Path To Truly Become a Wonder City

Community News, Featured September 28, 2024 at 12:30 am

By Tony Farina Niagara Falls may not be officially considered one of the seven world wonders but is most commonly listed as an honorary 8th wonder or a natural wonder. Anyone who has seen the mighty falls in person or on film recognize it is truly a wonder of worldsRead More

Did Council Chairman Jim Perry Violate the First Amendment?

Did Council Chairman Jim Perry Violate the First Amendment?

Community News, Featured, Ken Cosentino, Niagara Falls September 24, 2024 at 9:16 pm

During a Niagara Falls City Council meeting on September 4th, Tanya Barone stepped up to the podium to speak for the good of the community. Once she announced that she was going to discuss a Freedom of Information Act request that she filed regarding a contract between the City ofRead More

Lorigo Tapped to Top State Political Post

Lorigo Tapped to Top State Political Post

Community News, Local News September 24, 2024 at 12:32 am

By Tony Farina Another incredible political honor has come to the longest serving Erie County political chairman, Ralph Lorigo, who has served as the County Conservative Party chairman since 1994, during which time many other political chairmen have come and gone. Lorigo, who is also legal counsel to the stateRead More

Gawel Gears Up for Council Bid

Gawel Gears Up for Council Bid

Community News, Local News September 24, 2024 at 12:29 am

By Tony Farina It may be early, but former Niagara Falls councilmember Michael Gawel is planning another political comeback to bring his legal and accounting experience to the city by running for one of the three open council seats next year and he has already tossed his hat into theRead More

Mayor Restaino has a grand dream. But the people might wake up.

Adopt-a-Park or Adopt-a-Mayor? Restaino’s Latest Desperate Plea

Niagara Falls NY – As the city’s eminent domain legal fight to take 10 acres of private property from Niagara Falls Redevelopment continues, Mayor Robert Restaino has two messages for his dwindling supporters. One, above all, the city needs Centennial Park, the mayor’s boondoggle dream – a $250 million planRead More

Excitement Generated by Wallenda Long Gone; Development Plan Looks Like Another Empty Promise

Excitement Generated by Wallenda Long Gone; Development Plan Looks Like Another Empty Promise

Data Campus, Local News September 10, 2024 at 9:57 pm

By Tony Farina It has been 12 long years since real excitement was generated for anything in Niagara Falls and nothing that has happened since or is on the drawing boards now will come close to electrifying the city like Nik Wallenda’s historic tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. It wasRead More

Lamar Burks on Prison Call

Renewed Evidence and Allegations of Misconduct in Lamar Burks Case Demand Federal Action and Justice

A Miscarriage of Justice, Wrongful Conviction September 9, 2024 at 10:20 am

Attorneys for Lamar Burks, a Houston entrepreneur wrongfully incarcerated for more than two decades, are intensifying their calls for justice following the emergence of new, compelling evidence that raises serious concerns about misconduct by former DEA Agent Chad Scott and a joint DEA-Houston Police Department (HPD) task force. Civil rightsRead More

Mayor Restaino is Blowing Millions of Dollars on Animal Shelter

Mayor Restaino is Blowing Millions of Dollars on Animal Shelter

Community News, Featured, Ken Cosentino, Local News, Niagara Falls September 7, 2024 at 11:40 am

Mayor Restaino’s reckless and wanton misuse of our tax dollars seems to know no boundaries. He now wants to renovate the former DPW building in the middle of Hyde Park into an animal shelter. He’s planning on using $4.5 million in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to pay for thisRead More

Batavia Downs Continues to Sizzle, Sets New Records for Month, Single Day

Batavia Downs Continues to Sizzle, Sets New Records for Month, Single Day

Local News September 4, 2024 at 12:18 pm

By Tony Farina Batavia Downs Gaming may be in the midst of a leadership change, but the numbers being rung up by the current leadership team continue to set incredible numbers with August ringing up $107.3 million, topping the previous best month by more than $4 million. To be exact,Read More

SoleTurn on Tap Friday Night at Angry Buffalo

SoleTurn on Tap Friday Night at Angry Buffalo

Community News, Featured, Local News September 4, 2024 at 12:14 pm

By Tony Farina The rock band SoleTurn, featuring the new and re-imagined hits they famously deliver, will be on stage Friday night at Angry Buffalo, 2753 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville, from 7 to 10 p.m., outside if weather permits, inside if not. In addition to their usual menu of crowd-pleasing newRead More

Niagara Falls Continues Failed Development Legacy As Latest Project in State of Who Knows What

Niagara Falls Continues Failed Development Legacy As Latest Project in State of Who Knows What

Data Campus, Featured, Local News September 3, 2024 at 11:13 am

By Tony Farina Very few government-sponsored development projects make good on their promise in Niagara Falls and the latest hope for a successful finish is now fading like many of the others with the state-backed subsidized housing plan at the former South End TeleTech call center site now being challengedRead More

Restaino’s Main Street Plans Echo Lackey’s Disastrous Urban Renewal

Restaino’s Main Street Plans Echo Lackey’s Disastrous Urban Renewal

Featured, Ken Cosentino, Local News, Niagara Falls August 28, 2024 at 8:48 pm

The City of Niagara Falls, NY has been plagued by poor development deals since time immemorial. Mayor Restaino promises to keep that tradition alive by marching our city into the development business and right off a fiscal cliff.  First is his abysmal dream of Centennial Park, which appears to beRead More

Sudan needs peace

The Risks of Sudan’s Division: A Looming Catastrophe

Sudan, World News August 15, 2024 at 2:57 pm

Sudan, a nation long beleaguered by conflict and political turmoil, stands on the precipice of further division, a prospect that could unravel the state’s already fragile structure. The possibility of splitting Sudan into smaller entities presents a myriad of risks and consequences, each with the potential to exacerbate the currentRead More

Betting the Farm: Restaino Pledges Future Taxes for Centennial Park

Betting the Farm: Restaino Pledges Future Taxes for Centennial Park

Local News, Niagara Falls August 13, 2024 at 10:29 pm

Restaino’s Centennial Park project could leave residents footing the bill for decades Niagara Falls’ leaders might wish to examine what has happened in other cities when they borrow money by issuing municipal bonds for speculative ventures like Centennial Park. After failing to secure funding, Mayor Robert Restaino plans to issue municipalRead More

Mayor’s Office Attempts to Hide Rising Costs for Centennial Park

Mayor’s Office Attempts to Hide Rising Costs for Centennial Park

Mayor Robert Restaino has been intentionally misleading his constituents for the past 3+ years by telling us that Centennial Park will cost taxpayers an estimated $150 million. When the Niagara Gazette attempted to uncover the actual projected costs of the project by a Freedom of Information Act request, Restaino’s administrationRead More

The entranceway to Hodgson Russ offices. Lawyers for the 600-employee firm are representing Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino in his attempt to seize the entranceway of NFR's planned $1.5 billion AI digital data center.

Restaino’s Hidden Costs: Niagara Falls Dishing Out Big Bucks for Eminent Domain Battle

Local News, Niagara Falls August 6, 2024 at 4:52 pm

By Frank Parlato How Much Has Niagara Falls Spent on Buffalo Lawyers to Stop the AI Data Center ? Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino has decided not to disclose the amount of money the City has spent on a Buffalo law firm for an eminent domain procedure against a privateRead More

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