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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

SoleTurn Brings Their Great Sound to Tailgate Fun

SoleTurn Brings Their Great Sound to Tailgate Fun

Community News, Featured, Local News December 7, 2024 at 3:31 pm

By Tony Farina The popular rock band SoleTurn made their musical contribution to the Buffalo Bills tailgate partying last Sunday before the game against the San Francisco Forty-Niners as the Bills fans were gearing up for another big NFL contest on the home turf.  The Bills rewarded their fans withRead More

Fixated and Furious: Restaino’s War Against NFR’s Development Plans

Fixated and Furious: Restaino’s War Against NFR’s Development Plans

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls December 5, 2024 at 8:57 pm

By Frank Parlato I saw Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino in one of his out-of-control states. Restaino appeared at a fundraising event for Glenn Choolokian between when the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct kicked Restaino off the bench in 2007 and when he was elected mayor in 2019.Read More

Mayor Restaino Ignores Experts: Red Flags Surround Event Center Plans

Mayor Restaino Ignores Experts: Red Flags Surround Event Center Plans

It’s been two years since the former director of the Niagara University’s Global Tourism Institute, Pat Whalen, warned us about the looming tax burden Mayor Restaino’s Centennial Park and event center will inevitably create for us. Despite these warnings, our mayor is forging ahead with his plans which are foundedRead More

Restaino Administration Withholding Casino Funds from Schools, Hospital, NFTA and UGRR Museum

Restaino Administration Withholding Casino Funds from Schools, Hospital, NFTA and UGRR Museum

Uncategorized November 25, 2024 at 11:26 pm

Last month, the City of Niagara Falls, NY received $7,614,846 from New York State as a result of Governor Kathy Hochul strong-arming the Seneca Nation of Indians in 2022 for $564 million in casino money. According to the operations of the original gaming compact, the City of Niagara Falls isRead More

Plagued by Rats, LaSalle Residents Scoff at Mayor Ratstaino’s Ten Dollar Coupon

Plagued by Rats, LaSalle Residents Scoff at Mayor Ratstaino’s Ten Dollar Coupon

Community News, Ken Cosentino, Local News, Niagara Falls November 23, 2024 at 1:22 pm

Rats! It’s like a scene from a horror movie, except it’s all too real for hundreds of residents living in the LaSalle area where giant hungry rats have invaded homes, cars and trash cans. In September, City of Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino held a public meeting at the LaSalleRead More

$150M Fantasy? Restaino’s Arena Plan Crumbles Under Rising Costs

$150M Fantasy? Restaino’s Arena Plan Crumbles Under Rising Costs

Community News, Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls November 22, 2024 at 11:22 pm

By Frank Parlato Escalating Costs of the Bills Stadium On November 15, 2024, the Buffalo Bills management confirmed the new Bills stadium will cost more than $2.1 billion, 50% higher than the original estimates in 2020 of $1.35 billion. The $560 million increase is primarily due to inflation, which hasRead More

Shanna Gardner

Defense Team Proclaims Shanna Gardner’s Innocence Amid Allegations of Misconduct

Capital Crime, Criminal Defense, Featured, Florida November 18, 2024 at 3:13 pm

In a case fraught with allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, Shanna Gardner‘s defense team is taking a firm stance on her innocence as she faces charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in connection with the murder of her ex-husband, Jared Bridegan. With the State of Florida pursuing the death penalty,Read More

Data Center is Best Path for Niagara Falls

Data Center is Best Path for Niagara Falls

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls November 15, 2024 at 6:43 pm

By Tony Farina Even if you believe Mayor Robert Restaino’s heart is in the right place when it comes to rebuilding Niagara Falls, his vision on how to get it done is unfortunately an old, worn path that has not delivered in the past and is not likely to proveRead More

Niagara Falls Development Dreams in Limbo Despite Urban Renewal Agency Funds

Niagara Falls Development Dreams in Limbo Despite Urban Renewal Agency Funds

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls November 15, 2024 at 2:27 am

By Tony Farina New York State has a structural budget deficit with a three-year budget gap of $13.9 billion projected and it is expected to increase further as stop-gap tax measures phase out and public education and health care costs continue to grow. Many experts see the problem as stateRead More

Veteran/Activist Arlene Doss Exposes Mayor Restaino’s Web of Lies

Veteran/Activist Arlene Doss Exposes Mayor Restaino’s Web of Lies

Featured, Ken Cosentino, Local News, Niagara Falls November 13, 2024 at 6:50 pm

The fight continues between (38 year) US Army veteran/community activist Arlene Doss and cowardly bully Mayor Robert Restaino over the Beech Avenue Project. Despite Arlene’s larger-than-life moral stature, it would be misleading to label this a “Battle of the Titans” due to the stark contrast between Mayor Restaino’s petty impishRead More

Digital Campus Would Be a Lottery Win for Taxpayers

Digital Campus Would Be a Lottery Win for Taxpayers

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls November 8, 2024 at 10:00 am

By Tony Farina The real measure of the economic benefits that would accrue to the city of Niagara Falls across the board with the development of a nine-building, $1.5 billion South End digital campus as proposed by Niagara Falls Redevelopment is now becoming much clearer and even beyond the wildestRead More

Niagara Falls Redevelopment is taking the next steps on a $1.5 billion plan to construct a massive data center campus in the City of Niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls Redevelopment is taking the next steps on a $1.5 billion plan to construct a massive data center campus in the City of Niagara Falls.

Community News, Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls November 5, 2024 at 4:17 pm

By Jacob Tierney  The developer, which owns more than 140 acres in downtown Niagara Falls, plans to construct nine buildings – totaling 1.2 million square feet – over five phases on 53 acres of undeveloped or underdeveloped land between Falls Street and Rainbow Boulevard. “We’re talking right now about undevelopedRead More

Voters be Trippin’

Voters be Trippin’

The Amtrak Train Station located at 825 Depot Avenue is an early polling location for voters in and around Niagara Falls, NY. Early voting began on Saturday, October 26th and “since then, every single day, at least one, and sometimes several elderly voters have violently tripped and fallen in frontRead More

Legacy Project or Political Vendetta? Mayor Restaino’s Arena Plans Under Scrutiny Amid NFR Dispute

Legacy Project or Political Vendetta? Mayor Restaino’s Arena Plans Under Scrutiny Amid NFR Dispute

This is Part Two of a series on the eminent domain fight between Mayor Restaino and NFR. Read the first article here. Niagara Falls’ mayor Robert Restaino is a lawyer and formerly a city court judge who famously was removed from the bench for an unfortunate episode where he lockedRead More

Eminent Domain Escalates: Restaino’s $150 Million Arena Plan Threatens $1.5 Billion AI Data Center

Eminent Domain Escalates: Restaino’s $150 Million Arena Plan Threatens $1.5 Billion AI Data Center

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 October 29, 2024 at 7:18 pm

An incredible battle is underway in Niagara Falls, NY. The battleground is a 10-acre piece of vacant land. The fight is over what the 10 acres will be used for – the entranceway to a sprawling AI digital data center built without taxpayer funding, a project that will contribute millionsRead More

Gov. Hochul's DEC has proposed logging of the old growth forest of Zoar Valley

Hochul’s DEC set to Clear-Cut Zoar Old-Growth Forest

Climate Change, State and National News October 29, 2024 at 10:52 am

  Several years ago, I attended a hike through the wild and majestic Zoar Valley, located a half hour’s drive south of Buffalo, led by forestry expert Bruce Kershner. A living legend among the local environmental community, Kershner was an acknowledged expert and the “go to” guy when it cameRead More

Essential Deductions Every Landlord Should Know: Expert Advice from Michael S. Gawel, CPA, JD

Essential Deductions Every Landlord Should Know: Expert Advice from Michael S. Gawel, CPA, JD

Gawel October 28, 2024 at 10:54 pm

By Michael S. Gawel, JD, CPA Rental Income For Niagara Falls resident’s rental income is one of the most common forms of taxable income and one of the most misreported. People often start collecting rental income from a spare bedroom, garage apartment, upper apartment or inherited property but forget toRead More

Mayor Restaino: The Gaslight King of Niagara Falls

Mayor Restaino: Gaslight King of Niagara Falls

Community News, Featured, Ken Cosentino, Local News, Niagara Falls October 27, 2024 at 12:10 am

“We have been deceived on the North End of Niagara Falls. We have been defrauded,” Arlene (Jackson) Doss told WKBW earlier this month while referring to Mayor Robert Restaino’s refusal to write a letter of support for the Beech Avenue project; so that Arlene and her nonprofit Niagara United VisionRead More

Niagara Falls Redevelopment Files Application for Planned Unit District (PUD) for $1.5 Billion Niagara Digital Campus

Niagara Falls Redevelopment Files Application for Planned Unit District (PUD) for $1.5 Billion Niagara Digital Campus

Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 October 26, 2024 at 9:40 pm

Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) announced Thursday that it has filed a full application with the City of Niagara Falls for a Negotiated Planned Development District, more commonly referred to as a Planned Unit District (PUD). The new district would be known as “Data Center at Niagara Digital Campus PUD,” andRead More

Mayor’s Vision Not a Good Deal for Anybody

Mayor’s Vision Not a Good Deal for Anybody

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls October 19, 2024 at 11:54 am

By Tony Farina There are no takers so far to invest in Restaino’s dream project, including New York State, leaving Niagara Falls taxpayers the most likely borrower in a project that most economic experts predict won’t deliver much in the way of jobs or anything else, especially given the competitionRead More

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