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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

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

New Business Transparency Rules: What You Need to Know About Beneficial Ownership Reporting in 2024

New Business Transparency Rules: What You Need to Know About Beneficial Ownership Reporting in 2024

Community News, Gawel, Local News October 19, 2024 at 11:39 am

Michael S. Gawel, JD, CPA Beneficial Ownership Information In 2021 Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. As of 2024 the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) requires most domestic and foreign businesses that are registered to do business in the US to report their Beneficial OwnershipRead More

Brown Moves On to New Position

Brown Moves On to New Position

Community News, Local News October 19, 2024 at 9:39 am

By Tony Farina After nearly 20 years as mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown is getting acquainted with his new environs, Western Regional Off-Track Betting at Batavia Downs. In a bright and classy news conference in City Hall last week, Brown said he was looking forward to the next chapter ofRead More

Gawel Kicks Off Run Today at Wilbur’s

Gawel Kicks Off Run Today at Wilbur’s

Community News, Gawel, Local News October 14, 2024 at 10:32 am

By Tony Farina Entertainment begins at 4:30 this afternoon (Monday, Oct.14) at Wilbur’s Bar on Cayuga Dr., Niagara Falls, where former councilmember Michael Gawel will formally announce his candidacy for city council next year. Gawel, a CPA, pledges to run hard for a seat on the council to help bringRead More

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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

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