By Jim Ostrowski On April 19, 2016, I wrote my first column for Artvoice and the Niagara Falls Reporter which was published two days later.  It was about Donald Trump’s speech in Buffalo.  At that time, Trump’s polling number against Hillary was 39.5%.  In that column, I made my predictionRead More

  Senator Rob Ortt (R,C,I – North Tonawanda) today issued the following statement regarding our President-elect Donald Trump. “The election results may have been surprising to the mainstream media, but this has been absolutely consistent with what I’ve heard from my constituents. Voters want demonstrable change and they’re sick andRead More

The Niagara Falls Reporter received a recent message from Zane Schwarzlose, community liaison for Protect America, a national home security company. Protect America sells home security systems. Their business is dependent on the existence of burglars. The more the supply of burglars, the greater the demand for security systems. InRead More

A Public Service Announcement Annual Lord’s Day Dinner November 24,2016    Thanksgiving Day      FREE DINNER For areas neediest families V.F.W. 917 LaSalle Griffin Post      2435 Seneca Avenue Niagara Falls, NY. USA          12noon until 6:00 pm. Certified Elderly / Wheelchair bound / disabled in need of a dinner mustRead More

The city of Niagara Falls held an open house for its new two-story, $43 million train station on Depot Ave. last July, but it did so without a signed lease in hand with Amtrak, the expected major tenant, and the administration of Mayor Paul Dyster has been saying for theRead More

CCS Oncology, the region’s second largest oncology group with offices throughout Western New York, including Niagara Falls, will be going to State Supreme Court in a matter of days in an attempt to stop Independent Health from dropping insurance coverage for more than 500 of its cancer patients, effective Jan.Read More

Maybe we’re just a little bit dense, but we’re having a little trouble understanding some of the language of the Government Directed Health Care Industry. Help us out. For example, among Niagara Falls Community events scheduled for this week is a public forum titled “A Community Conversation on Mental HealthRead More

By J Gary DiLaura Thank you Jesus for giving us the chance to regain our Christian, Constitutional Republic, founded on the rule of law, established by our Founding Fathers, treating all people equal and no one more equal than others and immune from the laws THEY established. Allow me toRead More

By Charles from Niagara Falls I was in the doctor’s office and just happened to pick up the paper, and it seems like you were sticking up for black people in Buffalo. Police are killing their dogs for petty weed that they find in their house. I’m contacting you because theyRead More

Niagara Falls could learn a lesson or two from the city of Jamestown, NY, located a little more than an hour’s drive south of here, when it comes to not only honoring but capitalizing economically on the memory of its most famous residents. In 1996, Jamestown officially opened the LucilleRead More

May Have Helped Other Republican Candidates Locally Donald J. Trump’s victory was historic on a number of levels, not the least of which was that Trump won Niagara County, New York in a landslide. “Mr. Trump won here, and he won ‘bigly,” Niagara County GOP Chairman Scott Kiedrowski said afterRead More

Hillary: “Jay Z, can I count on your vote?” Jay Z: “Fo Shizzle My Hizzle” *** Health care costs are rising uncontrollably. In America, taxes have been on the rise just to pay for Obamacare. Thankfully, Republicans have the answer. They want to repeal and replace Obamacare, and have waitingRead More

By Jim Ostrowski Note: This is an excerpt from The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by Michael Ostrowski and James Ostrowski (2016). What happened in Libya and Syria is simply a manifestation of a very dangerous mindset known as progressivism. ProgressivismRead More

Campaign breaks 24-hour notice disclosure laws Assembly candidate Angelo Morinello today filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections demanding John Ceretto comply with the law and tell voters who gave him $320,000 for his latest television advertising buy. On Tuesday, Ceretto purchased $320,000 in television advertisements for theRead More

by Matthew Ricchiazzi John Ceretto is the quintessential career politician, first elected to public office in 1995 when he ran for the Lewiston Town Board as a Democrat.  He stood quietly and waited his turn for advancement, and was eventually elected to the Niagara County Legislature’s 12th district in 2005.Read More

While Buffalo enjoys a massive renaissance of waterfront reclamation and renewal, Niagara Falls has been left behind. This is because, from the Grand Island bridge to the Falls and north to the Power Project, miles upon miles of Niagara Falls waterfront are owned and operated by State Parks and NYPA,Read More

Last week we reported statistics obtained from the the 2015 FBI annual report “Crime in the United States”, which officially ranked Niagara Falls as being the most violent city in New York State. Of course, this was not good news for a city that wishes to present itself to theRead More

A Niagara Falls woman has reached out to the Reporter to help save a family dog, which is desperately ill. “Please help Belle,” Jessica Lynn Stewart pleaded on Facebook, “She is a 4 month old mastiff/bull dog and has just been diagnosed with a rare medical condition. She has aRead More