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Niagara County Jury Finds Man Guilty of Fatal Hit-and-Run; Did Not Buy His Defense That He Thought He Hit a Deer

Niagara County Jury Finds Man Guilty of Fatal Hit-and-Run; Did Not Buy His Defense That He Thought He Hit a Deer

Local News, Niagara County September 18, 2023 at 8:37 pm

LOCKPORT, NY: A Niagara County jury took about an hour to find Nathan C. Marziale, 39, guilty of Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Motor Vehicle Incident. The incident, which occurred on February 19, 2022, led to the death of 28-year-old Rafael Medina-Gonzalez. Medina-Gonzalez was working as an Amazon contractorRead More

Notable Political Figure Steve Pigeon Faces Major Courtroom Test

Notable Political Figure Steve Pigeon Faces Major Courtroom Test

A Miscarriage of Justice, Featured, Local News September 18, 2023 at 6:24 pm

By Tony Farina Where to start with Steve Pigeon? That’s the question I asked myself when publisher Frank Parlato of the Niagara Falls Reporter asked me to do an update on the former Erie County Democratic Party chairman who is now preparing for a December trial that could be hisRead More

Residents Expose Restaino’s Fiscal Follies, so He Yells at Citizen Trying to Pay His Taxes

Residents Expose Restaino’s Fiscal Follies, so He Yells at Citizen Trying to Pay His Taxes

Local News, Niagara Falls September 13, 2023 at 10:37 am

By Ken Cosentino Recently I had a conversation with a close friend of mine who is a lifelong resident and successful business owner in Niagara Falls, and he said something that stuck with me. What my friend said is this: “As major shareholders, developers in this city deserve special treatment.”Read More

Restaino Plays Favorites with Developers, Turns a Blind Eye to Unpaid Property Taxes

Restaino Plays Favorites with Developers, Turns a Blind Eye to Unpaid Property Taxes

Local News, Niagara Falls September 13, 2023 at 3:00 am

By Ken Cosentino Does Mayor Robert Restaino decide which businesses win and which businesses lose in the city of Niagara Falls? Indeed, he has turned a blind eye when it comes to some businesses not paying their taxes and others not paying their contractors. Local developer and Restaino ally RodRead More

Did Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino Improperly Target Political Rival Demetreus Nix?

Did Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino Improperly Target Political Rival Demetreus Nix?

Local News, Niagara Falls September 6, 2023 at 1:19 pm

By Richard Luthmann Demetreus Nix, a man with a troubled past, turned his life around. He started a construction business, became a community leader, and is now a Niagara Falls Mayoral candidate. But for the past several months,  Nix has repeatedly found himself in hot water thanks to what heRead More

Bill Yuhnke Just Keeps Rolling Along, Will Now Lead The Transportation Alliance

Bill Yuhnke Just Keeps Rolling Along, Will Now Lead The Transportation Alliance

Featured, Local News September 5, 2023 at 1:42 pm

By Tony Farina If you think there are no worlds left to conquer, let me introduce you to a gentleman who seems to find new exciting worlds in his life every day and there are no signs he’s slowing up anytime soon even though he’s a proud grandfather. You see,Read More

Lock Your Doors and Guard Your Wallets: Is Mayor Restaino Ignoring Crime for Centennial Park?

Lock Your Doors and Guard Your Wallets: Is Mayor Restaino Ignoring Crime for Centennial Park?

Local News, Niagara Falls September 2, 2023 at 10:54 pm

Cartoon courtesy Niagara Gazette Niagara Falls has signs around the falls advising tourists: “Lock your car doors. Take your valuables. Enjoy your stay.” Really? The signs give tourists a frightful first impression that they won’t enjoy their stay, for they have entered a high crime area instead of a naturalRead More

Mayor Restaino Booed Off Stage During Third Street Event

Mayor Restaino Booed Off Stage During Third Street Event

Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls September 2, 2023 at 3:30 pm

By Ken Cosenstino Mayor Robert Restaino spoke at the start of the “Thursday’s On Third” event, which showcases musical talent and local vendors on Third Street. According to one attendee, the mayor spoke about the success of the event and how it was an important factor in bringing tourism toRead More

GUEST VIEW: Data Center vs. Arena? The Future is Data!

GUEST VIEW: Data Center vs. Arena? The Future is Data!

Data Campus, Featured, Local News September 2, 2023 at 12:04 am

By Christian Printup I am a local boy, a proud son of Niagara Falls. I’ve worked in a handful of different places in the U.S. over the years — including, for the past seven-plus years, at Seneca Gaming Corp. as senior executive director of Entertainment and Special Events. Soon I’llRead More

Mayor Restaino Mum on Rising Murder Rate

Mayor Restaino Mum on Rising Murder Rate

Local News, Niagara Falls August 23, 2023 at 11:13 pm

By Ken Cosentino Yet another person was shot and killed in the heart of the Niagara Falls tourist district this past Saturday. Once again, Mayor Robert Restaino is mum. Mayor Restaino has yet to meet a camera that he didn’t like (with the exception of WGRZ photojournalist Ben Read’s lens).Read More

Mayor Restaino Accused of Withholding Funds from Centennial Park Opponents

Mayor Restaino Accused of Withholding Funds from Centennial Park Opponents

Data Campus, Featured, Local News August 19, 2023 at 10:08 pm

During the ongoing debate surrounding the controversial Centennial Park Project and its cost to the community, various organizations and groups have shed light on a concerning trend: Mayor Robert Restaino’s alleged withholding of community development funds and grant money for those who oppose his vision for Centennial Park. Reports suggestRead More

Turning Adversity into Advocacy: The Story of Guy W. Gane, Jr.

Turning Adversity into Advocacy: The Story of Guy W. Gane, Jr.

Community News, Local News August 13, 2023 at 7:57 pm

By Staff How does someone start over after being falsely accused of a crime? This was a question we put to Guy W. Gane, Jr. recently. “You put your faith in God, and you organize a reasonable plan for your life.” Gane, who was castigated unmercifully by the media whenRead More

The Time is Now for Niagara Falls to Act As Competing Projects Tied Up in Court

The Time is Now for Niagara Falls to Act As Competing Projects Tied Up in Court

Data Campus, Local News August 13, 2023 at 4:11 pm

         By Tony Farina According to a story in the Niagara Gazette, Mayor Robert Restaino “expected” the notice of appeal filed by Niagara Falls Redevelopment against a decision last month by the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in favor of the city’sRead More

Job Creation: NFR’s Niagara Digital Campus and Restaino’s Centennial Park Compared

Job Creation: NFR’s Niagara Digital Campus and Restaino’s Centennial Park Compared

Data Campus, Local News August 10, 2023 at 11:58 pm

Job creation is one of Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino’s highest priorities. Mayor Robert Restaino In his effort to stop NFR and Urbacon’s Niagara Digital Campus, a 600,000 state of the art data center from being developed, Restaino points to the marvelous job creation opportunities his project, Centennial Park, aRead More

Stadium Cost Overruns a Signal to Niagara Falls on Project Costs

Stadium Cost Overruns a Signal to Niagara Falls on Project Costs

Data Campus, Local News August 10, 2023 at 11:38 am

By Tony Farina Multiple published reports indicate the new Bills football stadium under construction in Orchard Park may already be facing cost overruns for as much as $300 million and that’s only after three months. Initially pegged as a $1.4 billion project in March of 2022, the stadium cost isRead More

From Boom to Blockade: Mayor’s Interference Halts Niagara Falls Tech Project

From Boom to Blockade: Mayor’s Interference Halts Niagara Falls Tech Project

Data Campus, Local News August 8, 2023 at 5:48 pm

Niagara Falls, NY: Urbacon is a developer of commercial and industrial properties in Canada and the United States. Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) has the land. The two companies planned to develop 60 acres of land in Niagara Falls as the “Niagara Digital Campus.” It was to be a $1.5 billion technologyRead More

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

What Came First, City Park Plan or Data Center Plan?

Data Campus August 6, 2023 at 1:50 pm

By Tony Farina It is important to note in the ongoing battle between the city of Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) over competing development proposals that NFR insists it discussed its data center project a fully eight months before the mayor’s $150 million Centennial Park plan was unveiled,Read More

Buffalo News Editorial Gets it Half Right on Niagara Falls

Buffalo News Editorial Gets it Half Right on Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls August 4, 2023 at 12:41 pm

By Tony Farina The Buffalo News editorial today on Niagara Falls got it half right and we certainly applaud the strong endorsement of the major expansion of the Niagara Falls Aquarium, already a bit of a small wonder next to the world wonder that the whole world knows. The editorialRead More

DiLaura: Open Letter to Our Next President, Donald J Trump

DiLaura: Open Letter to Our Next President, Donald J Trump

The Right Side - J. Gary DiLaura August 4, 2023 at 12:30 pm

J. Gary DiLaura MR PRESIDENT, As virtually all knowledgeable legal sources report, “The Constitution, executive orders and case law clearly give the president broad authority to classify and declassify documents. Similarly, prevailing law also requires federal officials to follow certain procedures in declassifying documents to establish specificity and memorialization for futureRead More

DiLaura on Age and Accountability: The Need for Cognitive and Physical Assessments in Political Leadership

DiLaura on Age and Accountability: The Need for Cognitive and Physical Assessments in Political Leadership

The Right Side - J. Gary DiLaura August 4, 2023 at 12:24 pm

WE HAVE REQUIREMENTS TO BE ELECTED/HIRED INTO IMPORTANT, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGING JOBS…WHY NO LIMITS TO PROTECT RETENTION OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS? For example …let’s start at the top. A President must be 35, and a natural born citizen. A Senator 30 and a Congressman 25, and all, citizens for specificRead More

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