By J. Gary DiLaura These are my opinions and the opinions of a lot of Americans… What a relief… we again have a President who was born here, is a Christian, believes in: our Rule of Law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free enterprise, a strong military, loves ourRead More

Food-stamp recipients can use their taxpayer-funded benefit to order online from retailers like Amazon under a new Obama administration initiative that aims to facilitate the shopping experience for rural and urban residents. It marks the latest of many costly experiments by the administration to expand the fraud-infested program, which hasRead More

Readers of the Buffalo News are no strangers to the guest editorials written by local author and noted environmentalist Larry Beahan of Williamsville. Now a number of his thoughtful and erudite columns, spanning two decades, have been neatly tied together in book form, entitled “Buffalo View”. Wide-ranging topics from climateRead More

The Right Side By J Gary DiLaura How can highly educated people possibly be as dumb as they seem to be? It seems impossible… implausible, freaking incredible, to me! Some do the stupidest things possible… or do they?  Was passing a sweeping health reform bill without ANY bipartisan input, withoutRead More

By Johnny Destino “(I)t is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest When I accepted the position of Purchasing Agent with the city ofRead More

Shortly after the new year, Mayor Paul Dyster called in four employees for a meeting. “Staff,” he said, “this really cuts me to the quick, but I’m going to have to let one of you go.” The Black employee spoke up right away: “I’m a protected minority.” Then the femaleRead More

Newly elected NYS Assemblyman Angelo J. ‘Judge’ Morinello (R,C,I,Ref-Niagara Falls) whose district includes Niagara County and Grand Island in Erie County, has been assigned several committees for the 2017-2018 Legislative Session. This session, Morinello will serve as member of the Codes, Higher Education, Housing and Tourism Committees, and will serveRead More

(Editor’s note: The role of the District Attorney is an important one and in Niagara County, residents have a new person in the position. Inasmuch as Niagara County DA Caroline Wojtaszek ran unopposed last year, residents perhaps had less exposure to her plans and ideals than they might have hadRead More

 2016—year in review,  2017—continuing the path By Nate McMurray Supervisor Grand Island Roundabout: I spent the first month in office working to keep a campaign promise by literally sitting in the waiting room until the DOT agreed to commit to a new landscaping plan for the roundabout (adding rock and 14Read More

Today, Assemblyman Angelo Morinello (R,C,I,Ref-Niagara Falls) took his oath of office and was sworn in as a member of the New York State Legislature. Morinello was elected on November 8, 2016, defeating the incumbent of six years. Morinello will represent parts of Niagara and Erie counties, including the towns ofRead More

Buffalo – Niagara, one of the last Uber holdouts in the progressive nation; By Jim Ostrowski; You might think that the Western New York political class is embarrassed about being one of the few places on earth to make Uber-driving a crime.  You would be wrong.  These folks have noRead More

By J Gary DiLaura   Instead of leaving the Office of the President with distinction, a sense of accomplishment and honor, and a gratefulness to the idiots who elected him, the despicable person who occupies the office of the president leaves with hatefulness, contempt, greed and deserves to be despised;Read More

A recently-released research study by the University of Buffalo Medical School has reported that 80% of local government officials, such as the mayor, department heads and city council of Niagara Falls, are physically incapable of the simple act of licking their elbows. *** An MSNBC correspondent was interviewing a representativeRead More

A few weeks ago this publication began seeking people wrongly accused of crimes by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who retired last year after 38 years with the US Attorney’s office. Public service announcements appeared in Artvoice, the Niagara Falls Reporter, the South Buffalo News and the FrontRead More

Beverly Ann Bridgeman August 29, 1935 – December 20, 2016 Beverly Ann (Blessing) Bridgeman, a longtime resident of Sanborn and Niagara Falls, died at home on Tuesday December 20, 2016. She was born in Niagara Falls on August 29, 1935, the daughter of the late Christy William and Esther K.Read More

We were so poor when I was growing up that at Christmas time Dad used to suck a peppermint and we’d all sit round his tongue. We were so poor when I was growing up that at Christmas time we couldn’t afford tinsel on the Christmas tree, so we’d just wheelRead More

One majority lawmaker whose star is on the rise is Lewiston’s Rebecca Wydysh. The freshman Republican, who runs jury selection efforts at the county courthouse, has impressed her colleagues and party brass enough that she’s being given a portfolio heading the county’s opioid-addiction panel. That effort, begun by Bradt himselfRead More

Sources close to the Republican caucus tell me that McNall, while the overwhelming choice of his colleagues and Republican Party leaders to continue in his post, was not the only legislator eyeing the job. Entreaties were made on behalf of two other majority members, but party leaders are said toRead More