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

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

Angelo Morinello, candidate for the 145th Assembly District, has received yet another endorsement from a state business group, The Business Council of New York State, Inc. This is the fourth business advocacy endorsement Judge Morinello has received after Unshackle Upstate, the National Federation of Independent Business and the Associated BuildersRead More

Grand Island has been selected as the location for a planned NEW state of the art “Welcome Center” that will be located just off the thruway.  According to Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurray. the welcome center will not be a tourist trap or merely a rest stop. It will purportedly featureRead More

State Assembly hopeful outlines heroin & opioid legislative agenda “As a judge, I’ve seen this tragic heroin epidemic rip through our communities, fracture families and take too many young lives. But, I’ve also seen how second chances have given many of our neighbors and their families a new and meaningfulRead More

Trump OR Clinton…LIVES ARE REALLY AT STAKE!!! By J Gary DiLaura Imagine that you are about to board a commercial airplane with your family and you have to make a decision between two pilots, one an arrogant male and one an arrogant female. The male has been flying large commercialRead More

By J Gary DiLaura Hillary Clinton and Toast: Both Are Done! From the time that FBI Director Comey made the announcement that, although Hillary broke numerous laws, he did not believe there was ENOUGH evidence to prove intent in a court of law…then current and former FBI agents and executivesRead More

By Peter A. Reese Last Sunday, my bride and I stopped by the bar at the Four Points Sheraton in LaSalle. We struck up a conversation with a nice young couple from Pennsylvania and got to reminiscing about our visit to the Grand Hamister last summer (See “Staying at theRead More

Following the publication of an interview with martial arts legend Frank Dux — Jim Allcorn of Niagara Falls wrote to remind us that our area has several great martial artists and fighters who have resided, fought and/or taught here for years. Dux, who divides his time between Los Angeles, HoustonRead More

“The judicial process is like a cow. The public is impaled on its horns, the government has it by the tail, and all the while the lawyers are milking it.” – anonymous The final disposition of the (Matteo) Anello v. (Robert) Anderson case came down last week in the formRead More

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the Greek word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘disgusting little blood-sucking parasites’. *** There’s no truth to the rumor that Assemblyman Ceretto has been having an affair during his lunch hour – there’s no way he’d give up lunch for sex.Read More

By John Duke While watching my favorite political shows on Sunday, Deface the Nation and Meet the Depressed, I decided there was no way I could vote for either major party candidate. I couldn’t vote for Trump because for some unknown reason all the fair and balanced television stations areRead More

One sinister, one heroic: Robert Moses and Frederick Olmsted by Nate McMurray, Supervisor of Grand Island In the last several months I have heard the name Olmsted thrown around a lot. Several people have actually told me that he designed West River Parkway and thus it must be preserved. DidRead More

We were saddened to learn of the passing last week of Carol Sensabaugh of Niagara Falls, a retired cosmetologist who devoted much of her time and energy to fighting legalized abortion. Pro-life, as well as a Pro-lific writer of letters to the editor to local dailies such as the NiagaraRead More

Choolokian Castigates Ceretto for Lack of Principles By Glenn Choolokian When you think about the people who are representing our city, do you envision them trying to serve themselves, their political party or the people that they represent? Which do you think is right? I think most of us wouldRead More

  Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster’s new budget has both good and bad news. The good news is that he found $192,000 in the budget to fund the empty Niagara Falls train station next year. The bad news is – it’s still in your pocket. *** Mayor Dyster was out forRead More