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Judge Frank Bayger, Hall of Fame Trial Lawyer, Is Back Practicing Law
Frank “Duke” Bayger worked at a bowling alley while attending high school, worked as a dishwasher and waiter at the famed Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, worked as a bartender at the Town Casino nightclub in Buffalo, and won a $12.5 million defamation judgment for the late Niagara Falls restaurateur John Prozeralik against Capital Cities Communications and ABC Corporation, one of the largest verdicts in state history and in the country in a libel and slander case against a communications corporation. The case, which was eventually settled for $11.5 million, stemmed from a television report on Buffalo’s Ch. 7 (Capital
Robert Moses to be renamed “Niagara Scenic Parkway”; Why not just remove it?
Strike up the band, join the parade, wave the flag and pop the bag. The politicians are renaming the Robert Moses Parkway, to the Niagara Scenic Parkway. Please curb your enthusiasm. Especially since, instead of renaming it, they should be getting rid of it! Urging congress to pass Obamacare after a year of debate had dragged on, the exasperated president at one point exclaimed: “Everything there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it. So now is the time to make a decision.” Similarly, everything there is to say about the Moses Parkway has
Assemblywoman Wozniak admonished for pantless prodigies with male legislative aide
ALBANY — Following in the footsteps of her lusty predecessor, a vixenish but married assemblywoman from Cheektowaga is said to have exercised “incredibly poor judgment” by having a sordid sexual affair with her handsome male legislative aide. She has been admonished by the oxymoron-named New York State Assembly Ethics Committee. After an investigation by the committee into her extra curricular boudoir behaviors, the ethics panel said Assemblywoman Angela Wozniak, a Republican, violated the Assembly’s sexual harassment policy when she had an affair with her director of legislation, Elias Farah. The relationship between Wozniak, a married mother, and Farah began consensually
Great White Hunter Opens Sandwich Shop On Elmwood
Some of the menu items at the recently-opened Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches on Elmwood Avenue may lend a whole new meaning to the term “bagging” lunch. That’s because Jimmy John’s owner, James John Liautaud, is an avid big game hunter who loves to travel to places like Africa, seek out big, beautiful, wild animals, and shoot them dead––his notion of “sport.” According to one hunting magazine his victims include elephant, rhino, bear, leopard, lynx, wolf, hyena and zebra. “I choose to hunt and I choose to fish,” he declared in a recent, Nov. 2015 Chicago Tribune interview. “Everything I’ve done has been
Delaware North Loses Yosemite Contract Can Niagara Falls State Park Be Next?
News of potential import to the city of Niagara Falls broke late last year when details of an epic legal showdown at Yosemite National Park became public. Subsequent to losing a $2 billion, 15-year contract extension for hospitality (food, hotel) services to competitor Aramark at Yosemite, Buffalo-based Delaware North filed a lawsuit demanding $51 million compensation for trademarks it had secured for historic place names in the national park. Some of those trademarks were secured after the company knew they were leaving (see Jan. 28 Niagara Falls Reporter, “Landmark Delaware North Trademark Battle Hearkens Back to Maid of the
Why Trump
Why is Donald Trump so popular among the average Patriotic, American, working man and woman and feared by the main stream old guard Republicans and Democrats both? The answer is simple! He’s just like you and me in so many ways and will make changes that are better for America, you and me but not so much for the old guard! He does not believe in making decisions based upon Political Correctness and understands that our “old guard” political system forces Americans to make decisions based upon political correctness instead of what’s best for America or what’s best for their
1969: man on the moon, a dry waterfall and a whole lot more
On July 20, 1969 man landed on the moon as United States astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface uttering those famous words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Back here on earth, in Niagara Falls, the US Army Corps of Engineers had constructed a coffer dam – shutting off the American waterfall – in order to study the erosion of the rock face behind the waterfall. Man on the moon, no water for the waterfall. One an enormous scientific step forward for the world the other a mere – albeit interesting
State Money Flows Again, But Question Remains: What Happened?
The carpenters, all 70 of them, are back on the job at SolarCity, but more than 120 plumbers were still out as of Tuesday as the state scrambled to make $82.5 million in late payments to contractors who hadn’t been paid since October on the much-hyped Buffalo Billion program. Empire State Development and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute said in a joint release Monday that the payments are being processed and were slated to be delivered as early as Tuesday, our press deadline. For some reason, the state fell behind paying its hand-picked project developer, LP
Panepinto Ready to Take on All Challengers for 60th District Seat
State Sen. Marc Panepinto may face a Democratic primary in the 60th District this year and if he is victorious he will likely face a strong Republican challenge from the winner of an expected Republican primary between Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs and Tonawanda attorney Kevin Stocker, but Panepinto is prepared to run on his record of voting against tax increases, increasing school aid for Western New York, and fighting to remove microbeads from New York’s waterways as part of his environmental agenda. Panepinto was a narrow winner in a four-way race in 2014, collecting 34 percent of the vote
Delaware North Loses Yosemite Contract
Can Niagara Falls State Park be next? News of potential import to the city of Niagara Falls broke late last year when details of an epic legal showdown at Yosemite National Park became public. Subsequent to losing a $2 billion, 15-year contract extension for hospitality (food, hotel) services to competitor Aramark at Yosemite, Buffalo-based Delaware North filed a lawsuit demanding $51 million compensation for trademarks it had secured for historic place names in the national park. Some of those trademarks were secured after the company knew they were leaving (see Jan. 28 Niagara Falls Reporter, “Landmark Delaware North Trademark Battle
Second Amendment Watch: Obama and Gun “Control”
(Former FBI agent J. Gary DiLaura speaks out on new gun control laws) Okay Barack you want to talk gun control? Let’s talk about the gun control laws that are CURRENTLY on the books that Department of Justice does not use. There are Federal Guns laws on the books right now that cover every and any illegal act you could possibly think of involving guns! You think of an illegal act with a gun from ownership to transfer to transport to use in a violent crime to ANYTHING you can possibly think of and it is covered by some section
Jacobs Ends Speculation, Will Run For Senate Seat
Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs, a Republican and a member of the prominent Jacobs family which owns the Delaware North companies, has told political leaders he is going to run for the 60th District State Senate seat now occupied by Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Democrat. “He told me he’s going to run,” said Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo this week, ending weeks of political speculation about whether Jacobs would take on Panepinto, a replay of his inner debate last year when he was considered the top GOP challenger to Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz only to disappoint party