Reporter Staff
Delaware’s Corporate Crown Is Slipping: How TransPerfect’s Deal Spree, AI Bets, and a Reform Campaign Are Rewriting the Playbook
Phil Shawe has two parallel stories running at once. One is the familiar founder arc: bootstrapping TransPerfect from an NYU dorm room into a global language-and-AI platform with roughly $1.2 billion in annual revenue and 10,000 employees. The other is a political-legal crusade: a decade of trench warfare with Delaware’s Court of Chancery that pushed him to re-domicile in Nevada, relocate to Puerto Rico, bankroll reform efforts, and press a broader case that America’s most famous business court has lost the trust of entrepreneurs. From forced sale to deal machine After a bruising cofounder breakup, a court-ordered auction in 2016,
SoleTurn Album Now Available; Big Show Set for Friday Night in Hamburg
By Tony Farina Even as the rock band SoleTurn wraps up work on their debut album, The Soundtrack of Our Youth, which is now finally completed and available on analog recordings, which is a fancy way of saying a record, it will be streaming on all major platforms in the coming days worldwide. One of the singles, Shattered, including their videos that have been worked on for more than a year, is also out. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/30t01cvc8DjPfLAuu9y0SP?si=FjdIMdiWRq2IvBYo9l5hcQ YouTube: https://youtu.be/s0NMZuYhsDQ The actual songs in the album were done in weeks because SoleTurn has their own studio which is where they record all
Community Rallies to Support Doris Jones Summer Enrichment Program
In response to reduced municipal funding, community partners have collaborated to secure the continuation of the children’s Summer Enrichment Program at the Doris W. Jones Family Resource Building and the Packard Court Building. This collective effort ensures the program will proceed as scheduled, providing structured and meaningful activities for children during the summer months. The additional support relieves families from the financial burden of covering the funding shortfall, which many may not have anticipated in their budgets. Niagara United Vision, Inc. and Niagara Falls Redevelopment jointly contributed $7,500 to support the program, which will serve between 75 and 100 children
Niagara No-Brainer: Restaino Dunks $1.5B Data Center
By Nick Del Vecchio Niagara Falls Redevelopment’s proposed $1.5 billion data center adjacent to downtown Niagara Falls has been temporarily derailed by Mayor Robert Restaino’s administration. The mayor and his attorneys have invoked eminent domain in order to claim NFR’s property planned for its Niagara Digital Campus. Restaino has other plans for the property and is determined to prevent NFR’s project from becoming a reality. NFR’s planned 1.2 million square foot data center will house tens of thousands of servers and is a project suited to support the booming era of Artificial Intelligence. NFR anticipates 5600 construction jobs will be
The OneTaste Case That Should Never Have Been Brought
On Monday, opening statements began in United States v. Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, a federal criminal trial that prosecutors claim centers on coercion, exploitation, and spiritual abuse. But a closer look at how this case was built reveals a troubling pattern of government overreach, FBI misconduct, and reliance on discredited witnesses. This is not justice—it is theater. A Case Built on a Lie Much of the government’s theory was originally anchored in the writings and recollections of a woman named Ayries Blanck—the so-called “patient zero” of the OneTaste prosecution. Her journals and interviews were cited extensively in the government’s
SoleTurn Will Take to the Stage May 31 To Perform Debut Album at The Caz
By Tony Farina A night of very exciting music is in store for folks looking to be entertained come Saturday night, May 31, when the creative rock band SoleTurn will be on stage at The Caz on Seneca St., in Buffalo, to perform their debut album The Soundtrack of Our Youth. It will be my pleasure, along with former world number one heavyweight boxer Joe Mesi, to co-host the program which includes a music video that features Baby Joe called The Contender. SoleTurn leaders Vik Bhargava and Zachary Michael are putting the final touches on their work and the word
Save-A-Lot Just Another Victim Of a City With Too Much Failure
By Tony Farina Until something else comes along, if it does, the Save-a-Lot grocery store in the City Market has now joined the exodus from downtown Niagara Falls that leaves grocery shoppers in the neighborhood scrambling for someplace else to fill their cupboards at affordable prices. As of now, there is nothing nearby to fill the void despite promises from the state for a makeover deal for the City Market that right now is just a promise. Low profits and crime doomed Save-a-Lot to leave, according to Upstate Supermarkets, and they made good on the imminent closure that Mayor Restaino
Niagara Falls is Perfectly Positioned To Become a Tech Hub for a Better Future
By Tony Farina This may come as no surprise to local residents, but the average salary in Niagara Falls, N. Y., is roughly $41,430 per year or less than $20 per hour, placing the city in the lower half of U. S. cities when ranked by average salary. Local government workers make much more but things could change for the less fortunate if the leadership of the strong mayoral-form of government decides to move forward by embracing data center technology and all that it can bring to boost the local economy and help workers earn more. For now, with eight
Change Is Needed If Niagara Falls Is to Advance Into a More Responsive and Growth-Friendly Government
By Tony Farina It is reasonable to observe that public pension costs in many cities are substantial and have risen rapidly and that certain governments like Niagara Falls have struggled to cope with that fiscal pressure, thus creating a financial burden on economic growth and development and, to put it bluntly, any meaningful change in the way of doing business. In plain and simple terms, small and mid-sized cities like Niagara Falls are in kind of a never-ending cycle where the politically powerful city unions like police, fire, teachers, and municipal workers drive many decisions that ultimately do little to
Big Apple Trash to be Landfilled here due to Albany Inaction?
by John S. Szalasny Town of Amherst Recycling and Waste Committee Chair Editor’s note: This is a follow-up to Mr. Szalasny’s March, 2024 article. Sometimes I wonder why our State Government set up regulatory agencies, tasking them with planning for the future of the state within their expertise, only to allow their plans to die due to inaction within the State Legislature. Worse still, bills are passed every year and new tasks added to agencies like the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) even though their budgets haven’t even kept with inflation compared to the lesser workloads they had in the
Shalom Maidenbaum: Advocating for Fair Taxes and Supporting Community Causes
On Long Island, Shalom Maidenbaum has made a name for himself in the field of property tax law, leading a firm that specializes in tax certiorari services. Their work revolves around helping homeowners and businesses challenge property tax assessments, ensuring they align with fair market values. Beyond his professional endeavors, Maidenbaum himself has become a quiet but impactful force in philanthropy, contributing to causes that span health, security, and education for children with special needs. Leveling the Playing Field in Property Taxes The Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group (MPTRG) has built its reputation on the belief that property tax challenges
Renewed Evidence and Allegations of Misconduct in Lamar Burks Case Demand Federal Action and Justice
Attorneys for Lamar Burks, a Houston entrepreneur wrongfully incarcerated for more than two decades, are intensifying their calls for justice following the emergence of new, compelling evidence that raises serious concerns about misconduct by former DEA Agent Chad Scott and a joint DEA-Houston Police Department (HPD) task force. Civil rights organizations, former federal prosecutors, and prominent figures, including the Houston Chapter of the NAACP, are now urging a federal investigation, alleging systemic abuse of power that led to Burks’ conviction. Background: The Case of Lamar Burks In 1997, Lamar Burks was accused of murdering Earl Perry during an alleged illegal