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The Right Side  By J. Gary DiLaura: ‘WHY AMERICA?’

The Right Side By J. Gary DiLaura: ‘WHY AMERICA?’

State and National News February 3, 2016 at 9:44 pm

      God blessed America with the greatest natural resources in the world! We have more coal, more natural gas, more fresh water, and more oil than any other country. We have enough natural gas to provide electric power for 100+years; enough oil to provide all our refined petroleumRead More

City Hall Jokes Feb. 4 – 11

City Hall Jokes Feb. 4 – 11

Uncategorized February 3, 2016 at 9:39 pm

Six million tourists walk into a bar. They turn to the bartender and say, “We traveled all the way here to see a waterfall and the damn thing’s been turned off! Get us drinks and keep ’em coming, we got nothing to do and all day to do it!” NowRead More

KING CON SHMUELI SUES  OWN MOTHER, PROVING ONCE  AND FOR ALL HE’S A CLASS ACT

KING CON SHMUELI SUES OWN MOTHER, PROVING ONCE AND FOR ALL HE’S A CLASS ACT

Shmueli February 3, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    We were shocked at the number of emails complaining that we had omitted a story about the notorious swindler and con artist Shmuel “Sam” Shmueli in last week’s paper. This newspaper has uncovered a great deal about the rascal who has stiffed or tried to stiff almost everyone he has come in contract with.Read More

Readers speak out on issues of the day

Readers speak out on issues of the day

Uncategorized February 3, 2016 at 8:45 pm

  One feature of the Niagara Falls Reporter’s redesigned website www.niagarafallsreporter.com readers seem to really be responding to is the ability to comment on stories we publish in real time, essentially as soon as they get done reading. The number of comments has grown every week since we made the changeover,Read More

Reader disputes “still not asking for it” picture Grandinetti posted on Facebook

Reader disputes “still not asking for it” picture Grandinetti posted on Facebook

Uncategorized February 3, 2016 at 7:49 pm

Last week in our story  “Grandinetti & Rape Culture” we reported that Council member – woman’s rights activist Kristen Grandinetti posted this picture on her lively and active Facebook page: One of our readers, Jonathan Rogers disagrees with Ms. Grandinetti and her premise. He wrote: Re: Grandinetti & Rape CultureRead More

Aesop’s the Ant and the Grasshopper retold for American Socialist sensibilities

Aesop’s the Ant and the Grasshopper retold for American Socialist sensibilities

Uncategorized February 3, 2016 at 7:19 pm

Original Story: The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs, dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no foodRead More

Political observations and inconvenient insights with Shecky Sherman

Uncategorized February 3, 2016 at 6:44 pm

Good grief, just when you thought you’d seen everything the abusive New York State could do to Niagara Falls, the state comes along and does what? They say they’re planning to SHUT OFF the damn water flowing over the American falls! And right on cue – as the city fathersRead More

Dyster preserves gilt edged  benefits for Council members

Dyster preserves gilt edged benefits for Council members

News, Niagara Falls February 2, 2016 at 3:46 pm

It’s enough to make one wonder what happened to the servant part of public servant. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster last week vetoed a resolution by the city Council that would have ended the gilt edged health care benefits Council members receive for their part time jobs. Dyster said theRead More

Heritage Foundation: U.S. Dropped from No. 6 in Economic Freedom to No. 11 under Obama   

Heritage Foundation: U.S. Dropped from No. 6 in Economic Freedom to No. 11 under Obama  

State and National News February 2, 2016 at 12:45 pm

  As reported in CNSNEWS.COM: According to the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual publication by The Heritage Foundation, America’s economic freedom has fallen from the 6th freest economy in the world, when President Barack Obama took office, to 11th place in 2016.   America’s score in the index is related toRead More

Carol Burnett on how comedy has changed over the years

Carol Burnett on how comedy has changed over the years

Uncategorized February 2, 2016 at 12:18 pm

Comedienne Carol Burnett, 82, was recently interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter. She was asked how comedy “has changed over the years.” She answered: Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream withRead More

Ranking NFL venues, the Stadium Journey way

Ranking NFL venues, the Stadium Journey way

Uncategorized January 31, 2016 at 4:53 pm

by Andrew Kulyk From time to time, you can find in your news feed some article trumping out “the best NFL stadium” or “Ranking the best and worst”. If you’re a stadium enthusiast, these will always make for interesting reads. But in many cases, they’re also nonsense. And downright embarrassingRead More

Keep an eye on Chemours Closing: Excuse to treat frackwater, hike taxes, water rates

News, Niagara Falls January 31, 2016 at 2:16 pm

Niagara Falls -Keep an eye on the Chemours closing. Chemours plans to close its Niagara Falls plant by the end of this  year, eliminating about 200 jobs at the Buffalo Avenue factory. The Niagara Falls plant makes reactive metals for specialty chemicals industries such as pharmaceutical, pulp and paper andRead More

When was the last time you did it?

When was the last time you did it?

News, Niagara Falls January 31, 2016 at 1:14 pm

There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes they did it all night long and from city to city. When was the last time you did it? Ride the train, that is. Mayor PaulRead More

Former Security Director of Monroe County Water Authority Pleads Guilty to $212 million Bid-Rigging; gets $5,000 fine, no jail time

State and National News January 31, 2016 at 12:37 pm

ROCHESTER – Robert Wiesner, the former Security Director for the Monroe County Water Authority, entered a guilty plea before The Honorable Dennis M. Kehoe in Monroe County Court to the class “E” felony charge of Combination in Restraint of Trade and Competition in violation of General Business Law §§ 340Read More

Comments: Praising and criticizing Dyster $75,000 boundary waters party

Comments: Praising and criticizing Dyster $75,000 boundary waters party

Uncategorized January 29, 2016 at 10:38 pm

  We love comments. Here are three in response to:  Niagara Falls Taxpayers will pay to host Great Lakes Conference Dyster given $75,000 blank check to spend as he likes   Dave: If you’re going to blast the Niagara Falls City Council and spending, please stop being lazy and actually attendRead More

It’s in the Stars: Your Weekly Horoscope: Jan 28 – Feb 3

It’s in the Stars: Your Weekly Horoscope: Jan 28 – Feb 3

Uncategorized January 29, 2016 at 10:22 pm

Aries: (March 21 – April 19): There are only two things people dislike about you  – your face. There is no vaccine against stupidity. You are so ugly when you were born the doctor said, ‘I’m gonna drop it, if it falls it’s a rat, if it flies it’s aRead More

‘THE RAT’ SPEAKS ABOUT ‘MOLESTER’ NXIVM FOUNDER, KEITH RANIERE

‘THE RAT’ SPEAKS ABOUT ‘MOLESTER’ NXIVM FOUNDER, KEITH RANIERE

NXIVM January 28, 2016 at 9:39 pm

Next week we will feature shocking and lurid tales of people who were inside NXIVM. Here is an excerpt from comments one person calling herself “the Rat” made about Keith Raniere, founder of NXIM: “By the time they read this, I will have gone back to Mexico with Edgar. IRead More

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 10: THE LOVE CULT OF EL-SICKO

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 10: THE LOVE CULT OF EL-SICKO

NXIVM January 28, 2016 at 9:34 pm

BY FRANK PARLATO When I was hired as a consultant by NXIVM, in September 2007, the company was embroiled in multiple litigations. In addition, reporters were sniffing around and writing stories about the “life coaching” group–mostly bad stories. Critics claimed NXIVM was a cult. One of my tasks was toRead More

Print edition Jan 28

Print edition Jan 28

Online Newspaper January 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm
Dyster veto stops Tompkins’ council health insurance cost saving measure

Dyster veto stops Tompkins’ council health insurance cost saving measure

News, Niagara Falls January 28, 2016 at 11:56 am

    Niagara Falls – It didn’t take long for freshman councilman Kenny Tompkins to get a close up look at Mayor Paul Dyster’s veto pen. And from what we’re told Mr. Tompkins is not pleased at seeing the mayor – with a stroke of his seldom seen veto penRead More

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