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Memorial Medical Center Gala Sold Out Again

Memorial Medical Center Gala Sold Out Again

Niagara Falls January 8, 2019 at 8:19 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Tony Farina The 15th annual Memorial Medical Center black tie gala will be held Saturday at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, and asRead More

HAMILTON: Councilman Scott is right on the effects of the Child  Support Scofflaw Resolution

HAMILTON: Councilman Scott is right on the effects of the Child Support Scofflaw Resolution

Niagara Falls January 8, 2019 at 8:13 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Ken Hamilton Even though Councilman Ezra Scott wasn’t even the glimmer in his father’s eye back in the 1960s, he nonetheless appears to knowRead More

Form Over Function and  Another Misdeed of  Legislator Owen Steed

Form Over Function and Another Misdeed of Legislator Owen Steed

Niagara Falls January 2, 2019 at 6:43 pm

By: Ken Hamilton The representatives from the Renae Kimble “minority-majority” district are seemingly incapable of selecting good leadership, and will likely continue being the poorest, least educated district in the city.  That’s not to say that the other districts understand government, especially county government, much better.  But how could itRead More

Chris Robins to Run in County’s Fifth Legislative District

Chris Robins to Run in County’s Fifth Legislative District

Featured, Niagara Falls January 2, 2019 at 6:37 pm

Former Niagara Falls City Council member Chris Robins, (D) Niagara Falls has  announced his intent to seek election to the Niagara County Legislature in the 5th District for 2020-21. The fifth district seat, which encompasses Town of Niagara, along with the Deveaux and Hyde Park sections of Niagara Falls isRead More

Dyster Trying to Help Workers After Sudden Plant Shutdown

Dyster Trying to Help Workers After Sudden Plant Shutdown

Niagara Falls January 2, 2019 at 6:28 pm

By: Tony Farina Mayor Paul Dyster is working with state and federal labor officials to try and help the 100 workers affected by the sudden “shutdown” of the Global Specialty Metals silicon production plant in Niagara Falls, effective last Sunday, two days before the beginning of the new year. “TheRead More

HAMILTON: City Government Case In Point: to Change Our Outcomes we Must First Change Our Way of Thinking

HAMILTON: City Government Case In Point: to Change Our Outcomes we Must First Change Our Way of Thinking

Niagara Falls January 2, 2019 at 6:17 pm

By: Ken Hamilton Good news and bad news folks: we citizens are the little things that ought to have been doing the right things, and we failed to do pretty much of anything! One local Niagaran sat quietly in the seat near the back wall of the side of theRead More

Santa Has Departed Without Leaving Any Casino Cash

Santa Has Departed Without Leaving Any Casino Cash

Featured, Niagara Falls January 2, 2019 at 6:10 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 Santa has come and gone and he departed without leaving any bags of casino cash in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, or Salamanca, the three host casino cities reeling from theRead More

Petition Started for Control Board in Niagara Falls

Petition Started for Control Board in Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls December 18, 2018 at 4:50 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Nicholas D. D’Angelo Managing Editor Activist Terry Kline thinks it’s time for a change.  “Niagara Falls is in a state of fiscal crisis,” saidRead More

HAMILTON: The Courthouse Analysis

HAMILTON: The Courthouse Analysis

Niagara Falls December 18, 2018 at 4:48 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9       The Courthouse Analysis: to Change Outcomes we Must First Change Our Way of Thinking   By: Ken Hamilton I am told that there’s an old ArabRead More

Financial CRUNCH Continues to Squeeze Cataract City

Financial CRUNCH Continues to Squeeze Cataract City

Niagara Falls December 18, 2018 at 4:46 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Tony Farina It appears the three host cities that have lost their casino payments due to the stalemate between the state and the SenecaRead More

Gov. Cuomo and his lawyers negotiated a pact with the Senecas that didn't include payments past 2016. Perhaps the city of Niagara Falls should sue him for incompetence and see about getting him disbarred.

Host Casino Cities Hoping Santa Settles Gaming Crisis

Niagara Falls December 11, 2018 at 6:34 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Tony Farina The three host cities that have received casino payments from the Seneca Nation since 2002 that ended last year are hoping forRead More

Zona to Not Seek Re-Election in Fifth Legislative District

Zona to Not Seek Re-Election in Fifth Legislative District

Niagara Falls December 4, 2018 at 9:34 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         Four term county lawmaker to remain as Niagara County Democratic Party Chairman.      By: Frank Parlato Niagara County Legislator Jason Zona (D)- Niagara Falls hasRead More

Marsha McWilson will sing at the “Christmas Tour of Nations” celebration

Marsha McWilson will sing at the “Christmas Tour of Nations” celebration

Local News, Niagara Falls November 29, 2018 at 2:20 pm

This Saturday, Dec. 1, from 1pm to 3pm, Marsha McWilson will sing at What’s The Point Ministries, 409 Plain St., in Lewiston, NY, as part of their “Christmas Tour of Nations” celebration. McWilson is known internationally for her spot-on Etta James impersonation, though she offers much more as an all-aroundRead More

HAMILTON: Hyde Park or “Died Park” Should be a Public Decision

HAMILTON: Hyde Park or “Died Park” Should be a Public Decision

Niagara Falls November 27, 2018 at 9:29 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Ken Hamilton What is this preoccupation that Niagara Falls citizens have with death; and is this preoccupation the reason that the city is alsoRead More

Restaino Hoping to Make Mayoral Dream Come True

Restaino Hoping to Make Mayoral Dream Come True

Niagara Falls November 27, 2018 at 9:21 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Tony Farina “I’ve been thinking about it for a long time,” former City Court Judge Robert Restaino told this reporter in January of 2017Read More

FOOD REVIEW: Wilbur’s Annual Chili Cook-Off

FOOD REVIEW: Wilbur’s Annual Chili Cook-Off

Niagara Falls November 20, 2018 at 9:41 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Jamie DePetris Food Expert / Critic Wilbur’s 1stAnnual Chili Cook-Off was a HUGE success that surpassed everyone’s expectations!! Wilbur’ Bar & Grill, located atRead More

Morality: Acosta’s and Anello’s Similar Challenges and Outcomes

Morality: Acosta’s and Anello’s Similar Challenges and Outcomes

Niagara Falls November 20, 2018 at 9:34 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Ken Hamilton In political terms, we often look as the worse governmental corruption being measured in cash; but in reality, the worst corruption inRead More

Former Mayor of Niagara Falls Vince Anello.

Anello on 2019 NF Budget: The Hard Truth Lawmakers Cannot Escape

Niagara Falls November 20, 2018 at 9:09 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Vince Anello The annual dance of the line by line review of the mayor’s proposed budget is nothing more than a ritual to whichRead More

Piccirillo Throws Dyster Under the Bus in Bid to Be Own Man

Piccirillo Throws Dyster Under the Bus in Bid to Be Own Man

Niagara Falls November 20, 2018 at 9:03 pm

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9       By: Tony Farina Analysis Armed with a new job title in an attempt to avoid possible Hatch Act violations in his mayoral run in 2019, SethRead More

TOMPKINS: Niagara Falls Veteran House Renovation Complete

TOMPKINS: Niagara Falls Veteran House Renovation Complete

Niagara Falls November 15, 2018 at 11:18 am

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9         By: Kenny Tompkins Niagara Falls City Councilman Given that this is our final update after months of taking you through this journey, I thought itRead More

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