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Print Edition 5.12.16

Print Edition 5.12.16

News, Online Newspaper May 12, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Print Edition 5.5.16

Print Edition 5.5.16

News May 5, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Sexual Predator Population  Explosion In Falls This Year

Sexual Predator Population Explosion In Falls This Year

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:23 pm

by Mike Hudson The number of registered sex offenders living in Niagara Falls has taken a sharp spike in 2016, shooting up from 164 in December 2015 to 190 this week. It’s entirely possible that perverts represent the fastest growing segment of the city’s population. In Niagara Falls, the oddsRead More

Grandinetti Applies For Status As B And B After Facebook Controversy

Grandinetti Applies For Status As B And B After Facebook Controversy

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:16 pm

by Mike Hudson In much the same way you wouldn’t want to give a loaded gun to, there are others for whom a laptop and a Facebook account can provide an avenue leading directly to all sorts of trouble. Niagara Falls City Councilwoman Kristen Grandinetti has often made headlines withRead More

Marc Smith flanked by US Sen. Charles Schumer and former State Senator George Maziarz celebrate the coming of Yahoo! to the Town of Lockport. Part of the deal was that Yahoo! was to donate $500,000 a year to local charities. As only the Niagara Falls Reporter predicted at the time, “local charities” did not mean Lockport - but Albany and the Governor’s choice.

Empire State’s Hoyt Makes No So Subtle Threats to Town of Lockport Supervisor

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:14 pm

by Anna Howard The Niagara Falls Reporter has obtained what seems to be “threatening” emails sent by William B. “Sam” Hoyt III, the Regional President of Empire State Development – a taxpayer funded state development agency – to former Town of Lockport Supervisor Marc Smith, who is presently the CoordinatorRead More

Reporter Called It Back in 2013:  ‘No Money’ for Lockport Charities from Yahoo!

Reporter Called It Back in 2013: ‘No Money’ for Lockport Charities from Yahoo!

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:11 pm

by Frank Parlato Only the Niagara Falls Reporter called it right, back in April 2013, when we reported on the $30 million Yahoo! taxpayer subsidized deal and called people “naive” who thought that Niagara County non profits would get any money in return for local taxpayers giving the giant InternetRead More

This Yahoo! server coop generates heat, which the cool temperatures of Niagara will help to offset.

Worst Area for Taxes Requires Government Subsidizes

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:09 pm

by Frank Parlato Consider how stupid this is: All told, Yahoo! will get $30 million in county and state sales and property tax breaks, credits against state income taxes and 7,200 kilowatts of half-priced electricity from the New York Power Authority (NYPA). These giveaways – which will be subsidized byRead More

Warshaw Costs Climb As PERB Rules Against City On Police Pact

Warshaw Costs Climb As PERB Rules Against City On Police Pact

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 2:03 pm

by Mike Hudson The $400,000 paid to Warshaw and Associates to transform the Niagara Falls City Police Department into a kinder, gentler organization under an agreement reached between Mayor Paul Dyster and former Attorney General and current Governor Andrew Cuomo five years ago may just be the tip of theRead More

National Fuel: New York Consumers To Get Rate Increase While Pennsylvanians Get Decrease

National Fuel: New York Consumers To Get Rate Increase While Pennsylvanians Get Decrease

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:59 pm

by James Hufnagel National Fuel supplies natural gas to over 730,000 residential and corporate customers throughout Western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. The Williamsville, NY-based oil and gas concern is vertically integrated across five business divisions: Exploration & Production, Pipeline & Storage, Gathering, Utility, and Energy Marketing, all operating largelyRead More

Senecas Say Damn The Torpedoes To  Local Businesses, Full Speed Ahead!

Senecas Say Damn The Torpedoes To Local Businesses, Full Speed Ahead!

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:55 pm

by Mike Hudson They said it couldn’t be done. Or, rather, they said it wouldn’t be done. When leaders of the Seneca Nation of Indians were gifted with 50 acres of prime real estate in the city’s tourist district, along with the multimillion dollar convention center for use as aRead More

This egregiously politically incorrect cartoon was published back in 2006 to demonstrate the inequities of the Seneca compact with New York State which punished Niagara Falls as it enriches Albany and the Seneca by allowing a group of people by race to operate tax free while dumb Americans who live in Niagara Falls pay the highest taxes in the highest taxed state in America! Where are our elected leaders in opposing this?

Seneca Smoke Shop, Gas Station To Open In June – Is Mall Far Behind?

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:50 pm

by Mike Hudson Back at the dawn of the new century, the Niagara Falls Reporter was a lone voice in the wilderness, daring to ask the question others dodged. Would a gas station and smoke shop operation be part of the Seneca Nation’s master plan for the development of theRead More

“I think it’s a perfect move for the State Park, that it stayed in the state park and is moving to this location.” - John Percy, President and CEO of the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp., last week.

Nikola Tesla sculpture to Remain in State Park

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:47 pm

by James Hufnagel Even though the Niagara Falls City Council, the Niagara County Legislature and the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area board all passed unanimous resolutions requesting that the famous sculpture of inventor Nikola Tesla be gifted to the city of Niagara Falls and installed at a place of honorRead More

Guys you can trust. Lou with his long time helper Paul will come to your house and handle any repair.

‘I Doubled my Business Through the Reporter’ Lou Avino Isn’t all About Gutters 40-year Falls Legend Keeping On

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:44 pm

by Mike Hudson Get your mind out of the gutter! When people in Niagara Falls think of Lou Avino, they think of gutters. For more than 40 years Lou’s been climbing the ladder of success onto the rooftops of Cataract City homes, cleaning the gutters befouled by the leaves droppedRead More

Bad Blood? New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tangled with Steve Pigeon on the political front when Schneiderman was a state senator.

Special Grand Jury to Be Impaneled in Pigeon Case

Featured, News May 5, 2016 at 1:42 pm

by Tony Farina We have learned that State Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman is expected to impanel a special grand jury in Buffalo on Monday (May 9) with the sole purpose of investigating former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steve Pigeon’s political activities, a continuing probe that follows the seizure nearly aRead More

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