NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER

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To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. June 30 - July 7, 2009
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EDITORIAL

DYSTER ACCUSES SELF?
The appearance last week by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli at a fundraiser thrown by the fetid Niagara County Democratic Chairman Dan Rivera at the Red Coach Inn left him plenty of time to bolster Mayor Paul Dyster's truly awful approval ratings by blaming past administrations for the contracts the city has with Niagara Falls Redevelopment and the Cordish Company.

LEAD STORIES

SEXUAL DEVIANTS MASSING AROUND CHILDREN AT NIAGARA STREET SCHOOL
ANALYSIS by Mike Hudson
I've known him for years, a retiree from one of the shops. He doesn't have any children in Niagara Street School, but his granddaughter goes there.

NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER BEGINS 10TH YEAR OF PROUD SERVICE TO COMMUNITY
by Mike Hudson
This week, the Niagara Falls Reporter begins its 10th year of publication, despite the predictions of many in the community who forecast early on that it wouldn't last 10 weeks.

COLUMNS

THE GOOD WITH THE BAD
by Mike Hudson
First off, congratulations to Cynthia Bianco on being named superintendent of the Niagara Falls School District. There was some grumbling about the fact that she is the sister of former superintendent Carmen Granto, but this is Niagara Falls, and there's always some grumbling about something.

WEB EXCLUSIVE! TODAY'S PERPETRATORS OF GAS-PUMP THIEVERY
by Jim Hightower
Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we're assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts that nothing can be done about it, for it's simply the law of supply and demand in action -- so suck it up, and pay up.

WEB EXCLUSIVE! CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME!
by Patrick J. Buchanan
And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading.

WEB EXCLUSIVE! THANKS FOR THE HOMECOMING
by Frank Thomas Croisdale
What a weekend! The inaugural Niagara Homecoming is in the books and it proved to be four days unlike any others that have come before them in the Cataract City. The many volunteers are all exhausted after giving so much of their time and energy, but they can rest with the satisfaction that they did their hometown proud.

MAID OF THE MIST LEASE AWAITS RENT REDUCTION
by Frank Parlato Jr.
Preserve our Parks (POP), the powerful citizens' activist group in Niagara Falls, Ont., is taking their case to the city council this week.

MOVIE REVIEW

WEB EXCLUSIVE! SCREEN SCENE: GROWING UP, HELPING A SISTER, AND BEING WARY OF ROBOTS
by Michael Calleri
Burt and Verona are two very interesting characters. They're a little bit emotionally stunted, but not in a bad way.

LETTERS

June 30, 2009 Letters
Tim Demler is being treated pretty unfairly in the media because of someone's personal agenda to discredit him as much as possible in this an election year. Just what improprieties are shown? Holding hands wasn't a crime the last time I checked.



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