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Niagara Falls Budget Compromise Seen as ‘Shortsighted’

Niagara Falls November 13, 2018 at 7:53 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 With no guarantee of ever receiving another dime of casino money given the deadlock between the Senecas and the state, Niagara FallsRead More

Expedia Names Niagara Falls, NY, as Top-16 Honeymoon Destination – But Travel Writer May Not Have Ever Visited?

Expedia Names Niagara Falls, NY, as Top-16 Honeymoon Destination – But Travel Writer May Not Have Ever Visited?

Niagara Falls November 13, 2018 at 7:40 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: Frank Parlato Niagara Falls NY was selected by Expedia as one of the top 16 best honeymoon destinations in America! Expedia.com rounded up what they claimed are their Top 16Read More

EDITORIAL: Niagara Gorge ‘Renewal’ Likely to Destroy Beauty of the Gorge

EDITORIAL: Niagara Gorge ‘Renewal’ Likely to Destroy Beauty of the Gorge

Niagara Falls November 8, 2018 at 9:37 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         Niagara Gorge ‘Renewal’ likely to destroy beauty of the gorge as it kills almost every tree   There is a program in progress to “remove non-nativeRead More

Three-term Mayor Paul Dyster's legacy will not be carried out under hand-selected successor Seth Piccirillo who lost to Robert M. Restaino in the democratic primary election in June.

Dyster Must Shoulder Most of Blame for Crisis

Niagara Falls November 6, 2018 at 8:38 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 fiscal crisis confronting the City of Niagara Falls has been in the making for years and Mayor Paul Dyster, who is nowRead More

Niagara Reporter Obtains Garbage ‘User Fee’ Docs Ahead of Nov. 14th Public Hearing

Niagara Reporter Obtains Garbage ‘User Fee’ Docs Ahead of Nov. 14th Public Hearing

Niagara Falls November 5, 2018 at 7:21 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 The Niagara Reporter has exclusively obtained garbage ‘user fee’ documents ahead of their scheduled release date of November 6th, 2018.   These documents contain, among other things, a letterRead More

Niagara Falls Officials Fighting to Avoid Financial Train Wreck

Niagara Falls Officials Fighting to Avoid Financial Train Wreck

Niagara Falls October 30, 2018 at 9:04 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 With no casino cash next year, dwindling reserves, and disagreement among elected officials on how to close a projected $14-million budget shortfall,Read More

PARLATO: Piccirillo has Record of Harebrained Ideas & Dangerous Incompetence; Will Make Perfect Successor for Dyster

PARLATO: Piccirillo has Record of Harebrained Ideas & Dangerous Incompetence; Will Make Perfect Successor for Dyster

Niagara Falls October 30, 2018 at 9:00 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       Piccirillo has Record of Harebrained Ideas & Dangerous Incompetence; Will Make Perfect Successor for Dyster   By: Frank Parlato He is a man to match theRead More

Touma Hoping Garbage User Fee Will Help City Deal With Casino Crisis

Touma Hoping Garbage User Fee Will Help City Deal With Casino Crisis

Niagara Falls October 23, 2018 at 7:31 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 Time is growing short for Niagara Falls elected officials to plug a nearly $14 million hole in next year’s budget, primarily theRead More

PARLATO: Whatever Happened to Piccirillo’s Plan to Pay People to Live Here?

PARLATO: Whatever Happened to Piccirillo’s Plan to Pay People to Live Here?

Niagara Falls October 23, 2018 at 7:24 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: Frank Parlato Mayor Paul Dyster, who led the city to financial ruin through extravagant spending, if his wife gives him permission to not runRead More

Mike Hudson was Niagara Falls – A Man Who Made Us Take a Closer Look at Ourselves

Mike Hudson was Niagara Falls – A Man Who Made Us Take a Closer Look at Ourselves

Niagara Falls October 23, 2018 at 7:03 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: Ken Hamilton As sad as it may seem to most, the truth is that in many ways Mike Hudson was both a mirror andRead More

North Tonawanda Shuts Down Makeshift Skatepark

North Tonawanda Shuts Down Makeshift Skatepark

Niagara Falls October 23, 2018 at 7:00 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: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda Kids across North Tonawanda are up in arms after an old tennis court – which was transformed intoRead More

Food Review: Angela’s Famous BBQ

Food Review: Angela’s Famous BBQ

Niagara Falls October 16, 2018 at 8:57 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 So this weeks review is a bit different. I didn’t choose a restaurant this week, but rather an awesomeRead More

Chris’s Corner: My Position on the City Budget

Chris’s Corner: My Position on the City Budget

Niagara Falls October 16, 2018 at 8:52 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: Chris Voccio Niagara Falls City Councilman When Mayor Dyster presented his budget to the City Council on Friday, September 29, I was, before seeing theRead More

HAMILTON: You Want Us to be Like Buffalo? Then Let’s Punt to the Control Board!

HAMILTON: You Want Us to be Like Buffalo? Then Let’s Punt to the Control Board!

Niagara Falls October 16, 2018 at 8:49 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 Someone not long ago asked me, “Why can’t we look like Buffalo?”Of course, they were talking about Buffalo’s improved waterfront.  But their questionRead More

Is Mayoral Bid Growing Closer for Restaino?

Is Mayoral Bid Growing Closer for Restaino?

Niagara Falls October 16, 2018 at 8:37 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 mayoral election for Niagara Falls is more than a year away but while incumbent Paul Dyster has not committed to seekingRead More

‘Closed for Business’ at City Hall?

‘Closed for Business’ at City Hall?

Niagara Falls October 16, 2018 at 8:24 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: Frank Parlato The doors to the present Niagara Falls City Hall on Main Street were first opened in 1924. Prior to that, the mayor’sRead More

Tompkins Responds to Dyster’s “Grandstanding” Comments

Tompkins Responds to Dyster’s “Grandstanding” Comments

Niagara Falls October 9, 2018 at 10:21 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     The mayor is suggesting my legitimate concerns about our severe budget deficit are “grandstanding.”  He went so far as to say about me: “If he is seriousRead More

Taking Back Niagara Falls Begins with the Residents!

Taking Back Niagara Falls Begins with the Residents!

Niagara Falls October 9, 2018 at 10:15 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: Terri Kline Community Organizer In a perfect world, when we elect City Officials we should be able to trust that they will do what is bestRead More

Piccirillo’s Post Mayoral Race Announcement Results: None of the Above Wins!

Piccirillo’s Post Mayoral Race Announcement Results: None of the Above Wins!

Niagara Falls October 9, 2018 at 10:12 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 a recent Facebook Niagara Community Forum survey, members were told that the city’s Community Development Chief Seth Piccirillo had announced his intentionRead More

Dyster Using Uncertain $12.3 Million to Keep Status Quo at City Hall

Dyster Using Uncertain $12.3 Million to Keep Status Quo at City Hall

Niagara Falls October 9, 2018 at 10:06 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 The timing couldn’t have been better. Days before Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster was to unveil his proposed budget for 2019,Read More

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