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From Prison to Inspiration: Guy W. Gane Jr.’s Journey of Redemption and Advocacy

From Prison to Inspiration: Guy W. Gane Jr.’s Journey of Redemption and Advocacy

Featured June 18, 2023 at 5:19 pm

Guy W. Gane, Jr. served nine years in federal prison after being accused of defrauding investors of over $5 million. Nine years for a crime that he may never have actually been guilty of. Maintaining his innocence, Gane spoke with us, now some 16 years after three of his employeesRead More

The Right Side - J. Gary DiLaura

Comey and Wray Don’t Have A Leg To Stand On

Featured, The Right Side - J. Gary DiLaura May 19, 2023 at 8:51 am

James Comey said that at every step, he was careful to avoid “politicizing” FBI investigations, but his “actions” were the exact opposite.

Political Coup Topples Batavia Downs Gaming Despite Agency’s Great Success Record

Political Coup Topples Batavia Downs Gaming Despite Agency’s Great Success Record

Featured, Local News May 11, 2023 at 11:06 am

By Tony Farina South Buffalo’s own Tim Kennedy, the powerful chairman of the State Senate’s Transportation Committee with millions in his campaign war chest, is clearly a lawmaker with political ambition and he may have furthered his agenda by engineering a dismantling of one of the most successfully run agency’sRead More

Szwedo: Two-fold Solution: Moving Niagara Falls Forward for the Benefit of its Citizens

Szwedo: Two-fold Solution: Moving Niagara Falls Forward for the Benefit of its Citizens

Featured, Niagara Falls May 7, 2023 at 1:12 pm

By James Szwedo President, Niagara Street Neighborhood Revitalization Organization, Inc. Last week, I wrote, Niagara Falls Citizens Make Decisions Based on Safety Concerns. In it, I wrote about how the city has found itself in endless decline. Acknowledging Past Mistakes: A Step Towards Progress in Niagara Falls How do we moveRead More

Mayor Offered Polluted Land to NFR for Data Center

Mayor Offered Polluted Land to NFR for Data Center

Featured, Local News, News, Niagara Falls February 20, 2023 at 5:03 am

The controversy is far from over. It is between a mayor of a dwindling city of 43,000, down from 100,000 in 1960, a city with a famous name – once the Power City, the Honeymoon Capital of the World, now dead broke. And a development company backed by billionaires whoRead More

Parcel 0-#7: Niagara Falls Mayor’s Quest for Events Center Comes With an Unknown Price Tag; Funding Uncertainty

Parcel 0-#7: Niagara Falls Mayor’s Quest for Events Center Comes With an Unknown Price Tag; Funding Uncertainty

Featured, Local News, News, Niagara Falls February 9, 2023 at 4:15 pm

The following is part #7 on the topic of Parcel 0 and the contentious battle over its development waged between Mayor Robert Restaino and Niagara Falls Redevelopment LLC.  A 12-acre site on John Daley Blvd and Falls St, Parcel 0 is located in the southern end of Downtown Niagara Falls,Read More

Parcel-0-#6: Give Mayor Restaino a Golden Statue But Let NFR Build Data Center

Parcel-0-#6: Give Mayor Restaino a Golden Statue But Let NFR Build Data Center

Featured, Ken Cosentino, Local News, News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 February 8, 2023 at 2:09 am

Ken Cosentino, the writer of this article, mentions an old, failed dream of Niagara Falls, AquaFalls. An ambitious, and ultimately fanciful, plan to build an underground aquarium called AquaFalls was revealed during the administration of former Mayor James Galie. New York Governor George Pataki came to Niagara Falls to laudRead More

Parcel 0-#5: Szwedo: We Can Have Three, Data Center, Events Center and Park, Not Just One

Parcel 0-#5: Szwedo: We Can Have Three, Data Center, Events Center and Park, Not Just One

Featured, Local News, News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 February 3, 2023 at 8:15 am

This is #5 in the Parcel 0 series. By Jim Szwedo Please do not mortgage our future for Centennial Park  When it comes to the dueling project proposals by the City and Niagara Falls Redevelopment, I believe we can have both. If the City and NFR both give a little,Read More

Parcel 0 -#3: The Battle Between Restaino and NFR Is on – Meet the Combatants

Parcel 0 -#3: The Battle Between Restaino and NFR Is on – Meet the Combatants

Featured, Local News, News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 February 1, 2023 at 4:06 am

Part #3 on Parcel 0. This is Part #3 of a series on Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino’s attempt to force the sale of 12 acres of a private company’s land to develop an events center and park project that the City does not have the money to develop. TheRead More

Parcel 0 is ground zero for a war over what is right and best for 12acres of downtown property.

Parcel 0-#2: Pat Whelan, Former NGTI Director: Mayor’s Centennial Park Bound to Fail

Featured, Local News, News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 January 30, 2023 at 6:34 pm

Parcel 0 is a 12-acre site in downtown Niagara Falls, owned by Niagara Falls Redevelopment LLC [NFR]. Both NFR has a plan for Parcel 0 and Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino has a plan.   NFR wants to build a Data Center on their land. Mayor Restaino wants to use eminentRead More

Parcel 0 – #1 –Reporter Investigates City’s Fight With NFR Over Best Use – Data Center or Events Center

Parcel 0 – #1 –Reporter Investigates City’s Fight With NFR Over Best Use – Data Center or Events Center

Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 January 30, 2023 at 7:03 am

A battle is heating up in Niagara Falls, NY. It is a fight over property rights, the government’s use of eminent domain to force the sale of private property, and the highest and best use for a property that is a gateway location for both the City and for aRead More

Ask Flavio: Surviving the Holiday Season

Ask Flavio: Surviving the Holiday Season

Ask Flavio, Featured December 6, 2022 at 11:01 am

Our everyday lives are already so busy as we juggle many responsibilities—work, school, family, friends, children, chores, bills, our homes, social engagements, and appointments. Throw in a million more tasks and events in our already jam-packed schedules to prepare for the holiday season and it is no wonder people getRead More

Will Gov. Hochul, lawmakers prioritize Bigger, Better Bottle Bill next year?

Will Gov. Hochul, lawmakers prioritize Bigger, Better Bottle Bill next year?

Featured, State and National News November 12, 2022 at 4:33 pm

It was 1982. Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson released his smash hit album “Thriller,” and “E.T the Extra-Terrestrial” was setting box office records. It was also the year that New York State instituted a 5 cent deposit on returnable cans and bottles. And four decades later, it’s still justRead More

Phony Campaign Mailer Advocating Gun Control Sent to 2nd Amendment Supporters in Niagara County

Phony Campaign Mailer Advocating Gun Control Sent to 2nd Amendment Supporters in Niagara County

Featured, News October 2, 2020 at 12:41 am

Illegal Mailing Pretends to Support Wojtaszek, McMurray What is a dirty trick in politics and when do you know that one has crossed the line? Negative campaigning is not a dirty trick. One candidate openly telling voters about another candidate’s position, qualifications, misdeeds and so on in a most unflatteringRead More

Marcellus Overton

Overton Seeks to Withdraw Guilty Plea Amid Epidemic of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Featured, News, Niagara Falls September 27, 2020 at 3:41 pm

After the belated disclosure of clearly exculpatory evidence, Marcellus Overton, the popular barbershop owner in Niagara Falls, will move to vacate his guilty plea, after being charged with “sex trafficking of a minor and transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity”. [Read previous article on Overton: https://frankreport.com/2020/09/19/prosecution-coverup-fail-alleged-victim-clears-overton-in-fed-case/]Read More

Marcellus Overton

Prosecution Coverup Fail? – Alleged ‘Victim’ Clears Overton in Fed Case

Featured, Niagara Falls September 19, 2020 at 10:27 am

Over-zealous prosecutors, in this apparently open-and-shut sex trafficking case, are looking at embarrassing errors and lies that may set the accused free. Marcellus Overton, a popular barbershop owner in Niagara Falls, originally pled guilty to charges claiming he transported underage females from here to Backpages.com-rendezvous in Georgia. He was facingRead More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Niagara Reporter Spooks Cuomo Into Keeping Halloween

Featured, News September 15, 2020 at 2:38 pm

The Niagara Reporter reported that a top lawmaker said NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo was planning to cancel trick-or-treating across New York State. The high-level democratic lawmaker from New York State informed the Reporter that Cuomo was intending to make an announcement to cancel Halloween by the end of this monthRead More

Alternative Perspective on the Deification of George Floyd: ‘Where Is My Memorial?’

Alternative Perspective on the Deification of George Floyd: ‘Where Is My Memorial?’

Featured, Niagara Falls June 6, 2020 at 9:48 am

The Niagara Falls Reporter is committed to publishing alternative views on a variety of topics. This includes things that may not be politically correct or run afoul of Google ‘censorship’ algorithms. That George Floyd was murdered by police seems pretty obvious. That his death, fortunately captured on camera, has sparkedRead More

Mayor Restaino Quells Potential Violence by Meeting with Protestors

Mayor Restaino Quells Potential Violence by Meeting with Protestors

Community News, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls June 1, 2020 at 4:28 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   True Leadership By Matt Cole Protests and riots have swept across the country since the May 25th death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis, MNRead 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

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