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White Women and the ‘Dic’hotomy of Donald Trump

Uncategorized November 17, 2016 at 2:20 am

By Carolette Meadows Are white women schizophrenic? The 2016 elections have provided more entertainment and dysfunction than a full season of ‘Empire.’ We had lies, emails, misogyny, violence, protests, xenophobia, homophobia, ridiculing the disabled, questioning bloodflow, pandering fear, stealing primaries, naked spouses, and the grabbing of defenseless felines. With allRead More

Top 10 Stores for Black Friday Discounts Named

Top 10 Stores for Black Friday Discounts Named

Uncategorized November 17, 2016 at 2:09 am

Discounts Should Average at least 39 percent says Survey With holiday spending estimated to reach $656 billion this year — up from nearly $631 billion in 2015 — the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of the biggest 35 stores in a 2016’s Best Stores for Black Friday. WalletHub surveyedRead More

Antibiotic resistance, superbugs pose serious threat to health

Antibiotic resistance, superbugs pose serious threat to health

Uncategorized November 17, 2016 at 1:57 am

  By Rajinder Bajwa, M.D. We are living through exciting times of modern medicine where we can get treatment for many diseases which were considered incurable in past. Antibiotics and vaccines have played a major role in that success. Diseases considered a scourge in past like smallpox have been eradicatedRead More

Council Finishing Up Budget Work

Council Finishing Up Budget Work

Niagara Falls November 17, 2016 at 1:43 am

The Niagara Falls City Council finished work on the mayor’s 2017 spending plan that will now count on Amtrak paying for 63 percent of the operating costs ($172,000 a year) for the new station. City lawmakers have taken a sharp knife to Mayor Paul Dyster’s proposed $91 million budget, cuttingRead More

Print Edition: Nov 17, 2016

Print Edition: Nov 17, 2016

Online Newspaper November 17, 2016 at 1:32 am
Beautiful Lewiston Homes to be on Display

Beautiful Lewiston Homes to be on Display

Community News November 17, 2016 at 12:38 am

Only 17 days left before the doors swing open at this year’s Lewiston Tour of Homes, which will take place at the following dates and times: Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4 from 9:30am to 1:15pm, and again from 1pm to 5pm. Each home on the tour has beenRead More

Niagara Falls jokes

Niagara Falls jokes

Uncategorized November 17, 2016 at 12:35 am

Much to his chagrin, Mayor Dyster arrived at his City Hall office to find that it had been invaded by mice, and complained to Seth Piccirillo about it. Piccirillo thought for a moment, and suggested, “Why don’t you offer to pay off their student loans?” *** An Englishman, a FrenchmanRead More

Paladino wields profound influence at dawn of Trump era

Paladino wields profound influence at dawn of Trump era

Uncategorized November 17, 2016 at 12:32 am

BY MATTHEW RICCHIAZZI Last Monday, Carl Paladino gave an interview to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, an influential platform in the United Kingdom. The same day his interview was reported in The Guardian. “I think you describe correctly the offense which is, if you don’t pick up your part, as was agreed toRead More

Precautions in Niagara Falls, #1 for Burglaries in NY

Precautions in Niagara Falls, #1 for Burglaries in NY

Community News November 17, 2016 at 12:17 am

By John Hazel (Ed. Note: The following is in response to the Reporter article last week announcing that Niagara Falls ranks #1 in  burglaries in New York State.) Home burglaries occur most often during the day, while the residents are at work and the house is unoccupied. Most burglars do notRead More

The Littlest Fight Fan

The Littlest Fight Fan

Community News November 12, 2016 at 4:52 pm

By Matt Cole The Spectacle that was the UFC 205 Weigh-ins, the first televised UFC event ever to be held inside Madison Square Garden, – the holiest of holies to sports fans worldwide – definitely did not disappoint. From the nearly 20,000 screaming fans, to the ever popular chats ofRead More

UFC 205, Day 1: Open Workouts

UFC 205, Day 1: Open Workouts

Community News November 10, 2016 at 8:04 pm

by Matt Cole The first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event at Madison Square Garden will take place this Saturday November 12th. The highly anticipated and globally watched event, which is long in the making, comes on the heels of the legalization of the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)Read More

John Ceretto explained his decision to switch political affiliations: "I first got involved in public service to help our neighbors and have always put people ahead of politics, and that won’t change," he said in the statement.

Goodbye John Ceretto

News November 10, 2016 at 8:01 pm

Lame Duck NYS Assemblyman John D. Ceretto made an unfortunate mistake last year. He listened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who persuaded him to switch from the Republican party to the Democrats and now he’s out of a job. The Democrat Ceretto was defeated this week by a Republican who almostRead More

Ceretto Loss is LGBT Victory

Ceretto Loss is LGBT Victory

Niagara County November 10, 2016 at 11:16 am

For the most part, Niagara Falls’ LGBT community isn’t shedding any tears over John Ceretto’s impending departure from public service. Ceretto’s defeat at the hands of retired City Court Judge Angelo Morinello over the hotly contested 145th District New York State Assembly seat became practically a fait accompli after numerousRead More

A Bullet Fired at the Power Elite by the American People

A Bullet Fired at the Power Elite by the American People

Uncategorized November 10, 2016 at 6:50 am

By Jim Ostrowski On April 19, 2016, I wrote my first column for Artvoice and the Niagara Falls Reporter which was published two days later.  It was about Donald Trump’s speech in Buffalo.  At that time, Trump’s polling number against Hillary was 39.5%.  In that column, I made my predictionRead More

ORTT SAYS HIS CONSTITUENTS WANTED TRUMP  VOTERS ALSO DEMAND A CHANGE FROM ETHICALLY CHALLENGED GOVERNOR

ORTT SAYS HIS CONSTITUENTS WANTED TRUMP VOTERS ALSO DEMAND A CHANGE FROM ETHICALLY CHALLENGED GOVERNOR

Uncategorized November 10, 2016 at 6:34 am

  Senator Rob Ortt (R,C,I – North Tonawanda) today issued the following statement regarding our President-elect Donald Trump. “The election results may have been surprising to the mainstream media, but this has been absolutely consistent with what I’ve heard from my constituents. Voters want demonstrable change and they’re sick andRead More

Cheeky Burglar caught on camera robbing home in his underwear.

Niagara Falls Tops National Security Company List for Most Burglaries Per Capita in New York State

Niagara Falls November 10, 2016 at 6:27 am

The Niagara Falls Reporter received a recent message from Zane Schwarzlose, community liaison for Protect America, a national home security company. Protect America sells home security systems. Their business is dependent on the existence of burglars. The more the supply of burglars, the greater the demand for security systems. InRead More

Turkey with dressing on silver platter

Annual Lord’s Day Dinner/ Missionary Yvonne and Matt Davis/ Founder

Community News November 10, 2016 at 6:01 am

A Public Service Announcement Annual Lord’s Day Dinner November 24,2016    Thanksgiving Day      FREE DINNER For areas neediest families V.F.W. 917 LaSalle Griffin Post      2435 Seneca Avenue Niagara Falls, NY. USA          12noon until 6:00 pm. Certified Elderly / Wheelchair bound / disabled in need of a dinner mustRead More

City Finally Lands Amtrak for Train Station

City Finally Lands Amtrak for Train Station

News November 10, 2016 at 5:48 am

The city of Niagara Falls held an open house for its new two-story, $43 million train station on Depot Ave. last July, but it did so without a signed lease in hand with Amtrak, the expected major tenant, and the administration of Mayor Paul Dyster has been saying for theRead More

Dr. Won Sam Yi with Heather Slocum
...CCS Oncology CEO says cancer care provider being dropped by Independent Health.

CCS Oncology to Challenge Independent Health Over Decision to Drop WNY Provider From Network

News November 10, 2016 at 5:29 am

CCS Oncology, the region’s second largest oncology group with offices throughout Western New York, including Niagara Falls, will be going to State Supreme Court in a matter of days in an attempt to stop Independent Health from dropping insurance coverage for more than 500 of its cancer patients, effective Jan.Read More

Interpreter Wanted to Understand Government Health Industry Language

Interpreter Wanted to Understand Government Health Industry Language

Community News November 10, 2016 at 5:11 am

Maybe we’re just a little bit dense, but we’re having a little trouble understanding some of the language of the Government Directed Health Care Industry. Help us out. For example, among Niagara Falls Community events scheduled for this week is a public forum titled “A Community Conversation on Mental HealthRead More

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