ALBANY, NY — Earlier this year, the Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman’s Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline (“Commission”) initiated a review of the State’s attorney-disciplinary system and recommended promulgation of rules to enhance the system’s efficiency and effectiveness. In July, New York State Bar Association President David P. Miranda presented testimonyRead More

By  James Hufnagel Tomorrow’s the big day. Mayor Paul Dyster will raise his right hand and take the oath of office for the third time, the first mayor to do so in decades, even though a majority of voters on election day clearly preferred someone else take over leadership of the cityRead More

A poker tournament on January 9 will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Western New York. “Team In For a Penny” will host the event at 5 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Town of Niagara Community Center, Lockport Road, Town of Niagara. The event is being hosted by theRead More

    From:  Carl Paladino To:      Everybody Re:      Volunteers for Trump Date:   December 29, 20http://southbuffalonews.com5 Happy New Year, everyone.  The 20http://southbuffalonews.com6 election is absolutely critical for the future of the United States of America. Will it be merely an election or will it be a political revolution? Do we want toRead More

  (Ed note: 20http://southbuffalonews.com6 is here and, like many publications, the Niagara Falls Reporter wishes to recap the year just gone by. Since Mayor Paul Dyster is likely to be around for another four years, we might just as well look at his accomplishments in the past year. This storyRead More

Ice Boom Installation Complete, Along with Our Fleecing The New York Power Authority (NYPA) successfully installed the three remaining floating sections of the Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom on December 28, completing the work for the 20http://southbuffalonews.com5-20http://southbuffalonews.com6 season. The official Lake Erie water temperature on December 28 was 42 degrees F.Read More

LATHAM, NY (http://southbuffalonews.com2/29/20http://southbuffalonews.com5)– A video produced by Buffalo’s http://southbuffalonews.com52nd Engineer Company has been named winner of the New York National Guard’s first unit video contest. The http://southbuffalonews.com0-minute video was produced by New York Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Erin Morris, a platoon leader in the http://southbuffalonews.com52nd Engineer Company, from videoRead More

  The City of Niagara Falls Division of Purchasing issued a Request for Proposals for a “License to Operate and Manage Sal Maglie Stadium.” The successful proposer will have exclusive rights to sell food, alcohol and other beverages at the 2500 seat capacity stadium located in Hyde Park in theRead More

  According to the New York Post, two anonymous sources said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 58, has been battling his ex-wife Kerry Kennedy, 56, for 2.5 years over child support payments for their three daughters and possibly over alimony. The Reporter surmises that one of the Post’s anonymous sources may have been KennedyRead More

Is it wrong not to tell a sex partner that you have HIV, a sexually transmitted disease that attacks the immune system. According to International Planned Parenthood Federation, of which Planned Parenthood Federation of America is an official affiliate, it is not wrong. Planned Parenthood says it is a person’sRead More

On http://southbuffalonews.com2/26 at  http://southbuffalonews.com:30 a.m. Niagara Falls Police Officers responded to 947 Ontario Ave. for a man stabbed. Despite an officer being a block away, arriving in seconds and performing CPR on the victim; he succumbed to his wound. 26 year old Niagara Falls resident, Troy Haslip died of aRead More

  By Anna Howard The Niagara Gazette recently wrote an editorial that was cautiously critical of Mayor Dyster. The editorial questioned the mayor’s actions in taking the time to support the international fight against global warming. While a global warming summit took place in Paris last week the mayor andRead More

International Planned Parenthood Federation, of which Planned Parenthood Federation of America is an official affiliate, maintains it is a person’s “human right” not to tell their sexual partners they are HIV positive if they don’t want to. The International Planned Parenthood Federation’s booklet for HIV-positive youth entitled “Healthy, Happy andRead More

Donations by Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center employees provided Christmas presents for 29 families served by the hospital’s P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids.  The center provides health management, education, referral and advocacy services to women of all ages.  Program staff who coordinated the Christmas drive included Program CoordinatorRead More

Wow, Mayor Dyster needs to take a chill pill…he’s scaring radio talk show listeners with oblique references to nuclear conflagration. When he appeared on the Darro show two weeks ago he told the host that “the natural gas reserves in the northeast have to be protected for the future inRead More

I’m having trouble trying to figure out how to say the Bills are a hopeless franchise without sounding like a broken record.  But unfortunately, the truth is the truth, and Sunday’s 35-25 loss to the Redskins says it all.  This franchise is the worst in sports. I never bought inRead More

“Actions speak louder than words,” said civil rights attorney Steve Cohen when asked this week about his defense of Joe Mascia, the tenant-elected commissioner on the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority who was suspended Aug. http://southbuffalonews.com9 by Mayor Byron Brown shortly after the release of a tape recording where Mascia canRead More

I’ve written articles for several publications in recent months and years about the lack of transparency employed by state development agencies that spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on various projects and big salaries but rarely respond to questions about their spending and fight Freedom of Information Law (FOIL)Read More

(The following is another guest view from someone who opposes sex offender registries as they operate today.) By Michael Richardson   When you start calling all these people perverts and predators that can’t be cured why don’t you do some investigated reporting and get your facts straight. Let me educateRead More

In our last edition, the Reporter explained how the mayor ordered his top personnel to submit updated resumes if they hoped to keep their jobs. Sources told us the mayor was going to rely heavily on the council to review the resumes. The council was to help him decide whoRead More