Here’s what we know about the report written by Bill Kresse, the well-respected principal of City Honors, the jewel in the Buffalo Public School District’s increasingly tarnished crown:

■ A few weeks back, developer Carl Paladino accused Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis and outgoing commissioner of the city’s Office of Strategic Planning Tim Wanamaker of stooging on behalf of Paladino’s rival in the downtown surface parking lot business, James Sandoro. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the city’s Planning Board, Paladino accused both of “political obstruction” in his effort to win site plan approval for a 150-space surface parking lot at 175 South Division Street, to be leased to Erie Community College for student and faculty parking. Paladino claims that Wanamaker wrote that letter at the behest of Davis, who is working on behalf of Sandoro, whose surface parking lots compete with those of his old rival, Paladino. Sandoro, a financial supporter of both Davis and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, lost the bid to provide ECC with surface parking, having bid $25 more per spot than Paladino and demanding that ECC lease no fewer than 400 spots.

The April 15 resignations of Hon. James A. McLeod and Hon. Craig D. Hannah from the ethics committee that was formed to investigate alleged wrongdoing by members of the school board were in fact long overdue. That’s because both judges were wrongly serving in those positions, according to the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York. (See the April 14 post on AV Daily at Artvoice.com, titled “Who’s to Judge?”)

The parishioners of St. Adalbert’s on the city’s East Side gathered on the church steps Saturday to announce they’d received confirmation from the Vatican: St. Adalbert’s is, indeed, a basilica. They consider this a victory in their fight with the diocese of Buffalo to keep their church open. Last year, when the diocese announced that it would merge St. Adalbert’s and St. John Kanty parishes, a coalition of church members called Parishioners and Friends of St. Adalbert Basilica formed, to lobby in favor of keeping the church open.