By TONY FARINA With state lawmakers still trying to find agreement on legislation to expand ride-sharing beyond New York City, Buffalo’s Bill Yuhnke...
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By James Hufnagel; Last week Lou Jacobs, co-CEO of Delaware North, pledged $300,000 to Buffalo Olmsted for various purposes such as fighting the invasive...
By Joe Barrett It’s been over ten years now since I addressed New York Power Authority executives at their re-licensing hearing seeking the elimination...
By Frank Parlato; Rus Thompson is about to stand trial in New York State Supreme Court, before Hon, Justice Russell Buscaglia, on felony charges of voter fraud...
By Frank Parlato; A lawyer who the New York State Attorney General alleges was extorted by Steven Pigeon has left Buffalo. Edward A. Betz, 30, joined the...
Grand Jury dismiss felony assault case against teenager who ran against Paladino for School Board By Frank Parlato Austin Harig is perhaps best known as the...
By Tony Farina Two of the nine deputies named in a wrongful death civil suit by the family of the inmate who died while in the custody of the Erie County...
By Tony Farina; The war-torn nation of Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa with an estimated population of 12.3 million, has elected a Grand Island man with...
By Jim Ostrowski; I have advocated a free market approach to transportation since 1989. In an article, published in Business First, I proposed allowing...
By Tony Farina; It is truly a David vs. Goliath story playing out in Albany these days as the ride-sharing giant Uber and its smaller competitor, Lyft, inch...
By Harlan Snow; I was called by a pollster last week about the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of Buffalo, but the questioner couldn’t say who...
By Frank Parlato; THE STATE CONTRACT FROM HELL Last week we began the story of Bhavesh H. Kamdar, a civil engineer from western India. This week we continue...
In the US District Court, Western District of New York, a Buffalo woman, Christine Townsend, is suing the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo Police Department...
In the Tradition of the Old-time Pamphleteers, This is An Open Letter to the Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York By E.R. Baxter III...
By Tony Farina Less than 24 hours after Bill Yuhnke of Liberty Yellow Cab in Buffalo sent a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (see letter in Artvoice) urging...
By Tony Farina Acea Mosey, the public administrator running for Erie County surrogate judge, will officially launch her campaign on Thursday at Kleinhans Music...
Dear Mr. Kalanick, Many have condemned your efforts to try and profit from the temporary work stoppage at JFK Airport called by the New York Taxi...
There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes they did it all...
While calls of victims keep coming in…. By Frank Parlato (This article was revised on Jan. 29, 2017) This week, instead of an in-depth story of another...
By Tony Farina Citing a conflict because an assistant in his office is related to a potential target of the investigation, Erie County District Attorney...
By Austin Harig Former Candidate for Buffalo School Board In May 2016, I ran for the Buffalo School Board against Carl Paladino. I lost (by 2% of the vote)...
BY Gerry Ralston, seller of exquisite custom made buttons Who needs a button? I make buttons for a living. Not the buttons that keep your shirt on but lapel...
By Tony Farina “It is taking care of people who can’t do it for themselves,” is the way Public Administrator Acea Mosey describes her role in...
By Frank Parlato; Last week we wrote about an apparent miscarriage of justice perpetrated by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce as he prosecuted 20...
Recently Artvoice received an email alleging that a prominent, local elected official (LEO) had child porn on her Twitter page. Calling her a...
It’s a golden anniversary for the leader of the Texas Hot business BUFFALO, N.Y. – Since opening its doors in 1967, Louie’s Texas Red Hots has proudly been...
By Tony Farina To those of you protesting Artvoice’s “What Do We Want for 2017” list, which included Carl Paladino’s much-criticized...
by ANTHONY CHASE The Aleks Malejs phenomenon just seemed to sneak up on us. Suddenly there was a beautiful and confident leading lady in town who disappeared...
The Irish Classical Theatre Company presents Amadeus at Kleinhans BY JAN JEZIORO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra music director JoAnn Falletta is excited about...
Wed Jan 25th 7pm $20 Sportsmens Adam Rafferty is an acoustic guitar master who has performed all over the world. He is also a guitar teacher and students have...
BY ANTHONY CHASE From time to time a theater will ask me to recommend an actor for a particular role. When my own husband, Javier Bustillos, asked me if one...
OPENING AMADEUS, play by Peter Shaffer presented by Irish Classical Theatre Company, directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti, starring Vincent O’Neill, PJ Tighe, with...
Sat Jan 21st 8pm Seneca Casino tickets start at $45 UNPLUGGED: SONGS AND STORIES After 30 years and over 2000 performances, 54-40 continues to redefine their...
Thurs Jan 19th 8pm $30 Town Ballroom Troy Beetles launched Datsik in 2007 and began dabbling with original hip-hop and dubstep in British Columbia. In 2008...
They are a lottery team, not a playoff contender By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell That was a nice head fake wasn’t it? Got our hearts beating just a bit. The...
Leading Economic Indicator The salary the Golden State Warriors pay to basketball whiz Stephen Curry may be a bargain at $12 million a year, but the...
The organizers of the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (BNFF) are l ooking for talented individuals to fill a number of unique volunteer and paid positions in the...
The Tewksbury Lodge, located at 249 Ohio Street, Buffalo, will host a gathering and presentation on the famous “Tewksbury Incident” on the 58th Anniversary of...
By Carl Paladino; Let me state at the onset: No one forced me to seek to change the sick and failed public education system in Buffalo. I am passionate about...
BY FRANK PARLATO This week we continue our series on former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who was with Department of Justice for 38 years before...
The voters have spoken. The popular online news website, All Western New York News (www.allwnynews.co), edited by distinguished music editor, Scott Leffler...
(Editor’s Note: Judicial Watch Inc., America’s leading watchdog group, is led by Tom Fitton, who corresponds weekly with Artvoice and other media...
North Tonawanda Alderwoman-at-Large Catherine Schwandt will be resigning from her elected position with the city of North Tonawanda to pursue a full-time...
By James Hufnagel; Readers of the Buffalo News are no strangers to the guest editorials written by local author and environmentalist Larry Beahan of...
Newly elected NYS Assemblyman Angelo J. ‘Judge’ Morinello (R,C,I,Ref-Niagara Falls) whose district includes Niagara County and Grand Island in Erie...
Should US Army Sergeant First Class Gary J. Aljoe remain quiet about having his house “wrongly raided” by police and his dog killed? Some say...
An open letter from US Army Sgt. Gary Aljoe to the Buffalo Police To Detective Shawn Adams and Lieutenant Sean O’Brien Buffalo Police Department, 74 Franklin...
By Frank Parlato; As we reported last week, a December, 20, 2016 raid by Buffalo Narcotics Police on the Ulman St. home of retired Army Sergeant FC, Gary Aljoe...
By Jim Ostrowski; The Buffalo Public School system has been in the press lately. Sadly, little of what has been said has illuminated the most salient truths...
By Tony Farina; The search for a new Erie Community College president to replace Jack Quinn hasn’t really begun yet even though Quinn announced last...
A few weeks ago this publication began seeking people wrongly accused of crimes by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who retired last year after...
Finally, something is being done about the stench coming from Albany, and we’re not talking about the recent indictments of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top...
Buffalo Police kill dog at wrong house again By FRANK PARLATO; Working off a tip from ‘snitch’, Buffalo Police Lieutenant Sean O’Brien and Detective Shawn...
By Carl Paladino; Rumore v Taxpayers, Parents, and Children In 2016, when both friends of Phil Rumore, the president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation...
Buffalo – Niagara, one of the last Uber holdouts in the progressive nation; By Jim Ostrowski; You might think that the Western New York political class...
By Tony Farina; Uber and Lyft have blanketed Albany with money as they push state lawmakers and the governor to legalize expansion of their ride-hailing...
ALBANY, NY – Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill (S.8114 and A.10706) that would have required the State of New York to assume the costs of providing...