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July 4, 2025

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor: This July 4th, we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday. So, I have been thinking about patriotism. Everyone I meet tells me they are patriots, and I have no reason to doubt them.

Activities·Games·Lifestyle·Opinion·Philosophy & Religion

May 5, 2025

What We Lost When We Stopped Getting Lost

Today, almost no one leaves home without opening up Google Maps. A few taps, and a robotic voice tells you every turn to make. It is simple, fast, and accurate. However, it also

Charlie Javice and Olivier Amar, JPMorgan’s Due Diligence Failure or Fraud?

The fraud trial of Charlie Javice and Olivier Amar has become more

Why Did the FBI Change From the Best Crime Fighting Agency in the World to the Worst…Ask James Comey!?

By Gary DiLaura When I became an Agent in 1969, we had

Talking Hospital Stock

By Craig Reger “Of course I was given a room with a window that doesn’t open up”. Olivia May Reger, Mays Window.

November 11, 2017

Opinion

The Beggars Bash

By Craig Reger “Be careful you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there”. Yogi Berra won ten world series with the

November 1, 2017

Opinion

American Made: CIA Drug and Sex Trafficking In The National Interest

By Frank Dux Most of us when faced with a disturbing truth we would rather live in denial than act on it, specifically, when

October 27, 2017

Opinion·Uncategorized

The Uncertainty Principle

By Craig Reger “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,”. Unidentified U.S. major after an Allied bombing raid in the

October 15, 2017

Opinion

Hitting The Wall

By Craig Reger “Because it was him, and because it was me”. French Philosopher Montaigne was casually anecdotal in his Renaissance era essays. I

September 30, 2017

Opinion

Contraptions of History

By Craig Reger “This is the golden age and gold is the reason for the wars we wage”, Bono Vox. Lead singer, U2. Speaking

September 15, 2017

Opinion

When Debt Commands

By Craig Reger “Even if we are ruined by it, it was still beautiful”. Many Nationalistic Germans had this to say about WWI. Fast

August 31, 2017

Opinion

Niagara Falls’ model show how state controlled tourism impacts poverty stricken city

By Frank Parlato; There is a battle between the US Dept. of Highways and Gov. Cuomo’s NYS Department of Transportation over the state’s right

March 9, 2017

News·Opinion

Dux: A botched attempt to kill Trump adviser Roger Stone, or send him a warning? But who’s behind it?

By Frank W. Dux; (A former covert operative and world renowned martial arts black belt, Frank Dux wrote, The Secret Man [1996. Published by

February 27, 2017

News·Opinion

ATF protected cigarette smuggling for fund raising may surpass independent smuggling

The curious federal civil lawsuit by US Tobacco Cooperative Inc. against two paid informants alleging the ATF stole $24 million from their 700 farmer-

February 26, 2017

News·Opinion

Limo-Taxi Association Says ‘Uber, Lyft Want Unfair Playing Field’ Upstate

By Tony Farina; “The ride-hailing companies (Uber, Lyft) can operate right now upstate if they want to,” says Kevin Barwell, president of the Limousine,

February 22, 2017

Opinion

Wardel Davis was a Casualty of the ‘War on Drugs’

Deconstructing the Left on Police Brutality and the ‘War on Drugs’ By Jim Ostrowski; How did we get from Wardel Davis dying after a

February 22, 2017

Opinion

Ice Boom Thwarts Nature and Tourism for the Profit of NYPA

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

February 16, 2017

Opinion

Open Letter to the Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor

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

February 2, 2017

Opinion

New Buffalo Train Station: When was the last time you did it?

There was a time when husbands and wives did it frequently. Lovers thought it was incredibly romantic to do over and over again. Sometimes

January 29, 2017

Opinion

THE MORALLY BANKRUPT BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By Carl Paladino; Let me state at the onset: No one forced me to seek to change the sick and failed public education system

January 14, 2017

Opinion

You Raided the Wrong House and Killed My Dog!

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

January 12, 2017

Opinion

An Autopsy of the Buffalo Public Schools

By Jim Ostrowski; The Buffalo Public School system has been in the press lately. Sadly, little of what has been said has illuminated the

January 12, 2017

Opinion

The Larger Meaning of the Fight Over Uber

Buffalo – Niagara, one of the last Uber holdouts in the progressive nation; By Jim Ostrowski; You might think that the Western New York

January 5, 2017

Opinion

Paladino to Media: My comments in Artvoice were not racist; ‘Tough Luck if you don’t like my answer’

By Carl Paladino; (Editor’s note: Along with dozens of others, Carl Paladino was asked by Artvoice to answer four questions about the coming year.

December 23, 2016

Opinion

White Women and the ‘Dic’hotomy of Donald Trump

By Carolette Meadows Are white women schizophrenic? The 2016 elections have provided more entertainment and dysfunction than a full season of ‘Empire.’ We had

November 17, 2016

Opinion

Hillary or Trump? How about Bernie and DePasquale!

By John Duke While watching my favorite political shows on Sunday, Deface the Nation and Meet the Depressed, I decided there was no way

October 27, 2016

Opinion

Chaos in the Middle East in 2011 and its Culprits

By Jim Ostrowski This is an excerpt from the new book, The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria

October 6, 2016

Opinion

Politicians Are Engaging In Unseemly Pay Raises

By Paul Wolf, Esq. In a 2015 Buffalo News article about high earning government employees, Amherst Town Supervisor Barry Weinstein stated that “It is

October 6, 2016

News·Opinion

Progressive, Heal Thyself

By Jim Ostrowski Once again, race riots plague America, this time in Charlotte, a relatively prosperous and quiet city in North Carolina. Not a

September 28, 2016

Opinion

Black Rock – NYS’s Most Politically Active Area!

By John Duke: This summer, if you went for less than a one minute drive up Amherst Street from Grant Street (TOPS Market)

September 22, 2016

Opinion

Will Youth Sports Decide the Presidential Election?

By Jim Ostrowski In thinking about the issue of the relative health of Trump and Hillary, my thoughts naturally were drawn to the topic

September 22, 2016

Opinion

What Are You Going to Do About Boston, Mr. Barnicle?

by Jim Ostrowski I refer to Mike Barnicle’s now-famous gotcha question of the clueless alleged libertarian candidate Gary Johnson on Morning Joe the other

September 15, 2016

Opinion

Trump seeking Black votes

BY JIM OSTROWSKI For years, I have advised GOP candidates, to seek the votes of African Americans by campaigning in blighted urban minority neighborhoods.

September 8, 2016

Opinion