Tony Farina

BY TONY FARINA Stocker Rips GOP, Jacobs in Letter to Party Faithful Hard-campaigning State Senate candidate Kevin Stocker is taking aim at the Republican

In that article, the city’s chief fiscal watchdog said “I believe I have the right skill set to be mayor,” citing his 25 years

Well, after a long period of false starts and broken promises, all shrouded in “official” secrecy for lack of a better description, Cuomo announced

BY TONY FARINA Lack of Transparency Examples abound about the lack of transparency when it comes to the accounting of taxpayer dollars and nowhere

This newspaper has learned at press time that all cases currently assigned to State Supreme Court Justice John Michalek are being reassigned to other

“It has really been hard on him but he is more optimistic now,” said Daniels now that his center has been reopened and the

Apparently, Democrat Poloncarz and Republican Quinn still have not met yet on the new budget adopted by ECC and it is hard to tell

As expected, the board adopted a tuition increase of $138 a year for students, a number in the range of what we reported last

There are growing signs that Erie Community College’s fiscal crisis may get worse in the near future and could turn into a political struggle

We have learned that State Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman is expected to impanel a special grand jury in Buffalo on Monday (May 9) with

“I believe I have the right skill set to be mayor,” said Schroeder during a wide ranging interview this week in his 12th floor

Community activist Amber Small, a relative political newcomer, is running an aggressive grassroots-oriented campaign in her bid to win the kind of support that

According to informed sources in the Buffalo development community, Mark Hamister is about $6 million short of the mark in financing for his much-hyped

The best way to learn a job may still be from the ground up, and the new CEO of the Buffalo Metropolitan Federal Credit

> by TONY FARINA According to the Humane Society of the United States, dog fighting is a sadistic “contest” in which two dogs—specifically bred,

By Tony Farina Erie Community College is facing a bleak financial future for many reasons, not the least of which is the unauthorized pay

It may be bloody and highly controversial, but mixed martial arts will be coming to New York in the not too distant future, and

It could be more than an office scandal and financial pressures that drove State Sen. Marc Panepinto’s decision two weeks ago not to seek

Jimmy Kemp, son of legendary Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, will be the guest speaker at the Conservative Party of Erie County Conservative Forum’s

It was in the Sept. 3, 2013 editions of the Niagara Falls Reporter that I broke the story that one of the top prosecutors

Award-winning veteran journalist Brian Meyer, who has served as news director at WBFO in Buffalo since 2014, has been promoted to the position of

Flamboyant and entrepreneurial Rick Snowden, who owned a nightclub and the historic Miller Mansion on Nottingham Terrace in Buffalo where he hosted several spectacular

Hamburg Councilman Michael Quinn, a lawyer, former ironworker and an infantry paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, has reportedly told Erie County Democratic Chairman

The sad truth behind the state development agencies that helped push through the proposed Hamister Hotel project in Niagara Falls four years ago is

Just in case you are a newcomer to these parts, we’d like to remind you that St. Patrick’s Day next Thursday (March17) is more

The carpenters, all 70 of them, are back on the job at SolarCity, but more than 120 plumbers were still out as of Tuesday

State Sen. Marc Panepinto may face a Democratic primary in the 60th District this year and if he is victorious he will likely face