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Taking the “Public” Out of Public Hearing
Tuesday I ran down to City Hall to catch the 5:30pm public hearing on Mayor Byron Brown’s proposed 2008-2009 budget. This is not a particularly popular pastime, I know; usually only a half dozen or so...
View ArticleMayor’s Impact Team—Preliminary Audit Report
Here’s the text of preliminary audit report of the Mayor’s Impact Team, filed this afternoon by the City Comptroller with the Common Council: In response to the Council’s request for an immediate audit...
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Rich Tobe Resigns
At the request of Mayor Byron Brown, Rich Tobe is resigning his post as commissioner of Economic Development, Permits and Inspection Services. According to Brian Meyer at the Buffalo News, Brown asked...
View ArticleUpdate: Tobe’s Resignation
UPDATE: Here’s Tobe’s statement on his departure: At the request of Mayor Byron W. Brown, today, I submitted my resignation as Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development Permit and...
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311: A Reverse Prank Call?
City Hall is making all kinds of technological leaps these days. Whether it’s solar powered parking meter kiosks that are expected to increase revenue raised by charging people more effectively to...
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More City Hall Phone Pranks
Let’s say you have a club that meets every so often to discuss political matters. Let’s also say that sometimes your views clash with city hall. What would you think if you received a notice from the...
View ArticlePaint the Town
Late last night, at the tail end of one of the few weeks in the past year in which we did not publish anything snarky about anybody, someone threw two gallons of paint on our front doors. Seems a...
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City Hall Wins at Slots, Revises City Budget
Abandoning claims that a steady stream of red light runners will fund the hiring of 20 new police officers once surveillance cameras are installed at 50 city intersections, city officials now say that...
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GOP Takes Control of NYS Senate
A power shift has taken place in Albany today, according to this story from the Albany Times Union. Dean Skelos is the new majority leader after Senators Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, and Pedro Espada,...
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
According to a story in today’s Buffalo News, Buffalo Police spokesman Mike DeGeorge “declined to comment on reports that Derenda had directed the police officers to bring Stokes to Brown’s office.”...
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Wanamaker’s One Sunset
Former Buffalo economic development czar Timothy Wanamaker returned to town yesterday to be convicted by Federal Judge Arcara for charging $30,000 in personal expenses to his BERC credit card....
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Stenhouse Settles (How Not to Run a Poor City)
Buffalo City Hall by Flickr User Alex Fisher Photography The corruption lawsuit brought by NRP, a Cleveland developer, against some city bigshots just got itself an empty chair to which the other...
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