Jan 27
2013
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Jan 27
2013
Jan 27
2013
New York State extended the Maid of Mist contract without seeking bids; Canadian competitor said Cuomo and Co. left $100 million on the table. A report by The Buffalo News, following dogged coverage by the Niagara Falls Reporter.
Jan 27
2013
The Citizens Budget Commission has a nifty interactive map on changes in school aid for every district in the state. What’s the plan for your district?
Jan 27
2013
Jordan Levy is one of Western New York’s most successful entrepreneurs in recent times. He might be best known to local residents as the former chairman of the Erie Harbor Canal Development Corp., which is developing Canalside. He served in that capacity for four years before stepping down in 2011. During that time he first supported the controversial plan to construct a Bass Pro store in the inner-harbor then lead the EHCDC in its embrace of a more popular approach dubbed “lighter, faster, cheaper.” Levy, 57, has enjoyed a long and successful career in the private sector. He is a general partner[...]
Jan 25
2013
Jan 25
2013
A report by Good Jobs First documents how states spend billions to steal jobs from each other. “The result is a vast waste of taxpayer funds, paying for the geographic reshuffling of existing jobs rather than new business activity,” according to the report’s author.
Jan 23
2013
Buffalo News interviews Jill Jedlicka of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper about the Clean Water Act and the health of Western New York’s waterways.
Jan 22
2013