“Improving access to Buffalo’s waterfront is something our citizens want,” said Mayor Brown. “For this reason, I encourage residents to attend these meetings, and share their input on vital improvements that will ultimately lead to Broderick Park’s full restoration.”
The city developed a conceptual Master Plan which will establish the basis for a $1.5 million city funded park revitalization project that includes an amphitheater and performance area, restructured parking, a new family gathering space and waterfront promenade. The intent of the Master Plan is to celebrate the historic value of the park, recently included in the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, while reclaiming green space and providing for the everyday functions of the park.
The first public meeting will be held on the West Side of Buffalo:
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
6:00-8:00 P.M.
The Belle Center
104 Maryland Street (corner of Busti) Buffalo
The second public meeting will be scheduled in June. The City of Buffalo has taken significant steps since 2010 (when it re-gained control of city wide parks from the county) to improve Broderick Park by doing day-to-day maintenance, and working with concerned stakeholders in anticipation of the planned improvements. The Master Plan is being prepared for the New York State Department of State with funds provided, in part, under Title 11 of the Environmental Protection Fund Act.
The tremors occurred as Christina Coleman updated Fox News viewers about an American college student who is currently missing in the Dominican Republic.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow went after congressional Republicans for quietly barreling forward with a tactic that effectively hands President Donald Trump their power to rescind his tariff policies on a silver platter.
The host devoted her opening monologue on Tuesday to a Republican plan to cede their ability under the National Emergencies Act to end Trump’s tariffs, which Maddow said are causing the American public and businesses across the nation “very real pain and loss of money.”
“So Republicans in Congress have the power to stop Trump from doing what he's doing on tariffs,” Maddow said. “What will they do with that power? The Democrats are going to force them to take a vote on this."
“They’re literally ceding their power. Giving it up. 'We don't want that power,'” Maddow said as she told viewers that Republican leaders "slipped language into a procedural measure that would prevent any such resolution to end the tariffs from receiving any vote this year.”
She added: “They literally had the power to stop Trump from doing something that is hurting the country materially every single day. They have the power to stop him from what he's doing, and so what did they decide to do with that power? They decided to give that power away, so they no longer have that power, so they don't have to decide what to do with it.”
And, Maddow said, “it gets better” as Republicans found a way to “save themselves from the terrible dilemma of whether or not to cast a recorded vote.”
“Republicans had to figure out some way out of this trap,” she said. “The national emergency law says Congress can end the emergency – he declared a national emergency in order to give himself the ability to proclaim these tariffs.”
“The national emergency law says if a resolution to end the emergency is introduced in Congress, Congress must consider that. They have to start the process of voting on it within 15 days. So now we know Democrats are introducing that resolution that starts the clock ticking. That means Congress is going to have to vote on this in 15 days – tick tock – in order to get around that binding requirement in the law.”
So, she pointed out, Republicans “proclaimed that between now and the end of this Congress, that is just one long day. That’s just one day. The whole rest of the Congress. I am not kidding.”
