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County libraries seek $150 million for renovations

Public libraries in Erie County are asking for nearly $150 million in renovations — more than half of that for the downtown Central Library. A...

Council member requests audit of workers on paid leave

A Buffalo legislator wants to know how and why a clerk in the city’s fire department was kept on paid administrative leave for seven...

Lockport IDA subsidies likely despite AI fake

In July, a plastics manufacturer gave the Lockport Industrial Development Agency a fake study generated by artificial intelligence to support its request for subsidies. Thursday,...

Many ways to fund a library in Buffalo

Inglewood, California, Mayor James Butts Jr. has a suggestion for Buffalonians interested in a new public library: use the Bills’ community benefits agreement. Butts would...

A high-stakes battle between WNY counties

In an unusual move, one Western New York county has sued a neighboring county’s industrial development agency in an effort to stop a key...

What’s news in government and politics

A digest of noteworthy reporting — some local, some state and some national — from the last week in government and politics:   Campaign finance shenanigans New...

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