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The battle of the Buffalo budget plans; O, Canada

Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon and Senator Sean Ryan are really mixing it up about competing plans to resolve the city’s impending financial crisis.  As...

The passing of the Pope and the politics of the Church

If you were watching the TV evening news on Easter Sunday you saw the videos from Rome.  Pope Francis, assisted in a wheelchair, was...

A crowded Democratic primary ballot for mayor of Buffalo; dozens of other offices in Erie County will be uncontested in November

The petitioning process is nearly over and November election line-ups for many offices in Erie County are nearly set.  There is still, however, some...

Buffalo’s four-year financial plan is based on unrealistic expectations; John LaFalce

“he mayor shall prepare and submit to the authority a four-year financial plan, and the mayor’s proposed city budget, not later than the...

Scanlon presents a structurally unbalanced budget that relies on one-time revenues and other uncertain actions

Buffalo’s acting Mayor Chris Scanlon has offered the same sort of budget that his predecessor produced year after year – and that Scanlon, as...

Some details about Buffalo’s next budget have been released early; how everything works out is problematic

It is not unusual for a government’s chief executive to leak or directly announce some highlights about the next budget they will be presenting. ...

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