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By Frank Parlato Please stop an insane mayor from destroying the city with a hockey arena that the city cannot afford. He’ll do it if he can. He wants a legacy, maybe. It’s hard to even explain. Mayor Robert Restaino of Niagara Falls, in a city that can’t afford it, wants to build a two-hundred-million-dollar-plus hockey arena. He doesn’t have the money to build an arena with...


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By Tony Farina As he says in his television commercials, former Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the president and CEO of Batavia Downs, wants folks not just to like coming to Batavia, his new home, he wants them “to love coming here.” And in accordance with that theme, he has given customers what they want when it comes to the Rockin’ the Downs summer concert series, this year off...


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By Tony Farina We wrote recently about strength in unity, and we’d like to follow that up in commenting about the region with the idea that unity in tourism promotion between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, or between Erie and Niagara County, would be of great benefit to all, given the natural wonder of the mighty falls and the huge appeal of professional football and hockey in Bu...


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Two legal developments unfolding overseas, one in Switzerland and another in Russia, are drawing attention to an unlikely but critical component of the United States’ defense industrial base: titanium. At first glance, the cases appear to involve a commercial dispute between a metals trader and a global producer. But the companies and materials involved sit deep inside the su...


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By Tony Farina Three issues could very well decide the future of Niagara Falls, N. Y., when you look past daily headlines and day-to-day political debates. The long-term future comes down to: electric power policy, upstate economic development strategy, and population decline. Those factors will determine whether Niagara Falls remains primarily a tourism city with a shrinking...


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