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By Gerald Skrlin In response to Frank Parlato’s question, “What will it take to fix up the Falls?” I found myself reflecting on the challenges our beloved city faces. Indeed, it feels like a centipede asked which foot it put forth first when walking – where do we even begin? The city of Niagara Falls, both geographically and figuratively, is in dire straits. The task of identifying the causes of our current predicament is as daunting as brainstorming solutions. Yet, amid this complex web of issues, I believe the way forward is simpler than we might think. According to logical

Is Mayor Robert Restaino losing his grip on reality? In his latest campaign ad—trumpeted with great fanfare for days on Facebook—Mayor Robert Restaino suggests NFR and Urbacon’s Niagara Digital Campus development proposal is not real. Not real? • Is Mayor Restaino suggesting the company Urbacon, a Toronto-based developer and operator of state-of-the-art data centers, isn’t real? • Does he not remember meeting with Urbacon officials in September 2021, then visiting the Urbacon facilities… weeks before he turned his back on the privately funded Niagara Digital Campus project, and instead decided to launch his speculative and unfunded Centennial Park project? Is

Social stratification in the USA defined Clearly in Niagara Falls, New York      No. 2       Definitions and explanations         Cause = Primordial Hi, and welcome to our continued series on Social Stratification. How it all Began In the last article I spoke of a new era of progressive occurring change in political and social life affecting the way we interpret reality. There is a theory that political scientists have labeled the “Social construction of reality.” It refers to the way the world is because Humans made it that way! We all have part in it even if we are

By Gerald Skrlin Stratification and Social Class       America’s Problem Defined Clearly in Niagara Falls, NY Many do not believe a class structured society exists in the USA. American Political culture has done a good job convincing us we are all equal! It is patriotic, and rewarding, to think and feel that way, however, social science information states there is great inequality, even more so than in many other countries throughout the world! The realist point of view here relies on sound, firm, and even popularly known healthy outlooks embraced by millions about what the world is like living in

By Gerald Skrlin The Niagara Falls New York Democrat Party held a fundraiser on April 14, at the Third St. Eatery. At the Democrat Party’s party, they had a trivia contest in which the questions got progressively easier to answer, mostly because they were too hard and one question was outright ridiculous. But besides describing a boring event for a kid, the event went quite well, well, oh well. Knowing what to expect when meeting people who associate with minor policy and financial decision-makers helps prepare investigative journalists before-hand. Party promotional events of this type involve working class people, among whom

By Gerald Skrlin Yeah, I’m a newspaper reporter; whoopie-hoo-hoo, I made it to my dreams, and what did I do? I flunked my first assignment! I was supposed to record the Eminnemce Doo-main public hearing initiated by our latest white-headed mayor, but I just could not sit there and listen to the shit Mr. Hog-son was throwing into the fan! The same SoS as before! I’ll get to the story, but I have to add my digs here because I feel I deserve to kick, shout, scream, yell, and bitch about all the shit we have endured these last