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July 22, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of July 18, 2022

By: E. Lydia Rodriguez, Nina Raj, and Sydney Browne | Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

July 15, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of July 11, 2022

By E. Lydia Rodriguez and Nina Raj Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items  

July 8, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of July 4, 2022

By Sydney Browne and Nina Raj| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

July 1, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of June 27, 2022

By Sydney Browne| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

June 24, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of June 20, 2022

By E. Lydia Rodriguez, Nina Raj, and Sydney Browne| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

June 17, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of June 13, 2022

By Nina Raj| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

June 14, 2022

Investigative Post: "No action on stadium benefits agreement"

By: Geoff Kelly | June 14, 2022 There's been talk, but little movement to negotiate a community benefits agreement tied to the new Buffalo Bills venue. Leverage has been lost and time is running out.   

June 10, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of June 6, 2022

By Nina Raj and Sydney Browne| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items

June 3, 2022

Buffalo Common Council Summary: Week of May 30, 2022

By Tanvier Peart| Each week, PPG summarizes important takeaways from the major Buffalo Common Council meetings. We also include information from Council meetings related to our Community Agenda items.

May 31, 2022

Buffalo News: "Racist attack highlights sparse supermarket options in Buffalo's largely Black neighborhoods"

By: Stephen T. Watson | May 31, 2022  The Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue, targeted by an avowed white supremacist in a massacre that killed 10 Black people, is the only supermarket within the 14208 ZIP code and a wider section of Buffalo's East Side. The closest full-service grocery …

May 30, 2022

Buffalo News: "The Editorial Board: An ingrained system of segregation led the Tops shooter to Buffalo’s East Side"

The Buffalo News Editorial Board | May 30, 2022 This is the first in a series of editorials.  The cauldron of hate had been brewing for a while, fueled by false notions of “replacement theory.” But long before the shooter stepped foot in that Tops supermarket on May …

May 30, 2022

Buffalo News: "A racist gunman came for Buffalo, but 'racism is not new here;"

By: Stephen T. Watson & Charlie Specht | May 30, 2022 A racist came looking for Buffalo. But Buffalo doesn't have to look far to find racism. In the hours after this month's horrific mass shooting at a Jefferson Avenue supermarket, where 10 Black people were killed, some Buffalo …