The Buffalo Common Council and Erie County Legislature have announced public hearings on the proposed Buffalo Bills stadium. To date, Pegula Sports & Entertainment have asked for a new stadium to be 100% publicly funded. Many news outlets have reported that Pegula Sports & Entertainment is …
By Becca Bass, Elizabeth Quinlan & Johnny Qiu |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.
On September 17, 2021, the Buffalo City Charter was officially amended to include a new section (Article 13) known as the Right To Know law. This law gives every motorist in Buffalo the right to a paper document clearly stating the reason for being stopped by the police, and gives every …
By: Eileen Buckley | October 29, 2021 Police brutality is taking center stage in a brand new report issued Friday by the Partnership for the Public Good in Buffalo. “Getting rid of those few bad apples would go a long way toward doing that,” remarked Miles Gresham, …
By Michael Mroziak | October 29, 2021 The Partnership for the Public Good has released a new policy brief on the City of Buffalo’s police department, and what the PPG says is the city’s untapped power to discipline police officers.
By Elizabeth Quinlan| 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.
By Geoff Kelly | October 18, 2021 You might imagine Buffalo police spend their shifts busting drug dealers, foiling burglaries and taking guns off the street. There’s some of that, certainly. But an analysis by Investigative Post of five years of 911 calls shows that sort of policing …
By Becca Bass & Elizabeth Quinlan| 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.
By Mark Scheer | October 12, 2021 Buffalo ranked as the nation’s second-poorest city when Byron Brown took office in 2006. The following year, the mayor declared that his administration was working hard to “bring people into the mainstream of Buffalo’s economy” while …
By Michael Mroziak | October 6, 2021 Buffalo lawmakers are united in a call to their state counterparts to pass the New York Clean Slate bill in 2022. The legislation, if passed, would automatically seal conviction records for individuals who complete their prison sentence, probation or parole, or …
The Buffalo Common Council approved a resolution on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 in support of the Clean Slate Act (S.1553B/A.6399A), urging the New York State Legislature to end perpetual punishment for millions of New Yorkers with conviction records. Read the full press release below.
By Becca Bass, Elizabeth Quinlan & Johnny Qiu |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.