Developers in 2018 asked Walsh to put in place third-party plan review to speed up commercial developments. Cuts by the Common Council would significantly reduce funding for the new program.
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Former city budget director Tim Rudd files paperwork to gain independent ballot line in mayor’s race
Rudd hopes to replace Mayor Ben Walsh, his former boss, as mayor. He reached the requisite number of signatures to gain an independent ballot line. The signatures could still be challenged, however.
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TCGPlayer to move to Kentucky after extensive union negotiations, will lay off 220 workers
TCGPlayer employees for 18 months had been fighting for better pay and other benefits. eBay on Thursday told employees they plan to move the company and lay off its workers.
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Sean Kirst: A medal for great sculptor Sharon BuMann, who still lives and dreams her art
BuMann, a great Central New York sculptor, suffered a stroke four years ago. As she prepares to be honored Thursday, that discipline matters more to her than ever.
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Mayor Ben Walsh vetoes 45 budget amendments; Common Council to vote whether to override vetoes
Mayor Ben Walsh’s vetoes preserved about $3.3 million of the $16.3 million in cuts made by the Common Council.
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‘An essay will not stop a genocide’: Gazan poet now writing from Syracuse wins Pulitzer Prize
Mosab Abu Toha, a 2023 graduate of Syracuse University’s Creative Writing MFA program, won his Pulitzer Prize for essays that gave readers a window into life under siege in Gaza.
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Sean Kirst: A pope with direct family ties to kindness of Father Baker
Pope Leo XIV’s grandmother gave birth to the Pope’s uncle in Lackawanna and lived in what was then called “The Infant Home,’ often for single mothers with nowhere else to go.
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What could the Common Council’s budget amendments mean for code enforcement, police, and public works?
Spending on all three departments has outpaced the rate of inflation in recent years. A Central Current analysis of the council’s cuts reveal different things about each department’s budgets.
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Compromise tough to come by as Walsh, Common Council leaders meet about budget
Councilors and Walsh met Wednesday for the first time since the Common Council voted to slash Walsh’s proposed budget.
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Sean Kirst: Three years past 2022 racist massacre in Buffalo, loyal sister left with rolling loss, bonds of faith
Kat Massey died three years ago in the shooting at a Buffalo Tops, fueled by racism. Barbara Massey Mapps, her sister, has spent three years picking up the pieces.
