Paralyzing lake-effect snow dumps more than 40 inches in Great Lakes, upstate NY
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Paralyzing lake-effect snow dumps more than 40 inches in Great Lakes, upstate NY

ByNews Polite

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Paralyzing amounts of snow are continuing to smother towns along the eastern shores of the Great Lakes as a record-breaking lake-effect snowstorm blasts the region, prompting major road closures and travel bans. As of Sunday, snowfall totals have exceeded 3 feet downwind of Lake Erie in parts of northwestern Pennsylvania’s Erie County and western New York south of Buffalo and downwind…

Gov. Hochul’s security detail under investigation
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Gov. Hochul’s security detail under investigation

ByNews Polite

State Police investigators are probing whether troopers in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s security detail have been cheating taxpayers by claiming they’re on the clock when they’re actually blowing off their shifts, The Post has learned. The probe is focused on members of the governor’s detail stationed in New York City — and…

Suing Big Guns and Big Oil is just cynical political posturing
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Suing Big Guns and Big Oil is just cynical political posturing

ByNews Polite

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced last week that the Queen City had filed a “first of its kind” lawsuit targeting and blaming firearms manufacturers for the rising gun violence there. It’s not remotely the first, despite invoking a new “public nuisance” state law, and it’ll fail: Suits against Big Guns…