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BUFFALO, N.Y. The Buffalo Bills have reportedly asked the state and county for at least $1.1 billion to cover the full cost of building a new stadium in Orchard Park, according to
New York state Sen. Tim Kennedy, D-Buffalo, said the team plays an important role in the community, but any commitment to funding is still a long way off. This is the beginning of a negotiation, and like any negotiation, there s a beginning and there s a middle and there s an end,” Kennedy said. “And there s a long way before this thing gets finished. And it s just the beginning. The opening salve. The opening of a larger negotiation and conversation that s going to take place over the course of the next many months and next couple of years.”
State funds violence prevention groups in Erie County
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BUFFALO, N.Y. Shooting deaths in Erie County over the last 15 months are up 200 percent, including last week the death of a 3-year-old child. We ve been crying, said Pastor James Giles, Buffalo Peacemakers founder. We didn t just start crying. We cried out when the baby got shot. We cried out to everybody. We said that stuff s not supposed to happen.
Four Western New York state lawmakers allocated $219,000 in funding to organizations on the front lines $154,000 for Buffalo Peacemakers and $65,000 to the Stop the Violence Coalition. What we ve seen already is way too much, but their work has protected some of that and so we need that work to be continued, Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes said.
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When the Legislature left town last week, it had passed more than 800 bills. But after negotiations broke down in the final hours and the Senate zipped away in the early-ish evening, the Assembly demurred on a handful of the noisier issues.
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The $8.1 million Cryogenic-Electron Microscopy Center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute is the only one of its kind in upstate New York.
Cryo-EM technology can freeze samples for study in an active state – a procedure that was vital in understanding SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Hauptman-Woodward CEO Dr. Edward Snell said the new facility has far-reaching impacts for the region.
“This enables companies that may not have access to this technology to use it. It takes a protein, the targets that people are looking at for disease, and provides information on what they d look like to allow for drug development,” said Dr. Snell. “It s important for academic research to promote our understanding of health and disease. And I think it s going to attract a lot of economic development within the region.”
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