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The Grit That Endures: Don Cherry and the Hard-Nosed Code of Yesteryears
Old hockey is not dead. It is waiting behind the boards, taped up, scarred, and ready for one more shift. Matt “Sully” Sullivan looks at Lindy Ruff’s Buffalo revival through the ghost light of Don Cherry’s hockey world — the Lunch Pail A.C., the Big Bad Bruins, Derek Sanderson, Dave “The Hammer” Schultz, Tiger Williams,…
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Common Sense Democrats? More Like Crime Scene Democrats
Brian Laline wanted to explain Kamala Harris’s 2024 faceplant and sell Democrats a fantasy comeback under the label “Common Sense Democrats.” Richard Luthmann says the autopsy is already finished. Democrats did not lose because Biden hid Kamala or Trump got lucky. They lost because voters saw inflation, migrants, crime, censorship, lawfare, gender madness, and elite…
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Niagara Family Court Cage
Kevin Guthrie walked into Niagara County Family Court as a father. He came out as a monitored man under state control. The Guthrie File alleges that Judge Caroline Wojtaszek’s court, Niagara County DA Brian Seaman’s office, ADA Aubrie Allen, Niagara County Probation, and courthouse repeat players turned disputed Instagram evidence into a criminal contempt case,…
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CBS Radio News Signs Off
CBS News Radio signing off is not just another media-industry footnote. It is the sound of old America unplugging itself from the wall. For nearly a century, CBS Radio carried war, elections, blackouts, snowstorms, assassinations, traffic jams, and the plainspoken rhythm of daily civic life into kitchens, cars, diners, garages, and union halls. Now, on…
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I’m William Peck – A Bobby Zahn Tribute
Robert J. “Bobby” Zahn, Jr. was not a polished political insider. He was better than that. He was a Staten Island original: a 9/11 responder, Tea Party warrior, proto-MAGA organizer, conservative strategist, loyal friend, and relentless thorn in the side of the local political machine. Richard Luthmann remembers Bobby not only as a political ally,…
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Scandal in the Age of Exposure
You would think the Deflategate franchise would have smartened up by now. Nope. The New England Patriots — a team already branded by Spygate, Deflategate, and the Aaron Hernandez nightmare — now finds itself dragged into another public-relations mud pit, this time around head coach Mike Vrabel and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini. The reported…
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CharityWatch Loses Tax-Free Collar?
CharityWatch built its brand by judging charities, grading nonprofits, and telling donors who deserves trust. Now the watchdog is under the microscope. After publishing a May 1 article tying Richard Luthmann to an alleged paid smear campaign without showing one dollar ever reached him, CharityWatch and CEO Laurie Styron may face legal, regulatory, and reputational…
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Right Side Goes Nuclear
Former FBI agent J. Gary DiLaura has detonated a political hand grenade with an open letter to President Donald J. Trump urging aggressive federal action against public figures he claims have crossed the line from rhetoric into threats, sedition, or worse. The letter, published under “The Right Side,” mixes retired-lawman war stories, federal criminal statutes,…
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Tonawanda Time Bomb
Former Erie County DA John Flynn wants the Tonawanda power chair. His jailed cousin Ryan Flynn says not so fast. Ryan claims the comeback is not public service, but political cover. The documents show a volatile mix: abuse allegations, detention deadlines, competency findings, assigned-counsel dysfunction, and a Democratic machine critics call the “Kennedys of Tonawanda.”…
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Blue-White’s Economic Engine
In the age of NIL chaos and transfer portal paranoia, one program refuses to blink—and it’s cashing in because of it. Penn State University has turned its annual Blue-White Game into more than a spring scrimmage—it’s a full-blown economic ignition switch for Centre County. While other schools retreat, Happy Valley doubles down, drawing fans, dollars,…
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