{"id":18763,"date":"2017-02-01T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18763"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:48:20","slug":"cuomos-buffalo-billion-no-benefit-to-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/cuomos-buffalo-billion-no-benefit-to-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo\u2019s \u201cBuffalo Billion\u201d no Benefit to Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreporter.com\/cuomos-buffalo-billion-no-benefit-niagara-falls-2\/\">Niagara Falls Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With key members of his staff under indictment, a potential $3.5 billion budget deficit looming, various ill-considered initiatives like free college tuition and selling liquor in movie theaters going over like lead balloons, and being increasingly at odds with a state legislature scratching and clawing to maintain its own prerogatives in a declining and corrupt state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo brought his road show to Niagara Falls this week, cutting the ribbon at a hotel opening.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo was in town to promote was what he calls his \u201cBuffalo Billion Squared\u201d which, being a $500 million reprise of a previous state aid program for Buffalo, might more aptly be called \u201cBuffalo Billion Halved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only thing the Buffalo Billion has paid for here in Niagara Falls, through a $10 million relative pittance, is the rebuilding of the south Robert Moses Parkway, which sprawls along and cuts off access to Niagara River waterfront.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Reporter: With key members of his staff under indictment, a potential $3.5 billion budget deficit looming, various ill-considered initiatives like free college tuition and selling liquor in movie theaters going over like lead balloons, and being increasingly at odds with a state legislature scratching and clawing to maintain its own prerogatives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[5823,11651,4856,1164],"class_list":["post-18763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-buffalo-billion","tag-niagara-falls-reporter","tag-robert-moses-parkway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18764,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}