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Robert Gavin
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Albany Bureau Chief for the @TheBuffaloNews; previously criminal justice, courts and legal affairs for @TimesUnion; previously Staten Island Advance
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 2d
Corinne Carey, senior campaign director for NY & NJ for national nonprofit organization Compassion & Choices, spoke in State Capitol urging ⁦@governor.ny.gov to sign Medical Aid in Dying bill into law. Her group hand-delivered a letter to Hochul signed by 4,200 NYers.
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Aaron Besecker @aaronbesecker.bsky.social · 3d
Buffalo attorney in key role has familiar name in WNY law
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Buffalo attorney in key role has familiar name in WNY law
Kate Feroleto, daughter of late personal injury attorney John Feroleto and State Supreme Court Justice Paula Feroleto, in June became the 25th president – and only third woman – to lead the Western Ne...
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 4d
Judge says New York State should renegotiate with Senecas over land used for Thruway buffalonews.com/news/state-r...
Judge says New York State should renegotiate with Senecas over land used for Thruway
A judge said New York State should renegotiate a 1954 deal that allowed the state to use Seneca land to build part of the Thruway.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 5d
Hochul promises the 'right decision' on Medical Aid in Dying bill. What will that be? buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Hochul promises the 'right decision' on Medical Aid in Dying bill. What will that be?
If signed into law in New York, the bill would allow patients with less than six months to live to request the self-administered medication from their attending doctor.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 5d
Western New York lawmaker settles into key ethics role in Albany buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Western New York lawmaker settles into key ethics role in Albany
Amherst Democrat Karen McMahon is settling into her new role as an Albany ethics watchdog.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 8d
From @mikepetro.bsky.social & @sandratan.bsky.social

Want to bring home a piece of the current Bills stadium? Plans are in the works to make that happen buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Want to bring home a piece of the current Bills stadium? Plans are in the works to make that happen
Plans are in motion for the Buffalo Bills to partner with a third-party company to ensure that everything from seats to turf from Highmark Stadium gets sold to fans willing to pay.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 8d
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A Buffalo city employee has been on paid leave for three years. He wants to return, but will he? buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
A Buffalo city employee has been on paid leave for three years. He wants to return, but will he?
Members of Buffalo's Common Council want to know why a city employee remains on paid leave, even though the employee wants to return to work. And despite his pleas to return, the employee fears he is ...
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 13d
ICYMI:

Hochul calls Comey indictment and investigation of James a 'new low' for US buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Hochul calls Comey indictment and investigation of James a 'new low' for US
Hochul said President Trump is weaponizing the justice system in comments about the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, and investigations against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 13d
Hochul calls Comey indictment and investigation of James a 'new low' for US buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Hochul calls Comey indictment and investigation of James a 'new low' for US
Hochul said President Trump is weaponizing the justice system in comments about the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, and investigations against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 13d
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Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents
The House Oversight Committee is continuing to release redacted materials in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 14d
President Trump is now calling Jan. 6, 2021 a “hoax.”

He’s also saying FBI agents who were there while working there were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”

POTUS pardoned people convicted that day.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 14d
Hochul: Inflation rebate checks have started to be sent out to NY households buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Hochul: Inflation rebate checks have started to be sent out to NY households
Deliveries of the checks to more than 8.2 million recipients across the state began on Friday and will continue through October and November.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 16d
More from @amromero109.bsky.social and @patriciafahy46.bsky.social outside ABC affiliate in Albany:
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 16d
Two NYS lawmakers - @patriciafahy46.bsky.social & @amromero109.bsky.social -
joined protestors in a driving rain Wednesday to protest outside the Nexstar Media-owned ABC affiliate in Albany.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 19d
Watching the Jets.

#NYJvsTB
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 20d
New York State buildings to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk memorial buffalonews.com/news/state-r...
New York State buildings to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk memorial
The flags will be set at half-staff from sunrise until sunset to honor Kirk, 31, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 21d
State prison panel proposes reforms for HALT buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
State prison panel proposes reforms for HALT
An advisory panel of state and union officials established in the wake of the 22-day state correction officer strike earlier this year is asking state leaders to expand the use of segregated confineme...
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 21d
ICYMI:

NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program buffalonews.com/news/state-r...
NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program
The State Department of Health announced that it would no longer require caregivers in the state's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) to complete their annual health assessment by O...
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 21d
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Ryan campaign coffers include $5K donation from WNY vape businesses under AG scrutiny buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Ryan campaign coffers include $5K donation from WNY vape businesses under AG scrutiny
The Sean Ryan mayoral campaign accepted a $5,000 donation from a company that makes vaping products and is under scrutiny by the state.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 21d
Ryan campaign coffers include $5K donation from WNY vape businesses under AG scrutiny buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Ryan campaign coffers include $5K donation from WNY vape businesses under AG scrutiny
The Sean Ryan mayoral campaign accepted a $5,000 donation from a company that makes vaping products and is under scrutiny by the state.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 22d
Here’s a question: Were the comments of
@jimmykimmel.com on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social any harsher than the words of President Trump when he suggested a recently deceased Michigan member of Congress was not looking down from heaven but “looking up?"

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Dingell responds to Trump's attacks: 'We're a family grieving'
“I don’t want to politicize my husband. I don’t want to politicize his death,” Rep. Debbie Dingell said.
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 23d
NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program buffalonews.com/news/state-r...
NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program
The State Department of Health announced that it would no longer require caregivers in the state's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) to complete their annual health assessment by O...
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Justin Sondel @justinsondel.bsky.social · 23d
The dispute over the value of city parking ramps continues as the Scanlon administration tries to move forward its plan to sell them to a newly-created authority. My latest: buffalonews.com/news/local/g...
Dispute continues over value of Buffalo parking ramps: Are they worth $40M to $60M?
Members of the nonprofit organization that currently manages the city’s parking ramps dispute the estimated value of the ramps as the city prepares to sell them to a newly created
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Robert Gavin @robertgavinbn.bsky.social · 23d
NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program buffalonews.com/news/state-r...
NY Department of Health to allow caregivers more to time to complete compliance for home care program
The State Department of Health announced that it would no longer require caregivers in the state's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) to complete their annual health assessment by O...
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