Robert Gavin

2 days ago | buffalonews.com | Robert Gavin

ALBANY – Hundreds of employees at the University of Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center who are required to file financial disclosure forms in the name of transparency were late in submitting their paperwork last year, the state’s ethics commission said in its annual report.

4 days ago | buffalonews.com | Robert Gavin

ALBANY – Warning that New York is "behind the times," a Buffalo emergency physician told a legislative panel Tuesday the state needs to pass a law to allow paramedics and other first responders to carry opioid withdrawal drugs when responding to overdoses.

5 days ago | buffalonews.com | Robert Gavin

ALBANY – Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado just made it official: He wants to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul, his former ally, in a Democratic primary next year. “New York, I’m not here to play the game. I’m here to change it. I’m running to be your next Governor,” Delgado said in a tweet early Monday evening.

5 days ago | buffalonews.com | Robert Gavin

ALBANY – The University at Buffalo and Kaleida Health had two of the three largest discrepancies in the state last year when it comes to reporting the amount of money they each spent on lobbying, a state panel said in its annual report Monday. UB, which acted as its own lobbyist, reported its expenditures as a lobbying client at $480,000, but its costs, or compensation for lobbying, as $800,000.

6 days ago | buffalonews.com | Robert Gavin

ALBANY – In the five months after prison officers beat 43-year-old Robert Brooks to death in Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, the state’s Commission on Correction, an oversight panel for New York’s prisons and jails, convened before the public for a combined total of less than 51 minutes. Including the commission’s time in executive session, which the public cannot view on the SCOC website, the seven meetings totaled three hours and three minutes.