Sandra Tan

2 days ago | buffalonews.com | Sandra Tan

The main document that lays out how Erie County government works – the County Charter – gets reviewed every 10 years by an independent citizens panel. It can be a fraught process, as evidenced by the last time a panel recommended sweeping changes, which led to political drama and a veto by County Executive Mark Poloncarz in 2016. Lesson learned.

6 days ago | buffalonews.com | Sandra Tan

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6 days ago | buffalonews.com | Sandra Tan

Millions in surplus money from last year's Erie County budget is going to fund a bunch of new county priorities – but not before county legislators redirected nearly $2.39 million toward their own districts. Republican Erie County legislators say County Executive Mark Poloncarz has broken trust with them over his estimates about the county's surplus money.

1 week ago | buffalonews.com | Sandra Tan

Daniel "D.J." Granville, the chief of narcotics for the Erie County Sheriff's Office, who has been under investigation after he crashed his county-owned pickup truck into seven parked cars last year, has been placed on paid administrative leave by the Erie County Sheriff's Office.

1 week ago | buffalonews.com | Sandra Tan

When Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz met with Republican county legislators in early February, he told them he expected the year-end surplus to be about $10 million. If there was any change, Republican legislators recollected him saying, it wouldn't be more than "a few hundred thousand dollars."Based on that reassurance, Republicans helped pass a major county borrowing package earlier this year, which required a two-thirds Legislature majority vote.