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Hundreds of local jobs could go up in smoke with flavor ban

Flavored liquid used in e-cigarettes, or vaping, would be banned in New York state under Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget. But as WBFO's Chris Caya reports, the ban could hurt the local economy and cost hundreds of people their jobs.

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Press Pass: Home design

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The March issue of Buffalo Spree explores home design. Five area homes are showcased, all of different styles. In this week's Press Pass with WBFO's Mark Scott, Spree editor Elizabeth Licata says one is a small cottage in Allentown, built by a man on a small parcel behind an existing home.

 


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Flavored liquid used in e-cigarettes, or vaping, would be banned in New York state under Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget. But as WBFO's Chris Caya reports, the ban could hurt the local economy and cost hundreds of people their jobs. 

Two local colleges are addressing the spread of coronavirus to countries where their students are studying abroad.

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Just ahead of the single most important day of the Democratic primary, former Vice President Joe Biden picked up the endorsements of two former rivals.

Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who ended his own White House bid Sunday night, appeared with Biden at a barbecue restaurant in Dallas Monday evening.

A Cheektowaga man has been arraigned on one count of second-degree murder in the Sunday shooting death of a woman who worked at a 7-Eleven store on French Road.

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Hispanics and Blacks make up 31 percent of New York State's population but only 13 percent of medical school applicants are Hispanic or Black. The numbers are raising concerns, says Jo Wiederhorn, President and CEO of the Associated Medical Schools of New York. "If a physician is of the same race or ethnicity as his or her patient, health outcomes improve," said Wiederhorn in citing several studies on the subject.

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Jack Welch, the larger-than-life chief executive who grew General Electric into an industrial powerhouse, has died. He was 84.

During his reign from 1981 to 2001, the company's market value skyrocketed to $410 billion from $12 billion. For his success in growing GE's value, Fortune magazine dubbed him "manager of the century" in 1999.

Welch aggressively bought and sold divisions, insisting GE rank near the top of any business in which it operated.

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The recently released "count the cost" survey of 379 households in New York found that the average loss per home from the flooding along Lake Ontario's shoreline in 2017 and 2019 is $95,000. And the authors of the survey say it's not just those at the top who are suffering. Half of the households who participated in the survey earn less than $125,000 and 70% of those who responded say they do not have the resources to protect against another year of flooding.

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The number two man in the Buffalo Catholic Diocese is stepping down. The diocese released a statement Monday morning saying Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Auxiliary Bishop Edward Grosz.

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Western New York is remembering retired Surrogate Judge Joseph Mattina. He died Sunday at Erie County Medical Center after a long illness.

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The president and CEO who was brought in to change the culture behind the Grammy Awards — and whose tenure lasted only five months — has been fired.

The Recording Academy, the non-profit organization which gives out the awards, said in an announcement to its membership today that it had commissioned "two exhaustive, costly independent investigations relating to Ms. Dugan and the allegations made against her and by her."

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On the heels of a meeting with President Trump and pharmaceutical company leaders, Vice President Pence offered words of calm to the American public about the spread of coronavirus: "The risk remains low," he repeated numerous times during a news conference with reporters on Monday afternoon.

Pence, who on Friday was appointed by the president to lead the Coronavirus Task Force, delivered the remarks from the White House press briefing room, where he was surrounded by many of the nation's top health officials.

At the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the Trump administration is seeking to make it easier for the president to call in the heads of the nation's independent agencies and say those words he was famous for on TV: "You're fired!" In particular, the administration is asking the court to restrict or reverse a decision that dates back nearly a century, and that has been repeatedly reaffirmed.

No matter what happens on Super Tuesday, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has already made history.

Maine residents voting Tuesday in the presidential primary will also have a chance to cast ballots on another issue: vaccine requirements. A statewide referendum asks if voters want to overturn a new law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccines.

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Heritage Moments: Mean streets, rock ’n’ roll and the underground genius of Spain Rodriguez

Buffalo in the late ’50s and early ’60s: motorcycle gangs, factory jobs, Deco’s all-night coffee shops, rhythm-and-blues clubs on William Street, record hops, tire-iron rumbles, cruising down Fillmore to the howling sounds of WKBW’s Hound Dog Lorenz. The city was a menacing but vibrant place, churchgoing yet beer-soaked, seething with racial antipathies yet alive with more interaction between white and black than at any time before or since.

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