Tim Kennedy

Two-and-a-half weeks after a mass shooting in Buffalo killed 10 people, the New York State Legislature has acted on measures to close loopholes in the state’s gun laws and to prohibit anyone under the age of 21 from buying a semi-automatic rifle.

Western New York representatives in the New York State Legislature are urging Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state pension fund from any Russian-owned businesses or those who do business with that nation. State Sens. Tim Kennedy and Sean Ryan and Assemblymembers Bill Conrad and Jon Rivera joined representatives of the local Ukrainian-American community inside the Ukrainian-American Civic Center in Buffalo to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine and call on the state to increase its economic pressure on the Russian Federation.

One political pundit believes local Democrats have already chosen Byron Brown’s eventual successor, and that it’s New York State Sen. Tim Kennedy.

Lawmakers and laborers came together outside the DL&W Terminal construction site Friday, urging the federal government to pass a five-year, trillion-dollar infrastructure rebuilding plan.

When the Kensington Expressway was built starting in 1958, many residents and community leaders say it divided a community once connected through a parkway. Now influential state legislators are jumping behind plans to redesign Route 33.

The Buffalo Skyway could come down as soon as this year, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying New York state is ready to break ground in 2021 and funding…

Members of PUSH Buffalo’s PUSH Green and PUSH Clean Heat teams joined New York State Sen. Tim Kennedy for the Earth Day announcement of Let’s Bring it…

Georgia may no longer be on their mind, but perhaps New York is.The recent decision by movie producers Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to pull the filming of…

The new state budget puts a lot more money into repairing New York’s tattered roads and bridges and creates a new program to repair city streets and fill…

New York state nursing homes have long been plagued by understaffing, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made matters worse. Despite this, the state…