A Wasted Year of Procrastination As Dyster's Indecision Dominates (Analysis‪)‬

When four out of five Niagara Falls voters swept Mayor Paul Dyster into office in November 2007, a pervasive sense of optimism led to a common belief that positive change would be quick in coming. After the ugly, four-year circus that was the administration of former mayor Vince Anello--who is now under federal indictment on numerous felony charges relating to public corruption--the thought of Dyster, who was seen as a fundamentally decent guy running to help his hometown rather than himself, seemed refreshing indeed.