"Kevin P. Gaughan" is an Lawyer/attorney and an advocate of government reform, in particular for the establishment of Consolidated city-county/regional government and regional consciousness within the Holland Purchase/Buffalo-Niagara region, which encompasses the cities of Buffalo, New York and Niagara Falls, New York, their suburbs and surrounding rural areas.

Gaughan became a nationally recognized advocate of regionalism largely because of a series of regionalism conferences at the Chautauqua Institution in which he organized in 1997.

In 1998 he was named a citizen of the year by the Buffalo News. In 2001 he became the youngest recipient of the Red Jacket/Red Jacket Medal, awarded by the Buffalo History Museum for civic leadership. He studied law at Georgetown University and international relations at the London School of Economics.

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The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.

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We were really trying to go easy today, not push too hard because we want to be ready for JB. That's a big race for us.

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