Dunkirk’s finances are not exactly robust, nor are they all that clear. There is one thing about them that is certainly robust and clear: The finger-pointing. Common Council members defended this week against “a growing narrative that the council somehow failed to act on the original Fiscal Recovery Act (from 2025) or failed to take the steps necessary to position the city for deficit financing,” as Councilman-at-large Nick Weiser put it. Speaking at a Finance Committee meeting, Weiser called that narrative “not accurate.” He stated, “Once the Office of the State ...