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Posts tagged with "government"
Smith continues to flaunt election law
May. 17 | Posted in Featured,In-Depth The New York Board of Elections has slapped a campaign committee controlled by Common Council Majority Leader Demone Smith with another fine for failing to file financial disclosure reports. The most recent fine of $1,121...
Chamber of Commerce attack ads called untruthful
May. 15 | Posted in MediaA Chamber of Commerce TV ad attacking U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, for his support of Obamacare is similar to a Chamber ad aimed at U.S. Rep. Kathy Hochul that is running in WNY. PoliFact has scored the two key claims in the...
Investigation into city demolition program
May. 7 | Posted in Mediahttp://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/buffalo/article843054.ece City Hall has spent $73 million the past 12 years to demo nearly 6,000 houses. Much of that money has gone to firms with checkered backgrounds. A Buffalo News investigation. Leave...
Heaney interview on WGRZ
May. 5 | Posted in MediaView Video Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney discusses a proposal to redevelop the outer harbor as a park, without significant development, and how much the public should pay to finance improvements to Ralph Wilson Stadium to retain...
Is Apple rotten to the core?
Apr. 29 | Posted in Featured,Media The New York Times on Sunday published yet another damning investigation on the business practices of Apple. Among the key findings: Apple has exploited the tax code, both here and aboard. According to The Times: Apple’s...
Sabres fans get poor return on investment
Apr. 8 | Posted in Featured,Joe FridayIt turns out Joe Friday is a hockey fan. Who woulda thunk it, Joe being from Los Angeles and all. Detective Friday realizes that while Terry Pegula owns the Buffalo Sabres, the team’s fan base pays the bills. What kind...
Lessons for Buffalo from a boomtown
Apr. 5 | Posted in Featured,In-DepthBuffalo is not Austin, Texas, and never will be. They bake. We freeze. They have Lance Armstrong. We had OJ. They don’t pay state income taxes. We do. Oh boy, do we. But I’ve come away from two visits to Austin since last...
Lessons for Buffalo from a boomtown
Apr. 5 | Posted in Featured,In-DepthBuffalo is not Austin, Texas, and never will be. They bake. We freeze. They have Lance Armstrong. We had OJ. They don’t pay state income taxes. We do. Oh boy, do we. But I’ve come away from two visits to Austin since last...
Ending “socialism for the rich”
Apr. 3 | Posted in Mediahttp://motherjones.com/politics/2009/01/fiscal-therapy Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston outlines how to revise the tax code to stop subsidizing corporations and the super rich and get the economy back on its feet. Leave a Comment
Handicapping a Hochul-Collins race
Mar. 26 | Posted in Featured,Jim HeaneyThere’s the matter of an almost certain GOP primary, but the announcement over the weekend by Chris Collins that he is running for the 27th Congressional District leads to inevitable speculation about a general election...
Opening the books at the UB Foundation
Mar. 21 | Posted in Featured,In-DepthThe UB Foundation and other foundations and non-profits associated with SUNY schools operate in some ways similar to authorities in state government. In UB’s case, its foundation manages university real estate, grants scholarships...
Taking aim at suburban IDAs
Mar. 21 | Posted in Mediahttp://www.buffalonews.com/business/article773531.ece Assemblyman Sean Ryan, with backing of Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, is drafting bill to limit tax breaks IDAs can offer. Leave a Comment
New York ranks among more corrupt states
Mar. 20 | Posted in Featured,MediaState governments are susceptible to corruption, New York’s moreso than most, according to a new data-driven study done by the State Integrity Investigation. The study gave New York a “D” based on score of 65...
Government’s spin cycle
Mar. 12 | Posted in Jim HeaneyI’m not sure when the high water mark was regarding the public’s right to know about what’s being done in its name and with its tax dollars, but surely that time has passed. A lot gets written this time every year as the...
Weekend News Cafe
Mar. 9 | Posted in Weekend News CafeWeekends are not high traffic days for most news websites and Investigative Post did not update our first two weekends. But we’re going to experiment with something we call “Weekend News Cafe,” in which we’ll...
What the Frack is in That Water?
Mar. 9 | Posted in Mediahttp://www.propublica.org/special/what-the-frack-is-in-that-water Environmentalists have repeatedly pressed regulators to compel oil and gas companies to report what chemicals they use in the drilling and fracking process. Drilling companies...
A new tact for Central Terminal
Mar. 7 | Posted in Jim HeaneyOne billion dollars opens the door to all sorts of possibilities. Consider the Central Terminal. Despite its scars, the Central Terminal might be the neatest space in Buffalo. The city’s proverbial diamond in the rough, even if the...
Quinn: How to spend Cuomo’s $1B
Mar. 5 | Posted in Q & ASelf-portrait, Larry Quinn Larry Quinn, a developer and former managing partner of the Buffalo Sabres, weighed in yesterday with his thoughts on the team, Canalside and the future of HSBC bank in downtown Buffalo. Today, Quinn fields...
Larry Quinn on Sabres, Canalside, HSBC
Mar. 4 | Posted in Q & ASelf-portrait, Larry Quinn To quote Frank Sinatra, Larry Quinn has “been up and down and over and out,” perhaps moreso than any public figure in Buffalo over the past generation. He’s been a boy wonder city development whiz under...
Hormoz Mansouri’s political contributions
Mar. 1 | Posted in Joe FridayOur second installment of Joe Friday involves the campaign contributions of Hormoz Mansouri, regarded as one of the largest financial backers of local and state politicians, including those in league with veteran political operative...
Slaughter and Walz Say Stop Obstructing the STOCK Act
Jan. 30 | Call for Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor To Hold Up or Down Vote Bipartisan Bill to End Insider Trading Has Support of Majority of House Members
