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Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

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Courage (sort of) and cowardice (definitely)

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No more free golf for Chautauqua IDA

The Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency has agreed to make changes to the way it operates after a scathing state review in May found...

An oasis near a book desert

Editor’s note: This is the second  installment of an occasional series we’re calling “East Side Stories.” We examine issues that affect the residents of...

GOP lawmakers fight with public dollars to control OTB

It’s going to cost taxpayers in rural Western New York counties big bucks to support a legal challenge against state-imposed changes to the management...

City earning millions on unspent federal relief funds

Mayor Byron Brown’s slow rollout of federal Covid relief funds has infuriated social welfare organizations and Common Council members, who have been waiting two...

Officials rebuke OTB over 11th hour contract extensions

Editor’s note: This story is a continuation of Investigative Post’s content sharing arrangement with the Niagara Gazette.  Erie County Comptroller Kevin Hardwick used one word to describe the contract extensions recently granted to 18 executives at the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation: “obscene.” State Assembly Member Monica Wallace, who sponsored OTB reform legislation, termed the... View Article

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Monday Morning Read

WeeklyPost, emailed to subscribers every Sunday morning, includes Jim Heaney’s recommended reading, which we republish the following day in Monday Morning Read. You can subscribe here. The decision by The New York Times to do away with its sports staff was a big deal in journalism circles last week. Many were aghast. As a sports fan, and... View Article

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Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

(REMINDER: these listings are curated and definitely not intended...

Courage (sort of) and cowardice (definitely)

Note: This column typically includes the What I’m Reading...