Articles for Investigative Post staff

Nov 5

2024

Infographic: Presidential picks in Erie-Niagara

It’s Election Day. Four years ago, when Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Erie County voted for the Democratic candidate while Niagara County voted for the Republican. The two counties have been at odds in three of the last five elections. Here’s a look at how Erie and Niagara counties voted in presidential elections going back to 2004: Source: New York State, Erie County, and Niagara County election boards.

Posted 12 months ago

Nov 1

2024

Infographic: Move your car

Over the past year, Buffalo issued more parking summonses, by far, for not following alternate side of the street parking rules than for anything else. Using city parking summons data available through Open Buffalo, Investigative Post found 43 percent of over 142,000 summons issued in a one-year period – ending in late October – went to vehicles parked on the wrong side of the street.  The next most frequently issued tickets went to vehicles in No Parking zones. They represented 12 percent of tickets. As a comparison,  we looked at ticketing data the city released for an almost 18-year period[...]

Posted 12 months ago

Oct 15

2024

Infographic: To buy or to rent? Either costs more

The median value of a home in Erie County reached $241,900 in 2023; in Niagara County, $189,700, according to Census Bureau estimates. (Median defined as point at which half are above, half below.) Year-to-year Census Bureau estimates for the largest municipalities show median housing values up almost 50% from 2019 to 2023 in Amherst and Buffalo, more than 60% in Cheektowaga and almost 40% in Town of Tonawanda. The Amherst median — $336,000 — is almost twice that of Buffalo, at $174,200. Rent also rises Median monthly rent hit $1,067 in Erie County, with its four largest municipalities — Buffalo,[...]

Posted 1 year ago

Sep 19

2024

Developer Doug Jemal, back in the news

An advertisement featuring Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen hangs on the side of the Statler Hotel. Photo by Garrett Looker. Developer Doug Jemal is in the news this week over his company’s installation of a huge ad posted on the side of the Statler Hotel in the heart of downtown Buffalo. Jemal’s company didn’t obtain the necessary permit for the 11-story ad, featuring the likeness of Bills quarterback Josh Allen. Jemal is unapologetic, telling The Buffalo News that installing the ad was the “right thing to do.” Jemal, known for sometimes playing by his own rules, was the subject of[...]

Posted 1 year ago

Sep 18

2024

Infographic: Buffalo transplants prefer Tampa area

We reviewed eight years of IRS data and found more people moving out of Erie County each year than moving in. The spread had been declining but started getting wider from 2019 to 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in 2020. The spread continued to grow, right up to 2021-22, the most recent year the data is available. There were 3,655 more people moving out of Erie County than moving in from 2021 to 2022, the numbers show. A closer look at 2021-22 We took a deeper dive into the 2021-22 data to get a better sense of where people[...]

Posted 1 year ago

Sep 17

2024

Help wanted: Investigative Post is hiring a managing editor

Investigative Post is hiring a managing editor to work with Editor Jim Heaney in overseeing our award-winning coverage of Buffalo and Western New York. The ideal job candidate has an accomplished track record as both an editor and investigative reporter. They’re facile with data. Good working with reporters to develop stories. A good line editor who is not shy about rewriting copy when necessary. And has good people skills. Investigative Post is highly regarded for our high-impact reporting and considered the go-to source for accountability journalism in Western New York. We distribute our work through our website and several television[...]

Posted 1 year ago

Sep 3

2024

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Posted 1 year ago

Aug 20

2024

The militias of the Radical Right

Private paramilitary activity is illegal, in New York and across the nation.  Nevertheless, there are more than an estimated dozen militias active in the Empire State, and countless more elsewhere in the United States. These militias believe they’re entitled to use violence to advance their agenda, which is aligned with America’s Radical Right. Western New York is home to perhaps the movement’s most infamous figures, Timothy McVeigh, whose bombing of a federal office building in 1995 killed 168 people and injured 680. That bombing helped expedite the growth of the militia movement. ProPublica reported last week on one of the[...]

Posted 1 year ago
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