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Jun 17

2025

Podcast: Profiling Buffalo mayoral candidates

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There’s just one week left until the Democratic primary fro Buffalo mayor, the marquee race this election season. In the last month, Investigative Post’s government and politics reporter, Geoff Kelly, profiled four of the five candidates on the ballot: state Sen. Sean Ryan, University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt, former Assembly staffer Anthony Tyson-Thompson and former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield. In January Kelly wrote a three-part profile of the fifth candidate, Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon. Editor Jim Heaney last week sat down to ask Kelly his impressions of the candidates and the contest. The candidates and their issues Acting[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 16

2025

Buffalo’s race for mayor, by the numbers

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Last week, Ken Kruly, author of Politics and Other Stuff, published an insightful analysis of where the votes for mayor are likely to come from in the upcoming primary election for Buffalo mayor. Total turnout will likely be in the range of 30,000 – the average of previous elections.  Dividing up the vote five ways may mean that the winning candidate will need 12,000 to 15,000 votes … A solid base of support, buttressed by the financial resources available to get their messages across to the largest number of potential voters, moves both [Chris] Scanlon and [Sean] Ryan to the[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 13

2025

Tickets on sale for our July 31 benefit show

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It’s been a long time since we rock ‘n’ rolled, but that changes Thursday, July 31, when Investigative Post reprises its popular benefit concert at Sportsmen’s Tavern. Tom Toles is teaming once again with Junkman’s Choir to entertain. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the music begins at 6:30 p.m. Be prepared for a blend of classic rock and Americana. Admission is $25. Tickets can be purchased online at this link. Proceeds will help fund Investigative Post’s reporting. We’re a nonprofit and the only news outlet in Western New York focused on watchdog journalism. Toles is the Pulitzer Prize winning[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 13

2025

Feds adding migrant detention centers in Buffalo area

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U.S. immigration agencies have expanded their footprint in Western New York, detaining arrested migrants in five locations beyond the federal detention center in Batavia.  One reason for the detentions: The ICE facility in Batavia has been periodically near or over capacity in recent months and cannot house women or children, according to advocates for detainees.  In the Town of Tonawanda,  23 immigrants have been detained for the past 10 days at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station located at 600 Colvin Woods Parkway. A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson  confirmed those detentions Wednesday. The station is in an office[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 12

2025

Political profile: Garnell Whitfield

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Garnell Whitfield at his Dec. 3, 2024 ,mayoral campaign launch. Photo by Nate Peracinny. Garnell Whitfield, the former fire commissioner, has specific ideas about what he’d do if elected mayor of Buffalo — about city finances, overtime costs, the shortage of affordable housing, and a host of other issues. But those policy positions aren’t the platform on which he’s built his campaign. And he doesn’t think candidates and voters should get bogged down in debating, for example, whose plan to rescue city finances is better, or how to restructure city government. Rather, he hopes voters will measure the candidates’ characters[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 11

2025

What wage theft allegations?

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For a eight time Wednesday, the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency approved subsidies for a fast food restaurateur under investigation for wage theft. And just like every other subsidy the IDA has authorized for Muhammad Shoaib over the past two years, the $48,750 grant garnered no discussion and was approved unanimously. Fast food restaurants are generally ineligible for any IDA assistance under New York law. But because Shoaib is opening many of his stores in downtown Niagara Falls, IDA leaders have allowed him to exploit a loophole that allows tax breaks and grants for retail establishments in “economically distressed” areas.[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 11

2025

Political profile: Anthony Tyson-Thompson

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Mayor candidate Anthony Tyson-Thompson Anthony Tyson-Thompson is to many voters the least familiar of the five candidates running in the June 24 Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor.  He was the last candidate to join the field, skipping the party’s months-long endorsement process and announcing his candidacy in mid-April, just two weeks before nominating petitions were due. His campaign is largely self-funded, he said, and it shows. He has few campaign signs around the city, no ads and no mailers — just social media. The East Side native is also the youngest mayoral candidate, at 34, with the least experience in[...]

Posted 4 months ago

Jun 10

2025

Political profile: Rasheed Wyatt

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Rasheed Wyatt in Council chambers. There is a consistent theme in University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt’s solutions to almost every ailment and policy question confronting Buffalo and its government. Ask the people what they want, he says.  And then do what they tell you to do. In an hour-long interview with Investigative Post, Wyatt — one of five Democrats competing in the June 24 primary for Buffalo mayor  — invoked “the people” and their wishes no fewer than a dozen times. In response to nearly every question asked, he proposed convening “a community conversation” to learn “what’s good for[...]

Posted 4 months ago
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