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Feb 18

2026

Trump’s National Park nominee has conflict of interest

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The Roosevelt Arch at Yellowstone National Park. Photo via the National Park Service. President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Park Service already has an extensive history with that agency — as a corporate executive obtaining and managing federal contracts from it. That’s a departure from past park service directors, whose resumes typically have included positions in public land management, according to advocates.  Scott Socha, president of parks and resorts for Buffalo-based Delaware North, “has zero experience in public service or conservation,” said a spokesperson for Save Our Parks, a nonprofit formed last year to push back against the[...]

Posted 3 weeks ago

Feb 17

2026

Continued questionable spending of opioid funds

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The fire department recently used $1,761 of opioid settlement funds on the Cotter fireboat. Photo credit: WKBW Mayor Sean Ryan’s administration has continued the city’s practice of spending money earmarked to address opioid addiction on unrelated equipment. Since January 1, when Ryan took office, the fire and police departments have used over $10,000 in grant money intended to battle opioid overdoses to buy snowblowers, electronics, and upgrades to a 2025 Ford Explorer, according to city records. Investigative Post reported in December that since 2023, the city has received some $6 million in opioid settlement funds from the state. To date,[...]

Posted 3 weeks ago

Feb 12

2026

Thousands of immigrants challenging detentions in court

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The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal, more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including President Donald Trump’s first term. So far this year, immigrants are filing on average more than 200 of these cases, known as habeas petitions, daily across the country, with California and Texas accounting for about 40 percent of new cases, a ProPublica analysis of federal court filings found. To keep tabs on this historic rise, ProPublica is publishing a habeas case tracker. The tracker[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Feb 11

2026

Cheektowaga kicks the can on immigration policy

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The Cheektowaga Town Board meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. Cheektowaga lawmakers on Tuesday tabled a resolution that would restrict town police from collaborating with federal immigration agencies, a practice that funneled more than 20 migrants into ICE custody last year. As written, the resolution would mandate officers “not enforce civil immigration status, except where required by a judicial warrant, court order, or verified criminal warrant.” It would further restrict the town from using “personnel, resources, facilities, equipment, or information for the purpose of assisting in civil immigration enforcement,” and specifically “enforcement actions initiated or requested[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Feb 10

2026

Data center deal wrong on so many levels

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There’s growing pushback across the country against data centers. They’re energy hogs that are bad for the environment and the pocketbook of electricity consumers. Except in Genesee County. There, the IDA is dangling $801 million in tax breaks in a package that works out to $6.4 million per job in an effort to bring a data center to its STAMP business park.   To put this in context, the state spent $959 million to build a factory in South Buffalo for Elon Musk in exchange for 1,480 jobs. The data center deal: $801 million in tax breaks — plus likely discounted[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Feb 9

2026

The bloodbath at The Washington Post

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Billionaires saving the newspaper industry? Not. The latest case in point: The Washington Post firing some 300 journalists last week in a cost-cutting move. Every aspect of the paper’s coverage will be impacted. The sports section will be eliminated altogether, as will the paper’s entire staff of photographers. There will be fewer hands on deck to report on all the craziness that’s playing out in the nation’s capital. Etc. The Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has been cozying up to Trump in ways that include gifting Melania Trump $40 million for the rights to produce a fawning documentary[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Feb 5

2026

A stamp of approval for Investigative Post

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NewsGuard reviews and rates news websites for their credibility and transparency. It’s akin to a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for journalism, informing news consumers of the trustworthiness of media outlets.  NewsGuard has just completed its review of Investigative Post and gave us its highest score possible – 100 out of 100.  Only about 10 percent of the more than 12,000 online news and information websites it has reviewed have been so scored.  According to the NewsGuard review: “Articles by Investigative Post are typically fact-based, often referencing the site’s interviews with political leaders, primary sources like government data, and credible[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Feb 4

2026

Data center wants subsidies of $6.4 million per job

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The developers of the STAMP industrial park in Genesee County are dangling one of the biggest subsidy packages in state history in an effort to land a data center as a tenant. The industrial development agency for Genesee County has proposed $801 million in sales and mortgage tax breaks for Stream Data Centers in exchange for the creation of 125 jobs. That works out to $6.4 million per job. By contrast, the $959 million in state funding for Tesla’s plant in  South Buffalo worked out to $586,000 per job. The $6.6 billion in subsidies granted to Micron’s planned chip-fab in[...]

Posted 1 month ago
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