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Jan 7

2026

Special election set for Ryan’s Senate seat

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The special election to fill the 61st District state Senate seat — vacated last week by Sean Ryan before he was sworn in as Buffalo’s mayor — is coming as quickly as state law allows. Gov. Kathy Hochul last Friday set the date for Feb. 3. She could have picked a date as late as the first Tuesday in March, but instead chose the first possible Tuesday allowed under the law — just over a month after Ryan resigned the seat.  The move favors the four political parties with automatic ballot access in a special election process that already privileges[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Jan 5

2026

The state of Investigative Post

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Investigative Post enjoyed a dramatic growth in our audience in 2025, our 13th year in business.  Pageviews on our website topped 1 million for the first time: 1,390,934 to be precise. That total nearly equaled our traffic for the two previous years combined.  While our traffic is small compared to the legacy news outlets in town, it’s more than respectable considering we typically publish only one story a day. Our competitors are akin to department stores; we’re a boutique. Our per-story audience stacks up well with the competition, as does our impact. Our growth in traffic was driven in part[...]

Posted 4 weeks ago

Jan 2

2026

Granville report voted iPost’s top story of 2025

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Readers have voted Geoff Kelly’s story on the hit-and-run accidents of Erie County narcotics chief D.J. Granville the top story of 2025. Kelly was the first reporter to break the story, which published March 11. The story not only detailed the accidents, in which Granville struck seven parked vehicles on the city’s West Side, but the failure of Buffalo police to conduct a roadside sobriety test and the apparent cover-up of the accidents by Erie County Sheriff John Garcia. Kelly wrote: Granville’s spree began not long before midnight on April 11 of last year, as he headed east on Jersey[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Jan 1

2026

Adam Smith-Perez’s first year covering Buffalo

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I’ve visited Buffalo’s East Side to report over a dozen times, but the first time will stick with me. During my first weeks, my editor, Jim Heaney, told me to meet a few sources on the East Side: Steve Karnath at Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services, and Chris Hawley at his socialist, volunteer-run bar, the Eugene V. Debs Social Hall. I arrived at Debs at dusk on a summer evening. All the doors and windows were open. Hawley and his giant dog greeted me, along with a couple of his friends. A regular was barbecuing out front. I sampled a few[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Dec 31

2025

Covering ICE in Western NY throughout 2025

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Until January 20, it was easy to forget that Buffalo is a border town. If you thought about the border at all it was probably because you were traveling to Canada or coming back home — one of the best perks of living in the Queen City. The only time it was really front of mind was when you were showing your ID to an agent on the Peace Bridge. But Buffalo is a border town, and that means it’s home — and has been for years — to all the federal infrastructure a border entails: immigration agents and court[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Dec 30

2025

Geoff Kelly’s year in review

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This year my plate was full with Buffalo politics, as city voters were asked to elect the city’s first new mayor in 20 years. I kicked off the year, fittingly, with a three-part profile of Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon, who was at the time competing for the Democratic Party endorsement in June’s primary election.  This month, to ring out the year, Jim Heaney and I interviewed the guy who won the endorsement, the primary and November’s general election — incoming Mayor Sean Ryan. We did the interview in front of an audience at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. I also[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Dec 29

2025

A revolution and civil war, all in one

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The Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution that recently aired on PBS is an unsanitized version that they didn’t teach us in school. The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. Others include: George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he was a great leader of men. He was the towering figure of the revolution after the  Declaration of Independence. Patriot soldiers won the war in part due to their sheer fortitude. The militias and Continental army were not to[...]

Posted 1 month ago

Dec 24

2025

Tenants again sue judge-turned-landlord

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  APL Property’s apartment building on Elmwood Avenue. Photo by I’Jaz Ja’ciel. A Buffalo couple is suing former county judge-turned-developer Anthony LoRusso for alleged rental fraud — the third lawsuit LoRusso and his real estate companies have faced this year. Two of those court actions originated with renters, the other with a contractor. All told, courts this year have levied more than $300,000 in judgments against LoRusso’s companies. The first suit was filed by LaBella Associates D.P.C., an environmental consulting firm, in March, followed by the attorney general’s in May.  In September, Sabrina and Antonéo Page filed a lawsuit against[...]

Posted 1 month ago
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