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Feb 3

2026

India Walton to run for lieutenant governor

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Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who’s challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul in the June Democratic primary, has chosen Buffalo’s India Walton to be his running mate. Reached by text, Walton declined to confirm that the offer was made or that she’d accepted. Delgado’s campaign did not respond to multiple phone calls, emails, or messages on social media.  Delgado plans to announce his selection Wednesday. Walton, a nurse and community organizer, rose to political prominence in 2021 when she beat four-term incumbent Byron Brown in the Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor. It was her first run for elected office, and her primary victory[...]

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Feb 2

2026

ICE frees UB scientist arrested at Peace Bridge

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Huseynov reports on his return home in a Jan. 31 video posted to his Facebook page. Image from the video. Shovgi Huseynov, the University at Buffalo neuroscientist who was arrested by border agents after making a wrong turn onto the Peace Bridge, has been freed from ICE detention. He was back home with his family in Buffalo as of Saturday, according to a video he posted to his Facebook page. “I want to thank each and every one of you for being concerned and curious about me these past few days, it means a lot,” he said in the video.[...]

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Feb 2

2026

The not so hot Trump economy

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Donald Trump won election for a second term in part because a lot of voters thought he would be good for the economy. He’s been in office for a year. How is the economy doing? The New York Times used data to look at eight sectors.  Among the findings: Grocery prices, on balance, have increased. Trump said they’d drop if he was elected. Gas prices have dropped, but not as steeply as Trump promised on the campaign trail. The cost of electricity has increased. Trump said he’d cut prices in half during his first year in office. Manufacturing jobs have[...]

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Jan 30

2026

Genesee IDA has ‘conflict of interest’ in data center

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A rendering of the proposed data center. Image via GCEDC. The Genesee County industrial development agency will once again lead the environmental review of a controversial data center proposal despite state officials, local lawmakers and Tonawanda Seneca Nation leaders raising concerns about the agency’s potential conflict of interest. They and other critics argue the IDA, which is building the 1,250-acre STAMP industrial park in rural Genesee County, stands to benefit financially from the data center project. Should the agency’s board of directors approve the project, including issuing an environmental clearance, the IDA could earn between $76 million and $126 million[...]

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Jan 29

2026

ICE now targeting Afghans, rule followers

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250 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo has become a site of ICE arrests. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker. In recent months, two new patterns have emerged involving ICE arrests across Western New York. First, federal immigration agents are apprehending asylum seekers at their mandated check-in appointments. Second, they’ve ramped up their targeting of Afghan nationals. A half-dozen federal lawsuits filed over the past month illustrate the first: Agents order an asylum seeker with a pending court hearing to show up at an ICE office to “check-in.” The person does so and is immediately detained, despite being in the country legally[...]

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Jan 28

2026

State troopers face light discipline for serious misconduct

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The Gray Rider, a statue dedicated to state troopers, outside of the New York State Police Headquarters in Albany, N.Y. Cindy Schultz for The New York Times. This story is co-published with The New York Times and New York Focus. An investigator with the New York State Police helped get a friend’s traffic tickets reduced “in exchange” for her sexually explicit photos, according to a disciplinary letter from 2017. Another stunned a combative suspect with his Taser in 2020 and held down the trigger for 33 seconds, twice the amount of time widely considered dangerous and potentially fatal. Some officers[...]

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Jan 27

2026

Ciminelli plea concludes Buffalo Billion case

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Tesla plant while under construction, managed by LP Ciminelli. The long-running saga involving allegations of bid-rigging in the construction of the Tesla plant in South Buffalo has finally run its course. In the past month, Louis Ciminelli and Alain Kaloyeros have entered guilty pleas and agreed to pay fines to settle the government’s cases against them. They avoid any additional jail time. Their previous convictions had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Their prosecutions followed reporting by Investigative Post more than a decade ago, which prompted Preet Bharara, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,[...]

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Jan 26

2026

Ryan bars city cooperation with federal immigration

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Ryan signs the order flanked by deputy mayors, advocates and NY Assembly members Jon Rivera, left, and Pat Burke, right. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker City of Buffalo police officers and other employees are barred from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, according to an executive order Mayor Sean Ryan signed Monday morning. That means city employees cannot: Inquire about a person’s immigration status while administering a city service. Provide access to databases or other records to civil immigration authorities that are not already public. Make facilities available to immigration authorities that aren’t otherwise already public spaces. Participate in the enforcement[...]

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