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Dec 1

2025

There’s more to local media than what the chains offer

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Although local corporate media websites attract most of the traffic, there are a growing number of worthwhile websites and Substacks worth reading. Allow me to introduce, or remind you, of the best of them: Ken Kruly authors Politics and Other Stuff, which reports on, well, politics and other stuff. Ken has a particularly sharp eye when it comes to government and campaign finances. He also has a good feel for local and state politics. Charlie Specht writes Buffalo Muckraker on Substack, riffing largely off his work for Channel 2 and drawing from his knowledge gained through previous reporting gigs with[...]

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Nov 26

2025

City to pay $3.3 million to settle Molly’s Pub lawsuits

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Defense attorney Joel Daniels and Jeffrey Basil. Photo courtesy of WKBW 7 News. It’s been more than 11 years since Jeffrey Basil, bar manager of the now-defunct Molly’s Pub on Main Street, pushed William Sager down a flight of stairs, then enlisted off-duty Buffalo police officers working security for the bar to try to cover up what he’d done. Sager, 28, suffered a traumatic brain injury and died on July 31, 2014, after two-and-a-half months in a coma. Basil was sentenced to 18 years in prison for manslaughter in 2015.  The following year, Robert Eloff, one of the off-duty cops,[...]

Posted 2 months ago

Nov 25

2025

‘Falls mayor in need of anger management

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Many politicians and bureaucrats drag their feet when they field a request for information from a reporter they don’t like or are asked about something they’d rather not disclose. But they at least go through the motions of responding – eventually. Then there’s Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino, who recently announced on his YouTube channel that he’s refusing to respond to information requests from the Niagara Gazette. Wrote the newspaper, in a story we republished last week: In his message, Restaino also suggested the newspaper and members of its staff have refused to “honor” an “obligation” to report on things[...]

Posted 2 months ago

Nov 24

2025

Dozens arrested in recent WNY immigration raids

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ICE agents arrest a man on Elmwood Avenue. Photo submitted by Diane Hinman. Immigration agents have arrested and detained 44 people in raids across Western New York so far this month. At truck stops along the New York Thruway in Angola, Clarence and Corfu, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents conducted “immigration inspections” during a four-day operation that swept up 30 drivers and seven others. On Elmwood Avenue, four Hispanic men were arrested Nov. 13 in front of the Aquacates restaurant by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations. And this week, three men working at a[...]

Posted 2 months ago

Nov 24

2025

Stepped up government surveillance

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The U.S. Border Patrol is no longer just policing the border at entry points such as the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.  An investigation by the Associated Press has found the U.S. Border patrol “is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.” Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started[...]

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Nov 21

2025

Lawyer puts up $800k to deny party boss a Senate seat

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Attorney Peter Reese, a relentless pot-stirrer in Western New York politics for decades, is hell-bent on preventing Erie County Democratic Chair Jeremy Zellner from becoming a state senator. On Tuesday Reese filed paperwork with the state elections board to create an independent expenditure committee dedicated to derailing Zellner’s efforts to succeed Sean Ryan, Buffalo’s mayor-elect, in representing the 61st State Senate District.  He’s seeding the committee’s bank account with $800,000 of his own money.  “I figured a million would be too gaudy,” Reese told Investigative Post.  The committee is called ATAT, short for “Ainsi toujours aux tyrans,” Reese said. That’s[...]

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Nov 20

2025

Niagara Falls mayor admits ‘ignoring’ media requests for info

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Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino. In his latest update from inside Niagara Falls City Hall, Mayor Robert Restaino once again donned his newspaper publisher’s cap to tell the Niagara Gazette what stories it should be printing and to tell residents his administration is not refusing the local news outlet’s requests for public information but is rather just ignoring them. Restaino, a former city court judge removed from the bench for misconduct, justified this flouting of state Freedom of Information law by citing his frustration with the newspaper’s choice of stories. In a message published on his office’s YouTube channel, Restaino accused[...]

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Nov 19

2025

Across the state, discipline for police misconduct varies widely

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The Yates County Sheriff’s Office. Photo by Lauren Petracca for the New York Times. A teenage girl came forward in May 2023 with a horrifying complaint: Her adoptive father had been raping her since 2021, she told police officers in an interview at her school. After some of the assaults, according to a police report, he would give her soda, candy or blueberry iced tea. The abuse started when she was 13. The teen was removed from the home, and the case was assigned to Megan Morehouse, an investigator in the Yates County Sheriff’s Office who had met the girl[...]

Posted 2 months ago
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