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Jan 12

2026

Newspaper dies of self-inflicted wounds

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Striking journalists and supporters of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2022. Photo courtesy of Communications Workers of America. Big city newspapers are constantly downsizing. It’s worse in Pittsburgh, where the Post-Gazette announced last week that it’s closing altogether in May. The publisher cited $350 million in losses over the past 20 years, which suggests management didn’t do a good job running the business. The Buffalo News, for example, has operated in the black the past couple of decades, although its profit margin has shrunk over the years. Sour grapes also appear to be involved with the decision to close. The union[...]

Posted 2 months ago

Jan 9

2026

Wegmans surveilling shoppers, collecting data

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The word is out: Wegmans Food Markets is snooping on its customers. The Rochester-based grocery chain isn’t just using facial recognition technology in some of its stores — a practice which has generated controversy following a report by The Gothamist on its use in New York City. Investigative Post has found that Wegmans is tracking and collecting data on customers from the moment they enter the parking lot to the moment they check out. The company won’t say whether it’s using facial recognition technology in any of its stores in Western New York.  As soon as a shopper pulls into the[...]

Posted 2 months ago

Jan 8

2026

Buffalo sued over East Side police training facility

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A notice posted this summer outside the site of a proposed police training facility on Buffalo’s East Side. Photo by Adam Smith-Perez. An activist organization and four East Side residents have sued the city, the Common Council and the police department to stop the conversion of a former community center into a police training facility and shooting range. The organization Liberation For One, Liberation for All, also known as LOLA, filed the lawsuit on Dec. 23, arguing that the rezoning violates several state and local laws. Much of the suit is based on the city’s alleged violation of state environmental[...]

Posted 2 months ago

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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
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