Dec 30
2013
Alternative newspapers found 2013 to be an unforgiving year. The Boston Phoenix closed and many others struggled. Readers in urban areas are losing out as a result. A report from Al Jazeera America.
Dec 30
2013
The sports cable giant is big business in Connecticut, so, of course, it has squeezed government there for tax breaks. This, despite billions in revenues. A report from The New York Times.
Dec 23
2013
ProPublica highlights the best muckraking of 2013, from revelations regarding the NSA, sky high medical bills, unsafe work places, and more.
Dec 22
2013
Dec 20
2013
The tax breaks for the Yahoo data center in Lockport just keep coming. The Lockport IDA on Thursday granted the company a sales tax waiver on equipment purchases for the next 20 years. This is but the latest in tax breaks granted by IDA officials. A report from The Buffalo News.
Dec 18
2013
Dec 17
2013
Investigative Post editor tells Eileen Buckley on Press Pass that the clean energy initiative at Riverbend represents progress, but is not the panacea that project proponents are claiming. He also expressed concern that many subsidized projects, including planned Uniland-Delaware North building in downtown Buffalo, do little to build the region’s tax base.
Dec 17
2013
State officials proclaimed in March that their plan to reconfigure roads leading to and from the American side of the Peace Bridge would improve air quality in adjoining neighborhoods where residents in one-third of the households suffer from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. “We are moving the traffic further away from the neighborhood where the residents are and where the people in the park are and believe just instinctively that that is going to improve air quality,” Sam Hoyt, regional president of Empire State Development and vice chairman of the Peace Bridge Authority, said when the project was announced. “The[...]