Jan 12
2014
Jan 12
2014
Jan 11
2014
Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston, a friend of Investigative Post, talks to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle about the country’s failed economic policies and the art of reporting.
Jan 11
2014
Political operative/pundit James Carville has made a curious suggestion to Hillary Clinton if she opts to run for president: Locate her campaign headquarters in Buffalo. “Washington and the ways of Washington are going to be massively unpopular,” Carville wrote in The Hill. “The less Washington, the better.”
Jan 10
2014
Buffalo News television critic Alan Pergament reports a new contract that calls for more Investigative Post stories on WGRZ. Ch. 2 President Jim Toellner lauded iPost for doing “an extremely good job” and told The News: “In partnership with Investigative Post, we’re able to do deep and intensive investigations.”
Jan 8
2014
Experts say the Asian carp’s threat to the Great Lakes is a serious one that could topple the $7 billion fishing industry and wreak havoc on the ecology of the nation’s largest group of freshwater lakes. Asian carp don’t have natural predators and feed on the same food as native fish, which makes them dangerous to the Great Lakes. The debate has been whether an expensive physical barrier between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River in Chicago, which is already infested with the invasive species, is the most effective way to stop an invasion or if the electric barriers already[...]
Jan 8
2014
Jan 7
2014
Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who was the subject of a controversial 60 Minutes program that aired Sunday, is a chief investor in one of the two cleantech companies moving here under the Buffalo Billion program. Soraa, which makes LED lighting, lists Khosla Ventures as one of its three top investors. Khosla Ventures general partner Samir Kaul is a member of Soraa’s board of directors. Manny Hernandez, a former operating partner with Khosla, is also on Soraa’s board. The 60 Minutes program “The Cleantech Crash” has come under scrutiny from environmentalists and cleantech supporters on claims that it misrepresented the health of the industry. Khosla, who Forbes called the “Man With the Golden Touch,” has invested more[...]
Jan 7
2014
Investigative Post is seeking a development director to help us grow our organization into the preeminent source of watchdog journalism in Buffalo and Western New York. Investigative Post has attracted significant donor support during its two years of operation thanks in part to the quality of its journalism and the high profile it has established through a distribution network of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations that has reached a cumulative audience of 10 million viewers, readers and listeners. Investigative Post has also developed a strategic finance plan and built a fundraising infrastructure, including a database of more than[...]