Mar 1
2013
Making sense of the sequester
ProPublica has put together a nifty package of graphics from news organizations that show the impact of the federal budget sequester.
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Mar 1
2013
ProPublica has put together a nifty package of graphics from news organizations that show the impact of the federal budget sequester.
Feb 28
2013
Feb 28
2013
Ron Rienas, general manager of the Public Bridge Authority, tells Jim Heaney of Investigative Post why he won’t talk about his salary or perks or release other payroll records or a detailed budget that spells out what the authority does with the $33 million it takes in annually.
Feb 28
2013
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhumane. I don’t have cancer or children. I moved here in September and I don’t live close to the Tonawanda industrial corridor. Until recently, I rarely ever heard of Tonawanda. But I still felt the pain and frustration of the approximately 150 people who showed up to Tuesday night’s meeting at the Sheridan Parkside Community Center, where state Health Department officials explained their recently released review of high cancer and birth defect rates in the Tonawanda industrial corridor. Read[...]
Feb 27
2013
Feb 27
2013
Editor’s note: The story below provides the full details, but to get the full effect, readers should view the television version posted above and, especially, the video of the complete unedited interview with Peace Bridge General Manager Ron Rienas posted below. New York’s labyrinth of authorities are widely decried as shadow governments that shield their activities from public scrutiny. But they are a model of transparency compared to the Public Bridge Authority that operates the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie, Investigative Post has found. Authorities and other governmental bodies on both sides of the border are obligated to[...]
Feb 26
2013
Congress suspended research into gun violence in the mid-1990s under pressure from the National Rifle Association. ProPublica talks to researchers who say their work showed that houses with guns are much more prone to murders and suicides.
Feb 26
2013
Buffalo’s modest recycling rate is up, but Mayor Byron Brown has not followed up on his pledge to hire a coordinator and contract with a firm to promote recycling education.