Jan 18
2013
Artvoice looks over new round of campaign finance reports and find some victors in the November election spent big, big bucks to defend their seats against poorly financed challengers. Plus on update on the Byron Brown Money Machine.
Jan 16
2013
Filings with Board of Elections show that 79 percent of Cuomo’s contributors since he won election have given $10,000 or more. Big donors from WNY include David Rich of Rich Products, political operative Steve Pigeon and Leslie Zemsky, Albright Knox chair and wife of Howard. A report from the New York Public Research Interest Group.
Jan 10
2013
Kevin Connor, director of the Buffalo-based Public Accountability Initiative, is quoted in a New York Times story about the dubious role some Washington insiders are playing in the deficit reduction debate.
Jan 10
2013
So much for one of the world’s most expensive health care systems. A report from the Guardian.
Jan 8
2013
James Northrup used to be an oil investor in Texas before he moved to Cooperstown and became an activist against hydrofracking. Ecowatch produced this interview with Northrup, in which he talks about some of the environmental dangers of drilling for natural gas.
Jan 2
2013
An analysis of Senate and House voting patterns dating to the 1870s shows that, over the past 40 years, Democrats haven’t gotten more liberal, but Republicans have voted much more conservatively. An analysis by Daily Kos based on research done by the Guardian.
Dec 31
2012
It’s a story that hasn’t been picked up yet by mainstream news outlets in the U.S., but the Guardian and Daily Kos are reporting on documents that show the FBI and major banks worked with local police to crack down on the Occupy Wall Street movement lasted year.
Dec 31
2012
A “by the numbers” review by ProPublica finds so-called gun rights groups far outspend organizations that advocate gun control.