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Whistleblower suit against OTB going forward Published by Mark Scheer. Batavia Downs. Photo by Garrett Looker. A lawsuit filed by a former Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. executive – who claims he was fired for cooperating with state and federal investigators examining the operation – is moving forward.
Democrats suffer incumbent loss while other seats go uncontested
5 days ago · Local Republicans, like the national party, wagered heavily on being the party of law and order. The local GOP ran four candidates with law enforcement backgrounds against local Democrats for legislative seats.
Kamala Harris won New York, but by a smaller margin than Biden.
4 days ago · The vice president garnered far fewer votes than Biden in 2020 and Clinton in 2016, while Trump gained support. Harris won New York City and upstate counties with big cities, but lost Long island and almost all rural upstate counties.
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Jan 2, 2024 · Geoff Kelly’s story on the Buffalo fire department clerk paid nearly $600,000 over seven years while on suspension was the runaway winner of Investigative Post’s best story of 2023.
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politicians who suppress the press : Investigative Post
Apr 29, 2024 · Margaret Sullivan, now working at Columbia University in addition to writing for The Guardian, penned a thoughtful piece on Substack about the demonstrations there that have spawned a protest movement that’s spread to campuses across the county.. A bunch of media news: Most Americans believe in a free press.Really. New York’s new budget provides financial help to smaller news outlets.
Punishment not befitting the crime - Investigative Post
Nov 26, 2023 · In 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threatened to dismiss stalking charges against a defendant who’d waited eight months and gave the government a week to transfer him from jail to a hospital. An eight-month wait, the court found, was “outside any constitutional reading” of the statute that puts the Department of Justice …
Investigative Post’s groundbreaking police coverage
Nov 25, 2022 · Geoff Kelly wrote a couple of blockbuster stories for us over the past week involving allegations of racism in the Buffalo Police Department. One was based on depositions given by retired police commanders in which they acknowledged use of the N-word by officers and a failure to properly train, supervise and discipline cops working on special street units.
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Jan 29, 2024 · The bad news keeps coming for legacy media. A growing number of newspapers are shuttering their Washington bureaus. (Jerry Zremsky of The Buffalo News is only part-time.) Industry layoffs have reached “ bloodbath ” levels. And disgruntled newsroom staffs are staging walkouts left and right.. Things aren’t so hot at Lee Enterprises either. You know, the chain overseeing the dismantling of ...