Articles for Investigative Post staff

Sep 18

2024

Infographic: Buffalo transplants prefer Tampa area

We reviewed eight years of IRS data and found more people moving out of Erie County each year than moving in. The spread had been declining but started getting wider from 2019 to 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in 2020. The spread continued to grow, right up to 2021-22, the most recent year the data is available. There were 3,655 more people moving out of Erie County than moving in from 2021 to 2022, the numbers show. A closer look at 2021-22 We took a deeper dive into the 2021-22 data to get a better sense of where people[...]

Posted 6 months ago

Sep 17

2024

Help wanted: Investigative Post is hiring a managing editor

Investigative Post is hiring a managing editor to work with Editor Jim Heaney in overseeing our award-winning coverage of Buffalo and Western New York. The ideal job candidate has an accomplished track record as both an editor and investigative reporter. They’re facile with data. Good working with reporters to develop stories. A good line editor who is not shy about rewriting copy when necessary. And has good people skills. Investigative Post is highly regarded for our high-impact reporting and considered the go-to source for accountability journalism in Western New York. We distribute our work through our website and several television[...]

Posted 6 months ago

Sep 3

2024

Take our online survey – please

Investigative Post wants to know what you think of us. We’d appreciate you taking a few minutes to respond. The deadline is this Friday. We’ve already surveyed our donors and newsletter subscribers, who therefore should not respond to this survey. Everyone else, join in! Loading… Donate to support our nonprofit newsroom  

Posted 7 months ago

Aug 20

2024

The militias of the Radical Right

Private paramilitary activity is illegal, in New York and across the nation.  Nevertheless, there are more than an estimated dozen militias active in the Empire State, and countless more elsewhere in the United States. These militias believe they’re entitled to use violence to advance their agenda, which is aligned with America’s Radical Right. Western New York is home to perhaps the movement’s most infamous figures, Timothy McVeigh, whose bombing of a federal office building in 1995 killed 168 people and injured 680. That bombing helped expedite the growth of the militia movement. ProPublica reported last week on one of the[...]

Posted 7 months ago

Aug 16

2024

Infographic: Wealth and poverty in our communities

Poverty remains a problem in upstate New York cities. Latest Census Bureau estimates show poverty is twice the state rate in the largest upstate cities and median household incomes are barely half of statewide earnings in some of the urban centers. Median is defined as half are above and half are below. Highest median household incomes — all upwards of $100,000 — in Erie County, according to 2022 estimates, are in Clarence, Grand Island, and Orchard Park. The lowest  — all in the mid to low $40,000 range — are in Buffalo and Lackawanna as well as the Cattaraugus Reservation,[...]

Posted 7 months ago

Aug 9

2024

Infographic: Fatal crashes in Buffalo-Niagara

For a while, traffic fatalies were dropping – locally and nationally. Then came the pandemic. Traffic deaths went up. In some communities, including Erie and Niagara counties, they stayed up, even once COVID cooled down. Motor vehicle crashes in Erie and Niagara counties killed 683 people in the 10-year period from 2013 to 2022, with victims including motorists, passengers, bicyclists and pedestrians. In 2022, the most recent year finalized data is available, there were 78 fatal accidents, killing 88 people in Erie and Niagara counties. (Preliminary data indicates fatal accidents remained high in Erie County in 2023,  but dropped in[...]

Posted 8 months ago

Jul 30

2024

Help wanted: administrative assistant

Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative reporting center based in downtown Buffalo, is hiring for a part-time administrative assistant.  Job entails 15 to 20 hours a week, with a flexible schedule. Pay is about $20 an hour.  Key responsibilities include managing our donor database and stewarding donors, working with accountants regarding financial matters, managing human resources matters, office management, and otherwise assisting the executive director.  To apply, send your resume and three references to Jim Heaney at jheaney@investigativepost.org. Write “Administrative Assistant” in the subject line.

Posted 8 months ago

Jun 14

2024

Buffalo getting safer — but keep an eye on your car

Despite a spike in homicides during the Covid pandemic, violent crime in Buffalo has been trending down. That's also true for a post-pandemic spike in car thefts. But even with those numbers dropping in recent months, there's still plenty of vehicles being stolen. For those who haven't been following the social-media-inspired crime surge, car theft began spiking nationally after videos posted on TikTok a few years ago showed how a design flaw made it relatively easy to steal Kias and Hyundais. Thus was born the "Kia challenge," encouraging young people to joy-ride in a stolen car. Buffalo experienced the full[...]

Posted 10 months ago
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