Jan 30
2014
Global warming in 15 seconds
A nifty map tracks the impact of global warming over the past 60 years. “2013 was one of the warmest years on record … driven by man-made emissions,” reports Fast Company.
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Jan 30
2014
A nifty map tracks the impact of global warming over the past 60 years. “2013 was one of the warmest years on record … driven by man-made emissions,” reports Fast Company.
Jan 17
2014
President Obama today detailed what he intends to do about the NSA’s mass surveillance program. He mostly sided with the intelligence community, rather than civil libertarians. Concluded the Guardian: “The substance of his proposals for the future of mass data collection amount to a gift for the National Security Agency.”
Jan 16
2014
Unshackle Upstate is a pro-business, anti-tax group funded by corporate interests, including the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. It opposes public financing of political campaigns despite the corrupt culture the present system has fostered. LittleSis crunched the numbers and found out Unshackle has donated nearly $2 million to state pols, including more than $160,000 to Gov. Cuomo.
Jan 16
2014
A large grant obtained by a coalition of progressive organizations in Buffalo includes funding for Investigative Post. The Open Society Foundation, funded by billionaire George Soros, has selected Buffalo, San Diego and Puerto Rico for two-year grants of $1.9 million each. Organizations in the three regions will be candidates for additional funding of up to $1 million a year for the following three to eight years. “Our commitment to them is long-term,” wrote Kenneth Zimmerman, a senior official with the foundation, in explaining the initiative. Here is how Zimmerman explained the plans for here: In Buffalo, a city suffering the[...]
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.”
Dec 30
2013
The sports cable giant is big business in Connecticut, so, of course, it has squeezed government there for tax breaks. This, despite billions in revenues. A report from The New York Times.