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Sep 5

2012

Knight Foundation funds Investigative Post

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The prestigious Knight Foundation has awarded Investigative Post, in partnership with the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, a major grant to help fund environmental coverage and research collaborations with local colleges and universities. The non-profit investigative reporting center, serving Buffalo and Western New York, also announced Wednesday the hiring of a development director and its first full-time investigative reporter. “Investigative Post has made steady progress since launching in February and the Knight Foundation grant enables us to take the next step,” said Jim Heaney, editor and executive director of Investigative Post. The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, on behalf of[...]

Posted 13 years ago

Sep 2

2012

Interview: Activist Aaron Bartley

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Aaron Bartley is arguably Buffalo’s leading community activist, someone who has worked in the trenches since his college days. Bartley is a Buffalo native and graduate of City Honors, Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard co-founded the Harvard Living Wage Campaign in support of the university’s service workers. He then served as labor organizer in SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign in Boston. Eight years ago, Bartley co-founded People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo), which has focused on organizing residents of the city’s West Side to improve employment opportunities and housing and other neighborhood conditions. PUSH Buffalo[...]

Posted 13 years ago

Aug 29

2012

Lies, damned lies and campaign ads

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The ugly, often untruthful tone of campaign ads are the byproduct of thinking, articulated by one national political operative as “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” A report by The Atlantic.

Posted 13 years ago
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