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Jul 1

2012

Interview: IDA chief Jim Allen

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Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed Jim Allen, Executive Director of the Amherst Industrial Development Agency, on the state of the regional economy and some of the controversial projects that have been subsidized of late by local IDA’s. Allen, in the interview that aired on WGRZ’s Daybreak Sunday, said: The state is much better off focusing $1 billion in aid pledged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to promote entrepreneurship and nurture a creative class in Western New York than on trying to lure manufacturers and other large companies to the region. The regional economy is more diversified and otherwise in better[...]

Posted 13 years ago

Jun 27

2012

“Distortions, errors and outright lies”

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An investigation by Fortune magazine, not exactly a liberal bastion, concludes the controversy surrounding the so-called Fast and Furious scandal is “replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies.”

Posted 13 years ago

Jun 27

2012

Introducing DataBank

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Haves and have nots: Median household income in Orchard Park is more than 10 times greater than in city’s poorest Census tract on Lower West Side. A look at wealth and poverty in Erie and Niagara counties.

Posted 13 years ago

Jun 26

2012

DataBank: WNY’s richest, poorest communities

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Think the city’s East Side is the most impoverished section of Buffalo? Think again. Poverty is even worse on the West Side. And Niagara Falls has its share, too. iPost unveils DataBank, a new weekly feature that tracks key issues by the numbers.

Posted 13 years ago
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