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Buffalo's downtown has paid its overdue city property taxes
19 hours ago · Photo by Garrett Looker. It took two formal warnings from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and the threat of losing a key tax break, but Braymiller Market owner Stuart Green paid his overdue city taxes Wednesday. Green’s $8,200 payment, half his annual bill, was nearly three months late and was at least the third time he’d ...
Buffalo asks judge to dismiss lead inspection lawsuit
1 day ago · The City of Buffalo is asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing the city of failing to enforce a rental inspection law aimed at reducing lead paint in its aging housing stock.. Here’s why the case has no merit, according to the city: Buffalo is enforcing its inspections law, known as the Proactive Rental Inspections Program or PRI — just not as quickly as some would like.
Braymiller Market in Buffalo still struggling after $561k city lifeline
2 days ago · A year after the City of Buffalo threw Braymiller Market a half-million dollar lifeline, the downtown grocery store continues to struggle financially. For a third year in a row, records show that owner Stuart Green is months behind on his city tax payments. That failure to pay $8,119 in taxes, half the annual bill, prompted the Erie County ...
OTB hires two Brown lieutenants from City Hall
18 hours ago · Steven M. Casey, a longtime aide to Byron Brown and a man who’s consulting firm pleaded guilty to felony charges in 2021, will be the new chief administrative office and chief of staff at Western Regional Off-Track Betting. The OTB board voted Thursday to hire Casey for one year. He will earn $190,000 and again serve under Brown, OTB’s new ...
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Published by Investigative Post staff. The median value of a home in Erie County reached $241,900 in 2023; in Niagara County, $189,700, according to Census Bureau estimates. (Median defined as point at which half are above, half below.) Year-to-year Census Bureau estimates for the largest municipalities show median housing values up almost 50% ...
2021 - Investigative Post
As we do every year, we’re asking our readers to vote for their favorite Investigative Post story of 2021. Twelve stories are up for consideration: Analysis of 911 calls finds requests for service in Buffalo have declined, save for a surge in traffic stops, primarily in minority neighborhoods. Link.
Punishment not befitting the crime - Investigative Post
Nov 26, 2023 · The wait time for unfit defendants in New York state is 90 days, according to James Plastiras, spokesman for the New York Office of Mental Health, which treats people found incompetent to stand trial. The department, which expects 990 cases this year, is using outpatient programs to cut delays, Plastiras told Investigative Post via email.
The rise of the radical right in WNY - Investigative Post
May 18, 2022 · You can find a small but growing number of right-wing extremists in local government. For example, there’s Williamsville Mayor Deb Rogers and two of her colleagues on the village board, who have equated state measures to limit the spread of Covid to the abuses of Nazi Germany and Communist China.. The far right this month lent its support to at least 26 …
Where's a cop when you need one? - Investigative Post
Dec 7, 2021 · Citywide, police responded far more quickly to reports of shots fired (median response time: 6.4 minutes) than to assaults in progress (13.3 minutes) and domestic violence (14.2 minutes). Response times were slower in neighborhoods with more crime, more poverty, and more people of color. For example, for the five dispatch codes we analyzed ...