David Robinson

Buffalo

Editor, Buffalo Next at Buffalo News

Buffalo Next Editor at The Buffalo News. Syracuse University. grad. New Hampshire born and raised.

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Articles

Buffalo News Publisher Tom Wiley to lead National Trust for Local News

3 days ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

Tom Wiley, who became publisher and president of The Buffalo News during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and helped guide the paper’s efforts to build its digital presence, is leaving next month to become CEO of a pioneering nonprofit national news cooperative centered around Maine, Colorado and Georgia.
Spotlight/housing: A few more homes are for sale, but the shortage remains

6 days ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

Ever so slowly, the trickle of homes coming onto the market for sale is picking up. It’s far from a gusher of homes hitting the market, and it’s only had a relatively small impact, so far, with home sellers still having immense leverage and would-be buyers holding relatively few negotiating cards, other than to bid higher.
Not hiring: Buffalo Niagara is losing jobs again. Tariffs and uncertainty could make it worse

6 days ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

The first shock waves are rippling through the Buffalo Niagara job market from the Trump administration’s new wave of tariffs and the uncertainty it is causing among businesses and consumers. And it is going to get worse. The region lost nearly 2,000 jobs during February and March, wiping out all of the hiring that occurred during a January spike, according to a new report from the state Labor Department on Thursday.
Spotlight/manufacturing: Production jobs still matter in Buffalo Niagara

1 week ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

The Buffalo Niagara region still is a center for production jobs, even if it isn’t the hotbed it was when the steel and auto plants were in full swing. In fact, the region has about 12% more production jobs than the national average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compared the nation’s largest metro areas using May 2024 data.
Spotlight/housing: Not much homebuilding going on in Buffalo Niagara

2 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

There isn’t much homebuilding going on across the Buffalo Niagara region, especially compared with other big U.S. cities. Only three other cities among the nation’s 50 biggest housing markets – Hartford, Conn., San Francisco and New York City – built new homes at a slower pace relative to their population than the Buffalo Niagara region, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
Buffalo Niagara unemployment rate tops 5% for first time since 2021

3 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

The Buffalo Niagara region's unemployment rate rose to 5% during February, hitting its highest level since August 2021, the state Labor Department said Tuesday. The region's unemployment rate rose from 4.7% in both January and in February 2024, topping the 5% mark for the first time in 3½ years. Because the unemployment rate is not adjusted for seasonal factors, the most valid comparison is with the February 2024 rate.
Spotlight/housing: How Buffalo Niagara home prices stack up

3 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

If you're looking for one of the nation's strongest housing markets, the Buffalo Niagara region ranks pretty high. Home prices across the region grew by just under 10% during the fourth quarter of last year, according to the National Association of Realtors, which looked at pricing trends at 226 of the nation's biggest metro areas. That ranked 29th among all of the metro areas, just outside of the top 10%, with a median price of $267,300.
Buffalo Niagara business didn't waver during February, but will uncertainty take its toll later?

4 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

There is a lot of uncertainty swirling around the Buffalo Niagara job market, but at least through February, it pretty much shrugged it all off. Companies across the region continued hiring into February, even as President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats started to stir uneasiness among businesses dependent on trade, and consumer confidence began weakening.
Spotlight/economy: What's hot, and what's not, in Buffalo Niagara jobs

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

It’s been a good year if you’re looking for a job in the leisure and hospitality sector. If you’re looking in financial services, not so much. The New York State Labor Department earlier this month released revised data on the Buffalo Niagara job market, which gives an updated look at which sectors of the region’s economy are adding jobs and which ones are shrinking.
Major Lee Enterprises shareholder wants to buy company that owns Buffalo News

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | David Robinson

The second-biggest shareholder of Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based media company that owns The Buffalo News, said Thursday that he wants to try to buy the company. The Hoffmann Family of Companies, which owns just under 10% of Lee's stock, said in a letter to Lee executives that it wants to have "open discussions" about buying Lee in its entirety.