Geoff Kelly
Government and Politics Writer at Investigative Post
Writes about government and politics, and other things, for Investigative Post.
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A streetlight pole falls on a moving car on Pearl Street in downtown Buffalo in February 2023. The streets of Buffalo are illuminated by more than 30,000 streetlights, the majority of them installed decades ago, according to the engineer who once oversaw the entire system. And every year the city’s 311 citizen complaint line receives hundreds of reports of damaged or missing streetlights, according to city data.
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News and analysis by Geoff Kelly, Investigative Post's political reporter The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority last week instructed Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon to produce a fallback plan should the revenue projections in his proposed budget fail to pan out. Particularly worrisome to the control board is an estimated $26.5 million Scanlon hopes to raise in the next year by selling the city’s parking ramps.
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investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly
Illustration by Dion MBD for The Marshall Project. When New York corrections officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is nurses who must document and treat the resulting injuries. Their choices can save lives or cover up abuse.
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Guards beating Robert Brooks in an infirmary at Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9, 2024. Brooks died the next day. Photo: New York State Attorney General’s Office. The guards carried Robert Brooks into the infirmary face down, holding him by his cuffed hands and ankles. Once inside a private exam room at Marcy Correctional Facility, near Syracuse, New York, on Dec. 9, officers beat and choked him while nurses lingered in the hall. Brooks died the next day at a nearby hospital.
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investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly
News and analysis by Geoff Kelly, Investigative Post's political reporter There was a poll out in the field last week gauging Buffalo voters’ opinions of two Democratic candidates for mayor and the campaign messages they’ve been testing out against one another. I took the survey on my landline at home last Tuesday evening. I took what felt like an abbreviated version of the same poll by text the next day.
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RT @ipostnews: New: Buffalo's maintenance of its streetlights is "haphazard" and "substandard" according to a former city official. That m…
I'd hoped to write about the condition of Buffalo's street lighting system. What I was told is the city has no maintenance or inspection records more recent than 2017. Today at @ipostnews: https://t.co/O2VPSm3BDV https://t.co/WkiiGkrNtn
RT @ipostnews: New: Many of Buffalo's streetlights are in bad need of repair. Broken lamps recently have injured pedestrians and smashed ca…