Jim Heaney

Buffalo

Executive Director and Editor at Investigative Post

Editor and executive director of @ipostnews, the only nonprofit investigative reporting center serving Buffalo and Western New York.

Articles

Granville car crash

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Erie County Sheriff John Garcia pulled a Sergeant Schultz the other day, saying, with a straight face that he knows nothing about the hit-and-run antics of Daniel “D.J.” Granville that Geoff Kelly reported on two weeks ago. And, get this, he proclaimed he will “” if ongoing investigations turn up evidence of wrongdoing on Granville’s part. What a bunch of, ah, hooey.
Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula ranked hockey's worst owner.

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Skip to Content Reporting, analysis and commentary by Jim Heaney, editor of Investigative Post The Buffalo Sabres are in fourth-to-last place in the National Hockey League standings. They’re doing better than their owner. The Athletic, the sports arm of The New York Times, just released its ranking of NHL owners. Led by the Tampa Bay Lightning, seven earned a grade of A, based on a combination of factors, including their team’s on-ice performance and a survey of fans. Scientific, no. But...
The SAVE Act is a solution in search of a problem.

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

House Republicans have introduced a bill that would upend voting rights. Among those at risk for disenfranchisement are 69 million married women who have taken their husband’s last name.
The scoop on the hacking of The Buffalo News

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Reporting, analysis and commentaryby Jim Heaney, editor of Investigative Post The Buffalo News is among some 75 newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises that got hacked a month ago. The News has informed its readers in general terms, but press reports and Lee’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal very serious and ongoing problems which have crippled operations. Lee was attacked Feb. 3 by Russian hackers known as Qilin.
Wasteful horse racing subsidies in New York

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Here’s a strange – and indefensible – subsidy. Government handouts to keep the failing horse racing industry afloat in New York. “The state is using one particularly corrosive form of gambling to keep another marginalized form alive,” reports The New York Times. The story is behind a paywall, but fear not, you can read it at this gift link, which provides access even if you’re not a subscriber.
Upstate NY microchip factory in line for $11 billion in subsidies.

1 month ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Politicians can’t throw enough money at Micron Technology to entice the company to build a microchip factory north of Syracuse. Ken Girardin of the Empire Center for Public Policy took a close look at the deal, and yikes, it is rich enough to make the Buffalo Billion deal that brought Tesla to South Buffalo look like a steal — which it wasn’t unless you’re Elon Musk. Micron is in line for subsidies worth more than $11 billion. That’sbillion, not million.
reform industrial development agencies

2 months ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Reporting, analysis and commentaryby Jim Heaney, editor of Investigative Post There’s a case to be made for consolidating and reforming Western New York’s myriad of industrial development agencies into a single operation. There’s six alone in Erie County, another three in Niagara. Add the outlying counties and there’s no fewer than 16 of them. There’s too many of them. They compete against each other.
Buffalo News censorship

2 months ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Delivery problems – and apparently the lack of a spine – continue to plague The Buffalo News. Since the weather turned cold and snowy, home delivery has been hit and miss. I still subscribe and there’s probably been a half-dozen days since Christmastime where I haven’t received a paper. One time, it was a multiple-day stretch. Last week, technical troubles forced The News to shrink the size of its print edition.
Censorship, and other problems, at The Buffalo News

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Jim Heaney

NowSocial media experts are skeptical about the power of new state lawsRitika Shroff had the typical Gen Z experience with social media. At 13, she signed up for Instagram, then Snapchat. Later, she downloaded TikTok and …16 hours agoVladimir Kara-Murza: U.S. tech companies are ‘acting as accomplices to dictatorships’Vladimir Kara-Murza knows a thing or two about the dangers of government-sponsored, tech industry-supported censorship. As a Russian opposition …
Trump tariffs on Çanada

2 months ago | investigativepost.org | Jim Heaney

Donald Trump declared economic war on Canada over the weekend. The Wall Street Journal called it the “dumbest trade war.” The Buffalo News assessed the impact on Western New York – not good – and noted how little fentanyl enters the United State from across our northern border. NPR details the folly in Trump’’s fentanyl claims. CNN details what consumer products will get more expensive as a result. Canada strikes back. Experts discuss the impacts, including the exchange rate.