tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1624626 2012-02-22T05:00:00Z TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e2016762bd383b970b 2012-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2012-02-22T05:00:00Z

I left The Buffalo News in August 2011 to start Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center covering issues of importance to Buffalo and Western New York. I am reporting and blogging for my new venture and my work will appear in The News on occasion. For those of you who read my previous post from May 2010, my son is OK.

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2012/02/investigative-post-launches.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20133edb14d82970b 2010-05-15T13:19:47-04:00 2010-05-15T17:05:27Z

It's been several weeks since I last posted and I want to let you readers know that the blog will be on hiatus for a while. My son was critically injured in a cycling accident and I have taken a leave from the paper to focus on his recovery. Thankfully, the doctors are confident he will make a full recovery, but he has a long road ahead of him. I hope to return to work the latter half of June or sometime in July.

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/05/on-hiatus.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20133ec8179d6970b 2010-04-19T10:36:49-04:00 2010-04-19T14:36:15Z

Long before he announced his candidacy for governor, a number of people I deal with told me they saw a disconnect between what Carl Paladino says about politics and what he does as a businessman. They complained that Paladino, on one hand, rails against government spending while making money hand over fist in numerous dealings with said government. One prominent politician told me the contrasts were an example of what he termed "The two faces of Carl Paladino." Which brings me to my front page story in Sunday's Buffalo News. There have been reports in recent weeks that mentioned Paladino's...

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/paladino-post-on-government-contracts.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e201347fe6e2c2970c 2010-04-16T13:00:20-04:00 2010-04-16T23:28:24Z

Anybody out there suffering from Carl Paladino fatigue? Yeah, me too. I've got extra reason for it. Since the week before he announced, I've been compiling data and crunching numbers trying to determine the extent of Paladino's dealings with the government he is railing against in his campaign for governor. The story is scheduled to run Sunday, so save up your pennies, boys and girls, and spring for a paper. I'm glad Carl has decided to hang on as a candidate at least through the weekend, so the story remains relevant. Not that he's got much of a campaign left....

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/another-paladino-post.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e201347fda0db8970c 2010-04-14T11:06:32-04:00 2010-04-15T19:53:49Z

There's a lot of sputtering coming out of the Carl Paladino camp about the web site that broke the story about him sending racist and pornographic e-mail. Stuff like they're Democratic operatives -- or worse, liberal elites, gasp! -- who hacked his computer to obtain the e-mails. Yada-yaha-yada. I happen to know the three fellows behind WNYMedia.net and spoke Tuesday to the head honcho of sorts, Chris Smith, about all the hell that's broken loose since they posted the e-mails Monday morning. "We're usually good for one big thing a year, but we've never done anything this large," he said....

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/the-guys-behind-the-paladino-email-story.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20133eca37b82970b 2010-04-13T11:15:55-04:00 2010-04-13T17:35:28Z

Here's the thing about Carl Paladino -- the man has no filter. The rest of us, we've got a circuit breaker in our brain that tells us when to stop certain thoughts before we express them. Not Carl. If it comes to his mind, it comes out of his mouth. I've been dealing with him, on and off, for close to 20 years, and I can speak from first-hand experience. Sometimes it can be refreshing, in this age of calculating, often-phony posturing by those in the public spotlight. I recall the day a few years back, while investigating the Thruway...

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/carl-paladino-post.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20133eca26288970b 2010-04-12T14:54:29-04:00 2010-04-13T01:39:06Z

WNYMedia.net reports today in rather graphic terms that gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has a history of sending racist and pornographic e-mail to a range of people in the business and political community. (Their web site is tough to get through because of a high volume of traffic, but here is a cached version.) Topics range from President Obama to bestiality. Toxic, vile stuff. Really something, especially from someone running on a platform that includes Christian values. Paladino's campaign manager is not denying the e-mails, but rather is trying to characterize them as a smear job by a liberal blog. Good...

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/wnymedianetreports-today-in-rather-graphic-terms-that-gubernatiorial-candidate-carl-paladino-has-a-history-of-sendingracist.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20133ec9de56b970b 2010-04-12T10:55:01-04:00 2010-04-12T14:54:41Z

The ward of the state known as the City of Buffalo faces some tough fiscal choices in the next couple of months. Brian Meyer and Pete Simon report in today's Buffalo News that city government is facing a $24 million budget gap for the coming fiscal year, while the Board of Education faces a shortfall of $34.2 million. In recent years, City Hall and the School Board could count on Albany to bail it out, but the state's $9 billion budget deficit means the locals are going to have to solve their own problems. City government finds itself in the...

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/city-budget-woes.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e201347fb7bd92970c 2010-04-07T17:58:59-04:00 2010-04-07T21:49:31Z

I'm up to my eyeballs on an assignment and will not be blogging the balance of this week. Look for a fresh post Monday.

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/check-back-monday.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e201347fb06e21970c 2010-04-07T15:55:30-04:00 2010-04-12T21:35:08Z

Carl Paladino is a known quantity around these parts - kinda, although the extent of his money making dealings with the government he professes to loathe, and some of his more extreme political positions, have yet to be fully explored. To the folks points east of here, Paladino is an unknown and he's gotten a lot of press since announcing for governor Monday. How is he playing? In reading the coverage online, three themes emerge -- he's got a big mouth, deep pockets and a kid born out of wedlock. The NYC tabs are especially eating up the latter, as...

Blog Editor http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/paladino-post.html