The Buffalo News: Special Reports

The Houses that City Hall Built

The houses that City Hall built: By Susan Schulman and Patrick Lakamp

News Staff Reporters

Updated: 03/08/10 5:45 PM; Buffalo spent $30 million over the past quarter century to help people buy homes they couldn't otherwise afford as part of the city's attempt to rebuild blighted communities.
(Updated: 03/08/10 5:45 PM )

Housing upgrades — at any cost: By Susan Schulman

News Staff Reporter

Updated: 03/08/10 5:45 PM; Just a short distance east of downtown Buffalo, a few blocks away from neighborhoods pocked with vacant lots and boarded-up buildings, you'll find Sycamore Village.
(Updated: 03/08/10 5:45 PM )

Living the dream in Rebecca Park: By Patrick Lakamp

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 03/07/10 8:39 AM; Middle-class Americana lies hidden in the stretch of a few blocks off Military Road in Buffalo. The 109 split levels, raised ranches and town homes—tucked behind a Home Depot—come with the joys that go with homeownership: the swing sets, barbecue grills and backyard pools.
(Updated: 03/07/10 8:39 AM )

After tough race, Howard wins re-election: By Phil Fairbanks

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/12/09 6:19 PM; Sheriff Timothy B. Howard survived the self-described albatross around his neck — the escapes, deaths and wrongful releases at Erie County's jails — to win his first re-election Tuesday.
(Updated: 11/12/09 6:19 PM )

Poloncarz secures second term: By Matthew Spina

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/04/09 10:49 AM; Erie County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz secured a second four-year term Tuesday in a rebuke to the county executive who longed for his defeat.
(Updated: 11/04/09 10:49 AM )

Amherst: Weinstein leads GOP sweep: By Sandra Tan

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/04/09 10:48 AM; Republican Amherst Council Member and physician Barry A. Weinstein won the Amherst supervisor's seat Tuesday, leading a Republican sweep in the town.
(Updated: 11/04/09 10:48 AM )

Loved ones complete Flight 3407 journey: By Jerry Zremski

NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF

Updated: 02/22/10 12:36 PM; They marched in red, with pictures of their loved ones around their necks or attached to the backs of their parkas.
(Updated: 02/22/10 12:36 PM )

Beverly Eckert, widow of 9/11 victim, was aboard Flight 3407: By Sharon Linstedt and Dale Anderson

News Staff Reporters

Updated: 02/12/10 6:13 PM; The usually joyful meet-and-greet area of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport was a corridor of tears and sorrow early this morning as family and friends of those aboard Continental Express Flight 3407 filed in to get official word of their loved ones' fates.
(Updated: 02/12/10 6:13 PM )

'From Grief to Remembrance' for families, friends of 3407 victims: Updated: 02/22/10 2:03 PM; Our special section honors the 50 victims of the crash of Flight 3407 and reports on what their families and friends are thinking and doing a year into the unwelcome second chapter of their lives.
(Updated: 02/22/10 2:03 PM )

For the poor, lottery losses are not just bad luck: By Patrick Lakamp and Susan Schulman

NEWS STAFF REPORTERS

Updated: 09/09/09 12:32 PM; This story was originally published on June 22, 2008.
(Updated: 09/09/09 12:32 PM )

Lottery sales lag as casinos open: By Susan Schulman and Patrick Lakamp

NEWS STAFF REPORTERS

Updated: 09/09/09 12:31 PM; This story was orginally published on June 23, 2008.
(Updated: 09/09/09 12:31 PM )

Searchable database: What do people win where you buy lottery tickets?: Updated: 09/09/09 12:37 PM; (Updated: 09/09/09 12:37 PM )

Part 1: Region home to cheap power, high bills and huge corporate subsides: By James Heaney

Updated: 12/05/09 4:53 PM; For a long time, having Niagara Falls in our backyard was a source of not only tourists, but abundant, cheap power that helped make the region an industrial powerhouse.
(Updated: 12/05/09 4:53 PM )

Part 2: Niagara plant a huge moneymaker, but region sees little of the payoff: By James Heaney

Updated: 06/12/09 4:39 PM; Employees at the Niagara Power Project perform maintenance and upgrade equipment. The plant employs about 290 workers, making an average of about $77,600 a year. The janitors and clerks earn an average of $52,000 a year, laborers and security guards $57,000, trade apprentices $65,000.
(Updated: 06/12/09 4:39 PM )

Part 3: Politics as usual stymies a unique opportunity to maximize benefits from the power project: By James Heaney

Updated: 06/12/09 4:40 PM; The recent history of Western New York is haunted by "what ifs."
(Updated: 06/12/09 4:40 PM )

An interactive look at the Class of 1987: Updated: 07/25/07 9:58 AM; Members of the Class of 1987 were among the first generation of high school graduates who knew their futures could be brighter somewhere else. Buffalo News reporters tracked down more than 100 of the most promising graduates from 25 high schools in Erie and Niagara counties -- valedictorians, salutatorians, class presidents and vice presidents, and those voted most likely to succeed -- to see where they ended up.
(Updated: 07/25/07 9:58 AM )

Part One: Should I stay or should I go?: By Mary B. Pasciak and Deidre Williams - News Staff Reporters

Updated: 07/25/07 10:01 AM; The priesthood called, and Stephen Mease answered — but then he thought better of it, leaving the preseminary program and dropping out of college with one semester left. He became a car salesman, instead.
(Updated: 07/25/07 10:01 AM )

Part Two: Five who stayed in Western New York: By Mary B. Pasciak and Deidre Williams - News Staff Reporters

Updated: 08/11/07 4:27 PM; Consider the budding entrepreneur from Nichols, the class president from Cleveland Hill, the small-town boy from Barker, the aspiring physical therapist from Lancaster, and the valedictorian from Frontier.
(Updated: 08/11/07 4:27 PM )