A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

While some states are suing to halt health care reform, Vermont is moving forward with a single-payer plan

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… her and sister were patients of Richter’s when she worked at a clinic in Buffalo, New York. She decided while there to join Physicians for a National Healt …"

A study in excess

By Meredith O'Brien

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2004 — Despite the lengths Boston officials went to convince Democrats that their city was the place for the 2004 conve

Betting on Justice: Borrowing to sue

By Binyamin Appelbaum and Ben Hallman

Large banks, hedge funds and private investors hungry for new and lucrative opportunities are bankrolling other people’s lawsuits, pumping h

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… opelling large and prominent cases. Lenders including Counsel Financial, a Buffalo company financed by Citigroup, provided $35 million for the lawsuits broug …"

"… same opportunity at about the same time, including a mortgage salesman in Buffalo; a subprime auto lender from Nashville; and a Las Vegas man who had been c …"

"… outstanding loans to law firms, shares a suburban office building outside Buffalo with an insurance firm. But the work sits somewhere between banking and g …"

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Vice president's quarters draws fund-raisers' bucks

By Russ Tisinger

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — A man's home might be his castle, but for Al Gore, the vice president’s official residence is more than that

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… n. In 1998, Roizman won a contract to develop a federal housing project in Buffalo, N.Y. He was expected to pocket about $7 million from the deal. Last Febru …"

"… t about $7 million from the deal. Last February, Gore attended a dinner in Buffalo as the American Jewish Congress’ Humanitarian of the Year. Roizman w …"

Joint fund-raising committees: One-stop shopping for donors

By Marianne Holt

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2000 — Political parties are turning to raising money jointly with candidates for Congress in greater numbers than ever

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… the New York State Democratic Committee ran an advertisement for a week in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, one month after a $700,000 Manhattan fund …"

Big tobacco’s New York black market

By Marina Walker Guevara and Kate Willson

How America’s top cigarette firms fueled a billion-dollar underground trade

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… auro Pennisi Inc., according to wholesaler tax reports filed to the state. Buffalo-based distributor Milhelm Attea & Bros. sold 135 untaxed cigarettes fo …"

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‘The guy in the wheelchair'

By Kate Willson

How an El Paso smuggler moved a half-billion cigarettes across America

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… eland was a one-time professional football player (college All-American, a Buffalo Bill, and a Dallas Cowboy) turned discount cigarette salesman. Based out o …"

"… eriously entertained the idea.Around the same time, Abraham sent Miller to Buffalo, New York; containers had arrived at the port in Newark and been transport …"

"… s had arrived at the port in Newark and been transported to a warehouse in Buffalo for dispersal. Miller was to arrange shipment for some of the containers t …"

How to get away with smuggling

By William Marsden

Canada’s billion-dollar deal for big tobacco

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… hed from a Canadian manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico to Aruba, then onto Buffalo, NY, and into Canada. Northern Brands and RJ Reynolds pleaded guilty and w …"

Many Americans left behind in the quest for cleaner air

By Jim Morris, Chris Hamby and Elizabeth Lucas

Secret government 'watch list' reveals failure to curb dangerous emissions

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… s to pursue intractable polluters in court.In Tonawanda, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo, residents fed up with chemical emissions from a plant owned by Tonawanda …"

Where regulators failed, citizens took action — testing their own air

Citizens concerned about toxic emissions near Buffalo tested the air themselves - forcing complacent regulators to act.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Buffalo":

"… her modest house in Tonawanda, a working class town of 16,000 just outside Buffalo. The “toxic blue haze,” as Thomson calls it, smells like ammonia, sulf …"

"… s of black smoke appeared worse than usual, they filed complaints with the Buffalo office of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.At first the …"

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