- Blogzerpts / Opinions from buffalonews.com
- Excerpts from reader commentary on News staffers’ online blog postings last week. Online comments come from registered users, but — unlike reviewed and verified Everybody’s Column letters — can be posted under pen names.
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- Support the United Way
- The United Way of Buffalo and Erie County is back on the campaign trail with a goal and a plan.
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- Take it downtown
- There’s a guy over on Elmwood Avenue with a really good idea. Buffalo should get out of his way — and then steal the concept.
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- Republicans need change
- If ever the New York State Republican Party needed new leadership, it is now. Unfortunately, all it has is old leadership, as former Gov. George E. Pataki steps out of his self-imposed political seclusion in a desperate effort to keep the State Senate in his party’s control.
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More Opinion
- Extraordinary woman touched countless lives
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We often hear of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Rarely do we hear of extraordinary people doing ordinary things. My friend and co-worker, Penniston Rae Kieffer, was the latter. She made a career out of doing the ordinary, caring for the frail and elderly for more than three decades.
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My View
- Lobbyists serve an urgent and legitimate purpose
This election year, as in the past, there is much talk about change and reform. But is it possible that the majority of blame for what ails our nation can be pinned on one group? That seems to be what both presidential campaigns are doing.
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Another Voice
- Tune your ears to the printed word
A couple of weeks ago the New York Times carried an editorial on the troubles afflicting Medicare. The piece was impeccably magisterial. This Constant Reader was about to nod it off to the round file, but one stylistic matter cried out for comment. Let us pray.
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Sunday Viewpoints
Everybody's Column
- Taxpayers can’t afford huge teacher pensions
- Obama disappoints on issue of abortion
- Obama will help get nation back on track
- I thought conservatives believed in abstinence
- Retirement benefits must be renegotiated
- 3 parishes in Depew should remain open
- Historic nomination will energize GOP base
- Effort to woo women
- Left-wing media are being unfair to Palin
- Lack of experience is cause for concern
- This was best person McCain could find?
- Palin isn’t like Clinton, and that’s a good thing
- Nuclear energy industry has great safety record
- NATO expansion may wreak havoc in world
- Public should learn more about suicide
- Health stories have no basis in science
- Careless drivers are hazard to all on road
- Why should Americans give millions to Mexico?
- Workers deserve praise for cleaning boat launch
- Olympics show China has made great strides
Columns
- Cold War adversaries need to chill out
- There is nothing funny about using the ‘R-word’
- McCAIN’S CHALLENGE: Overcome the legacy
- Topic Five: The possible loss of the upstate economic czar
- Topic Four: The future of high-speed railroad service in New York
- Topic Three: The governor's plan to revive upstate cities
