Bruce Andriatch
- Bruce Andriatch: Intersection camera idea wise but futile
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Updated: 11/17/09 7:44 AM Lancaster Mayor William Cansdale is the kind of driver who doesn’t automatically pull forward the second the traffic light at Broadway and Central Avenue turns green. Good thing. Otherwise, we might be talking about the kind of driver he was.
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- Tea Party? In Boston, it works again
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Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM There’s bound to be some confusion if you call your political party the Boston Tea Party, when the Boston doesn’t refer to the Boston and the tea party doesn’t refer to that tea party.
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- Bruce Andriatch: ‘Unopposed’ is easy, but it isn’t the best
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Updated: 10/27/09 7:43 AM Hamburg Highway Superintendent Thomas Best has a name that other politicians can only dream about. The slogan possibilities are endless.
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Donn Esmonde
- Donn Esmonde: $10,000 for the truth on Amanda
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Updated: 11/20/09 7:48 AM Maybe this is what it takes. Maybe now we are speaking the universal language. Conscience and morality may be alien concepts to some people, but cash is an entity that everyone understands. Money not only talks; money gets people to talk.
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- Donn Esmonde: An ‘Extreme’ suburban fix for inner city
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Updated: 11/18/09 7:45 AM He came out of nowhere to reinvigorate a forgotten neighborhood. I cannot calculate the odds against that kind of makeover, from this unlikely a source.
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- Donn Esmonde: Mayor’s good idea — make village vanish
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Updated: 11/13/09 9:08 AM The train is coming. Clark Crook sees it. He has two choices: get on board, or get run over.
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Charity Vogel
- Charity Vogel: How a stone can soften the shell of grief
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News Columnist
Updated: 07/20/09 8:39 AM The stones found their way. It took a little while, but in the end, the tiny symbols of love and connection made their way to the place Robin Tolsma hoped they would.
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- Charity Vogel: Library story provides own happy ending
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Updated: 07/13/09 7:55 AM So this is what determination looks like. On a warm summer morning, it’s as simple as sunlight streaming through tall 1920s windows onto shelves of hardcovers.
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- Charity Vogel: Making sure troopers are not forgotten
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Updated: 07/06/09 7:49 AM The reflective sunglasses, coupled with his straight-backed posture and close-cropped hair, tell you what you need to know about Kevin Kailbourne: that he is a retired New York State trooper, and proud of it.
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Off Main Street
- Off Main Street: The offbeat side of the news
Updated: 11/21/09 9:14 AMCo-lateral damage
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- Off Main Street: The offbeat side of the news
Updated: 11/14/09 9:25 AMPaper cuts
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- Off Main Street: The offbeat side of the news
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Updated: 11/07/09 10:15 AM Give him a hand
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Olaf Fub Sez
- Reporters’ Notebook / Bits and pieces of news...
Updated: 11/20/09 6:49 AMOLAFFUB SEZ: According to British journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke, born on this date in 1908, “A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”
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Updated: 11/18/09 7:28 AMOLAF FUB SEZ: According to Canadian author Margaret Atwood, born on this date in 1939, “The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
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Updated: 11/17/09 6:47 AMOLAF FUB SEZ: According to actor and director Danny DeVito, born on this date in 1944, “There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull:How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?”
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Rod Watson
- Rod Watson: ‘Everybody does it’? Then go after them
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Updated: 11/19/09 8:04 AM Maybe Brian Davis should run for Congress. While Davis was being bounced from his Buffalo Common Council seat for diverting $1,900 in campaign money to his personal piggy bank, Rep. Eric Massa continues in office despite misusing much more money in essentially the same way.
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- Rod Watson: Putting a face on need for public option
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Updated: 11/12/09 8:17 AM Forget Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. Forget the tea parties. Forget “socialized medicine.”
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- Rod Watson: City-suburb divide suits Collins fine
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Updated: 11/05/09 7:52 AM So, Chris Collins will have the Erie County comptroller to kick around some more.
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Other Local Columns
- Pets /By Steve Dale
Updated: 11/20/09 6:49 AMThe National Dog Show, presented by Purina, will air in a two-hour special on Thanksgiving Day, following the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, 12 p. m. ET.
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- Trivia Quiz
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Updated: 11/19/09 7:08 AM 1. What is authorized by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution?
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- Trivia Quiz
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Updated: 11/18/09 7:29 AM 1. In which New York City borough is Harlem?
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