Buffalo News Editorials
Hurray, Yahoo!
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type in the phrase “New York business climate.” We did the other day, and the first three non-sponsored hits were variations on the theme, “NY business climate rated 2nd worst.” (Updated: 07/03/09 8:02 AM )
Time and time again
The rebirth of Buffalo’s Central Terminal, if it ever comes, will be measured in years, not hours. (Updated: 07/03/09 6:55 AM )
Action on climate change
This time, we’re all going to the moon. (Updated: 07/02/09 7:18 AM )
Toughen airline rules
The Federal Aviation Administration’s quick action to revamp rules for airlines may offer small comfort to the families of Flight 3407 victims and can never return those 50 persons to their loved ones and friends, but it shows that the agency has learned a valuable if costly lesson. (Updated: 07/02/09 6:59 AM )
Senate still failing
Members of the New York State Senate have shown they have trouble counting. But it should not have escaped their notice that David A. Paterson is no longer among their number. (Updated: 07/01/09 8:13 AM )
Welcome simplification
The process of providing federal aid to would-be college students is supposed to open doors, not shut them. Yet, for too long, one key step in the financial aid system has blocked far too many people from the very assistance it promises to provide. (Updated: 07/01/09 7:04 AM )
Planning opportunity lost
Imagine corporate turn-around artist Chris Collins walking into his newest acquisition to find that it had 44 different departments and divisions, their managers all doing what make them popular in their own break rooms but showing little if any concern for the good of the whole corporation. (Updated: 06/30/09 7:48 AM )
Court shows good judgment
A Thursday ruling from the U. S. Supreme Court shows that President Obama is both right and wrong in his suggestion that his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor will bring some much-needed empathy to the high court. (Updated: 06/30/09 6:54 AM )
The smoke clears
The United States isn’t going to quit smoking cold turkey. But it is now going to make a credible effort to cut down, in a way that will save lives, save money and hold some real promise for seriously reducing the number of young people who will take up the deadly habit in future years. (Updated: 06/29/09 7:05 AM )
Raises are deserved
The Buffalo control board is planning raises for most of its staff and, unsurprisingly, this doesn’t sit well with Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown. Both he and control board member George K. Arthur earlier this month voted against the control board budget after being told of the raises. In this case, though, the raises are justified. (Updated: 06/29/09 7:05 AM )
Message for Mr. Silver
Buffalo’s construction unions aren’t much into ivory towers. But when they see a plan that would call for a fair amount of bricks and mortar to rise around our city, they are wise to explain to the leaders of the New York State Legislature that lawmakers who want to stay on the good side of organized labor will support the University at Buffalo’s ambitious expansion plans. (Updated: 06/28/09 7:28 AM )
City Hall steps up
When government leaders fail to do right by their constituents, they rarely lack for criticism. But what about when they step up to the plate? (Updated: 06/28/09 7:20 AM )
Niagara Falls found a way to ruin a sure thing
There is perhaps no better example of “giving the store away” than a couple of so-called development agreements that have left Niagara Falls pillaged and the citizenry holding a putrid bag of coal. (Updated: 06/27/09 7:57 AM )
It seems to us . . .
THE WORKING LIFE: You get up in the morning. You shower, wolf down a breakfast and head off to your job. You put in a solid day’s work and go home. For that, you earn a check that allows you to meet your obligations and, if you’re lucky, have some leftover cash to save and spend. (Updated: 06/27/09 7:00 AM )
The welcome they want
Women and men fighting for this country should be a constant on the minds and in the hearts of all Americans, and that gratitude should be demonstrated not only in words but in action. It’s all the 3,000 Veterans of Foreign Wars and their supporters want as they open a statewide convention in downtown Buffalo. (Updated: 06/26/09 8:04 AM )
