Douglas Turner
- Douglas Turner: Clean energy bill will be difficult to vote for
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Updated: 06/29/09 7:30 AM WASHINGTON — Republicans are lying when they say that members of Congress who support the clean energy bill are backing an “energy tax.” There is no such tax. There will be costs, though, and absolutely nobody knows what they will be.
(Updated: 06/29/09 7:30 AM )
- Doug Turner: Massa is taking heat from D.C. war party
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Updated: 06/22/09 8:13 AM WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Massa is getting a little heat down here. He’s revealing signs of actually reading the details of legislation, understanding it and most dangerously — to him — keeping his election campaign promises.
(Updated: 06/22/09 8:13 AM )
- Douglas Turner: Health care lobbyists battling ‘public option’
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News Columnist
Updated: 06/15/09 9:56 AM WASHINGTON — Reps. Brian Higgins, Louise Slaughter and a battalion of other congressional Democrats are caught in a menacing squeeze between their president and the lobbyists who have dominated the capital for a generation.
(Updated: 06/15/09 9:56 AM )
Margaret Sullivan
- Margaret Sullivan: News staff to cover Flight 3407 hearings
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News Editor
Updated: 05/11/09 9:59 AM Who—or what—was to blame for the horrifying crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 on Feb. 12?
(Updated: 05/11/09 9:59 AM )
- Margaret Sullivan: ‘Books for Kids’ drive is changing lives
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Updated: 04/09/09 4:36 PM Can giving books to needy children change their lives for the better?
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- Margaret Sullivan on the future of The Buffalo News
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Editor
Updated: 03/23/09 12:19 PM Maybe this is what Mark Twain had in mind when he quipped, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
(Updated: 03/23/09 12:19 PM )
Op-Ed Columns
- Trudy Rubin: What happens now in Iraq?
- Philadelphia Inquirer
Updated: 07/03/09 10:06 AM While Americans were glued to the Iran drama, we arrived at a critical turning point in Iraq.
(Updated: 07/03/09 10:06 AM )
- Ellen Goodman: Depending on you
- Washington Post Writers Group
Updated: 07/03/09 10:07 AM BOSTON — This is probably not the best week to air any reservations about the American passion for independence. After all, we don’t have fireworks for Dependence Day. We don’t hold parades to celebrate Interdependence Day. We don’t get a holiday for Connections.
(Updated: 07/03/09 10:07 AM )
- Kathleen Parker: A racial slur plays out
- Washington Post Writers Group
Updated: 07/03/09 10:07 AM WASHINGTON — Rusty DePass, the South Carolina Republican activist who infamously “joked” that an escaped zoo gorilla was probably an ancestor of Michelle Obama’s, has learned the meaning of “hell to pay.” His teaching moment has provided multiple curricula on a range of subjects, including what appears to be racism fatigue in the Deep South.
(Updated: 07/03/09 10:07 AM )
Robert McCarthy
- Bob McCarthy: Craziness in the capital
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Updated: 06/28/09 1:12 PM About 30 years ago, speculation on the next Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor centered for a while on the late Ray Schuler.
(Updated: 06/28/09 1:12 PM )
- Bob McCarthy: A political tag team wins
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Updated: 06/21/09 11:10 AM It was back in the gubernatorial campaign of 2002, and a horde of statewide reporters was gathered at the Prior Aviation terminal at Buffalo Niagara International Airport awaiting the arrival of Independence candidate Tom Golisano.
(Updated: 06/21/09 11:10 AM )
- Bob McCarthy: Locals with pitchfork and torch
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Updated: 06/14/09 10:08 AM You have to love Albany. Even its own dysfunction proved dysfunctional last week after the State Senate coup that catapulted the Capitol into chaos.
(Updated: 06/14/09 10:08 AM )
