Bruce Andriatch: Anonymous mindlessness is the message
Columnist’s note: Much of the following is meant as sarcasm. Proceed with caution. (Updated: 06/30/09 8:11 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Burbs’ risky intersections need cameras
Red-light running is such a problem in the City of Buffalo that state lawmakers have cleared the way for cameras to be placed at dozens of dangerous intersections. (Updated: 06/23/09 9:21 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Downsizing, budgeting, NIMBY-ing
Catching up with news from suburbia. . . Whether you agree with Kevin Gaughan or not, and whether you think having three-person town boards is a good thing, you have to be impressed with what he and his legion of volunteers accomplished last week. (Updated: 06/09/09 7:53 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: A half-court hoop dream: forever 1-for-1
When you think of the big baskets that were scored at Memorial Auditorium, the names that come to mind are legends. Lanier in the lane. Two for McAdoo. Murphy from downtown. (Updated: 06/02/09 9:11 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Write to vote a dual success in Amherst
Mickey Mouse and Ziggy Stardust have both been on the losing end of elections, sometimes the same one. Chuck Wagon has seen his support wax and wane over the years, as have Jim Nazium and Jacques Strap. (Updated: 05/26/09 7:20 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Get ready to read more tragic prom stories
The story is coming. High school students will die in a car crash around the time of a prom or graduation. It happens every spring. It could be as soon as this week, or maybe next month. Maybe it won’t be around here. But maybe it will. (Updated: 05/12/09 9:10 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Community service given a fresh twist
As a lawyer and a Clarence town justice, Michael Powers has said or heard the term “community service” thousands of times. But only very recently did he begin to think about what it meant. (Updated: 05/05/09 9:02 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: A dirty job, but it has to be kept clean
When the Erie County Association of Town Superintendents of Highways gets together for its regular meeting, talk generally turns to typical highway superintendent stuff. Topics such as budgets and potholes and front-end loaders and dirt. (Updated: 04/28/09 9:00 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Ken-Ton owes public some answers
The Town of Tonawanda Police Department had enough evidence to confront former Kenmore East Principal LuAnn Ostanski about some money missing from a school safe. The evidence, said to be surveillance photographs of her putting on latex gloves and stealing $160, was enough to get her to admit that she had done it. It was enough to get her to submit her resignation and to leave her job in disgrace while she awaits her day in court. (Updated: 04/14/09 9:04 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Giving up what’s sweet quite a feat
You really begin to notice how much free cake there is when you give up sweets for Lent. (Updated: 04/07/09 7:58 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Vox populi has its say about Mohan
I need to get a clue. I demonstrate the logic of a fifth-grader. I should be ashamed. Those were some of the kinder things people said by e-mail, phone call and even one old-fashioned, typewritten letter after reading my last column on Amherst Supervisor Satish Mohan. (Updated: 03/31/09 12:20 PM )
Bruce Andriatch: The promises were empty, Dr. Mohan
Dear Dr. Mohan: I felt compelled to write you this letter after reading over the weekend that you would not run for another term as Amherst town supervisor. (Updated: 03/17/09 7:20 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: The Palace is home to an ageless dream
As a kid growing up in South Buffalo, Jay Ruof was immersed in movies. He wanted to watch them, show them, collect them, even make his own someday. He never made it big in Hollywood. But he’s a big hit in Hamburg, which is just fine with him. (Updated: 03/10/09 9:29 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: Long Street must reopen —but not yet
If there were any doubt about whether normalcy has returned to Long Street, the marked State Police SUV at the corner of Clarence Center Road with the trooper in the driver’s seat removes it. So do the signs that say “Road Closed” at that corner and every other possible way in and out. (Updated: 03/03/09 7:01 AM )
Bruce Andriatch: A hard lesson from a hockey great’s death
Had Tim Horton died during the era of the 24-hour news cycle, we would have known much sooner. (Updated: 02/24/09 8:53 AM )