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Bruce Andriatch: Anonymous mindlessness is the message: Bruce Andriatch

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Updated: 06/30/09 8:11 AM; 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: By Bruce Andriatch

News Columnist

Updated: 06/23/09 9:21 AM; 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: Bruce Andriatch

Updated: 06/09/09 7:53 AM; 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 )

Donn Esmonde: Canisius chooses the easy way out: By Donn Esmonde

News Columnist

Updated: 06/28/09 7:37 AM; Maybe it was too good to be true. Beth Gerardi and Keith Wharton met while they were theater students at the University at Buffalo, married and shared a dream of starting a theater company. Kaleidoscope was born in 2002, a seemingly perfect fit at Canisius College’s 160-seat Maday Theater.
(Updated: 06/28/09 7:37 AM )

Donn Esmonde: A dog walker shows how to reverse blight: Donn Esmonde

Updated: 06/26/09 7:46 AM; It all started with Barkley. Barkley is a cat-sized dog, white with chocolate-drop eyes and a 10,000- watt personality. He spends weekdays charming the staff at the law office of his owner, Fran Letro, in the downtown Dun Building. Like all dogs, Barkley needs walking. Julie Padak, a 29-year-old paralegal, usually got the job.
(Updated: 06/26/09 7:46 AM )

Donn Esmonde: Ready to take another step backward: By Donn Esmonde

News Columnist

Updated: 06/24/09 9:03 AM; I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for all of us. But I feel especially sorry for Maria Whyte. She thought she could change something. Not a big thing. A little thing that, 12 years after we were warned about sprawl, we still have not done.
(Updated: 06/24/09 9:03 AM )

Charity Vogel: Making sure troopers are not forgotten: Charity Vogel

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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Charity Vogel: Caffeine craze stirs thoughts about needs: Charity Vogel

Updated: 06/29/09 8:01 AM; Hey, have you heard? A new coffee place just opened. Maybe you have—and it’s likely we’re not even thinking of the same one.
(Updated: 06/29/09 8:01 AM )

Charity Vogel: Mother’s outrage has become quest: By Charity Vogel

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Updated: 06/22/09 7:42 AM; It was only after Heather died that her mother found the bottles. More than 20 of them: small vials, tucked into purses and hidden in drawers in the bedroom where Heather Begeny’s heart stopped beating on a Sunday morning in March 2003.
(Updated: 06/22/09 7:42 AM )

Off Main Street: He gave peace a chance: Updated: 06/27/09 11:09 AM; The anonymous Memorial Auditorium peace activist has been identified. Last week’s column carried an item about a peace sign spray-painted on the east wall of the Aud, near the roof, that was revealed as part of its demolition.
(Updated: 06/27/09 11:09 AM )

Off Main Street: Updated: 06/20/09 6:45 AM; Know your limitations
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Off Main Street: Updated: 06/13/09 6:27 AM; Heavy metal seniors . . .
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Reporters’ Notebook/ Bits and pieces of news...: Updated: 07/08/09 6:46 AM; OLAF FUB SEZ: According to French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, born on this date in 1621, “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
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Reporters’ Notebook / Bits and pieces of news...: Updated: 07/07/09 6:50 AM; OLAF FUB SEZ: A favorite wish from former Beatle Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey on this date in 1940, “I’d like to be/ Under the sea/ In an octopus’ garden with you.”
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Reporters’ Notebook / Bits and pieces of news...: Updated: 07/06/09 6:54 AM; OLAFFUB SEZ: According to the 14th Dalai Lama, born Lhamo Dhondrub on this date in 1935, “Using force is not a sign of strength, but rather a sign of weakness.”
(Updated: 07/06/09 6:54 AM )

Rod Watson: Alternative to gang life is about pride: Rod Watson

Updated: 07/09/09 10:32 AM; While community groups toil in the streets to reclaim young adults from the guns, drugs and death of Buffalo’s gang life, the larger question is how to make such work less necessary.
(Updated: 07/09/09 10:32 AM )

Rod Watson: Going beyond baby steps in school reform: By Rod Watson

News Columnist

Updated: 07/02/09 7:12 AM; One victim of the State Senate stalemate is the bid to move Buffalo School Board elections to November.
(Updated: 07/02/09 7:12 AM )

Rod Watson: Vile e-mails tarnish more than sender: Rod Watson

Updated: 06/11/09 8:01 AM; Thank goodness for forthright bigots. In the fashion of Archie Bunker, who never considered himself to be wrong, Lewiston-Porter School Board President Robert Weller saw nothing wrong with forwarding racist and sexist e-mails.
(Updated: 06/11/09 8:01 AM )

Trivia Quiz: By Donald Saltz

Updated: 07/09/09 7:01 AM; 1. If the president vetoes a proposed legislation, a vote of what percentage of each house of Congress is necessary in order to override the veto?
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Trivia Quiz: By Donald Saltz

Updated: 07/08/09 6:47 AM; 1. A trillion contains how many millions?
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Trivia Quiz: By Donald Saltz

Updated: 07/07/09 6:50 AM; 1. “Checkpoint Charlie” was a crossing point between what two cities and nations?
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