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Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Coordinate harbor bridge work


Like the motorist who knows he has to move to the right lane long before he gets to the exit, Buffalo’s Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. is wisely preparing to move toward an on-ramp that is more than a year down the road.

(Updated: 12/04/08 7:34 AM )

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Mumbai needs U. S. attention

Whichever path it takes, Mumbai is the future of the world.

(Updated: 12/04/08 7:21 AM )

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Obama chooses well


Barack Obama has set himself the task of teaching some old dogs a lot of new tricks. Or maybe it is the other way around.

(Updated: 12/03/08 7:23 AM )

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Pursue Korean negotiations

Like any good hostage negotiator, the United States will have to have the cool nerve to listen to North Korea rant and rave, make threats and issue demands, just about any fool thing it wants to say as long as it keeps talking.

(Updated: 12/03/08 7:01 AM )

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My View

Let’s hold Bills fans to higher standards

Anyone who has attended a Bills game in the last 20 years didn’t need the Wall Street Journal to tell us of what we already are painfully aware: The Buffalo Bills have the “worst-behaved fans in perhaps all of sports.”

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Another Voice

Preservation of county records is the right course

Two months ago, The News ran an editorial urging Erie County Executive Chris Collins to overrule a plan by the county attorney to destroy environmental lead inspection records. As the county adopts a new budget, it is worth revisiting this issue.

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Sunday Viewpoints

What counts as democracy in Bolivia?

Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia late in 2005 and inaugurated in January 2006. He is not only the first indigenous president of Bolivia, but also the first in recent history elected with an outright majority of votes — 54 percent.

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