Word from Albany that Gov. David A. Paterson is being advised to end the special focus New York put on this economically challenged region ought to trigger heated protests and concerted action by the leaders of this community. And that action should center on persuading the governor to strengthen state emphasis on upstate recovery, not weaken it.
The Buffalo Common Council’s ill-conceived measure condemning a local businessman for making what lawmakers called “racially divisive” remarks is a disappointing rejection of free-speech rights. Carl P. Paladino’s comments about School Superintendent James A. Williams may not be defensible, but they are protected.
On the outside, as a nonpolitician with a businessman’s rational eye for evaluating efficiency, Chris Collins thought the Erie County control board would benefit the taxpayers.
With Erie Canal Harbor set to open at the end of the month — at least and at last giving local residents a look at the setting for hoped-for heritage development — the harbor agency has little time to determine who will actually run the place. Fortunately, there’s a logical choice.
Now that the court battle is over, Buffalo public school teachers and administrators can get down to business — and, in the process, end one of the major uncertainties hanging over city school budgeting.
Recent news that housing prices nationwide fell in February at the fastest rate ever is troubling — but not as troubling, here, as it could be. In the Buffalo Niagara region, real estate values remain steady.
New York seems to have more than its share of gasoholic enablers. First Hillary Clinton, New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate, signs onto a proposal from John McCain, Arizona senator and Republican presidential candidate, to give Americans a gas tax “holiday” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has resorted to a technique in buying stuff in corrupt Iraq that is reminiscent of the way the Soviet Empire worked.
Daily commuters who are upset at the latest round of New York Thruway toll hikes might be even more deeply miffed if they ever get the word that there is, and long has been, a way to get a much cheaper ride to work.
On the weekend of the Kentucky Derby, it seems appropriate to say a few words about the horse and the writer. The one has occupied the other through the ages.
For years, the cry of the politically alienated in the United States was that there wasn’t “a dime’s worth of difference” between political parties or candidates. This year, that lack of separation among the candidates for president has been the good news on at least one major issue.
Excerpts from reader commentary on News staffers’ online blog postings last week.Online comments come from registered users, but — unlike reviewed and verifiedEverybody’s Column letters — can be posted under pen names.
Let’s see, now. You spend every day up to your elbows in children who are in your care from right after the school day ends until well into the evening. Because they are children they are, among many other things, hungry.
