The Buffalo News: Columns

Rejection of bridge is a questionable call: Douglas Turner
Updated: 04/28/08 6:44 AM; WASHINGTON — Reversing the advisories that threaten construction of the long-sought signature bridge over the Niagara River is possible. But the long silence of Rep. Brian Higgins and the leadership of the Peace Bridge has made that task much more difficult.

It’s past time for Bush to shun the Olympics: Douglas Turner
Updated: 04/21/08 6:33 AM; WASHINGTON — This summer’s Olympic Games might have been held in Toronto instead of repressive, smoggy and unbearably hot Beijing had it not been for the loose lips of Toronto’s mayor.

Conflicts create dilemma for Clinton: Douglas Turner
Updated: 04/14/08 6:38 AM; WASHINGTON — Next week’s Pennsylvania primary is forcing supporters of former President Bill Clinton to view his efforts to produce free trade for Colombia reflected in an embarrassing looking glass.

Margaret Sullivan

Memoir is a soundtrack for growing up female: By Margaret Sullivan NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 04/27/08 7:04 AM; The Beatles had already broken up by the time my friends and I became true music fanatics in high school, but that didn’t stop us. They — along with the Rolling Stones, the Who and Bob Dylan — became our reason for living. We knew every lyric, learned to play their songs on our acoustic guitars, and, for a few absurd years, often spoke in what we believed were perfectly calibrated British accents.

Books for Kids drive is changing lives: Margaret Sullivan
Updated: 04/13/08 6:29 AM; In my childhood home, my mother was in charge of birthday presents and what went under the Christmas tree. And she did it thoughtfully and well, month after month, year after year.

We must restore confidence in the financial industry: By Robert G. Wilmers - SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Updated: 05/11/08 6:47 AM; These are not normal times for the banking industry. This is an extraordinary time in which we find ourselves, a time in which there is a crisis of confidence in the financial services industry.

Concern mounts over ingredient in Plastics: By Sandy Bauers - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Updated: 05/11/08 7:03 AM; PHILADELPHIA — Inside her Ursinus College lab, biology professor Rebecca Roberts dons rubber gloves and watches as her students inject spleen samples from mice with a reactive substance.

Do the torturous math: George F. Will - Washington Post Writers Group
Updated: 05/09/08 6:33 AM; WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U. S. Senate seat, she adopted New York State as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of “fairness,” because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.

Davis gets a cold shoulder: Bob McCarthy
Updated: 04/20/08 6:59 AM; Erie County Democrats will gather next week to endorse their candidate for the seat of retiring Rep. Tom Reynolds, and Jon Powers of Clarence will be their man.

Conservatives play a key role: Bob McCarthy
Updated: 04/13/08 6:29 AM; More news and notes from the congressional campaign trail: