Rod Watson
- Give thanks that things aren’t worse
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Rod Watson
Updated: 11/27/08 7:10 AM
- So many blessings, so little space. It’s hard to know where to begin to give thanks this holiday for the enlightened leadership that’s guiding us through these troubled times.
- Rod Watson: Let’s profit from our weather
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By Rod Watson
News Columnist
Updated: 11/20/08 4:24 PM
- Drafty old houses. Cold, snowy weather. Sky-high poverty along with the highest black male jobless rate in the nation.
- Rod Watson: Color counts, and the main one is green
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By Rod Watson
News Columnist
Updated: 11/06/08 10:50 AM
- Barack Obama’s historic election as president finally provides the answer I’ve waited some 30 years to find.
- If GOP loses Senate, city looks to win
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Rod Watson
Updated: 10/30/08 6:26 AM
- There’s a lot of local hand-wringing over the possibility that Democrats will take over the State Senate on Tuesday and that downstate leaders will then redline Western New York.
- Rod Watson: Collins shows his tin ear on raises
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By Rod Watson
Updated: 10/23/08 10:40 AM
- When Chris Collins promised to run Erie County like a business, who knew the model would be AIG? The county executive, predictably, rejects any comparison to the insurance giant that became a four-letter word after spending lavishly on perks while sticking taxpayers with a huge bailout bill.
- Rod Watson: McCain gives voters a peek at character
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Rod Watson
Updated: 10/09/08 8:11 AM
- This presidential election gets more historic by the day. In August, we officially got the first black major-party nominee.
- Rod Watson: Expect better savvy in next generation
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Rod Watson
Updated: 10/02/08 7:43 AM
- Assuming there’s an economy left by the time they hit the work force, will today’s high schoolers be any better able to protect it than we were?
- Rod Watson: GOP’s debate vocabulary has shrunk
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Rod Watson
Updated: 09/25/08 7:43 AM
- Finally, it’ll be a pleasure to listen to the presidential debates that start Friday — or whenever John McCain stops posturing — just for all of the things we won’t have to hear anymore.
- Rod Watson: Parent input is essential to school reform
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Rod Watson
Updated: 09/18/08 7:53 AM
- Buffalo education officials point out that parents were involved in the decision to implement the student uniform policies that made news this week and are in vogue at nearly half the city’s schools.
- Rod Watson: Truth hurts — like bullets that fell kids
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Rod Watson
Updated: 09/04/08 7:41 AM
- It is hard to see a way out — but it is there. You can hear it in the comments of people agonizing over the shootings of young girls in the Schiller Park neighborhood by young boys with more bullets than sense.
- Rod Watson: Dads step up to show value of education
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Rod Watson
Updated: 08/28/08 8:02 AM
- When you throw in the overtime, 38-year-old Ricky Riley works practically seven days a week as a mechanic’s apprentice at General Mills.
- Rod Watson: Budget battle has a lesson for teachers
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Rod Watson
Updated: 08/21/08 7:44 AM
- Teachers and school administrators dodged the bullet this time. But if they’re smarter than the kids they teach — and that’s not a high bar, given some recent data — they’ll learn from the effort to implement a statewide property tax cap.
- Rod Watson: Inmate health is ignored at our risk
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Rod Watson
Updated: 08/14/08 7:46 AM
- No one ever lost an election by paying more attention to taxpayers than to inmates.
- Rod Watson: Never happen here? Guess what -- it has
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By Rod Watson
Updated: 08/07/08 11:59 AM
- As one of its many shifting rationales for starting a war, the Bush administration constantly reminded Americans about the freedoms we take for granted.
- Rod Watson: Neighborhood gives lesson in self-reliance
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Rod Watson
Updated: 07/31/08 7:57 AM
- The dozens of kids come from blocks around each day to eat the free lunch and play on the donated swing set.
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