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History says 'No' to hosting a Bass Pro - By DONN ESMONDE - 3/4/2007
Lost in the frenzy to cram Bass Pro into the Erie Canal Harbor history site is a simple fact: It is not allowed there. Not even if the sporting goods monolith is cloaked, as proposed, in a 19th century-style building facade. |
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Golden-crowned kinglets reveal a zest for life - By GERRY RISING - 3/4/2007
After he read my column about kinglets last October, Chuck Wolf e-mailed to tell me about Bernd Heinrich's 2003 book, "Winter World." "This book is full of interesting information about animal survival," he said. |
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Off Main Street - 3/3/2007
An official hometown hero Patrick Kaleta knows how to please a crowd. Off the ice, too. |
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Anchor Bar is a leader in trans fat war - By DONN ESMONDE - 3/2/2007
He is the unlikeliest of pioneers, the oddest champion of better eating and sensible reform. Ivano Toscani runs the famous Anchor Bar. It is the nexus of the vast chicken wing world, the place of its invention and arguably the taste standard. |
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Olaf Fub Sez for 3/2 - 3/2/2007
OLAF FUB SEZ: American poet Maxine Kumin has noted, "The time on either side of "now' stands fast."  |
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Six attackers at school lack consequences - By DONN ESMONDE - 2/28/2007
Plan an assault, attack a student and take out a teacher as collateral damage. In a sane district, six students - each with a history of trouble - would never again set foot in that school. In Buffalo, they walked back into the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts escorted by the superintendent. |
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Olaf Fub Sez for 2/28 - 2/28/2007
OLAFUB SEZ: According to American poet Aline Kilmer (1888-1941), "Many excellent words are ruined by too definite a knowledge of their meaning." |
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The best steps for keeping schools safe - By BRUCE ANDRIATCH - 2/27/2007
The funerals would all be over by now. The national media would have gone home. In Amherst and the Town of Tonawanda, people would be talking about healing and closure and the need to return to some sense of normalcy, all the while knowing it would never be "normal" again. |
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Olaf Fub Sez for 2/27 - 2/27/2007
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to a Maltese proverb: "Worry, not work, kills man." |
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Olaf Fub Sez for 2/26 - 2/26/2007
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to a Greek proverb, "A wolf may grow old and gray, but his mind doesn't change until his dying day." |
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The measure of success? Try 67 years! - By DONN ESMONDE - 2/25/2007
Sometimes success is hard to see. Drive by the Top Hill Grill and wonder what the big deal is. It stands on the raised corner of a no-frills street on the edge of South Buffalo, hard by the railroad tracks and a metal recycling plant. The yellow vinyl siding doesn't dazzle. The interior - paneled walls, charmless dropped ceiling - is no contender for House Beautiful. |
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Short-eared owls have long-ranged hearing - By GERRY RISING - 2/25/2007
Years ago, Cornell biologist Bill Hamilton Jr. gave a talk about predators to the Bergen Swamp Sanctuary Society. In his lecture, he told how prolific meadow voles (aka field mice) are. |
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Off Main Street - 2/24/2007
Horrigan, that's me Last week's Off Main Street column carried an item about a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer, Kevin Horrigan, who doesn't care for Tim Russert, the NBC newsman and South Buffalo native. |
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Spitzer mood gentler, but mission isn't - By DONN ESMONDE - 2/23/2007
The man who sat in Mary Kinney's living room Wednesday was not the fire-breathing scourge of Wall Street cheaters. He was not the got-mad, get-even public crusader hoisting the names of state lawmakers who had wronged him. He was not spitting-mad Spitzer, exacting retribution on disloyal Democrats who had nuked his choice for state comptroller. |
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Olaf Fub Sez for 2/23 - 2/23/2007
OLAF FUB SEZ: It was Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) who noted: "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." |
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