- Consider upstate senator
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The question of who might inherit Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U. S. Senate has been worth thinking about for more than two years, ever since she made her presidential candidacy official. The speculation has come back in a whirl now that Clinton is being rumored as President-elect Barack Obama’s first choice for secretary of state.
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- Probe gas prices
Some officials of the federal government are consumed with the question of whether the big automakers are too big to fail. Some other government employees should be concerned with the question of whether some components in the gasoline supply chain are too big to compete.
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- Confront the deficits
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It might have been too much to hope that Tuesday’s special Legislature session or last weekend’s private meeting between Gov. David A. Paterson and Legislature leaders would produce agreement on how to balance the state’s tottering budget.
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- Close underused facilities
New York State’s fiscal condition is in crisis mode and one of the ways the governor proposed to reduce the growing state deficit is by closing juvenile detention facilities. Cattaraugus County’s Great Valley Youth Residential Center is one of them.
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More Opinion
- We all need to change our ‘gimme’ mentality
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Everything I ever wanted to know about the Great Depression I learned from my Uncle Hank.
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My View
- Authority ignores conservancy’s efforts on plaza design
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, like everyone in this community, is eager to move forward with the construction of a new international bridge, a spectacular gateway we can all be proud of between Buffalo and Canada.
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Another Voice
- Genetic test can reveal a painful truth
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Wanda Stutsman was 32 years old and seven months pregnant when she began her first round of chemotherapy. Two months later — exhausted and bald from the chemo — she delivered a healthy son with a full head of hair. But there was little time to dote on him; Stutsman had to move quickly to the next phase of her breast cancer treatment: six weeks of radiation therapy.
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Sunday Viewpoints
Everybody's Column
- Cigarette tax stamp plan ignores root of problem
- Diocese should abolish Queen of Heaven policy
- Politicians, not engineers, are pushing bad projects
- Let oil companies lend billions to automakers
- Employee Free Choice Act needed to protect workers
- Buffalo Syndrome strikes yet again
- Hilbert community is still in mourning
- McCain merits praise for taking the high road
- Volunteer fire halls shouldn’t have bars
- Inefficient government is taxing us to death
- Joggers should use the buddy system
- It’s great to have debate but let’s keep it civilized
- Using encrypted tax stamps on cigarettes is not solution
- Keep funding in place to maintain city parks
- Idling at drive-through wastes gas, pollutes air
- Bike museum would be a wonderful attraction
- Some have forgotten great things U. S. did
- Tough to view HDTV with a converter box
- Rails must be restored, not converted into trails
- Many homes on Busti are not worth saving
