Tonawanda News Columns

ADAMCZYK: The endless autumn

2012-02-10T00:13:41-05:00

By the time this prattle gets turned into ink on paper, the reader should be expected to be sitting in cold temperatures and under several inches of lake effect-produced snow.

HOPKINS: Big mistakes by Romney, Obama

2012-02-09T01:06:26-05:00

Rick Santorum’s strong showing Tuesday in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado should come as no surprise.

DUVALL: Church shouldn’t be forced to offer birth control

2012-02-08T00:16:54-05:00

In announcing that the federal government will require religious institutions to provide free access to birth control, President Obama touched off a heated debate about religious freedom — one he is likely to lose.

CONFER: Time to end the NFL’s blackout rule

2012-02-07T00:23:59-05:00

Long ago, in a much simpler time, ticket sales accounted for the majority of revenues for professional football teams.

LEFFLER: Don’t wait to be productive

2012-02-07T00:22:03-05:00

I’ve always been a bit of a night person. It started in college when I would stay up all hours of the night — doing homework. Or something.

DUVALL: Immigration, not economy, could tip 2012 election

2012-02-04T22:49:04-05:00

In a handful of swing states that will decide the election, immigration will play a large — perhaps even determining — role in whether Barack Obama gets another four years.

TUCKER: Another side of the SPCA

2012-02-03T21:48:57-05:00

With all the negative news about the SPCA of Niagara County, it seems a good time to weigh-in about the wonderful SPCA Serving Erie County.

ADAMCZYK: The return of The Slash

2012-02-03T00:21:06-05:00

A recent column in this space about the myriad effects of personal technology (smartphones si, singing toothbrushes no) mentioned the curse of lifelong learning, that carousel of constant vocational training and retraining forced by a life on a globe spinning faster and flattening faster than society can cope, and that’s where the commentators keyed this in this week’s virtual mailbag.

Keppeler: Give me shelter

2012-02-02T00:09:33-05:00

I hate the cold.
Most winter days in the Tonawanda News newsroom, I’m sitting here wearing my coat. (I’m doing it right now, as a matter of fact.)

DUVALL: To the moon, Newt!

2012-02-01T01:14:50-05:00

Normally I would jump at the chance to make fun of Newt Gingrich for saying something zany like how he plans to build American colonies on the moon.