Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published October 16
I attend North Tonawanda High School and I’m glad too see the teenagers at Zappers are no longer allowed there. It’s nothing but an area for smokers and it’s a distraction to the students who actually come to school to learn. I believe that Sommer had the right idea and for those who are opposed need to realize it was for the better. That parking lot should be used for picking up or dropping off students. It’s a shame that it took an innocent girl injured for action to finally be taken.
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I would like to say that I am so tired of hearing of our nation's elderly complain about not having this or that. We need the public option of health care so you're going to have to deal with the inevitable. The majority of America wants it, and you've all been riding the gravy train for much too long. Did you know the majority of the people on public assistance and welfare are the elderly? And you have the gall to demand that the rest of us should go bankrupt paying health costs because you refuse to sacrifice like the rest of us do daily to support you, our nation's dead weight? How selfish can you get?
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I recently noticed how many streets have been repaved lately in North Tonawanda. Between my house and getting to work I counted 11 new streets. I think this is great. Our city is looking very good.
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I totally disagree with the "Our View" editorial about continuing the traditional T-NT game. A rivalry game usually suggests a fair playing field between opponents — this is no longer fair as NT has a much larger student body, more players to choose from and more money to pump into their football program. THS is lucky if they have 20 boys on their entire roster! This is like Buff State playing Florida! How does one derive character when he has played an entire game, both ways, while the other team brings wave after wave of replacement players in to pummel him time and time again? The rivalry was great — when it could be called that but the fairness ended long ago, probably in the late 70s.
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Another Sabres season and yes, I believe they could make a good run unlike the gloom and doom people. Take a moment and really look at this team. Remember, the core of this team went deep into the playoffs not too long ago. The addition of Greer, Montadore, Kennedy and Tyler Myers have really filled out the roster. They are rolling four good lines and have a fifth in the wings...it's called depth. If 7 out of the first 8 points is any indication, you, my friend better strap yourself in for a good ride.
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Prisoner escapes from the Tonawanda police station and the spokesman is a detective. Once again, where is the chief's comments?
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How many candidates are there for mayor of North Tonawanda, two or three? Because apparently the current mayor, when he’s cornered with accusations, he doesn’t speak for himself. Instead we have to hear from Jeffrey Mis, his assistant. So, are we actually voting for Rob Ortt or Larry Soos, or is Jeff Mis somewhere in the mix?
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ADAMCZYK: An evening walk with Beethoven
Yes, that’s me: the tall and overweight man with earbuds in his ears and the wire descending to the machine on his hip, huffing through the dusk on Delaware Road in Kenmore.
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Sound Off published Friday March 19
With the snow melting, I took a friend to the newly named Veterans Park on River Road. What a disgrace. There is garbage everywhere, ruts in the grass and the inlet is all plugged up with trash and debris. The mayor says he is a veteran, yet he lets this insult prevail to all the men and women who came before him, some dying. You should be ashamed.
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HOPKINS: Going to the vet for health care
What does a veterinarian have to do with today’s health care debate? Read on.
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KEPPELER: Stranger in a strange land
I’m not too bad with computers.
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Sound Off published Thursday March 18
I’m a City of Tonawanda resident for most of my life and I see the recycling guys don’t want to put themselves out to do their jobs and we paid for their services. So please help, somebody get on their butt and get their job done the way they should.
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DUVALL: Spending cuts must be manageable
For as often as the media uses outsized, hyperbolic phrases to describe routine functions of government, we have going on in New Jersey right now a true ideological clash.
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Sound Off published Wednesday March 17
This is in response to the person who says there was a Jeffrey’s in the City of Tonawanda. The word is Zeffrey’s. It was an old-fashioned ice cream parlor. It was beautiful.
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LEFLER: The good life in Western New York
Oh look! Spring.Now, technically I know it’s not spring yet, but with the Ides of March and Buffalo’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in our rear-view, two of the indicators I use for spring have already passed. Throw in the nice weather we’re having and my body is ready to walk down Main Street in a T-shirt and shorts.
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CONFER: The census and your privacy
In his recent column, my friend Scott Leffler waxed poetic about how illogical — if not illegal — the U.S. Census has become as it asks questions that were unintended by our Founding Fathers. As with quite a few issues, I agree with Scott on this one and I will be one of those folks he mentions who will try their luck by filling out only one question on the 10-question form.
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DUVALL: News to relaunch its Web site this week
Times are changing, and so are we.
With that in mind, I’m pleased to announce that tonawanda-news.com, this paper’s Web site, will undergo a major overhaul. On Tuesday, our entirely new site will “go live” (just a fancy way of saying publish).
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