Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published October 27
I am extremely disappointed in you, Mayor Soos, and all you in North Tonawanda who are backing him up. Are you kidding me? You are using our taxpayer dollars to fund a lawsuit for your developer buddies against the state Department of Environmental Conservation? Let me give you a hint … developers don’t want to fund their own lawsuit because they know they will lose! You think that a few houses built in wetlands will be expanding our tax base? Here’s a hint: our tax base would be larger if you would simply stop throwing our tax dollars at private developers and frivolous lawsuits. I am not voting any of our politicians back into office or council unless I know they are against funding this ridiculous lawsuit being filed on behalf of private developers that have plenty of their own money.
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I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his “Obama phone.” I asked him what an “Obama phone” was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive a FREE new phone and approximately 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and lo and behold he was telling the truth. Tax payer money is being redistributed to welfare recipients for free cell phones. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it’s sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken.
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I cannot believe the candidates for mayor. Larry Soos says he is going to do something about code enforcement and his department heads and then doesn't do anything. Then I get a phone call from a friend of the mayor, asking if I have any concerns about the city that the mayor should know about. Also meeting with Rob Ortt, he said he will look into the codes that are violated in the city and he would get back to me the next day, well it has now been going on two weeks. There are many big time violations in this city, but it is in all of who you know to get things taken care of.
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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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