Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published November 3
Do any of the Republicans living in North Tonawanda have jobs? Just by reading Sound Off, all I can gather is that the Republicans all get together in someone’s basement and just team up to look for things wrong with Democrats.
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I would like to say “thank you” to all the coaches at the TFC football clinic. They do a great job with the kids and they care more than most other coaches do. Point in hand is coach Heather for the Renegades cheerleaders. She always goes above and beyond to make sure the kids are having fun and learning, but even when the kids are sick, she is always concerned. That is special; too many times adults do not take the time with kids these days or show they care. It has been my experience down at the TFC football clinic that the coaches are really something special. With the year just about over, I felt I needed to say “thank you” and let everyone know how great it is down there.
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I think all presidents should be shown respect. And everyone should be treated with equal respect. It’s only fair. Those two premises made me decide to treat President Obama with the same respect that the Democrats treated President Bush when he was president. And if an Iraqi throws shoes at President Obama, I will be as outraged as the Democrats were when that happened to President Bush. It’s only fair.
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I’m an 18-year-old voting for the first time. I received an ad with the mayor’s vision of the future: Bulldozers about to finish off the last forests in NT. There was a Sound Off that the mayor and council voted to get rid of wetland laws. I spent a time doing community service picking up litter in a wetland forest across from the high school. Why don’t they point the bulldozers at the junky areas in NT that need to be rebuilt and put businesses there instead of ruining these forests?
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How is it that the people on the Board of Education in Tonawanda are so concerned about knowing who is with school children, but can approve a member of their own to a volunteer coach position after the season is finished? I guess their own concerns don’t apply if you sit on the board.
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Look up peopleofwalmart.com and then cry about not having a Walmart.
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New York State wants to impose new license plates for all vehicles with a rate hike. If you would like to protest and stop New York state rip-offs, sign the petition at nonewplates.com or call your legislator or assemblyman’s office.
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To the callers that are criticizing the city for challenging the wetlands designation of Erie Avenue and already developed commercial corridor, get your facts straight. Don’t use the ridiculous spin that this legal action is for the “developers.” It is for the residents of NT. The city wants to preserve some buildable area to solidify the tax base. This wetland area is not out in some field, it is right on a main thoroughfare and it is just ridiculous that you would criticize that.
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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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