Afghanistan, what’s a President to do? All his options are bad ones. Raise the troop levels and give the Taliban a run for it’s money? For what? To support a corrupt aristocracy? Bad idea. So should he keep the troop levels the same? That just places the soldiers already there in harm’s way, and for no good purpose whatsoever. So should Obama withdraw? Then after the Taliban win, Al Qaeda will be free to set up shop and plot. You can be sure that Obama will be blamed for anything they do, and called a coward for running away from a fight. The people taunting Obama will be the same crowd currently faulting him for supporting a nation that won’t lift a finger to help itself.

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Watching all this after the deadly crash in Clarence, they really should do something about the driving age. Raise it to 20 or 21, because these kids don’t know how to take on responsibilities. They think they know it all.

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Way to go, NT! You have a Republican-controlled school board, city council, mayor and county legislative body. If things don’t happen now, who are you going to blame? There’s nobody left.

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Once again the people of North Tonawanda voted. If people would check out the number that voted, they would see there were only a few out of 30,000 who live here. Where are the people to come out and vote? These are the people who complain constantly about how our government will be run. Get out on election day and vote, don’t sit at home and complain!

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I noticed that the wetland litigation the city has begun was not mentioned in the article about the North Tonawanda budget last week. The last time I saw a suit challenging the validity of wetland protection the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Trout Unlimited and the Audubon also filed as Friends of the Court. This sort of pile–on adds a lot of costs to the legal team. Can the city afford this sort of frivolous litigation in light of the other expenses?

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Did I hear right? North Tonawanda is considering raising water rates! Are they crazy? Our water rates are way too high as it is. They should close down that water treatment plant and go on county water. I know what New York state law says about that; time to change the law, I say. NT must become more affordable for people to live here before people actually will start to move here. They can do it by raising our tax base and lowering our taxes.