SOUND OFF: Published June 22

Opinion

June 19, 2009

Anonymous The Tonawanda News Fri Jun 19, 2009, 11:28 PM EDT

You know what we need in Mid City Plaza? A fountain-type place where you can get ice cream floats and things like that. In the summer it would make a heck of a lot of money with the pool open. There’s plenty of empty stores in Mid City Plaza.

•••

I guess my time doesn’t mean anything to public officials. On June 10, I went to attend the 9 a.m. monthly industrial agency meeting. A staff member said “It was decided not to have it.” At 6 p.m. that evening, I returned to attend the Niagara County Economic Development meeting, and no cars are there. It was canceled. We are only good enough to pay taxes, yet they still want us to act like we’re interested in government. I don’t think they want us to attend.

•••

To the retired GM employee who went by the NT schools. What’s his point? Is it that only people with foreign cars didn’t vote for his president that he loves so much now? I did not see one car before, during or after the elections with an Obama bumper sticker that was not a foreign car. To this day, if they’re still on the cars, it’ll be a foreign car, I almost guarantee it. I don’t understand this person’s point.

•••

The dropout and failure rates at North Tonawanda schools is a disgrace considering the amount of money we pay for a superintendent and one of the highest-paid retired superintendents in New York state. Teachers are grossly overpaid. We have an 80 percent graduation rate and a 6 percent drop in scores. I hope the teachers are proud of themselves. This shows that money does not buy education. Now that we have school personnel on the school board, I know that teachers will get a great raise and our children will fail. This is not fair to North Tonawanda. The teachers, administration and parents should be ashamed to have let this happen.

Text Only

Opinion

Don’t blame senior citizens
Have you ever wondered what members of Congress do to fill their time? If so, here’s an example from a wire story that came to the News last week.

February 10, 2012 1 Photo
ADAMCZYK: The endless autumn
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.

February 10, 2012 1 Photo
Sound Off published Friday, Feb. 10
Bin Laden is dead. GM is alive. Those don’t sound like failures to me.

February 10, 2012
HOPKINS: Big mistakes by Romney, Obama
Rick Santorum’s strong showing Tuesday in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado should come as no surprise.

February 9, 2012 1 Photo
Sound Off published Thursday, Feb. 9
If you keep taking signals down on Nash Road, it will become a regular speedway. Don’t forget: It’s still a city street, with side streets driveways and businesses.

February 9, 2012
DUVALL: Church shouldn’t be forced to offer birth control
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.

February 8, 2012 1 Photo
Sound Off published Wednesday, Feb. 8
I think the North Tonawanda school district should look into requiring school uniforms. I think if the school board members walked around the high school and saw how some of these students dress they’d be appalled, to say the least. No school dress code is being enforced. They should consider the pros and cons of bringing back school uniforms.

February 8, 2012
OUR VIEW: Time is up for SPCA board
This is no time for subtleties or polite requests.

February 7, 2012
CONFER: Time to end the NFL’s blackout rule
Long ago, in a much simpler time, ticket sales accounted for the majority of revenues for professional football teams.

February 7, 2012 1 Photo
LEFFLER: Don’t wait to be productive
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.

February 7, 2012 1 Photo
More Opinion Headlines

Opinion

Search Results

SOUND OFF: Published June 22

Site Map

Contact Us