Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published Feb. 6, 2010
Seniors, beware. There are some lawyers out there who are targeting seniors in their ads. If for some reason you need an elder law lawyer, make sure you do not pay upfront, as if you are dissatisfied with their work, you will not get your money back. Also, ask what it will cost you for a consultation. Some lawyers charge for their first consultation. Do not pay till you are completely satisfied with the work done. Buyer beware even when it comes to lawyers.
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Well, I see DPW reads Sound Off because the comment about the receiver (drain) being low on Nash Road got taken care of within about a day. Well, got taken care of by putting two cones in front of it, which they’ve tried already and that didn’t magically make the receiver (drain) rise because it’s only been broke for about two years. I guess that’s a start.
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It is mind-blowing that the same stupid people that keep blaming Bush for reckless spending, see nothing wrong with Obama doing the same thing only way worse, while utilizing very the same congress that Bush had. This is hope for change? Sounds like dumb and dumber to me.
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If the Bills take up Vick for quarterback, everyone hide your dogs!
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I have an idea to help the city out of the $500,000 shortfall. You see, we can start with the excess sick days that all the city employees have, and like anyone else nowadays, everybody pays for their insurance. While we’re at it, we should add the teachers into that in NT. Right there, we would have a surplus of money.
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Last year in July our property assessments went up to 100 percent. If property values have gone down in NY how come our assessments went up? Shouldn’t the assessments have gone down? I’m having a problem figuring that out, could somebody please help?
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Toyota did not tell the people right away. They waited till there were lives lost. They waited months for that. Get your facts straight.
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It would be really great if the North Tonawanda police could be at some of the stop signs in the Wurlitzer Park area every morning to see how people fail to stop. If they could catch all these people the city would get thousands of dollars.
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I would like to known when and what it is going to take for the mayor of the City of Tonawanda to bring revenue into the city. We certainly need it. Is Spaulding down yet? Is there going to be vacant land there? is there something going to be done at Veterans Park? We need to have revenue brought into the city. We need business. We are going to become a ghetto if you don’t bring business here.
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TUCKER: Will traffic signals be next?
My guess is that you are all ahead of me on this one. However, the article in the News reporting that the one-way streets in the City of Tonawanda will be changed back to two-way is good news.
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Sound Off published Saturday March 20
Tell Walmart to quit arguing with the North Tonawandans and come over to Tonawanda. We have a perfect spot for them where they could build the store and there’d be no problems. -
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.
That is to say, I can generally operate one without it blowing up. -
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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