Buffalo News Editorials
- Consider upstate senator
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Updated: 11/20/08 7:13 AM
- The question of who might inherit Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U. S. Senate has been worth thinking about for more than two years, ever since she made her presidential candidacy official. The speculation has come back in a whirl now that Clinton is being rumored as President-elect Barack Obama’s first choice for secretary of state.
- Probe gas prices
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- Some officials of the federal government are consumed with the question of whether the big automakers are too big to fail. Some other government employees should be concerned with the question of whether some components in the gasoline supply chain are too big to compete.
- Confront the deficits
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Updated: 11/19/08 7:12 AM
- It might have been too much to hope that Tuesday’s special Legislature session or last weekend’s private meeting between Gov. David A. Paterson and Legislature leaders would produce agreement on how to balance the state’s tottering budget.
- Close underused facilities
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- New York State’s fiscal condition is in crisis mode and one of the ways the governor proposed to reduce the growing state deficit is by closing juvenile detention facilities. Cattaraugus County’s Great Valley Youth Residential Center is one of them.
- Schools can’t be spared
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Updated: 11/18/08 7:08 AM
- Educators take note: There’s a reason they call it a “crisis.” The economic fissure New York State has toppled into isn’t merely a rough patch or a pinch. State government is in a choke hold; getting out of it is going to hurt.
- Give universities flexibility
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:57 AM
- New York finds itself in the midst of a fiscal crisis because investments made on Wall Street have gone stinkingly sour. So it is time for some other investments, in other parts of the state, in other fields of endeavor, so that the state’s economy will both grow and diversify.
- Republicans balk at Big 3 bailout
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Douglas Turner
Updated: 11/17/08 6:33 AM
- WASHINGTON — With some Republicans now behaving, well, like Republicans, the Democrats are poised to take full political possession of the controversial $700 billion bailout of financial institutions and its aftermath.
- Get moving on the bridge
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Updated: 11/17/08 6:51 AM
- Buffalo’s past is important. But so is its future.
- Power begins to shift
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Updated: 11/17/08 6:33 AM
- Having reaffirmed itself as a land of opportunity, America once again is demonstrating a hallmark of a healthy democracy: the peaceful transfer of power. It’s a beautiful thing.
- Back to which-hunting
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Updated: 11/16/08 4:23 AM
- Question for November: What is the ugliest English word in common use today?
- Buffalo gains a museum
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Updated: 11/16/08 7:29 AM
- Buffalo’s museum district gains another jewel soon. Nearly ready to welcome the public, the new Burchfield Penney Art Center is a welcome addition to this region’s cultural life and visitor attractions. It’s a spectacular achievement, and the opening in tough economic times of such a stellar showcase for the work of Western New York artists is a bright testament to community vitality.
- Blogzerpts / Opinions from buffalonews.com
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Updated: 11/16/08 4:23 AM
- Excerpts from reader commentary on News staffers’ online blog postings last week. Online comments come from registered users, but — unlike reviewed and verified Everybody’s Column letters — can be posted under pen names.
- History also is recognized
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Updated: 11/16/08 4:23 AM
- More recognition of Buffalo’s place in national history surfaced recently with the city’s designation as the second African-American heritage tourism destination authenticated by the national organization Travel Professionals of Color.
- Obama realistic on economy
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Murray Light
Updated: 11/16/08 4:23 AM
- If you think the economy is in bad shape and cannot get any worse, you are an optimist. The bad news is expected to get worse in the coming months. The experts tell us that the economy is likely to lose several hundred thousand more jobs a month well into next year.
- You can’t get there from here
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Kathleen Parker
Washington Post Writers Group
Updated: 11/16/08 4:23 AM
- Election Day has produced fresh fury from self-proclaimed “conservatives” promising never again to read me or fellow apostates who criticized the Republican ticket.
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