http://www.tonawanda-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:38:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_137004023.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_137004023.html When I was a kid, much of my time not spent being chased by dinosaurs was taken up with frolicking in Buffalo’s Delaware Park, a 350 acre haven of recreation and inspiration that included four baseball diamonds, three in plain sight on the Ring Road near the zoo, and Number Four, referred to as “Hidden Diamond”. Wed, 14 May 2008 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_135230400.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_135230400.html I am going to be 37 this summer. There, I said it. Wed, 14 May 2008 01:15:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_135011626.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_135011626.html Honey, there’s an armed man outside arguing with the police — and he won’t give himself up! Quick, grab the kids!” Tue, 13 May 2008 01:08:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_134010914.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_134010914.html Sun, 11 May 2008 00:34:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_132003504.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_132003504.html As long as there are politicians, there will be an industry employed to tell everyone else about the dumb, and occasionally criminal things they do. Sun, 11 May 2008 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_132003157.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_132003157.html Fri, 09 May 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_130230101.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_130230101.html What a weekend this is. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_130003253.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_130003253.html As songwriter Paul Simon once phrased it, everything sooner or later falls apart. Wed, 07 May 2008 22:09:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_128220941.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_128220941.html Wed, 07 May 2008 02:04:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_128020515.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_128020515.html How much is your house really worth? Tue, 06 May 2008 12:03:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_127013221.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_127013221.html When I tell people I live in Gasport many of them respond with a resounding, “that’s God’s Country!” Mon, 05 May 2008 10:57:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125005307.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125005307.html I was invited to the North Tonawanda Waterfront Commission this week to offer my opinion and explain the paper’s stance on several issues relevant to their ongoing work. It was a productive hour and it was nice to hear people who, to the best of my knowledge come with no ulterior motives, but want to affect positive change. Sun, 04 May 2008 00:50:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125005113.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125005113.html On Gov. Paterson’s lengthy list of business left over from the Spitzer administration is an important issue concerning the State Police.No, it’s not the broad Troopergate mess, at present being examined in fine detail by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. It’s a smaller — yet no less important — matter. Sun, 04 May 2008 00:40:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125004031.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_125004031.html At first, I thought it was ridiculous when the common tern was blamed for almost canceling fireworks for Canal Fest. Fri, 02 May 2008 00:47:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_123004913.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/columns/local_story_123004913.html Browse through any newspaper or news magazine and it won’t be long before you find a political cartoon with some sort of reference to competition and mutual self-destruction — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in locked-together racing cars headed for the wall; Clinton and Obama flattening a donkey as they jump on its back; the two of them as Olympic swimmers elbowing each other while speeding down the lanes.