April 18, 2008 11:53 pm
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No Canal Fest because of birds! This person read the April Fools Day edition of the news, they commented on the “no Canal Fest because of birds” article. What about the small civil conflict over Tonawanda Island, if you buy into these stories. I thought a small Civil conflict would be more important than the Canal Fest.
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Coach Tilley leaves Tonawanda and Beckman comes in as head coach. Oh boy! If you thought the “double wing” was gone, think again! According to the paper he is going to run it. Can we please find someone who knows more than just that offense! This school needs coaches like we had when I went to Tonawanda. We won most of our games including TNT. It was the best. Get ready for another losing season!
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Mayor Soos apparently does not realize that, he too, will be up for re-election.
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I live in an apartment building in NT on Bryant Street and my landlord is an absentee landlord. They make a living in running apartments and have several buildings in NT. When is NT going to do something about the absentee landlords? We need more regulations where this is concerned, ask my neighbors on Christiana and Bryant streets. They can’t stand my landlord and I can’t either, my walls in my apartment are all cracked and bowing out, my kitchen has no heat and my windows haven’t been washed in years because you can’t open them to wash them.
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I have lived in NT for most of my life. I left for a year and then moved back. I would like to know why we do not put to good use the NT parks. We concentrate just on the canal system, while the other parks just sit there. We use to have the boat races, not any more. Why the park has nothing in it? There is the wonderful Pine Woods Park, why can we not use it for a flea market once or twice in the summer on a Saturday while the farmer’s market goes on down the street. Or pick a day out of the summer and celebrate NT day and use one of our parks. The only park that looks wonderful is the veterans park on river road and along the canal. Come on NT we have a lot of parks here why not put them to use other than just leaving them.
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There is considerable evidence that Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election by manipulating voting machines in several states, especially in the key state of Ohio, where more than half of all votes were cast electronically. It is well known how easily electronic votes can be hacked or dishonestly changed. A paper ballot poses a bigger challenge to vote cheats. Every electronic vote must have a paper backup and receipt, -or simply use paper -for the sake of protecting our fragile democracy!
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If we don’t have clean and fair elections we don’t have a democracy. If the people don’t believe this country has clean and fair elections, we don’t have a democracy. This is one of the most, maybe the most, important issues we need to fix right now. Please think of our country and do the right thing to bring back secure elections and faith in our democracy.
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The corporate media is now the bought and paid for tool of the top 1 percent who now decide who to put into power for their own purposes. Television debates have become a fictionalized TV sitcom with journalists resembling TV entertainers. In this scheme our democracy is becoming null and void. It is interesting to note that the two most honest candidates from both parties : Kucinich and Ron Paul, are the least represented by the media powers.
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It seems that our whole system of government has become fascist, in that corporate interests rule the roost. Democracy appears to have died over the last eight years. The current administration’s whole purpose for being in office has been to grab as much money as possible from the American economy for himself and his corporate friends.
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The people of this country need strong leaders who not only “talk the talk", but “walk the walk". Obviously, Harry Reid is not one of these leaders and, therefore, needs to give his authority to someone who is willing to go out on a limb for what is right.
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