Sunday Viewpoints
- Neighborhood Dining: It's time to eat locally
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By George Pyle
- News Editorial Writer
Updated: 08/09/08 4:34 PM
- So what do we feel like for dinner tonight? Italian? Chinese? Mexican? Maybe French? How about eating Buffalo? No, not buffalo, as in the North American bison, once a symbol of the American West, free-range relative to the cow. But Buffalo, as in the second-largest city in New York.
- Seeing the face of the farmer
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By George Pyle
- News Editorial Writer
Updated: 08/09/08 6:02 PM
- A greater number of the farms that operate in a low-intensity manner — whether that means they go easy on the pesticides or have gone all the way to be certified as a fully organic operation — are having both financial and emotional success dealing directly with devoted customers, and not just by packing up and driving to area farmers markets.
- Past and Present: Broadway Market and Lexington Co-Op
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By George Pyle
- News Editorial Writer
Updated: 08/09/08 5:17 PM
- Call it a tale of two markets. One in the best of neighborhoods, one in, well, a part of town that is not exactly thriving.
- Whatever happened to the REAGAN DEMOCRATS?
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By Patrick Reddy
- SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Updated: 08/03/08 8:44 AM
- In the fall 1980, Time Magazine noted that Ronald Reagan’s chances depended on his ability to break the Democratic Party’s hold on the blue-collar vote, as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had done before him. As it turned out, President Reagan ran almost even in white working neighborhoods in the Frost Belt and well ahead among their counterparts in the South and the West. Thus was born the concept of “Reagan Democrats,” white workers who may have registered as Democrats but voted Republican for president.
- A quiz, for those who would be copy editors
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Updated: 08/03/08 8:44 AM
- If all you latent copy editors will gather ’round, the quiz will begin. The first question deals with punctuation in possessive constructions. Don’t go away! These sentences plop upon your desk:
- Critics say laptop searches at border cross the line
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By Janet I. Tu
- THE SEATTLE TIMES
Updated: 08/03/08 8:44 AM
- SEATTLE — Jawad Khaki, a corporate executive from Sammamish, Wash., was returning home from a business trip to Ireland and Germany last year when a customs agent at the airport asked him to turn on his cell phone.
- Jerry Sullivan will provide perspective from Beijing
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Margaret Sullivan
Updated: 08/03/08 8:44 AM
- Thinking back over the highlights of the five Olympic Games he has covered for The Buffalo News, Jerry Sullivan comes up with two moments he can never forget.
- The case for abstinence
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By Fletcher Doyle / NEWS STAFF
Updated: 03/31/08 9:36 AM
- When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in December that the teen birth rate in 2006 had increased by 3 percent over 2005, reversing a 15-year trend in which it had decreased, the finger-pointing began. And in many media outlets, the fingers were pointed squarely at abstinence education.
