The Buffalo News : Opinion

As the self-proclaimed “largest pro-hunting organization in the world,” the National Rifle Association has long claimed to represent America’s hunters and shooters in the fight to protect one of America’s oldest traditions. The NRA’s bylaws include an article setting a core goal “to promote and defend hunting . . . as a viable and necessary method of fostering the propagation, growth and conservation . . . of our renewable wildlife resources.”

As a lifelong Sabres fan living near Portland, Maine, the team’s new affiliation has significantly increased my excitement level for the upcoming season.

SCHIP is an acronym for the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and congressional Democrats are likely to vote in September to expand the program by $35 billion. To finance the increased spending, the Democrats would enact the largest tax increase on cigarettes and tobacco products in U. S. history.

The recent News article about the opening of a local chapter of SNAP — Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests — offers an occasion to correct a widespread misunderstanding of the nature of the sexual abuse crimes committed by some Catholic clergymen in our country.

Forty years ago this month, U. S. marshals invaded the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Buffalo where two men, Bruce Beyer and Bruce Cline, were living in “symbolic sanctuary” for their refusal to serve in the Vietnam War.

The people of Erie County have a choice for district attorney for the first time in 12 years and I want them to know my story.

I lived in Florence a month before I could unlock my own apartment door. It’s a complicated sequence of twists and jolts requiring a delicate blend of persuasion and compliance, patience and brute force. First, one lures the ancient bolts forward (counting complaints with each rotation) and then strikes them against their own bases with a satisfying clang. There is no fixed number of turns. Instead, the wood grants one sigh of defeat amid a mounting succession of metallic clicks.

Paul McCartney once said that he wanted his children to grow up in a home that had the familiar, comforting smell of ironing. When I was growing up, Tuesdays were ironing days for my mother.

My family experiences Olympic fervor every year, as we prepare to cheer on our own Olympian.