Bee Editorial
Cell phones - convenient, but sometimes rude
      Envision it. You're sitting at a fancy restaurant, engaging in a pleasant conversation with a friend. At the next table, a person's cell phone rings, and he or she answers it. That person then engages in a loud, personal conversation. Instead of excusing himself or herself, the individual airs hi...
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Spindle items
JILL SCHMELZER Amherst Reporter
      • MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION - The Community Plan Committee is moving in the right direction by honing in on tasks and getting on with the process. However, the members still have trouble with bickering and reiterating what the previous person said.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago Dec. 8, 1881 Why wouldn't it be a good idea to erect sign posts bearing the name of our streets? Williamsville is such an intricate place that one of these days, someone is going to get lost.
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Prosperity evident elsewhere not likely in Erie County
BRIAN ACKLEY Political Columnist
      On the same day Erie County passed another taxpayer-stifling budget, I was looking out the window of a Delta MD-80, surveying the impressive and populated landscape of Atlanta.
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'Clean' power plant upgrade at Huntley would boost economy
JAMES P. HAYES New York State Assembly
      Sometime later this month, Gov. George E. Pataki and the New York Power Authority will announce the successful bidder in an initiative designed to build one or more clean coal power plants in New York State.
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