Bee Editorial
Keep campaigns separate from current duties
      Can elected officials separate their current duties from campaigning for another office? Many elected officials have put themselves in that position when seeking office at another level. In this past election, Cheektowaga Supervisor Dennis H. Gabryszak ran a successful campaign for State Assembly ...
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JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      • IT WASN’T MY MILLER TIME — I swore I would never be the type of person who sits in line for days — or even hours — for a movie, video game or concert tickets. Which I have stuck to. But I also said I would never be the person who became star-struck when meeting a celebrity or professional ...
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by BETH HUTCHINSON Copy Editor
       WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN? — This week’s letter to the editor on the naming of streets brought a smile to my face as, I have experienced a similar situation. According to the writer, a Keph Drive resident, the street’s name is a problem because it has to be spelled out for people whenever it is menti...
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago Jan. 5, 1882 There is a great difference between the French and Virginia duels. The French drink coffee after shots and the Virginians, whiskey. D.F. Riegle of Clarence Centre advertises for sale the Wilson oscillating shuttle sewing machine.
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Senate Majority Leader Bruno surrounded by controversy
BRIAN ACKLEY Political Columnist
      Should New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno be welcoming 2007 by drawing up a list of New Year’s resolutions, he might want to make sure at the top of the page is no more dropping holiday bombshells without the expressed written consent of Republicans everywhere.
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New governor, new legislative session in Albany
JAMES P. HAYES New York State Assembly
      The traditional start of the new legislative session begins today at noon when Gov. Eliot Spitzer will deliver his first State of the State message to a joint session of the Assembly and Senate at the capitol in Albany.
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