Bee Editorial
Outside funding sources may be libraries' answer
      The problem of finding funding for Erie County libraries is not going away anytime soon. Amherst has been fortunate to not see the closure of any of its four libraries - unlike neighboring Cheektowaga, which lost two of its four libraries last year.
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NOT TODAY
JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      - I can get over the fact that I won't have flowers on my desk today, and I don't mind that my dinner won't be at some candlelit, fancy restaurant. Even though couples and love are in my face all day I can deal with it, thanks in part to the co-author of this column. We single girls stick togeth...
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OH GREAT, IT'S FEB. 14
JILL SCHMELZER Amherst Reporter
      Valentine's Day is a day to express how much you love someone. It's a day to celebrate cupid's arrow and every couple that he has brought together. Well, what about the people that haven't been bitten by the love bug? Normally, it doesn't bother me that I am a part of the singles club. To me, be...
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago Feb. 16, 1882 Yesterday afternoon, as Mr. John Hoffman was driving up Washington Street in Buffalo with a load of stoves, on his way home, the board on which he was sitting slipped, and he was thrown violently to the pavement, badly bruising his right shoulder and head. Upon inqui...
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Pick for state comptroller sets off fireworks in Albany
BRIAN ACKLEY Political Columnist
      If there was any doubt about Eliot Spitzer's approach to being governor, it was erased last week in the wake of a capitol meltdown of historic proportion. Erie County has King Joel. New York State has King Eliot. The parallels between the two are already striking, if not a bit unnerving.
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School buildings serve community as well
PAUL WIETIG Deputy Superintendent Amherst Central
      The recent Amherst Bee editorial "Aged buildings in need of upgrades" established an excellent framework for support of the Capital Construction project at Amherst Central.
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New governor has seen the light
JOEL GIAMBRA Erie County Executive
      The 2007 New York State budget, crafted by newly elected Gov. Eliot Spitzer, seems to indicate that the era of downloading expense to the counties is over. I felt like a kid in a candy store with a fist full of fifties when I first saw the budget and the proposed property tax cut.
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