Take a lesson from the Williamsville School Board
Bee Editorial
      There is a huge difference between the Williamsville Board of Education and the Amherst Town Board meetings. It's like night and day - which is also how to describe the two groups relationship in the Amherst Utility Cooperative.
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Spindle items
JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      • THANKFUL - I know there are millions of reasons to be thankful this year, but I have a friend who has one big one: wind. My friend Jennie's apartment in San Diego was in the path of the recent wildfires.
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Spitzer's speech doesn't hold up to 'truth detector'
DAN MEYER Political Columnist
      Eliot Spitzer finally admitted that he was wrong. In a speech made last week in Washington, D.C., our governor finally conceded, agreeing to withdraw his plan to issue special driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
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Changes needed to stop deadly infections
MARY LOU RATH New York State Senator
      As evidenced by several local cases and a recently released study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, there is an alarming increase in hospital based methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections. That is why I sponsor legislation that would require surveillance ...
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