Community Care Day is step in right direction
Bee Editorial
      The Educators Totally Committed group organized the 21st annual Sleepout for the Needy event, raising awareness that area homelessness does exist. The group slept outside in boxes in freezing temperatures to experience the elements that some Buffalo and Western New York natives must bear nightly....
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Spindle items
JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      • SUPER-STITIOUS - The New York Giants outplayed the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Well, more credit goes to the Giants' defense. But with any sporting event, luck and superstition are often considered factors.
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Giuliani's withdrawal may impact state GOP's Senate majority
DAN MEYER Political Columnist
      As New Yorkers continue to recover this weekend from the aftermath of the ongoing celebration of the Giants' improbable ASuper Bowl victory over the New England Patriots and what took place at the polls on "Super Duper Tuesday,
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Spitzer's budget raises taxes, spends too much
JAMES P. HAYES New York State Assembly
      Gov. Eliot Spitzer recently released his 2008-09 budget, which proposes to spend a record amount of $125 billion, an increase of 5.1 percent over last year and almost twice the rate of inflation. The plan relies on $1.
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