Editorials

Editorials

• OUR VIEW: Time for Mongielo to face the music

  Town of Lockport auto  repair shop owner David Mongielo has gone over the line in his violation of a town sign ordinance.

  January 2, 2012

• OUR VIEW: At dawn of New Year, a call for civility

  Each new year brings with it an inherent hopefulness in our own lives and the larger world around us, this one in particular — if only because it isn’t 2011.

  January 2, 2012

• Have a safe New Year's Eve

  This isn’t the Prohibition era, and we’re not into moralizing about alcohol consumption.
  We have no beef about adults having a few drinks on New Year’s Eve, as long as no one else gets hurt in the process. Your choice — hangover, no hangover. Check yes or no.
  But, with one very important proviso: Don’t drink and drive.
  And we’re very much against hosts of a New Year’s Eve party sending their guests out to their cars when their guests have overindulged. Especially when there are safe options to avoid behavior that risks your life and that of others you may encounter on the road.

  December 31, 2011

• The bus stops here

  The NFTA’s proposed cuts to local bus routes have the potential to really hurt the little guy, the rider who relies on the bus to get to work, to shop, to get to the doctor’s.
  It just shouldn’t happen.

  December 28, 2011

• OUR VIEW: Lockport taxpayers lose again

  We find it highly inappropriate that the City of Lockport — via its development corporation — is again punishing taxpayers for renovations to 57 Canal St.

  April 26, 2011

• CHEERS & JEERS

  We applaud Lockport Town Court and Judge Leonard G. Tilney Jr. for recusing themselves from the driving-while-intoxicated case against local attorney Daniel E. Seaman due to conflict of interest.

  April 26, 2011

• OUR VIEW: Recharge N.Y. is a plus for us

  We’re encouraged that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s visit to Niagara County this week brings a new and improved version of the Power For Jobs program to our area.

  April 21, 2011

• CHEERS & JEERS: The US&J’s view on the best and worst of the week

  April 21, 2011

• OUR VIEW: Cleanup is up the creek

  New York state had an Eighteenmile Creek cleanup within its grasp — and now it’s trying to change horses in mid-stream. And that could leave the cleanup effort up the creek without a paddle.

  April 21, 2011

• CHEERS & JEERS: The US&J’s view on the best and worst of the week

  April 21, 2011

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