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EDITORIAL: Interning: The opportunity of a lifetime

There’s something to be said about internships. It used to be that college students were encouraged to do at least a summer of interning to learn about the field they wanted to go into. After all, what use is a degree if you graduate and then decide the job you thought you wanted really isn’t for you?
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EDITORIAL: Pork disparity is petty politics
Pork isn’t the other white meat in New York if you’ve got a Democratic state senator or a Republican assemblyman. In fact, there isn’t much to chew on at all if that’s the case.
EDITORIAL: Gas tax 'holiday' an election-year ploy
EDITORIAL: Thruway Authority out of control
Despite opposition from many elected officials, the Thruway Authority’s board of directors recently approved a series of toll hikes that managers say will bring in an additional $125 million annually.
EDITORIAL: Wait your turn to speak
There are meetings we go to regularly, and frequently the only ones in the gallery are us. Medina is the exception to what appears to be the rule in many cases around Orleans County.
EDITORIAL: Fiscal sanity in New York
Stop the presses. It looks like somebody in Albany actually gets it.
EDITORIAL: Food costs require solution
Add this to the list of things that costs more today than it did yesterday: A dozen eggs.
EDITORIAL: State budget: dumb idea
Stupid.
There are a lot of words that could describe the 2008-09 state budget passed in Albany last week. How about irresponsible, illogical, unsound, unsustainable and late? But the first word that comes to mind is just plain stupid.
EDITORIAL: Airport screening still needed
According to an Associated Press report this week, Homeland Security officials have reported no would-be suicide bombers have been discovered in four years.
OUR VIEW: Sabres must pay to play
The Sabres will miss the playoffs this season, which for most is a huge surprise, considering two years of back-to-back Eastern Conference final appearances.

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• BILLS: Schobel nursing sore foot, misses practice
• BILLS PODCAST: Tim and Jay rehash a painful day in the desert
• BILLS PODCAST: Sloppy, but still a win over St. Louis
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• LIFESTYLE: Spooktacular time in Niagara County
• BOOK REVIEW: Author examines haunted Niagara in ‘Spirits and Death’
• DADDY'S GIRL: What's in a name? A lot for this sad daddy
• WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: Bills among NFL’s bargains
• LIFESTYLE: Frank Warren posts the world's secrets

• MUSIC: Okkervil River flows into Buffalo
• THEATER: Hit musical ‘Legally Blonde’ makes stop at Shea’s
• THEATER: 'Dark Intent' at the Ghostlight
• COLUMN: The false promises of Hill Valley
• ART: Castellani experiences a ‘Metamorphosis’

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