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Hi, everyone: At today's meeting we decided one of us will spend more than the usual research time looking at other states' deficits and how they're addressing that issue -- California, yesterday, announced a $21 billion deficit for next year, and it hasn't closed this year's gap yet. We'll also look at Brian Davis' resignation, and the state's new public authorities laws. No edboard meeting tomorrow -- too few of us on hand. -mike vogel

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Good morning -- Today, we met briefly just to follow up on more extensive talks yesterday afternoon. Here are the topics we settled on this morning: the state's new DWI law, the trial of the terrorists in NYC and proposed changes in local IDA policies. Hope everyone has a great day. - mike vogel

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Today's editorial is one among several published by newspapers across upstate New York today, on the inaction by the State Legislature as it supposedly confronts a ballooning deficit. We see the citizen push to stop the mandatory purchase of new license plates as a message to lawmakers that fees and taxes aren't acceptable as solutions -- and, once again, call on lawmakers to get serious about spending cuts. Upstate Focus asks newspapers to reach their own conclusions independently, but then to publish an editorial on an agreed-upon topic on a specific day. Here's what the project's newspapers are saying today:...

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Good morning, everyone. Took a long weekend. Hope y'all managed without me. ;) At today's edboard meeting, we decided to look at the license plate issue, the Legislature's dithering in Albany while deficit growth remains unchecked, at Sen. Schumer's attention to Niagara Falls issues and at plans to boost teacher preparedness. We're also talking to other newspapers across the state, just to monitor what they'redoing/saying about Albany. -mike vogel

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Two editorials today about home and hearth. Or household and kitchen. - Approve gay marriage The Senate should approve the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York. The Assembly already has passed it. Gov. David A. Paterson is primed to sign it. Justice demands it. And no single person in the state of New York will, despite what many fervently believe, be any the worse for it.... The government's proper role in marriage is to register and, if necessary, enforce the contract entered into by two self-aware adults. If the couple lives happily ever after, the state's role is...

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Over here in the Will Opine For Food corner, the cliche is that editorial writers know how to do two things: Point with pride and view with alarm. We usually say it in that order, I think, because the starting with the alliterative part makes better poetry. But there's usually a lot more alarm than pride. Like today: - Lawmakers dodge a solution They came, they saw, they ran for cover. State lawmakers did absolutely nothing — not a blessed thing — about a pending catastrophe in state finances when they gathered in Albany on Tuesday. Never in the field...

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Good morning: Today we've got some tweaking to do on editorials in the ready queue. We'll be updating our Afghanistan policy and Olmsted parks editorials based on some developments there, and adding an editorial on the city's non-Olmsted parks to the mix. We'll also be looking at what the Senate needs to do on health care, and working away at a Thanksgiving editorial. -mike vogel

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Veterans Day is one of those holidays that can sneak up on newspaper editors. All of the sudden, right after we've swept up the dust from Election Day, it is time to write the feature stories and the editorials that honor the veterans of America's wars, those who live hereabouts and all their brethren around the world. Most of the time, we come through, thus: - Veterans Day brings moments of reflection - Page One/The Buffalo News - Uncertainty on Veterans Day - Lead Editorial/The Buffalo News This year, of course, it would be hard for any newspaper to ignore...

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Hi, everyone, and happy Veterans Day to all of you who served. And thanks. At today's editorial board meeting, we decided to take a look at what state legislators did in their brief visit to Albany (we're already looking at what they didn't do, although we decided to expand a bit on that, too). We'll also look at re-treeing progress here, and at the upcoming Neediest Fund holiday campaign. Mike Vogel/ U.S. Army, 1971-73

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Read today's Buffalo News Opinion page, and you'll see why it is hard to grow up in today's world. We want young people to understand that, sometimes, they have to concentrate on what they are doing. - Flag high-risk drivers The simple fact is that not all teenagers are equally mature. Not all can be trusted with the privilege of handling a ton of glass and metal on public roadways. And when one of those teenagers flags himself as unsuited for a license through multiple and frequent violations of traffic laws ... the state needs to be able to act....

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