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Wednesday, February 13,2013
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Top Gun

Obama already commands the largest military on earth, so his skeet shooting photo op seems redundant

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Just when you think politics couldn’t get any sillier, it does just that. A few weeks back, in an offhand comment during an interview with The New Republic, President Obama mentioned that h
Wednesday, February 6,2013
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Constant Comments

Many city residents avoid Syracuse.com because of the racist diatribes posted at the end of articles

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Khalid Bey is worried about the shrinking profile of the Syracuse newspapers, which he thinks will result in much less information getting to his community. Bey, the 4th District common councilo
Wednesday, January 30,2013
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Speech Therapy

By mentioning Stonewall in his inaugural address, Barack Obama elevated LGBT rights and brought hope to the marginalized

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Four years ago Vince Sgambati, a retired teacher with the Syracuse City School District, went with his family to Sparky Town, a delightful and LGBT-friendly Burnet Avenue eatery, to watch Barack O
Wednesday, January 16,2013
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Biden’s Big Deal

The veep should take the NRA’s offer of an armed guard at every school in exchange for tighter gun control

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Syracuse University Law School’s most prominent alum, Vice President Joe Biden, is about the only politician to have emerged from the silliness generally referred to...
Wednesday, December 26,2012
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Chambers of Horror

Chambers of Horror

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Gun control legislation will not put an end to gun violence. The flu shot will not protect me from a heart attack. But I got a flu shot anyway. I know full well that I may still die from a heart
Wednesday, December 19,2012
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End Game

Nothing will matter after the Dec. 21 apocalypse turns the world into zombieland

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
This is the last column of mine that you will ever read in the Syracuse New Times. (Please hold your applause.) This is, we are sad to say, the last edition of the Syracuse New Times. It’s not
Wednesday, December 12,2012
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Unfinished Business

It’s still not clear why Syracuse University didn’t suspend Bernie Fine in 2005, when allegations against him were first raised

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
It was time for a road trip. Fireworks stores. The enormous cross hinting that the savior is Paul Bunyan. It was worth every minute of the 16-hour car ride to Missouri just to watch that last-minut
Wednesday, December 5,2012
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The XXX Files

Local media’s hang-up with sex surfaces in reportage concerning District Attorney Mark Suben’s long-ago porn career

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
We will see how long it is possible to go without making a pun while speaking of the trials and tribulations of one Mark Suben, the recently re-elected district attorney for Cortland County. Aft
Wednesday, December 5,2012
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Boogie Nightmare

By Bill DeLapp
Somewhere between Clarence Darrow and Dirk Diggler rests the conundrum known as Mark Suben, Cortland County’s recently re-elected district attorney, and now outed by the media for his secre
Wednesday, November 28,2012
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Come Together

Help is on the way this Sunday during Syracuse Sandy Relief Day

By Ed Griffin-Nolan
Sometimes the people of this town just blow you away. Maybe that’s not the best phrase to use when talking hurricane, but even hurricane isn’t the right phrase to use when talking about
 
 
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