Editorials

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OPINION

Due to incompetence of city officials, frozen water pipes wreck havoc for unlucky Niagara Falls residents

By Editorial Board | Mar. 1, 2015

Even though access to water is as basic a need as food and shelter, its importance in everyday life can be easily overlooked – until it’s gone. For residents of Niagara Falls, this lesson has been learned all too much due to the extreme cold and questionable management by Niagara Falls city officials and the Niagara Falls Water Board.

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OPINION

Move to delay sentencing in Molly’s Pub case leaves defense’s motives up for debate

By Editorial Board | Feb. 26, 2015

It’s been almost a year since Jeffrey Basil pushed William Sager down a flight of stairs in Molly’s Pub, causing Sager to suffer a traumatic brain injury and die several months later.

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OPINION

Pharmaceutical company's greed is easily apparent as it pushes to medicate binge-eating disorder

By Editorial Board | Feb. 26, 2015

Binge eating disorder has attracted the attention of the vulture known as Shire – a pharmaceutical company with a dangerously savvy marketing strategy.

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OPINION

The right to an HPV-free life

By Editorial Board | Feb. 24, 2015

Teenagers in Erie County and across the United States have access to one of few vaccinations that can protect them against cancer. But in Buffalo, only around 30 percent of girls ages 13 to 17 have received the shot that can protect them from the human papillomavirus (HPV).

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News

UB students are playing a game of torrents

Feb. 24, 2015

The vast majority of students who torrent are not caught, and for those who are, the punishment is laughable – students are enrolled in an online class about copyright law. The course on UBlearns takes about 20 minutes to complete.