http://auburnpub.com/ The latest news from the auburnpub.com website! Newsys Template Engine Opinion http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 newsys--2143395286 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/our_view.txt HIT: To the Family Fun Day held Sunday afternoon at Cayuga Community College. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:59:01 -0500 newsys--2143395285 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/artists_view.txt Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:58:59 -0500 newsys--2146521243 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/brad_molloy.txt “The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.” Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:54:01 -0500 newsys--2143846378 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/carole_estabrook.txt The controversial Empire Zone program is scheduled to expire in June. But 93 state businesses, including four businesses in Cayuga County, were cut from the program this week without hope for appeal. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:21:16 -0500 newsys-2139563615 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/jeremy_boyer.txt The letters section of the opinion page has always been one of our most popular daily features, as it is with many newspapers. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:06:01 -0500 newsys-2144558068 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/guy_cosentino.txt Current U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in an untenable position as he heads into his re-election bid this November. As the head of the Senate Democrats, he is a national party leader who has to carry water not only for the other 58 Democratic members of the Senate, but also the White House. Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:35:32 -0500 newsys--2147083573 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/amy_goodman.txt Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People's History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People's History' is to go beyond what people have learned in school ... history through the eyes of the presidents and the generals in the battles fought in the Civil War, (to) the voices of ordinary people, of rebels, of dissidents, of women, of black people, of Asian-Americans, of immigrants, of socialists and anarchists and troublemakers of all kinds.” Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:57:06 -0500 newsys-2145819545 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/kathryn_lopez.txt Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the region, is Christianity history in the West? In a speech at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., the visiting archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, warned that “trends questioning the Christian foundation of Europe, and aggressively opposing it, are becoming stronger in several countries and in the European political arena in general. ”Christianity is for many a foreign element in a world determined by reason, enlightenment and democratic principles,“ he asserted. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:57:16 -0500 newsys-2142190605 http://auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/opinion/two_cents.txt Auburn and Cayuga County wouldn't need a special park for the dogs if the dog's owners weren't so lazy to bend over and the sidewalks wouldn't be in bad shape. The dog owners need to pick up after their own animals. Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:42:38 -0500