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Tom Christy

TOM CHRISTY: It’s time to change the rules

We shouldn’t have to talk about having rules for how to best serve the public. ....more>>

  • TOM CHRISTY: The state Senate on trial
    Week after week, the state Senate returns to the headlines — and rarely in a small or insignificant way.
  • TOM CHRISTY: And now for the featured performance ...
    Election day ’09 is done. On every level it was another brutal, petty, personal and embarrassing year in local politics.
  • TOM CHRISTY: Words are windows into attitudes
    And just like that, it was over. Erie County Executive Chris Collins thought he should be governor of New York state. He forgot that the state contains a multitude of diversity, and that we are a proud people.
  • TOM CHRISTY: 'I live here because of the weather'
    A very good friend of mine has a saying, which I’ve made the headline of this column. Although he’s a born and bred Western New Yorker and makes his home here, he’s traveled the world by virtue of his employment and probably spent half his adult life away from here.
  • TOM CHRISTY: Life in the random lane
    There’s a book out now called “Everything is Miscellaneous,” written by David Weinberger. It’s a discussion about such interesting topics as alphabetization, filing systems and how mankind has come to order things in the world.
  • TOM CHRISTY: Washington, Eh … We have a problem
    We are witnessing firsthand what happens when politics becomes 100 percent, completely and unquestionably, corrupt. Most people who work in government positions are hardworking, honest and interested in serving their career with dignity or making suggestions for improving services. But politics — the game played by politicians desperate to hold onto power and paychecks — is a different story altogether.
  • TOM CHRISTY: Same names, same message
    It’s very difficult to stand alone and tell the emperor he has no clothes (much less tell your employer). The payment for doing your job carefully, for speaking the truth even in the face of tremendous pressure, is often persecution, ruination of your career and public humiliation of not only yourself but your family.
  •  TOM CHRISTY: A story about nothing
    Any fan of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld will remember Jerry and George and their desire to create a television pilot. What’s the show about: nothing. We’ll do a show about nothing! Sometimes life is exactly the same way.
  •  TOM CHRISTY: Update on political exporting
    Earlier this year, I wrote that our chief economic export is now our political culture. The past few months have provided disturbing evidence confirming this trend.
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