Matters of Opinion

An economic trend in the weekend's Buffalo News editorials.

   Saturday's lead editorial, "Federal aid will help," hopes that whatever stimulus plan President Obama [get used to it] and Congress come up with should include a lot of aid to the states, so they can avoid both spending cuts and tax hikes.
- An article in the same day's newspaper includes a list of projects that any federal stimulus would likely go for in New York.
- The Waco Tribune: Two key questions revolve around the anticipated infrastructure stimulus package being debated across the land. The first is how much it will worsen our federal budget deficit. The second: How can city governments, states and industries get a piece of the pie?
- The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, W.Va. says don't forget the steel industry.
- The Daily Journal in Tupelo, Miss., wants highways.
- The San Jose Mercury News says don't forget mass transit.
   [Are we sensing a trend here?]
- In The Wall Street Journal, Sen. Judd Gregg still likes tax cuts.
- The New York Times still does not.
- The Hartford Courant hopes the remaining Republicans in Congress will vet any stimulus plan, but not obstruct it.

   Sunday's lead, "Blame for the fiscal mess," finds plenty of said commodity to go around, and cites this wonderful aphorism from Ashleigh Brilliant as a description of what went wrong: “I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.”
   Here's another Brilliant one for journalists/bloggers: "My sources are unreliable. But their information is fascinating."

-- George Pyle/Editorial Writer