Better air. Better airlines.
Click here to see the offerings of today's Buffalo News Opinion pages. They include:
- Action on climate change
This time, we’re all going to the moon.
The climate change bill that narrowly passed the House of Representatives Friday recalls nothing so much as President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 call for the United States to send a man to the moon within a decade. [Video.]
There are differences, of course. While Kennedy’s challenge was mostly about inspiration and politics, the task before us now is about planetary survival. And, instead of watching intently on TV, we are all going to take part in the bold venture, soaring to success or crashing to failure.
Related comments from The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, The Lufkin (Texas) Daily News, The Houston Chronicle, The New York Times, Thomas Friedman, Andrew Sullivan and The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Toughen airline rules
The Federal Aviation Administration’s quick action to revamp rules for airlines may offer small comfort to the families of Flight 3407 victims and can never return those 50 persons to their loved ones and friends, but it shows that the agency has learned a valuable if costly lesson.
Related comments from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Greenville (N.C.) News, the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times and this really sobering post from The New York Times Freakonomics blog:
Isn’t it great to know that you have the newest, least-experienced, exhausted, starving young cockpit crew that this regional airline could find? Good for you!
- Universal health care is a blessing, not a curse
Williamsville's Brian Pawley explains what Americans are missing by not having the kind of universal health care he took for granted living the United Kingdom.
- State will take steps to ensure group home safety
Gladys Carrion, commissioner of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, promises improvements in the wake of the death of a young woman who worked at a group home in Lockport.
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
