It’s high time for a definitive resolution on the renovation of Blodgett School 

When you’re a kid all you really want to know is that the grownups have things under control so that you can go about the business of being a kid. So it’s probably a good thing that most kids don’t pay attention to what the grownups have to say about the future of our economy, both here and nationally. Because if they listened, it would sound like Mommy and Daddy are fighting, and we don’t know what’s going to happen.

And this time it forced Tom Daschle out of a Cabinet seat

We’ll never know if Tom Daschle would have led us where Hillary Clinton could not—to universal health care. Daschle, the former leader of Democrats in the Senate and Barack Obama’s first choice to be secretary of health and human services, was a smart and able legislator, who had one problem: He spent too much time in a limousine to remember how regular people live.

Our Girls Gone Wild trump your 70 virgins in paradise any day.

Ed Griffin-Nolan

After missing out on the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles

quarterback Donovan McNabb will always bleed Orange

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

When the Philadelphia Eagles came up against the New York Giants in the second round of the National Football League playoffs, it was a tough call for a lot of folks in Syracuse. Do we root for the New York team, or for the Eagles led by the greatest football player to wear the Orange in a generation: Donovan McNabb. Except for diehards who believe that the Buffalo Bills are actually the only professional football team to play in New York state (technically, they are correct), there is a certain loyalty to the Giants that comes with being an overtaxed resident of the Empire State.

Declare war on America’s love affair with guns

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

I'm here to start the next Culture War. The 1980s and 1990s versions of the culture wars, targeting single moms and gay folk, have ground to a halt, their advance across the cable spectrum blunted by the unforgiving beachhead of reality.

A stable gas price is the road to green transportation By Ed Griffin-NolanI  was getting $20 worth of regular at the Pompey Mall the other day, and it seemed to be taking a long time. For those of you not familiar, the Pompey Mall is a landmark on Route 20, at the top of the hill between LaFayette and Cazenovia. It’s a local joke to call the gas station “the mall”: It’s really just a convenience store where you can get a pretty good cup of coffee, a lottery ticket and some chewing tobacco along with your gas. It’s a picturesque place to put a gas station, but it’s windy up there, and my hands were getting colder by the minute.

Chicago leads New York, but not by much

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

It’s been a tough time for the sweatpants industry. First you had New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress shoot himself in the leg with a pistol that got stuck in the pocket of his sweats. All of us can understand. After all, how many times have you been out there in the parking lot at P&C, a bag of groceries in one hand, and you’re fumbling around in your pocket for your car keys, and your gun goes off? It happens.

Just say no to the latest in DNA sampling:

determining if your child is the next Michael Phelps

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

I have an idea for a lovely gift that every parent can give every child this year for the holidays. It costs nothing. You don’t have to shop for it. You don’t have to pick it out. There’s no letter to Santa, no overnight rush shipping, no wondering if it is the right size. You don’t even have to wrap it.

A recent jaunt to Jersey

reaffirms the pleasures of Salt City living

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

People have different ideas about what it will take to spark the revival of Syracuse and Central New York. There are those who hold to the theory that the Destiny USA megamall remains our best hope for salvation. Judging by a recent headline in our daily paper, I’d say they’ve got to tighten up their PR strategy. 

Inspired hatred prompted one of the

city’s latest murders

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

Within 11 days of overwhelmingly supporting the election of an African-American as president of the United States, Syracuse was home to a violent attack against an innocent woman whose apparent killer was offended to learn that she had started out life as a man.