It's fantastic that upstate New York has produced the two finest young singing talents in the country in recent years, in Elbridge's Joanna Brehaut, who sounds like a combination of Patsy Kline and Judy Garland, and Denny Sedor's daughter Alicia, here in Auburn, who they say is a deadringer for Nora Jones.

It's pretty obvious that only the left-wing extremists of the area - Lacey, Cosentino, Backus and Stearns - are calling for the demise and silence of the Two Cent column. We conservatives love the Two Cent column and think everybody should be elated that Joe Six-Pack now has a soap box just like the libs.

There is a lot more crime in the city and I feel a lot is coming from the prison. They get out, stay there and bring their partners in crime to sell and buy drugs.

People that live in the historical district ought to sue so they won't be denied something everybody else in the city gets.

When the Democrats speak of a candidate with experience, They get a little mixed up with that word. By experience they mean another double dipper.

A message to Auburn leaders, you're a little upside down guys. It's not sidewalks, we need the streets paved like East Genesee Street, please.