Was funny last week. We posted Staba's story about the AquaFalls sale on our Web site before noon on Monday, Dec. 13, and the Buffalo News and Niagara Gazette both led with it in their Tuesday editions.

A strange coincidence, don't you think?

It is a sad state of affairs when major metropolitan daily newspapers get scooped, regularly, by an upstart weekly that goes to press two days before it hits the streets. It happens here all the time, though, and methinks people are beginning to notice.

So here's a little present for our highly paid friends at the News and the Gazette. Just do your jobs, OK? ....