Readers share thoughts on health care series
Paul Dailing: In this week's Beacon-News series on health care, "How do you feel?", local people involved in the health care debate shared their stories. And readers shared back.

Does performance pay belong in the classroom?
One of the ideas being promoted by the Obama administration is performance pay for teachers. This seems to make sense. In most industries a worker's salary and/or bonus is tied to his or her own and the company's performance, rather than a combination of the worker's number of years of experience and education that disregards individual performance.

Eat, drink and be wary
Steve Lord: As you drive into Geneva along Route 31, nearing the signal at Third Street, you cannot miss the Atwater House. The white, wood mansion with the huge wrap-around porch on top of a hill at 814 Batavia Ave. has overlooked Route 31 for 140 years, since John B. Atwater, an actor of some note, built it.

Other economic forces spelled doom for Fisher Farms
Steve Lord: We all know times are tough, but sometimes the economy can turn on you, even when times are good. Nobody knows this better than the developers of the Fisher Farms subdivision on Geneva's far west side. They have seen their dreams of a sort of mini-downtown retail center in a commercial area in Fisher Farms dashed.

Balancing Facebook with face-to-face
Judy Buchenot: On my birthday, I opened up my e-mails at 6:30 a.m. to start my day and was pleasantly surprised by three messages wishing me "Happy Birthday." I began to open them and realized they were from my mortgage company, my bank and a business.

Man thankful for roadside Good Samaritans
We suburban road warriors know there are plenty of crazies on the highway -- tailgaters, texters, speed demons and finger flippers, to name a few -- but Mariano Spizzirri reminds us that there are still plenty of good people behind the wheel as well.