It’s good to see county officials proposing something, anything, to address the continued population loss in Chautauqua County. Like a dripping faucet that never gets fixed, Chautauqua County’s population has dropped 11.3% over the past three decades. At the same time, the United ...
Republicans’ decision not to challenge redistricting maps passed last week and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling. It says the state’s GOP realizes that the maps they will use in the November congressional election could have been a lot worse. Democrats made minor changes in ...
We noted over the weekend the planning that was done over the past 10 to 15 years - and the lack of follow-up from some of those plans. It’s something we hope isn’t repeated as the city works on its next comprehensive plan. And we think the Strategic Planning and Partnerships Commission ...
Our federal government — particularly the White House — continues to fail to take the consequences of deficit spending seriously. President Biden’s approach to economic policy is, in the words of Peter Suderman of Reason magazine, “a philosophy of throwing money at programs, people, ...
It was a pleasant surprise to see family farms holding steady in Chautauqua County. That certainly wasn’t expected when the state’s performance in the Census of Agriculture was released. The census is done every five years, and the 2022 census released recently showed a loss of more than ...
County legislators will meet tonight in Mayville to discuss, amongst other things on the agenda, pay raises for the county executive, county clerk, sheriff and legislators. We’ve made a lot of arguments against these pay raises over the past couple of months. The other counties upon which ...