CODE Inc. and STEL are hoping a new name and a few additional units are enough for the Blooming Garden Project to succeed where past north side affordable housing projects have failed. Non-profits have been trying to push affordable housing projects across the finish line for almost a decade. ...

Chautauqua County’s status as the focal point of opposition statewide against the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Regulations can overshadow good things happening on the lake. It shouldn’t. Quietly, the Chautauqua Lake Watershed and Management Alliance have taken steps that we think ...

A bill introduced recently in the state Assembly makes a lot of sense - one reason its chances of becoming law rank somewhere between slim and an ice storm happening in Hades. Assemblyman John McDonald recently introduced legislation (A.8524) that would postpone the implementation and ...

One reason the state budget was late was Gov. Kathy Hochul’s insistence on changes to the state’s involuntary commitment laws. While Hochul secured some of the changes she wanted, including some changes that could be beneficial in helping deal with some members of the city’s homeless ...

Here we are, in the midst of a three-day weekend that serves for many as the end of the school year and the beginning of summer. For some, it will be their first getaway of the season. For others, it will be the weekend on which they open their pool. For some, it will be the day on which ...

Until the midair collision that claimed 67 lives on Jan. 29 near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, followed soon thereafter by a number of other incidents involving planes, some of those incidents also resulting in fatalities, members of the flying public generally had exuded great ...