The Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament is good to have in the city. So it’s good to see City Council members step up to help new tournament organizer Pat Smeraldo keep the tournament in the city for at least another year. But the tournament’s return comes at a cost - $20,000 in ...

Ever since Chautauqua County pulled back its $378,000 in federal ARPA money from the Strong Starts Chautauqua program, discussion has focused on the act itself. But it’s entirely possible the county is acting appropriately as a guardian of taxpayer dollars. We won’t know until more is ...

New York state spends $26,581 a year to educate a child in public school. If that gives you sticker shock, consider this: Jamestown Community College makes the state’s public school spending per pupil look like a yard sale bargain. Jamestown Community College officials keep citing its need ...

We have editorialized repeatedly — and will continue to editorialize, likely repeatedly — that our federal government needs to take spending deficits and the $33 trillion national debt seriously. A recently revealed failure by the Small Business Administration and the White House ...

The writing has been on the wall for the state’s Regents examinations for a couple of years now, so Monday’s release of 12 recommendations by the state’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Graduation Measures shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. But the commission didn’t answer a key ...

Most of us who drive around Jamestown, if the street is empty, have tried to slalom around sunken manhole covers in an attempt to save their car’s suspension systems from certain ruin. Drilling one of those metal covers, sunken to some 6 to 8 inches below the road’s surface after ...