Yesterday in church, worship began with one of my favorite songs. We sang “This Is My Father’s World”. This song takes me back to the days when I camped at The Conference Grounds near Dunkirk, NY when I was growing up. Although I did not belong to the church that sponsored that camp, I ...

In the June 22 issue of The Post-Journal, an opinion writer posted an assault against the petroleum industry, accusing it of outrageous greed. He then parroted opinion polls (source not divulged) regarding fracking in Pennsylvania. Noticeably missing from this writer’s poll was a question ...

The newspapers have recently commented on the “disappointing” continued decline of Chautauqua County’s population. The 2023 estimate has us down to under 125,000 people. This decline follows a disastrous population drop from the 2010 Census of 135,000, to the 2020 Census of 128,000, a ...

June 20 was World Refugee Day. It is a day to remember children who were born in tent cities because their parents left home due to war or persecution. It is a day to remember those who have fled the Taliban or the drug cartels. Others run from the wars in Sudan and Syria and the Ukraine. It ...

One would think that with a $78 million reconstruction job going on with the only bridge that spans Chautauqua Lake, that there would be a lot of official communication going on relative to it. Yet, I have seen very little news lately about it. A local official did hear back from a DOT ...

CHAUTAUQUA—If Donald John Trump were as (fill in the blank) as some of his most ardent and most vocal critics say, one might think they’d have enough faith in the American people and be smart enough to let him self-destruct and thereby defeat himself. But they seem never to ...