To The Reader’s Forum: I’m not the kind of person who usually writes opinion pieces, but I’ve had enough of the fear and noise coming from the left about Social Security and Medicare. I live here in Chautauqua County, and like a lot of folks around here, I’ve got family and friends ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Dear Rep. Langworthy, It is time you stood up to the President. Congress controls the purse strings, not the President. I’m all for finding waste fraud and abuse when it comes to government spending, but I would look first at the government contracts for military, ...
We’ve all seen what’s happened to home prices throughout the area over the past several years. Now, Busti residents are getting a look at what that housing market has done to their home values - and they’re not happy. Town residents spoke their minds for more than an hour at a Busti ...
Will We Ever Pay Up For Vietnam Vets? To The Reader’s Forum: April 30th will mark fifty years since the Vietnam War ended. It seems like that was yesterday, and I don’t know where the time goes. That war was one of the most horrible, unnecessary conflicts in American history, and ...
Panama Village Board members are discussing the best way to honor a boatload of Panama athletes who have won state championships over the past several years. It’s good to see that board members are pushing to bring on-again, off-again discussions to a close in the wake of the Panama boys ...
For more than a century Jamestown has required that its department heads live in the city. For decades the residency requirement wasn’t a problem. That has changed over the past 20 or so years, as it has gotten more and more difficult to find department head candidates who either already ...