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Opinion

Safety, Like Beauty, Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

In Our Opinion

Is Jamestown a safe place to live? It’s a question that pops up periodically in the city depending on what pops up in the police reports in a given month or which stage of union negotiations we happen to be in at any given time. Safety is a topic now after the union representing ...

When It Comes To Trump, Follow The Money

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: I just read this headline in a periodical I subscribe to that pretty much sums up the current administration: US President does infomercial at White House for company owned by his biggest political donor That donor, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla which Trump just did ...

Buffalo Grill History Should Be Preserved

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: The Buffalo Grill sits abandoned and condemned on the corner of Buffalo and East Second Streets. Close on the Buffalo Street side is one of Jamestown’s historical markers. The Buffalo Grill was built in 1826 by Darius and John Dexter as a stage coach stop on ...

When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Local Commentaries

This is an old saying which essentially means that things which are foreseeable and need to be fixed but are not...will, sooner or later, eventually need to be dealt with. In Chautauqua County, right now, two municipalities seem to be in the forefront as to this situation—Dunkirk and ...

The Need Of Natural Gas Is Matter Of Life And Death

Local Commentaries

Energy experts, engineers and grid operators should be setting our energy policy not politicians. Politicians are often responding to undue pressure from various stakeholders; self-serving industry groups and environmental organizations. Please note our current energy mandates /policies to ...