I know many residents like me are fellow business owners in Jamestown and we are all in agreement that the state of public safety in our city is bad. If you were to canvass or survey the businesses in the city, I am confident that the number one issue would be crime. Crime comes in many forms. ...
Relative to the pending revote to purchase two electric buses and update the Bemus Bus Garage to enable its use for the same, I would offer the following. I believe that electric vehicles, including buses, could be one of the options for transporting students, but not a mandated option. What ...
Representative Langworthy manipulates the truth to lie to his constituents. In his weekly newsletter, Langworthy points out that the recently passed House budget resolution, “simply establishes a budgetary framework while instructing several House committees to find savings and make ...
The story of Republican tax policy in the Trump era is the contest between pro-growth ideas and anti-growth income redistribution. An example of both was on display in President Trump’s recent speech to Congress. The good idea was Trump’s proposal to let companies deduct the full cost of ...
Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v. Felix is the issue of how one determines whether a seizure is reasonable. No matter who ...
Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made his way back into the political scene after announcing his candidacy this month for New York City mayor. Those prospects cannot be sitting well with the state’s top elected official in Kathy Hochul. Cuomo was notorious for his vindictive ways when ...