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Warming Shelter Is A Sign Of Compassion In Action To The Reader’s Forum: I worked last night at our CODE Blue Warming Shelter, a temporary shelter that protects those experiencing homelessness from the extreme cold temperatures outside. The following donations came into the Center, ...

The History Of Valentine’s Day

Local Commentaries

Today marks another day to celebrate Love, and the feelings we have toward special people in our lives, be it True Love, Puppy Love, Love and Marriage, Crush Love, and/or any other type of feeling that makes us all “googlie ooglie” inside for that someone special. In what has become a ...

Resurrecting the Dunkirk Power Plant

Local Commentaries

Our State Senator, county officials and others have advocated that the old NRG power plant in Dunkirk be reopened as a natural gas/electric plant. It is a proposal that should be considered. I can still remember the day when then Governor Andrew Cuomo went to Dunkirk and promised a big crowd ...

Remain Connected To The Truth

Local Commentaries

Do your eyes lie or is it your mind struggling to erase what your eyes have seen? If you never saw the videos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths, you could just accept the news that they were provocateurs and deserved to be shot. You could choose to believe what you hear. The operative ...

Affordability Always Makes Sense

Local Commentaries

Last weekend’s papers had the County Legislature’s Republican majority leader, Jamie Gustafson, critical of the three provisions of the “Affordability Act of 2026” introduced at the January County Legislature meeting by me as the assistant minority leader and Bob Banksoski, the minority ...