Taxpayers should want to see the state Board of Regents’ latest push for collaboration succeed. But we fear the Regents aren’t seeing the big picture with the push announced by the Regents in September. A proposed amendment creates a new section of state Education Commissioner’s ...

We agree with state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, in his opposition to the state’s Advanced Clean Truck regulation. For starters, the requirement is bad news for a border county like southern Chautauqua County because trucking companies, if they so choose, can simply move across the ...

Twice in less than a week we were reminded that we still have a long way to go when it comes to protecting children. City police responded to one home for a report of disorderly conduct and found a residence in deplorable conditions with a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old child sleeping on a ...

Mayor Kim Ecklund has been warning all year that the city budget is a mess. Now, we see just how bad a mess the budget really is - and how much it’s going to cost taxpayers to clean up the mess. Ecklund is proposing a 7.79% tax levy increase, which equates to a $1.82 per $1,000 of ...

Just about every adult in America who attended a public school has passed through a history class, and maybe they had an aptitude for the subject, had a teacher who inspired them to dig deeper, or were turned off completely by a clock-punching instructor who offered little more than a dry ...

Four times, people convicted of sex crimes have challenged the way Chautauqua County classified them under the Sex Offender Registration Act when they moved here. Four times those challenges have been upheld by the Fourth Department Appellate Division, the appeals court that hears cases from ...