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New County Elections Commissioner Will Walk A Familiar Tightrope

Chautauqua County has a new face as its Republican election commissioner - though she’s no stranger to the county’s elections. Nacole Ellis, a Chautauqua County Board of Elections employee, has been appointed by Republicans on the Chautauqua County Legislature to replace the retiring Brian Abrams. Ellis has also served as the chairwoman of the Chautauqua County Republican Party. The practice isn’t breaking any laws. It’s not even that uncommon. Chautauqua County’s last Democratic Party election commission served as chair of the Chautauqua County Democratic Party before ...

Community Education Needed To Help Homeless

We reported over the weekend on the sad case of a woman who had suffered a stroke and found herself homeless in the park across Second Street from The Post-Journal. We didn’t share the story for a pat on the back - though the employees who did what they could to help the woman until they spoke with our Christopher Blakeslee certainly deserve one. Blakeslee, too, deserves a pat on the back for making the phone calls that got the woman the help she needed. The real reason for sharing the story is to illustrate just how hard it is for compassionate people who want to help the ...

Make A Billion Dollar Investment Pay Off – Go Vote Today

Today is Election Day, the culmination of what feels like two years of campaigning by presidential candidates. More than $1 billion will have been spent by Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in an effort to secure your vote. Another $250,000 has been raised by the two candidates seeking to replace the retiring Andy Goodell in the state Assembly. So let’s make sure this is money well spent by heading out to the polls today. Early voting, so often a disappointing exercise, has been packed this year. As of Wednesday, more than 8,800 ...

Drug Buy Money Is Important Piece Of Fight Against Illegal Drugs

If City Council members were to take a poll of city residents’ biggest concerns, we have a feeling decreasing the flow of illegal drugs coming into the city would be high on the list. It’s one reason that Police Chief Timothy Jackson’s request for drug buy money is a strong request to be considered in future years as council members and Mayor Kim Ecklund try to right-size the city’s budget. For years the Jamestown Police Department used money seized from drug investigations for drug buy money. The only problem with that is some years there’s a lot of money seized as part ...

JCC, YMCA On Right Track With Shared Building

It’s been a long few years for both Jamestown Community College and the Jamestown Area YMCA as both organizations look to raise the money necessary to build new buildings they see as necessary for their future. The need to find a new home for the YMCA has been evident for years as the familiar Fourth Street building has become a maintenance headache over the years. JCC, meanwhile, has been looking to boost access to sports fields through a couple of different projects over the years. The sticking point for both organizations has been cost. The YMCA had found itself stymied trying ...

Rethinking Family Policies A Necessity

It is difficult not to be pessimistic about the possibilities for success of efforts in countries around the world to encourage larger families — that is, if you yourself believe many more couples should be opting for more than a child or two in this increasingly busy, expensive, complicated, unsettled, helter-skelter world. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in an Oct. 15 report, countries’ years-long efforts at reversing the decline in birthrates have been largely unsuccessful, and in some places have recorded zero success. The Journal’s report noted that many couples ...