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Langworthy Has Delivered For Region

To the Reader’s Forum:: As a lifelong resident and City Councilman here in Jamestown, I take immense pride in our community’s resilience and values. It’s heartening to see leaders like Congressman Nick Langworthy embody these principles, consistently standing up for our district both in Washington and back home. Recently, Congressman Langworthy played a pivotal role in securing federal funding for a comprehensive study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Chautauqua Lake. This initiative aims to restore the lake’s aquatic ecosystems, improve habitats, and enhance ...

Young Artists Program Benefits Area Students

To The Reader’s Forum: Several weeks ago several of us from the Chautauqua area community had the pleasure of participating in the Young Playwrights Project (YPP) with over 500 third and fourth graders from eight different schools in the area. This is an amazing program, sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution Arts Education Program. The YPP program brings together students, their teachers, teaching artists from New York City, institution staff, and community volunteers to work with the students to help them develop and write their own plays, then have all 520 plays read back to ...

Time for the Left to Face Reality

To The Reader’s Forum: I am a Chautauqua County resident who’s just about had it with the recent flood of outrage coming from the left. If you’re on social media or reading the latest protest signs and letters to the editor, you’d think the world is ending. They’re out here screaming that democracy is dead, trying to whip everyone into a frenzy and convince us to be scared too—but let me tell you, that’s not the mood around here. Most of us are hopeful for the first time in a long time. The last election wasn’t just a win for Trump and Congressman Langworthy—it was ...

Suffering From Trump Reality Sickness

To The Reader’s Forum: If I didn’t love my country, it would be easy to stick my head in the sand for the next 4 years and pretend that the President isn’t taking Elon’s chainsaw to our democracy. I could not read the newspaper or listen to the news, I could “drink the Kool-Aid.” But I can’t. So I will write letters, contact my representatives and attend protests. Not that my representative cares what I think, I’m one of the falsehood spreading Democrats, the “Liberal Left” though, honestly, I consider myself moderate. In the chaos the President has created, ...

It Is Langworthy’s Time To Stand Up To The President

To The Reader’s Forum: Dear Rep. Langworthy, It is time you stood up to the President. Congress controls the purse strings, not the President. I’m all for finding waste fraud and abuse when it comes to government spending, but I would look first at the government contracts for military, NASA, and Elon Musk, rather than Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The ink hadn’t dried on my mother’s death certificate when the Social Security Administration wanted the money for her last payment returned. I don’t believe there are thousands of people 150 years old and older still ...

Who’s Really Telling The Truth?

To The Reader’s Forum: I’m not the kind of person who usually writes opinion pieces, but I’ve had enough of the fear and noise coming from the left about Social Security and Medicare. I live here in Chautauqua County, and like a lot of folks around here, I’ve got family and friends who rely on those benefits. They worked hard, paid in, and earned that support. And now, every election cycle, we have to hear that Republicans are trying to take it all away? Give me a break. The truth is, President Trump has made it clear—loud and clear—that Social Security and Medicare ...