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Creative Solutions Needed For Shelters

To The Reader’s Forum: I recently suggested that local schools could be opened for warming centers or temporary shelter during severe weather and loss of power and thus Loss of heat in peoples’ homes. The elderly, children and chronically ill people are at risk during these times and need some place to be warm but do not have emergency generators nor alternate sources for heat. Some may not have family nearby or any other family at all. Some may not be able to leave and get to libraries or other places during the day because they do not have transportation or they can not use their ...

Has A New Code Blue Shelter Location Revealed Itself?

To The Reader’s Forum: They say that 'timing is everything'. This couldn't be more true during this past week. Current Post-Journal articles highlighting the need for “Code Blue” shelters and the county's transitional housing program's failures in Falconer/Jamestown prove an overwhelming need for temporary housing in the south county area. In the same week, Lutheran announced that it is closing their 148 bed long term care facilities. Viola', an instant solution to a county wide problem! Perhaps Lutheran could step up and help with their empty beds! No more paying various ...

New York Can, And Should, Do Better

After the 2020 census, New York redrew its congressional-district lines in time for the 2022 elections. Did you think that was the end of the process? If you did, you might be right. Or you might be wrong. Before the state Court of Appeals—which in New York is the state’s highest court—are a host of issues, including this: Are the lines that the court approved for the 2022 elections also for the 2024, 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections? Or were they only for the 2022 elections? This is one of those actions in which one just senses that the issues really do have right answers, ...

My Tribute To The Cockaigne Ski Resort

To The Reader’s Forum: Cockaigne Ski Resort’s closure hit me hard. I started my ski journey eons ago, when Southwestern High School offered an alternative to winter gym classes (that consisted of indoor soccer, volleyball and dancing): skiing! The hill over the football field was set up for us, and an after-school, learn-to ski-program offered by Westfield’s Eagle Ridge Ski Resort provided more instruction and practice. Cockaigne opened the year I graduated and was our favorite place to ski, and, for some of us, to work. College and then the Marine Corps sent me to the West ...

Threatening To Shut Down Government Are Breaking Oath To Uphold The Constitution

To The Reader’s Forum: We have the right of freedom of speech in order to persuade each other, to learn from each other, and to hold elected leaders accountable. We have a republic in which our elected legislature votes to pass laws, and it is assumed that the majority of votes wins. Our constitution does not state that the majority of votes wins, but it does say that if the vote is tied, then the chair votes to break the tie (“The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.” Article 1, Section ...

The Messages Sent By Attacks On Israel

To The Reader’s Forum: What do the events in Israel say to America loud and clear? Our border is not secure - a wall needs to be completed now. More workers need to be placed at the border in the meantime. How many terrorists have come into our country since President Biden took office? What can we do to find them and deport them? First of all Christians need to return to God and pray - 2 Chronicles 7:14- “If my people (Christians), which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from ...