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GOP Leaders Should Support Hochul’s Clean Energy Plans

To The Reader’s Forum: “Area leaders applaud Hochul on mental health, not energy” (Jamestown Post-Journal, 1/11) suggests limited bipartisan cooperation is possible in Albany. What’s surprising, though, especially in light of the almost constant barrage of climate disasters faced by New York State since Hurricane Sandy, is the GOP leaders’ intransigence regarding Governor Hochul’s commitment to a clean energy economy transition. Even more surprising are the two reasons offered for opposing the Governor’s energy plans. First is the implied claim that only those who heat ...

Hochul Offered A Commision, We Needed A Commitment

To The Reader’s Forum: As the leader of a multi-state long term senior care community in an industry that is fighting for survival, I approach every day with hope and optimism. I had both those feelings as I sat down to listen to Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address. I needed to hear commitment. I left with a commission. I needed to hear a commitment to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes by 20%. It’s been 15 years since New York State raised the daily Medicaid rate to account for inflation, despite a 42% increase over that timeframe. That’s ...

Leonard Pitts Provided A Welcome View

To The Reader’s Forum: I don’t know when Leonard Pitts wrote his “retirement” column, which appeared in the P-J on 12/24/22. I have found his opinions to be unique and a great addition to the regular opinion columns appearing in the P-J. His perspective on the unresolved issues affecting Americans (e.g., human rights, democracy, gun violence, the misinformation crisis and more”) will be missed. His reference to Carol Burnett’s signature “sign-off” and his final question to his readers, “Isn’t it amazing how fast the years go”, was exactly why I found him unique. ...

The Media May Be Doing Its Job On Hunter Biden Laptop Story

To The Reader’s Forum: Today’s P-J had an opinion piece that put the “media” on what I’ll call a “hit list” over their alleged failure to give prominence to “Hunter Biden’s laptop” and alleged FBI interference in the 2020 election. Thus, the “media” should be perceived to be a “threat”. So, what is the hoopla about? It’s about the factual nature of the laptop and not what information the laptop contained and, therefore, the impact. The writer admits so much by lamenting that “the news media shows little or no interest” in what the laptop COULD ...

Why Spend Dollars Globally When There Is So Much Need Here?

To The Reader’s Forum: I read the article in The Post-Journal about “City Prepares For Opening Of Emergency Homeless Sheltering.” I was happy to see that someone was doing something to help our homeless population. Stop and think about the millions and billions of dollars we give other countries. Many of them hate the USA but we still give them money and aid every year. Homelessness in the United States of America, or people without a home, is currently over half a million. In fact, the 2020 figure according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development is 580,185. ...

Telling Gun Violence Stories Is Good, But Talk About Solutions, Too

To The Reader’s Forum: PBS aired a documentary on October 5 called “Ricochet”, which showed how gun violence affected people - the brother of a deceased suicide victim, parent and sister of a young man who died by suicide, parents of young woman who died at a mass shooting in a theater, a young woman who lost three family members to gun violence, a survivor of a mass shooting at a theater and an ER doctor who, most often, could only console survivors. The intent was to show just what it means to be a surviving “victim”. One statistic revealed is how virtually everyone in ...