Town Of Carroll Goes Above And Beyond

June 17, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: Community Helpers has been the final theme in our Kindergarten classrooms for the last few years. This year it appeared that we would not be experiencing anything that we had done before. Our community walking trip was going to have to be canceled. Just one more disappointment in this crazy time. But the town of Carroll, where RHJ Elementary School is located, went above and beyond. At the Myers Memorial Library, they have three librarians who are wonderful! Rachel Roushey made us a video so our students could take a virtual tour of the library. She ...

Racial Justice In America Is Long Overdue

June 13, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: On Sunday, June 7, 2020, Linda and I attended a Black Lives Matter rally at Dow Park. Many years have passed since we attended a local gathering to promote a social justice cause. Except this time was different, not only because of the potential adverse impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, but because of the cause. We’ve supported anti-hunger efforts, environmental efforts, anti-war efforts and promoted the plight of people abroad, but we hadn’t really done much about the plight of black people in America in spite of how enlightened we consider ourselves. ...

A Lesson From The COVID-19 Pandemic

May 28, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: As Gov. Cuomo stated, based on the same criteria as medical experts, it will be individual behavior, at least until a proven effective vaccine is created, that determines how successful America is in controlling the impact of Covid-19. The question that follows is “will the government and business support Americans in their efforts to control the spread of Coronavirus?” Regardless of how government and business responds, it will still be how individuals respond that determines when and how society returns to “normalcy”, whatever that will be. If ...

New Renewable Siting Law Passed To Fix A Broken Process

May 22, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: Readers of your May 12 article “Legislators Opposed to Fast Tracking Energy Projects” were undoubtedly left with the impression that the new renewable energy siting law cuts out local government input, which simply isn’t the case. The new law is designed to improve a siting process that was expensive, took years to navigate, and was costly and often frustrating to both developers and local governments. It does not exclude local governments from the process, as Senator Borrello and Assemblyman Goodell contend. It requires draft permits to be provided ...

Cuomo’s Energy Policy Is At The Expense Of New York Citizens

May 21, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: Governor Cuomo says the state is broke, yet he intends to tax New Yorkers $33 Billion to address ‘global warming’. The NRG power plant in Dunkirk produced 635 MW of electricity — was set to convert to gas turbines by 2020 with the potential to nearly double that electricity output, reliably 24/7. Compare that with perhaps 30 to 50 MW that might be produced intermittently at great expense by the three combined wind projects for Chautauqua County with 100 industrial wind turbines impacting tens of thousands of acres and rural residents’ quality of ...

Let’s Fully Open Chautauqua County

May 18, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: In order to re-open New York, “every region in the state has the same opening template,” stated Cuomo. He added that “emotions can’t drive our re-opening process.” All regions “must follow these guidelines as part of the re-opening plan.” Regarding the guidelines, which Cuomo calls “factual data points,” who created them? It turns out that the New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board did the creating. The “board” is composed of 100 “business, community and civic leaders from industries across the state.” Not a single virology ...