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Reader Comments On Community Battle

To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing this as a follow up to the article published in the Post-Journal on 4/25 pertaining to the on going legacy of former Mayor of Jamestown Donald Ahlstrom. I would also like to acknowledge that Don is responsible for much of the credit for defeating the building of a fool hardy new power plant in the city of Jamestown. Don was the instigator and the initial person raising the questions pertaining to this proposed project. Several local people including some previous employees of the city and the BPU as well as many concerned citizens and outside ...

Being Guilty Of Intellectual Dishonesty

To The Reader’s Forum: Christians are the most persecuted and targeted group in the world. When the massacre in Sri Lanka was being reported, politicians on the left, like Hillary and Obama, merely referenced the massacred as “Easter worshippers.” They couldn’t even bring themselves to say, “Christians.” They should know better: Christians worship Christ, not a holiday. Last month, when Muslims were murdered in a mosque in New Zealand, no one on the left called them “Ramadan worshippers.” Both Hillary and Obama rightly associated them with “the Muslim ...

Reader Pays Tribute To Lyndon LaRouche

To The Reader’s Forum: I have been a reader of many political leaders over the last 40-plus years and I wanted to show respect to Lyndon LaRouche, who recently passed away. “LaRouche’s four laws for economic recovery. 1. Re-enactment of the Glass Steagall Act separating commercial from speculative banking and ending public bailouts of Wall Street gamblers; 2. A new national bank or the credit-issuing mechanism, capable of providing massive amounts of credit for long-term economic projects; 3. Use of this national banking mechanism to fund only such projects as will ...

Use Of Fusion Voting Is What Political Parties Make Of It

There has been quite a push amongst state legislators to end New York’s system of “fusion voting.” The system allows political parties to list the same candidate on their ballot lines on an election ballot and then combine the candidate’s vote totals. We agree in part with Norman Green, Chautauqua County Democrat election commissioner, who has said minor party endorsements can be a “sometimes insurmountable millstone in the way of statewide election contests.” As much as the system can be confusing, the minor parties do give rise to philosophies and policies that the ...

Lake Issues Can Be Solved As A Group

To The Reader’s Forum: Hats off to County Executive George Borrello for his newly formed committee to help manage the welfare of Chautauqua Lake. The concept is very simple. Each town that borders Chautauqua Lake along with lake agencies, will be equally represented and work together with county officials. Maybe this committee will be able to restrain the various “ABC” and “XYZ” groups around the lake and perhaps put an end to all the bickering, infighting and frivolous lawsuits that we have seen in the past. The residents of Chautauqua County deserve better when it ...

Reader Concerned By Economic Realities

To The Reader’s Forum: Farmworkers deserve to be and are treated with respect. The Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act concerns me. While its supporters mean well, the economic realities facing family farms (97% of farms are family owned) will make it difficult for many farms to survive the legislation’s higher costs. According to USDA, New York has lost about nine percent of its farms in the past five years, triple the national average, in part because of the depressed farm economy and rising labor costs. Most New York farms already pay well above minimum wage to attract ...