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Pegula Seeks ‘Best Opportunity’ For Bills

ORCHARD PARK—Let’s pick up where we left off 50 weeks ago, at the conclusion of the Buffalo Bills’ 2024 season. That season ended in the American Football Conference championship game with bad officiating favoring what this column called the Kansas City “Chief Referees.” This followed a divisional-round-playoff game between the Houston Texans and the Chiefs for which referees were themselves called for bad calls favoring the Chiefs. * * * Fast forward to the divisional-round playoffs following the 2025 season, with the Bills playing the Broncos in Denver on Jan. ...

Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness

If cleanliness is next to godliness, I might not make it to the pearly gates. It’s sad that I’ve slipped so much. I was reared to know the difference. Mom made me rewash dishes or pans that didn’t pass inspection and if I dusted around the doilies instead of under, well, that only led to more chores. When I picture myself climbing the back stairs up to our apartment, in my memory I’m always sweeping them. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have back stairs now … I’d be tripping over dust bunnies. It’s not that I don’t dust or vacuum at all. I remember vividly ...

A Presidency With No Limits

Whether you like our current President or not, one thing that seems to characterize his actions is that there seems to be no limits in what he can do. In a recent two-hour interview with members of the press, he was asked if there were any limits to his global power. President Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It is the only thing that can stop me.” His answer did not mention any Constitutional limitations to his power. The public now is beginning to understand this as reflected in the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that sprung up around ...

Quiet USPS Change Could Decide If Ballots Count

On Christmas Eve, when most of us—including the news—were focused on wrapping presents and preparing to gather with family and friends, the United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a policy change with newly binding legal consequences. It has the potential to put you in violation of the law or invalidate your mail-in ballot during upcoming elections. According to the Federal Register (Postal Service 39 CFR Part 111), as of December 24, 2025, you can no longer count on your mail being postmarked on the day the post office receives it. Now, your mail will be postmarked when it ...

Supreme Court Takes Up Tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the question of tariffs. The challengers to President Trump’s tariffs are two family-owned corporations: Learning Resources, Inc., and hand2mind, Inc. They’re headquartered in Vernon Hills, Ill., have 500 employees in the United States, and sell educational tools for younger and older children. However, they manufacture them abroad, primarily in China. Now you can begin to see why tariffs targeting China would displease Learning Resources and hand2mind. It’s tempting to ask why they manufacture their wares abroad, primarily in China. ...

China Has The Edge On Electricity

As Americans we believe that we are always the leaders when it comes to infrastructure and technology. That is not the case with electricity. China already consumes twice as much electrical energy as the United States and is way ahead of us when it comes to the efficiency and capacity of their electric grid to transport energy, including renewable energy, across their country. The most efficient way of transporting electricity anywhere is with high voltage electric lines. The higher the voltage, the more electricity that can be transported. It is hard to build such lines in the ...