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Room To Improve With Executive

Tom Carle, Democratic candidate for Chautauqua County executive, has reason to be proud of his accomplishments in the private sector. Throughout his years of running large and small businesses in the United States and Canada, his decisions were driven by finding results that benefited management as well as the workers. His work steered major companies and manufacturing plants that included partnerships with Walmart and Gatorade in positive directions, helping grow revenues in some locations that topped $150 million. In running for the top county post, Carle wants to take those ...

This Is A Dark Time In America

To The Reader’s Forum: I was disgusted by a recent commentary by a member of the bar on Trump’s extrajudicial murders of suspected drug smugglers. Is this what justice in America has become? A single man following his violent, vengeful instincts while presenting no justification, no evidence, no indication of who they were or what they were carrying just ‘takes them out’ with the approval of his cruel and hate-filled supporters. Is this how conservative Christians interpret the teachings of Christ? Can lawyers just suspend the law when it suits them? This is an ...

Speaker Programs Need Diversity Of Thought

CHAUTAUQUA—Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Chautauqua Institution began the 2025 season with a hopeful sign that renewed enthusiasm for diversity of thought was in the air. That continued during the 2025 season. ♦♦♦ Meanwhile, an organization annually invites a speaker to Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua doesn’t select the speaker. The organization does. It’s legally separate from Chautauqua, and its principal location isn’t in Chautauqua. Following the 2023 speaker, this column reviewed the organization’s Chautauqua speakers over the years and ...

Some Prescription Drug Prices Will Drop

Question: I paid so much for my Eliquis this year, will I have to pay that much next year too? Answer: The good news is no, seniors will not pay as much for Eliquis as well as nine other common medications in 2026. Remember that Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) announced that in 2026 there will be TEN medications that are now at a negotiated price. These ten medications are all brand name medications. The list includes: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbrucia, Stelara, and Fiasp and Novolog Insulins. This list is going to have a positive impact ...

No One Is Above The Law

I read the article in the weekend edition of The Post-Journal on October 4, 2025, titled “We Must Respect The Rule Of Law.” That’s nice but do you really mean it? I would like to add “No One Is Above The Law.” Regarding your “Rule Of Law” and your article. The Obama and Biden administrations, along with other corrupt individuals, perpetrated and fabricated the most egregious lies that surpass anything that this country has ever witnessed and it will go down in the history books. They concocted a corrupt scheme to scuttle Trump with a Russia, Russia lie and they got ...

The Middle East, Donald Trump And The Nobel Prize

It has been disconcerting to me that the President of the United States has been lobbying to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. If I were in his inner circle, I would advise him that this is an honor for which you are chosen—not one you lobby or campaign for. But, that aside, if he can pull off a solution to the current Israeli/Gazan War, perhaps he should be so honored. As the columnist Thomas Friedman recently wrote: “If Donald Trump is able to secure a cease-fire, Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, return of Israeli hostages, and it holds and paves the way for negotiations on the only ...