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Never, Never Leave The Game Early

ORCHARD PARK—Let’s pick up where we left off on the 30th anniversary of the most thrilling game in Buffalo Bills’ history. Yes, you know which one that is. It’s the Jan. 3, 1993, playoff game against the Houston Oilers. The Bills were down 28-3 at halftime, and it quickly got worse. The Oilers opened the second half by making it 35-3. No National Football League team had ever won after being down by 32 points. But play by play, score by score, the Bills came roaring back and won on a field goal in overtime. The final score was 41-38. Van Miller, longtime voice of the ...

Ukraine: 42 Months of Assault By The Russian Bear

It is easy for Americans to ignore the ongoing war by Putin’s Russia against an independent, democratic Ukraine, desperate to be part of the West. Our cable tv news outlets feature almost everything other than the Russian war against Ukraine. We get extensive coverage of Jeffrey Epstein; Micah Parsons, the Dallas Cowboys holdout who was successful in getting traded to Green Bay for the highest salary ever for a non-quarterback, $188,000,000 over 4 years; National Guard troops assigned law enforcement duties in our Nation’s capital; a myriad of lawsuits challenging actions by the ...

Staying Interested In The Weather

It started with me at an early age. Our farm was located on top of a hill, and we could see the weather coming from the west and then view it to the east as it descended upon Frewsburg and then into the hills around Frew Run and Bone Run. Weather became even more a part of my life when I started flying. When you first start flying a plane, you can only fly when the weather is good...it takes time to earn an instrument ticket so that you can fly in clouds and in low visibility. Back then, we had just the beginnings of weather radar, and so the FAA Flight Service Stations across the ...

Now Is The Time

There have been a lot of changes in the funding priorities of our federal government during the past six months. As a result, more and more responsibilities will be moved back to the states and local governments, if they haven’t already been, and many funds already allocated to some local projects will likely be clawed back. This comes at a time when it appears funds for many other federal programs we and our neighbors rely upon, like food assistance and health care, also appear likely to be reduced. These changes, and others, will probably make the difficult financial situations ...

Drive Sword Through Wetlands Regulations

CHAUTAUQUA LAKE—Humanity has devastated the natural state of Chautauqua Lake, thereby making weeds far worse than they otherwise would have been. This is primarily because of ● what humanity dumped into Chautauqua Lake generations ago and ● insufficiently constraining weeds in recent decades. A weed-clogged Chautauqua Lake is not—repeat, not—the natural state of the lake. Thus, insufficiently constraining weeds not only devastates nature but also defies nature. Please tell all of that to advocates of New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, ...

Trump’s Economic Policies Are Taking U.S. Backward

Jim Farley, CEO of Ford Motor Company, has taken six trips to China to study their automotive industry. “It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen“, he said after returning from his latest trip. “They have far superior in-vehicle technology,” the Ford CEO said. “You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you ...