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Where to start? Where to start? Tariffs, the assault on free speech, the indiscriminate firing of thousands of federal workers, the elimination of inspectors general at federal agencies, the retributive targeting of perceived enemies of the president, the threats to major law firms having the temerity to represent critics of the administration, the replacement of the Kennedy Center Board with Trump sycophants united by Trump himself, the intended scrubbing of the Smithsonian Institution of any reference to historically accurate information that documents the darker side of American ...

The Home Of State Champions

This has been quite a year for sports in our county. Several schools won at the sectional level, we have had state championships in wrestling and swimming, and recently the Frewsburg Girls Basketball team and the Panama Boys Basketball team brought home state championships. Sometimes we get overly obsessed with our smallness and remoteness as a community. When we are out-of-town and asked about where we live we often say: “Oh, a few miles south of Buffalo...” thinking that the inquirer may assume that we are from New York City and that Buffalo is the only upstate place that anybody ...

Hands Off Of My Pork

Political corruption is everywhere present – apparently a consequence of human nature we must constantly guard against. Nowhere is humanity free from corrupt politicians or people who believe it is their privilege to use the power of the Government to forcibly take from those who created the wealth, and give it to themselves and their supporters. Such corruption can take many forms, including US agencies that used taxpayer funded infrastructure to deliberately threaten those who challenged the Government’s phony COVID narrative. These agencies enriched themselves and Pfizer to the ...

Due Process Rights Being Violated

Our Constitution guarantees due process to every person, whether a citizen or not. This means we all have the right to a hearing before a judge if suspected of breaking the law. But our president, himself a convicted felon, doesn’t care about such things. No, Donald Trump is not bound by rules that have governed our nation for most of its 250 year history. His willingness to ignore established laws, Congressional authority, and now, even the U.S. Supreme Court, has landed us all in a very perilous situation, indeed. In the middle of March, the Trump administration sent 3 planes to El ...

POWs survive Soviet imprisonment

IMPERIA, Italy — From the veranda of a couple’s vacation home is a stunningly beautiful view. Brightly painted modest homes dot the high hills along the shore of this city on the Italian Riviera. On a sunny afternoon with nary a cloud in the sky, the Mediterranean Sea is blue all the way to the southern horizon. The couple and others in their generation of Germans were youngsters and perhaps young adults in the 1930s and 1940s, when life in their country was hard. For the then-future husband, who was away from his homeland from 1945 to 1950, life was even harder. That ...

Options When A Provider Moves Out Of Network

Question: I just found out that one of my providers is no longer in network for my Medicare Advantage Plan. What are my options? Answer: There are many important factors to consider when learning to understand your insurance and the coverage it provides you. When you have Medicare and a Medicare Advantage Plan, you must also understand the type of Medicare Advantage Plan you have. There are HMO’s (Health Maintenance Organizations), and PPO’s (Preferred Provider Organizations). When you have an HMO, you have coverage at in-network providers only. That means the plan will only ...