I suppose that I could be accused of having “too much time on my hands” to write about this…but let me try anyway. Recently, as happens every year under the requirements of state law, a list of delinquent property taxpayers was published in the newspaper. It was eight full pages of ...

How dare the Super Bowl have stadium walls to keep those who haven’t paid for a ticket from entering! What are the chances of an illegal alien being at the game? Better than yours? Look at what you’re watching with shelters, hotels, schools, rec centers, airports, and hospitals stuffed ...

Some things are so absurd that you can only shake your head. Some other things are so very absurd that you can only laugh. So it was on Feb. 6—Ronald Wilson Reagan’s birthday, no less—when Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. said the southern border of the continental United States is not ...

I have never been best friends with Lake Erie. I grew up less than 15 miles from its shores in a suburb of Buffalo but I only knew it slightly better than I know the Indian Ocean, which isn’t saying much. My summers were spent here by our own small lake, of which I could always see the ...

A piece on the news caught my attention last week. A teacher in Texas was featured for an activity that she did with her class. They took a day away from their studies and “visited” Mexico. She had travel documents for each student as well as a passport. The children were really enthused ...

Chautauqua County has long been working hard to improve services for the people living here while reducing their cost of living. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. In 2017, New York state decided to nudge communities to get serious about this with a competition to improve local government ...