With great fanfare in 2019, state Gov. Andrew Cuomo celebrated passage of the so-called Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). With much hype around escaping climate doom, and with absolutely no debate on the reality of the doom, the feasibility of CLCPA, or even its ability ...

As you cross the Chautauqua Lake Bridge these days, you see a lot of open steel with the concrete removed sitting on the southwest side. Yet, concrete removal, in general, seems to have slowed. The focus now seems to be on making repairs below, chipping away bad concrete spots and replacing ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Let’s pick up where we left off last week. When we look beyond our shores, challenges abound for the United States. Yet they also abound at home. If liberalism is what you want, you’ll like the Democrats’ 2024 ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. It’s Democrats’ ...

Many of you may not even know about the bookmobile that used to operate in this area. I am not sure how many years it was around, but I know for sure it operated from the late sixties until the eighties. We were frequent visitors when my youngsters were growing up. The children looked forward ...

As an athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from 1982-84, I vividly remember President Ronald Reagan speaking to us athletes in the gymnasium. The security was very tight, not just with men on the ground but also perched on the roof. Debriefed by a member of the ...

A lot of community grant awards have been made for local projects in recent years. Most people celebrate these announcements. However, no matter what projects are funded, some complain that the funds would be better spent on something else, like filling potholes. That’s not how grants ...