It was a cause for celebration when Sen. Charles Schumer announced in November 2023 that the U.S. EPA was going to take the lead cleaning up the rubble left behind when the former Crawford Furniture building burned to the ground. City officials and Schumer pushed for the EPA to demolish what ...
To The Reader’s Forum: The news media has stories of ICE raids sending “illegals” and criminals out of the country to jails with horrific conditions. Our government officials loudly hail these deportations. These arrests and deportations happen without due process to ensure that they ...
To The Reader’s Forum: I’m not the kind of person who usually writes opinion pieces, but I’ve had enough of the fear and noise coming from the left about Social Security and Medicare. I live here in Chautauqua County, and like a lot of folks around here, I’ve got family and friends ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Dear Rep. Langworthy, It is time you stood up to the President. Congress controls the purse strings, not the President. I’m all for finding waste fraud and abuse when it comes to government spending, but I would look first at the government contracts for military, ...
We’ve all seen what’s happened to home prices throughout the area over the past several years. Now, Busti residents are getting a look at what that housing market has done to their home values - and they’re not happy. Town residents spoke their minds for more than an hour at a Busti ...
Will We Ever Pay Up For Vietnam Vets? To The Reader’s Forum: April 30th will mark fifty years since the Vietnam War ended. It seems like that was yesterday, and I don’t know where the time goes. That war was one of the most horrible, unnecessary conflicts in American history, and ...