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What will our future hold in another 200 years?

In Our Opinion

This weekend The Post-Journal celebrates 200 years of bringing readers the news. We’ve all changed a lot over two centuries. We started publishing when our nation was 50 years old - which means our pages have been through the Civil War, two World Wars. We’ve chronicled the rise of a sitting New York governor from Jamestown and a city attorney ascend all the way to the highest court in the nation. Our pages have chronicled the careers of noteworthy city residents who’ve gone on to achieve fame and fortune in their respective fields. We’ve covered massive fires and ...

Bulldoze the Statue of Liberty?

Local Commentaries

President Trump’s lawyer is trying to convince a judge that not only did President Trump, as a tenant, have the power to tear down a large part of the White House, but that President Trump has the power to “bulldoze the Statue of Liberty.” As we approach July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the 13 British colonies declaring their independence from the King of England, has Trump declared our independence from what the Statue of Liberty stands for? Here is the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to ...

The politics of data centers

Local Commentaries

Recently, the New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on building new data centers. That tends to be the way in New York. If it is controversial, let’s punt the issue down the road and deal with it later. Of course, no one voting for the proposal agreed to give up their cell phones or other devices. Everybody wants those. That’s where we get our news, weather, messages and virtually everything these days—navigating your car, streaming football games, asking “Siri” who was President 50 years ago. We can get it all—welcome to the world of ...

Thoughts on Lakewood’s sidewalks

Local Commentaries

I am again writing to you with some of my thoughts about the project in Lakewood that includes sidewalks and resurfacing on Route 394 (Fairmount Avenue). The state stated that the resurfacing was starting at Winch Road and continuing east and eventually to Jamestown city line. I believe the reason they are starting at Winch is that not too many years ago the state did a resurfacing that was west of Winch and did not continue any further east. Currently anything west of Winch does not need resurfacing. I see that the state sent a letter to the Village of Lakewood and the Town of ...

Happy 200th birthday, Post-Journal

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: "Hey, P-J. It’s been awhile. Too long, really. I won’t be in Jamestown anytime soon, so I wanted to wish you a happy birthday from the bottom of my heart. You won’t mind, I hope, if I give you a little praise? And why not? Why, by golly, Lucille Ball, Roger Toy Peterson, the 10,000 Maniacs, Justice Jackson and Nick Sirianni read YOU before they were famous. And (just between the two of us) you were the only one invited to see the King of Sweden - TWICE! Of course, you were the paper (as the Evening Journal and the Morning Post) who covered the ...

New officer is a first step in fight against animal cruelty

In Our Opinion

Over the past eight years, there have been only 20 entries in the Chautauqua County Animal Abuse registry - though five have been added since December. All came from the city of Jamestown. Perhaps the creation of a new deputy position in the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office to focus on animal abuse cases will increase that number. The Chautauqua County Legislature approved funding as part of the 2026 county budget. That deputy - Jim Andin - was introduced recently by Sheriff Jim Quattrone. Quattrone said most of the Sheriff’s Office deputies have a brief overview of animal ...