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Opinion

By Jim Wehrfritz

Local Commentaries

Our youngest granddaughter was a Covid era baby, born in the summer of 2020 in Buffalo. Since reliable third party day care was not available during that period and since both of her parents have full time jobs, my wife Sue and I became her weekday caretakers, driving back and forth to ...

Create A Centralized Lake Authority

Local Commentaries

It is time to return to and implement the first requirement in County Executive Borrello’s Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) agreed to by the County and over twenty-five Lake stakeholders in 2019. We must form the Centralized Lake Authority, a legal entity consisting of elected representatives. ...

Sewer Construction Is Underway

Local Commentaries

It may be the middle of winter, but that has not stopped construction of new sewers for the west side of Chautauqua Lake. It is now underway. As you head toward Mayville from Hogan’s Hut on Route 394, you come up a hill and just beyond the crest, on the right-hand side, you will see the ...

Save Social Media Platform TikTok — Then Let It Go

In Our Opinion

ByteDance, a Chinese firm that the federal government says is essentially a front for the Chinese government, owns the popular social media platform TikTok, which is used by an estimated 170 million Americans. That’s a national security threat, says Congress, which last year passed a law ...

TikTok Loses In Supreme Court

Local Commentaries

Let’s pick up where we left off four weeks ago. In TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court showed that when it really wants to move really fast, it really can. The plaintiffs-petitioners—whom we’ll call “TikTok”—contended that the Protecting Americans from Foreign ...

Sparks Keep Flying Over Electric Bus Deadline

Editor's Corner

New York state Assembly newcomer Andrew Molitor did not take long to get charged up over an issue that rankles many of his constituents and upstate residents when it comes to a future operation of their school district. The Westfield Republican this week joined Assemblyman Robert Smullen, ...