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Opinion

Billionaires Could Soon Face More Taxing Times

Local Commentaries

Billionaires, beware: Thousands of your countrymen are focusing hard on reining in your riches. All of them, including large numbers of millionaires, want you to pay higher taxes. They want a twenty-first century America with less income inequality and more tax fairness. Something like the ...

Hopeful Signs Continue At Chautauqua

In Our Opinion

CHAUTAUQUA—When Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Bush 43 administration considered several possible successors. One of them was the author of the 2024 memoir Quiet Counsel: Looking Back on a Life of Service to the Law. Meet Larry ...

It’s Full Speed Ahead With Roundabouts

Editor's Corner

Apprehension within the northern Chautauqua County community that included a lawsuit by a local business to stop the road project greeted the announcement of a proposed roundabout at Routes 60 and 20 in the village of Fredonia in 2017. Even today, some opponents remain vocal regarding the New ...

Emotional Support Animal Changes Are Above City’s Pay Grade

In Our Opinion

A city landlord’s plea last week for help in limiting the number of animals a tenant is allowed isn’t the first such plea. Nor will it be the last until federal guidance curbs the overreach of court decisions that have granted emotional support animals the same status as service animals. In ...

Two Ways To Look At Microgrid Funding Termination

In Our Opinion

There are two ways to look at last week’s news that the Trump Administration is terminating $27 million in funding for the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities’ Microgrid project. One is to wonder why funding for a natural gas powered project ran afoul of a president who favors natural ...