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Opinion

Not All Medicare IDs Will Be Reissued

Local Commentaries

Question: I recently saw an article that Medicare is issuing new ID cards due to a data breach. When will mine arrive? Answer: You did hear correctly that there was a data breach and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be issuing new Medicare cards to everyone that was ...

Fair Food And Fun

Local Commentaries

Next week is the Warren County Fair. I have been involved with it for a long time. When my children were young, they showed dairy animals. It was a lot of work, but the experience was worth it. There were chores to be done early in the morning to get the animals ready for the show. My children ...

Government Can’t Create Jobs, Except Its Own

In Our Opinion

Debate over goals and objectives and performance measures for the Chautauqua County Department of Planning and Development.during last week’s Chautauqua County Legislature should have been pretty mundane. For the record, the goals are: - to improve the quality of life for all county ...

Release The Epstein Files

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: There’s a lot of news lately about the “Epstein Files.” The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), no “liberal rag” mind you, reports that Trump’s name is in the “Epstein Files” to which Trump has sued the WSJ. Just having Trump’s name in the files does not mean ...

The Downside Uncertainty Of Tariffs

Local Commentaries

The Trump administration’s levying of tariffs is a form of taxation, essentially a tax hidden from public view. They are imposed before the final sale of a product. In essence, tariffs are a pre-sales tax, levied at a port-of-entry on goods coming into the country. They are included in the ...