By Vince Horrigan As the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance prepares to enter our sixth year prioritizing projects, securing funding, and allocating resources for our 26 member agencies, there is much to reflect upon and much to be excited about moving forward. Prioritizing ...

In a recent radio interview, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested that instead of federal bailouts to help fund states’ employee pensions — which are even more stressed than usual due to the economic damage wrought by COVID-19 — Congress should give states the option of ...

Almost by the minute, data and research are pouring in confirming that government — at the local, state, and federal levels — has disastrously overreacted to the coronavirus. Let us count the ways: ¯ A cavernous part of those infected with the virus do not experience any symptoms. ¯ ...

There is certainly nothing humorous about the coronavirus pandemic. We mourn the loss of life and livliehoods. We miss our families, our sports, our jobs, and the carefree days of just eight weeks ago. But life has gone on, albeit inside our homes, and the requisite problems of home life ...

Last week I mentioned canning with honey. We were beekeepers for years. One night after we returned from a family wedding my husband found a swarm of bees out in the pasture. He came home and told us about it. He and his father figured that we needed to capture it. Grandma and I worked on ...

The bird fights to emerge from the egg. It is his world. He who would be born must destroy a world. —Hermann Hesse Who can guess whether the brooding bird is surprised by the first sensation of soft, wriggling life beneath her? It’s known that the young can begin peeping when ...