I’ve just emerged from a lockdown that lasted several years. Not the kind we all discovered when the pandemic hit in 2020, but a far more extended one caused by my wife’s terminal illness. We were able to keep Sue at home where she could be, and was, in the care of angels: Hospice of ...

The other day, early in the morning, as I drove east on I-86, a spectacular vista appeared as I neared Exit 12. The clouds were low, in the distance fog had settled over the Conewango Valley, and yet I could still see the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains off in the distance down past ...

It has been reported lately in the news that some people are upset with the regulations that require one to submit documentation to the DMV to prove that the name on a birth certificate was legally changed to the name being used today, in order to obtain a Real ID compliant driver’s license. ...

Sadly, it has been four years since Jamestown was served by a commercial passenger air carrier. Before that time, based on more considerations than we could describe and/or explain here, we had moved on to regular use of the Buffalo airport. We have become comfortable doing so, even during ...

It has been the bane of my life to have lived through a world in which everything small became big. The grocery stores, the farms, the department stores, medical practices, pharmacies…everything, it seems, that I know, has become big. When I was a kid, there used to be some small grocery ...

Debate about illegalities in the 2020 presidential election in particular – and American elections in general – needs to keep the focus. Some in government or in the press have repeatedly and publicly missed the focus. The House Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives ...