CHAUTAUQUA—In part because of all of the history that fills Boston, it’s a fun American city to visit. If you’re there from April through September, a baseball game at Fenway Park is also good to attend, unless perhaps you’re a fan of a rival of the Boston Red Sox. A short distance ...
As the leadership team came forward last week for recognition of the State University of New York at Fredonia’s bicentennial year, CHQ Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Heitzenrater made a request to those seated at tables in the audience. If you were a graduate ...
County Executive PJ Wendel could have exercised a bit of fiscal conservatism by vetoing a Local Law that creates mandatory cost-of-living-adjustments to the top and bottom salary ranges for management employees. Wendel chose not to do so - and it’s something we hope county residents remember moving forward. Let us be clear - we think management employees should be treated fairly. Those who deserve yearly raises should receive them. But management employees also know what the salary ranges for their positions are when they move into management, and the upper ranges of these salary ...
Adequately helping the county’s homeless population is a task that we’re sure feels immense for those who are working on it every day. It was encouraging, then, to hear Carmelo Hernandez, the county’s director of community mental hygiene services, say he would like to see at least one homeless or temporary shelter established by the end of the year. It’s a concrete step after hearing, for years, that the county needs to establish transitional housing programs to help the homeless. Such programs always seem a long way off in a human crisis that needs faster solutions. "I ...
To The Reader’s Forum: As I write, there are about 35 days from Election Day, 2026 and the Republicans held a “convention” in Texas. Trump spoke and offered every adult citizen $5000 IF the Republicans continue to hold majorities in both the House and Senate in the 2026 elections. Not to spoil the party for Republicans, but there are a few reasons why the offer is unlikely. First, Trump has made at least 3 other offers of substantial payments to American adults that have fizzled over time. Second, it should be no secret that the offer will cost $1.3 trillion dollars and the ...
To The Reader’s Forum: In my eighty-five years, I’ve seen a lot. I can’t believe what our country has become. We now live in a country with a disturbed wannabe dictator. He admires the Russian dictator. He orders an illegal sneak attack on another country, without permission of the Congress. We have become a country where protesters can be murdered by government thugs, without fear of legal punishment. They target innocent people because of the color of their skin. They pull people out of their cars and beat them up. They make people “disappear” into prisons, without allowing ...
