Whether the exquisite furniture in the Blue Room at the White House is genuine antiques or department-store reproductions is nowhere near as important as, say, the war in Afghanistan. And whether the wallpaper in the Red Room is refurbished or, at high cost, replaced has no effect on the ...
It is important that those accused of crimes receive their due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Mandating that prosecutors hand over evidence to defense attorneys within 15 days of an arraignment while including more material in the discovery material prosecutors are required to ...
As Americans, we tend to look upon what is now happening in Britain as a far-off, complex problem which is something of secondary importance to us. However, we recently had friends visit us from the United Kingdom (UK) and to them, “Brexit,” as it is called, is a matter of deepening ...
In an unprecedented move, Michigan announced a state-wide ban on all flavored vaping products that would go in effect in a matter of weeks. Gov. Whitmer cited “youth addiction” as the culprit. What the Governor fails to see, however, is that this ban would only encourage black market ...
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better.” This famous quote has always been true, but never as true as today. After decades of dominance by the right, here’s the 2019 version: “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is insanely ...
Overwhelming majorities of Americans value safe sidewalks in their neighborhoods and believe taxpayer funding should be spent on sidewalks according to a recent poll. These findings are more evidence of a growing national desire for sidewalks that provide pedestrians the opportunity to ...
There are roughly 2,700 fewer children enrolled in Chautauqua County schools than there were 10 years ago. The cost for both local taxpayers (15.33%) and state taxpayers (21.89%) has increased over that same time period. According to U.S. Census data released earlier this year, New York ...
New Yorkers will not be forced to replace their license plates once the plates are at least 10 years old, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office. Cuomo’s plan would have began in the spring. In addition to a $25 replacement fee, drivers who wanted to keep their old license plate numbers ...
It’s unfortunate that a fairly clear path forward for the Clymer Central School District will have to take place without Ed Bailey, who resigned last week as district superintendent. Bailey has a long, distinguished history with the district starting as a member of the graduating class of ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Years ago someone from England proposed the idea that Gaia - that being the Greek word for Earth - is a big organism, and was able to take care of herself. If things got too far out of balance, she would take steps to correct them. Well, things have gotten pretty ...
The introduction of buoys to collect information about harmful algal blooms could be a true game-changer in the fight against algal blooms. Bowling Green State University is one of 11 organizations collaborating on national research of toxic algal blooms the university’s Lake Erie Center ...
To The Reader’s Forum: I’d like to applaud the Falconer Lady Falcons soccer team for the car wash they held on Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Jamestown Harley Davidson dealership. Too often today, we see young adults standing at the entrance to Walmart asking for handouts rather than ...
Leaders of the quasi-terrorist organization known as the Taliban had every reason to believe their strategy of shedding blood to prod Americans into pulling out of Afghanistan would work. It has in the past, for both Islamic extremists and others. Not this time. President Donald Trump had ...
Jamestown firefighters have every right to be upset if they indeed are unable to respond to structure fires because they are responding to ambulance calls. On Monday, the firefighters’ union blasted Mayor Sam Teresi for placing the public at risk by not hiring more firefighters and for ...
Two nutritionists (Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman) have sounded the alarm about the American diet, saying bluntly what most of us know intuitively to be true: Americans are sick — much sicker than many realize. More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population ...
The start of a new school year inevitably prompts parents, incoming freshmen and commentators all to question whether college is a worthy investment anymore. What with the astronomical cost of attendance, the obsession with “political correctness” on campus, and the assumed uselessness of ...
Recently, both National Grid and Con Edison in the New York City area announced that because of capacity restraints they could no longer hook-up new natural gas customers. Of course, the political reactions were predictable. Everyone from the Governor of New York to legislative leaders ...
The Labor Department tells us that 130,000 jobs were created in August. However, around 25,000 were temporary census workers hired by the federal government. That puts the August total for new private-sector jobs at about 100,000. A few days before the Labor Department numbers came out the ...
Jamestown City Council members have an opportunity to approve a capital spending program when they meet at the end of the month. If the program can be implemented with no impact to the city budget, we hope council members back Mayor Sam Teresi’s plan. Not only will is it expected to result ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Permit me to disagree with the last paragraph of your recent article about Bernie Sanders. His goal is not “to be able to boast that he did so”. His goal is really to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in order to stop or slow climate change, or global warming. ...