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An increase in the number of serious accidents involving e-bikes and standup scooters in New York City is prompting calls to better regulate the personal mobility devices in the city. That regulation should extend statewide. So far this year, 12 people have been killed while riding e-bikes in New York City with another nine killed while using stand-up e-scooters. Only three have been killed while riding regular pedal bicycles. which compares to three who died while riding old-fashioned pedal bikes. Last year those figures were 17 dead on e-bikes, six from e-scooters and four on ...

Lakewood fireworks changes have been needed

A couple of years ago, debris from Lakewood’s fireworks show landed amongst the crowd in Richard O. Hartley Park. This year, the fireworks show started a brush fire at the beach. So, yes, it was time for something to change with how Lakewood’s annual fireworks show is handled. Lakewood Village Board members have decided there should be a 300-foot radius free from people from where the fireworks are being lit along with additional signs and fencing to keep people away from the area. Village officials are considering a barge that would move the fireworks lighting off-shore ...

A history lesson in how we measure success

As early as 1990 - six years before it opened - the idea of a Lucille Ball Museum was being talked about in hyperbolic terms. "In conjunction with the Civic Center and the New Comedy Festival, this could be one of the most exciting and important developments to come down the road for ...

Other Voices: Democracy doesn’t require truth police

It became fashionable a few years ago for people to blame “misinformation” for others holding views they find wrongheaded. Social media platforms, sometimes jawboned by the federal government, invoked this supposed crisis to justify censorship, especially during the pandemic. This insulted the intelligence of the American people, who can make up their own minds without being told what to think. A new study explores how exposure to “misinformation” on social media affected voters in 2020. The answer, drawn from a three-month experiment on nearly 16,000 users, is very ...

Homelessness proving to be an intractable problem

The population of homeless in Chautauqua County didn’t explode last year like it did in the last two-year study by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office. That first study of homelessness put a number to the increase (103% from January 2022 through January 2024) in homelessness we had been seeing all around us. The increase is a lot less in 2025 than it was in 2024 - 23.7% year-over-year. That’s the good news, if one can call it that. The bad news is that homelessness across the state decreased by 7.9% over the same time period, though that decrease was largely driven by New ...

SKF’s foray into humanoids come at interesting time

SKF officials have jumped into the humanoid robot market with a new joint venture with LeaderDrive, a Chinese company focused on high-precision transmission components for robot joints. SKF is focusing on the application of humanoids powered by Embodied AI technology in industrial settings after a thorough study to identify a potential role for the company in the humanoid market, concluding it should focus on humanoids for industrial applications. We don’t know if any of the bearings that would be part of a humanoid robots product would ever make its way to SKF’s Falconer ...