It’s been six years since the first of two fires ravaged Falconer’s downtown. A second fire a year later just widened the hole. Previous efforts have failed due to lack of state funding support and now, apparently, the closure of the developer that was working on the newest attempt to ...
Aaron Wadin, executive director of the UCAN mission on First Street in Jamestown, said something worth thinking about in Saturday’s edition of The Post-Journal. “To use a sports analogy, if you are not a decent player, you play where the ball was,” he said. “If you are an average ...
If state lawmakers are serious about transparency and open government, they will pass two pieces of recently introduced legislation when the next legislative session begins in January. The first is A.7914, sponsored by Assemblywoman Jo Ann Simon, D-Brooklyn, which would allow public ...
As Chautauqua County officials investigate possible fees for boaters on Chautauqua Lake, we hope they don’t make the same mistakes as were made during the investigation of a taxing district around the lake. Taxing district talks went on for years and eventually felt exhausting as the ...
As the presidential race begins to pick up steam, we can all expect to see more embellishments by the candidates of their records. While this is hardly a new or surprising development, it remains an unfortunate feature of our election cycles. One increasingly common claim by President Joe ...
It’s good there is at least the start of a plan to address issues in Jamestown’s Spring and Cherry street parking ramps. But let’s not let city officials off the hook just yet. Let’s not forget these issues were brought to the City Council and city administration in September ...