Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats in the state Legislature should be quite proud of themselves for their Concealed Carry Improvement Act. It’s doing a bang-up job keeping the people of Chautauqua County safe from those horrible people who want to purchase shotgun shells — like their ...
We’ve wondered if the state’s elected officials are listening to the different alarms raised about the likelihood of meeting the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Republican politicians have raised countless objections that we’d liken to your car’s warning bell ...
Unless the decision is going to be made before election day, it is our opinion it is too late for Chautauqua County legislators to talk about a pay raise for 2024. Currently, each legislator is paid $9,000 a year, or $750 a month. The legislature chairman gets an additional $8,000. The ...
The edition of The New York Times that appeared on March 29, 1960, reported on a strike by bus workers in Tampa, Fla., a former Chicago nightclub owner being found dead in a sewer, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower getting a new hair-do and former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen suggesting that ...
Whether they want to or not, Mayor Eddie Sundquist and the City Council need to come to an agreement on a possible bond act before the end of the year. As Councilwoman Kim Ecklund, R-At Large and Republican challenger to Sundquist, noted during Monday’s meeting, payments for the bond act ...
Things aren’t all rosy in Chautauqua County — and three changes approved recently by Chautauqua County legislators are just more proof of that fact. Legislators increased spending for the county’s Medicaid program by $644,000 — meaning the program will go up $3.7 million in total ...