We still think the county’s market analysis to determine if the county should try again to restore commercial air service to the Chautauqua County Airport in Jamestown is a waste of money - as most county spending on trying to restore Essential Air Service has been. The study isn’t ...

Yet another proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage has been introduced in the state Legislature - and this one could be particularly damaging to upstate New York.. For the past eight years, there have been two minimum wages in New York state - one for the New York City region and ...

The news that Jamestown Business College will close its doors as soon as 2025 comes as quite a shock. After all, we hear a lot about the needs for a skilled workforce, and JBC was an affordable place to pursue a bachelor’s degree in business management and associate’s degrees in ...

There were few complaints from state Republicans or Democrats when record school aid increases were pouring into New York school districts the past couple of years. Keep in mind those record aid increases come from a state that already has, by far, the highest spending per pupil of any state ...

Just when you think the absurdity boiling out of Florida cannot get any more dangerous, a story pops up such as the one from the Escambia County School District, where five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias and “The Guinness Book of World Records” has been added to its list of more than ...

Transparency is a word government leaders use to reassure the public they are doing everything they can in an open session. Unfortunately, as we have seen far too often, that is not the case. Last month, following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address, one watchdog agency took ...