U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., could not have proved two points more handily last week if he had tried. First, he proved the spreading of vicious lies about an immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, has indeed led to the kind of hostility that puts those people (and their entire community) ...

Typically, school zones can’t be more than 1,300 feet long, according to state Transportation Department guidelines. That’s the reason for the school zone sandwich between Ring Elementary School and Washington Middle School on Buffalo Street. That sandwich, with its 30 mile an hour speed ...

County Executive PJ Wendel’s 2025 budget proposal is an outlier compared to the cities of Dunkirk and, likely, Jamestown as well. Dunkirk is proposing a 100% increase in its tax rate in the coming year. Mayor Kim Ecklund is already warning City Council members that the 2025 Jamestown ...

Building a new city fleet maintenance garage on Washington Street has basically been a citywide root canal for the past three years. There were questions about the site in the first place. Many questioned the use of a commercial parcel for the project. Then initial cost estimates were too ...

It’s been a while since the Gateway Lofts project popped up in the news. The timing of last week’s county IDA approval of the first loan from the county’s newly established Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund to Southern Tier Environments for Living (STEL) could provide a big boost to the ...

The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time that New York wouldn’t be able to the requirements laid out in 2019’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. That was the controversial - and ultimately unrealistic - legislation that requires 70% of the state’s ...