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In Our Opinion

Incidents Show Room For Improvement Protecting Children

Twice in less than a week we were reminded that we still have a long way to go when it comes to protecting children. City police responded to one home for a report of disorderly conduct and found a residence in deplorable conditions with a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old child sleeping on a ...

Cleaning Up The City’s Budget Mess Will Be Painful

Mayor Kim Ecklund has been warning all year that the city budget is a mess. Now, we see just how bad a mess the budget really is - and how much it’s going to cost taxpayers to clean up the mess. Ecklund is proposing a 7.79% tax levy increase, which equates to a $1.82 per $1,000 of ...

Teachers’ Focus Remains On History, Not ‘Indoctrination’

Just about every adult in America who attended a public school has passed through a history class, and maybe they had an aptitude for the subject, had a teacher who inspired them to dig deeper, or were turned off completely by a clock-punching instructor who offered little more than a dry ...

County’s Handling Of Sex Offenders From Out Of State Must Change

Four times, people convicted of sex crimes have challenged the way Chautauqua County classified them under the Sex Offender Registration Act when they moved here. Four times those challenges have been upheld by the Fourth Department Appellate Division, the appeals court that hears cases from ...

Immigration Isn’t Always A Dirty Word

Eighty-four years ago, Robert H. Jackson welcomed the Immigration and Naturalization Service into the U.S. Department of Justice. Jackson’s remarks were short, but something the then-U.S. Attorney General said during that June 14, 1940, address to the civil servants being welcomed into the ...

DEC Must Pay Attention To Mounting Questions

North Harmony is the latest Chautauqua Lake adjacent municipality to pass a resolution opposing wetlands regulations proposed by the state DEC. Town residents asked a lot of good questions - including some that haven’t come up yet - that include whether or not the Army Corps of Engineers ...