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In Our Opinion

Here’s Hoping Additional Funding Brings Closure For Families

It’s hard to have much hope that the cases of 14 women between the ages of 14 and 35 who have gone missing, been murdered or whose remains can’t be identified will ever be solved. But we have to give credit to the law enforcement officers who keep grinding over evidence trying to bring ...

Dunkirk Finances State Plan Is A Painful Lifeline

The state is proposing an $18.5 million lifeline for the city of Dunkirk. The city won’t be living under a state-run Financial Control Board, but it will be awfully close. But no city resident should be under any illusion that the state-backed deficit reduction bonds won’t come with ...

Resurrection Brings Hope To All Of Us

“Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of ...

IRS Lacking Urgency To Change

“IRS agents shouldn’t work from home” was the headline of an opinion article written by U.S. Rep. Ron Estes and published in the March 4 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Estes, a Republican representing Kansas’ 4th Congressional District, hit the proverbial nail on the head when he ...

County May Be Seeing Signs Of Progress On Addiction

A decrease in drug overdose deaths early in 2024 is good news for those on the front lines of the county’s battle with drug addiction. We won’t know for several months if the decrease seen so far in 2024 will continue, but there are some encouraging signs. The age of those who die ...

Delay In Riverwalk Lighting Is A Sign Change Is Needed

It’s been roughly nine months since City Council members approved new emergency lighting under the North Main Street railroad viaduct. There was, if you remember, a couple of months of discussion on the matter. City development department officials wanted to spend about $150,000 on a ...